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    In search of a Jewish community in the early modern Ottomon Empire : the case of Edirne Jews (c 1686-1750)
    (2011) Karagedikli, Gürer
    This thesis examines the demographic development, geographic distribution, and communal organization of the Edirne Jewish Community from the late seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century by mainly benefitting from Ottoman archival sources and Muslim court records of Edirne. Except some big cities such as Istanbul, Jerusalem, Salonica and Izmir, monographic studies on Ottoman Jews have been rare in Ottoman historiography. These works have either focused on the early periods (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries) or on the nineteenth century. Ottoman Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, however, are shortly mentioned within the “decline” paradigm. A monographic study on the Edirne Jewish Community in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has not yet been done. Did the Edirne Jewish Community decline in the eighteenth century? How was its demographic situation and spatial organization in the centuries concerned? How did they sustain and develop their relations within the community, and with other groups and the state? The archival materials are the ones drawn upon most heavily in this research. For the demographic situation and the spatial organization of the Edirne Jews, ‘avârız registers, one cizye register, and the census conducted in 1703 have been used. Furthermore, in order to see the neighborhoods where they lived and to analyze their relations with the broader society, court records of Edirne between 1686-1750 concerning Jews were used. Bearing in mind the limits and problems of the sources, I attempted to scrutinize the demographic, spatial, and organzational structure of the Edirne Jewish Community during the late seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries.
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    İsaac B. Singer and Hassidic Philosophy
    (1967) Mucke, Edith
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    Julien Benda and the new humanism
    (1955) Read, Herbert
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    Righteous among nations: Selahattin Ulkumen man who rescued people from utter defeat
    (Bilkent University, 2021) Mansour, Noran; Haikal, Ahmed; Rafiq, Aziza; Junaid, Abdullah; Awan, Zain
    This paper would discuss the life of Selahattin Ulkumen, a Turkish diplomat, and his heroics in 1944 when he was responsible for rescuing the lives of 42 Jews while stationed at the Island of Rhodes in Greece. The heroics of Ulkumen needs to be known as many are aware of the atrocities of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany but people like Ulkumen tried, to the best of their abilities, to save the lives of as many people as they could. Such efforts should not be lost to time. This paper will go through the life of Selahattin before his role in the gallant feat, the history of the Island and how the diaspora of the place used to coexist before the war and deportation of the Jews, also the sacrifices Ulkumen made both on a personal and a professional level would be discussed and later in life how he was remembered for it from the world. It is important that efforts like these are remembered and in future this paper can be used to find more people like Selahattin Ulkumen who cared not for nationality or religion but helped everyone as human outright. The tales of people like them need to be commonplace to encourage people of modern age to remember the importance of humanity and to not allow atrocities of the same scale to happen again.
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    Türkiye’deki Sefarad Yahudilerinin müziği: Janet ve Jak Esim
    (Bilkent University, 2023) Baytar, Aslı; Çelebi, Fatma Sude; Akdağ, Uygar; Tosun, Gülsüm Ceyda; Eraydın, Özümay
    Bu makalenin içeriği İspanya’dan kovulmalarının ardından Türkiye’ye yerleşen Sefarad Yahudilerinin tarihini, Sefarad ve Aşkenaz şarkılarının kültürel özelliklerini ve ayrıca günümüzde Sefarad şarkılarının önemli temsilcilerinden olan Janet ve Jak Esim’in hayatlarını, bu müziğe nasıl başladıklarını, dönüm noktalarını ve başarılarını ele almaktadır. Bu makalenin araştırılmasının sebebi Sefarad Yahudilerinin zengin kültürleri, farklı kültürlerle arasındakietkileşimleri ve özellikle şarkılarını yorumlayan Janet ve Jak Esim hakkında detaylı bilgi edinmektir. Bunun için Sefaradlar’ın Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’ndan günümüze kadar olan yaşamları detaylı bir şekilde incelenmiştir. Ayrıca diğer araştırmalardan farklı olarak Sefarad ve Aşkenaz Yahudileri arasındaki farklar ve iki kültürün etkileşimleri birbirleriyle kıyaslayarak belirtilmiş, birbirleri üzerine ve doğrudan Janet ve Jak Esim’in hayatları üzerine olan etkisi de ele alınmıştır.