The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel
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Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources and using a legal lens on Levantine practices, The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews following a ritual murder charge is only adequately understood in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte's foreign relations, and in the context of a shared Ottoman and Jewish history.
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Olga Borovaya is an independent scholar who has taught Sephardi history and Ladino literature at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and other US universities. She is the author of Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire (Indiana University Press, 2011), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and His Readers (Indiana University Press, 2017).
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Acknowledgments
Note on Translations and Transcriptions
Introduction
Part I: 1840: Events and Analysis
Chapter 1. Rhodes: The Island and Its Inhabitants
Chapter 2. The Crisis, Rhodes, February-May
Chapter 3. The Rhodes Affair: An Episode in the History of Ottoman Reforms
Part II: 1840-1893: Voices from Rhodes
Chapter 4. Immediate Reactions: The Prose Accounts
Chapter 5. From Collective Memory to History: The Songs and the Notes
Conclusion
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Appendix IV
Bibliography
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