The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire.
The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies …

In the first English-language edition of a general, synthetic history of French Jewry from
antiquity to the present, Esther Benbassa tells the intriguing tale of the social, economic, and …

Forging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the
vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman …

Marcel Proust offered the twentieth century a new psychology of memory and seeing. His
novel In Search of Lost Time was written in the modern age of photography and art history …

" Eine meisterhafte Synthese aller bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt veröffentlichten Studien über
Juden in Frankreich" Lire Die Geschichte der Juden Frankreichs ist von der jüdischen …

How can we conceptualize the sheer diversity of Jewish experience in the nineteenth
century? An earlier generation of historians turned to the Zionist national narrative, with its …

A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de
Camondo Letters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to …

The expansion of global capitalism in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century
included growing investment in all kinds of projects and enterprises that required technical …

This special section on technology-in-use in the last decades of the Ottoman Empire strives
to strengthen the dialogue between historians of the late Ottoman Empire and historians of …

The relationship between ownership and control of distant ventures has been a major topic
in business history. This relationship prompted the creation of a specific organizational form …