EVANESCENT HAPPINESS: OTTOMAN JEWS ENCOUNTER MODERNITY, THE CASE OF LEA MITRANI AND JOSEPH NIEGO (1863-1923)

dc.contributor.advisorCooperman, Bernard Den_US
dc.contributor.authorSkarlatou, Amaliaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-07T06:13:46Z
dc.date.available2010-10-07T06:13:46Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstractThe thesis aims to be a collective biography of Joseph Niego and Lea Mitrani, two Ottoman Jews, whose lives would span a sixty-year period of profound changes for Ottoman Jewry. Born in Edirne, Joseph and Lea were educated in the schools of the Alliance IsraƩlite Universelle. Subsequently, they were sent to Paris in order to be trained as teachers and be sent back to help "regenerate" "Oriental" Jews through a Western- style education. After their marriage, Joseph was appointed director of the agricultural school "Mikveh Israel," established by the Alliance in the outskirts of Jaffa, where the family would spend twelve years. Their time in an agricultural school and contact with Zionism and the Jewish pioneers in late nineteenth-century Palestine would define their lives as a married couple and as Jews in the vortex of modernization and nationalisms. While Joseph would thrive professionally, Lea would gradually lose control of her life.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/10960
dc.subject.pqcontrolledJewish Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMiddle Eastern Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGender Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAlliance Israelite Universelleen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledModernityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNiegoen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOttoman Jewsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSephardicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWomenen_US
dc.titleEVANESCENT HAPPINESS: OTTOMAN JEWS ENCOUNTER MODERNITY, THE CASE OF LEA MITRANI AND JOSEPH NIEGO (1863-1923)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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