Jacob Daniels, The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders,

Yıl 2026, Cilt: 66 Sayı: 66, 325 - 330, 18.02.2026

Özlem Çaykent

https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.1892369

https://izlik.org/JA72CZ73RM

Öz

Edirne occupies a distinctive place in Ottoman and Jewish history. Once an imperial capital and long a strategic border city, it was also home to one of the most prominent Jewish communities of the empire. After 1492, Sephardic migrants reshaped the city’s Jewish life, and Sephardim soon became important in demography, language, and communal leadership. A focused study of Edirne’s Jews is especially significant because the late Ottoman and early Republican decades reshaped patterns of belonging, status, and mobility when new borders were taking hold across southeastern Europe. It also matters because, despite repeated acknowledgment of Edirne’s importance, the city has not received a sustained, archival monograph comparable to the literature on other centres; most accounts treat Edirne episodically or as context for broader arguments.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Jews of Edirne: , Ottoman Europe , Arrival of Borders