A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul: The Formative Years, 1453-1566

This volume presents the transformation of the Greek-speaking Jewish community of Byzantine Constantinople into an Ottoman, ethnically diversified immigrant community. As the Ottomans influenced its cultural and social values, the community strived to preserve its boundaries with the surrounding society.

Minna Rozen, Ph.D. (1977) in Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, is a Professor of Jewish History at the University of Haifa, Israel. She has published extensively on social history of the Sephardic Diaspora in the Mediterranean basin in Hebrew, English and French, and initiated major documentation projects of Jewish remnants in these regions.