The Jewish Pearl of the Aegean Izmir Language Literature History Art and Culture — Doğa Filiz Subaşı

This volume is an excellent basic resource for scholars and textbook for students it offers a new look at the history of Izmir and will not only be an exciting eye opener for scholars but willl also surprise those familiar with the field The contributors of this solid and well researched reader historians linguists Hebraists Romance scholars journalists explore the rich complex and contradictory history of Jewish Izmir and seek to capture and interpret the diversity of the Jewish experience in its breadth and diversity from a multidisciplinary perspective With an eye toward urban studies the reader brings together language and literature archaeology and art architecture and cemeteries printing and journalism music and theater Jewish institutions Jewish owned business and shops history and family history Michael Studemund Halévy University of Hamburg