University Press of America
Pages: 266
Trim: 6 x 9⅛
978-0-7618-3601-8 • Paperback • December 2006 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
Elli Kohen, MD, born in Istanbul, Turkey, is an anatomopathologist, researcher in cell biology, cell biochemistry, and cellular pharmacology, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami. He has written eight books in science, a Ladino/English Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the biography of Rabbi Nissim Ovadia, A Pillar of Sephardi Judaism. He appears in the marquis Who's Who in America 2005 and 2006, Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2005, Who's Who in the World of Education 2005, and the forthcoming Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare 2007. Dr. Kohen has spent many years in Turkey and the surrounding area. He incorporates his experiences in these regions into his writing in an effort to preserve and impart the history of the Jews in the Byzantine and Ottomon periods.
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The First Ottomans
Chapter 3 Communism Before Marx
Chapter 4 Murad II: The Agony of Byzantium, The Dawn of an Empire
Chapter 5 Mehmed II: The New Rome: Istanbul
Chapter 6 Bayezid II: The Gates of Paradise
Chapter 7 Selim I: Conqueror of the Holy Land, Syria and Egypt
Chapter 8 Suleynan I: Shelomo Hameleh
Chapter 9 Selim II: And the Duke of Naxos Was His Wine Companion!
Chapter 10 Safed in the Sixteenth Century: The Kingdom of Mystical Utopia
Chapter 11 Murad III: Jewish International Diplomacy in Search of Pax Ottomanica
Chapter 12 Mehmed III: A Question of Debased Coinage
Chapter 13 Ahmed I: Wondrous Healing by the Ashkenazi Widow
Chapter 14 Osman II: The First Regicide
Chapter 15 Murad IV: The Conqueror of Baghdad
Chapter 16 Ibrahim: The New Pharaoh, His Beard Decked with Jewels
Part 17 Notes and References
Part 18 Appendices
Part 19 Index