Lessons In Imperial Citizenship With The Ottoman Empire

In this book, the author addresses the misconception that Jews always enjoyed a friendly and beneficial relationship with the Ottoman Empire. By analyzing a variety of previously unstudied primary documents, she demonstrates that this was a relatively new concept conceived in the late stages of the empire which was promoted by Jewish leaders, beginning in the Constitutional era and continuing until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War 1, in 1918.
Chapter One, "Lessons in Imperial Citizenship," is primarily focused on the beginnings Ottomanism and how this policy affected Jews within the empire. The chapter starts with the Ottoman Constitution of 1876, and concludes with the Ottomans' defeat in the war with Russia, 1877-78. The