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A Manifesto for Turkish Jewish Literature
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Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…

Contributor:

Avram Naon

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Türkiye)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Language & linguistics, Writing, Jewish identity, Education, Journalism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand accounts
From the Editor, El Jurnal israelit
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From the Editor: With God’s help, the time has come for our newspaper to appear before the community, and I am sure that at first our esteemed subscribers will not judge us for its errors, because all…

Contributor:

Ezekiel Gabay

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Türkiye)

Date:

1860

Subjects:

Writing, Communal organizations, Politics, Sephardic, Government, Journalism

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Journalism
Letter Addressed to the Conference of Constantinople in Favor of the Jews of the Orient
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Paris, December 1876 To Mr. President and Members of the Conference of Constantinople Sirs, You were nominated to discuss the interests of a great number of people in the Orient, and to accomplish a…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Türkiye)

Date:

1877

Subjects:

Scholarship, Diaspora, Community, Sephardic, Journalism

Categories:

Historical writing, Journalism, Firsthand accounts
A Blood Libel in Stanimaka
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Twelve-year old Ivan Demitrov, a fourth-grade student in the Bulgarian school, was scolded by his Bulgarian teacher for not sitting still in school on Friday, the tenth of this month. After playing in…

Contributor:

Joseph Barishac

Places:

Edirne, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Türkiye)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Cities, Antisemitism, Family, Blood libel, Journalism

Categories:

Reportage, Journalism