Ottoman Legal Reforms and Jewish Self-Determination in the Ottoman State, 1839–1880
Katz Center
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Philadelphia, PA 19106
At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting. Seminars are limited to fellows and invited guests only.
Featuring
Tamir Karkason
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
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.
