• Contents


• Acknowledgments


• Preface


• Introduction: Becoming a Model Millet


• Ch 1: Mobilizing Jews: Lessons in Imperial Citizenship


• Ch 2: In the Synagogue and on the Streets: Celebrating 1892 as Ottomans


• Ch 3: Battling Neighbors: Imperial Allegiance and Politicized Violence


• Ch 4: Contest and Conflict: Jewish Ottomanism in a Constitutional Regime


• Conclusion: Imperial Citizens Beyond the Empire


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Assistant Professor of History and Modern Jewish History at Vanderbilt University

Becoming Ottomans is the first book to tell the story of Jewish political integration into a modern Islamic empire. It follows the efforts of Sephardi Jews from Salonica to Izmir to Istanbul to become citizens of their state during the final half century of the Ottoman Empire's existence.