Ottoman Legal Reforms and Jewish Self-Determination in the Ottoman State, 1839–1880

Tamir Karkason is a historian of the Mediterranean Jews between the eighteenth and twentieth century, with an emphasis on the Ottoman Jews and their Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) culture. His current project examines the dynamics between law and society in the Ottoman reform era, when Jews and other non-Muslims were rapidly integrating into Ottoman society and politics.

Karkason received his PhD in Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has previously held fellowships at Indiana University (Bloomington), Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Bar-Ilan University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.