This research is about David Fresco, the editor-in-chief of the Ladino newspaper El Tiempo, published in Constantinople in the years 1872-1930. When Zionism emerged as a political force, Fresco and his newspaper responded by declaring its loyalty to the Ottoman Empire. Fresco aligned himself with the Chief Rabbi Haim Nahum who took a position against the Zionists. This book is thus a study of David Fresco in the turbulent years of the Jewish Community of the early 19th century. It also includes a facsimile of David Fresco’s work Le Sionisme published in 1909 which is a compilation of his articles published in El Tiempo during this tumultous period and the subject of this study.

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Introduction

     .     Short Life Story

• David Fresco, Editor and Journalist at the End of the Ottoman Empire (1839-1908)
• Between the Young Turks Revolution and the Establishment of the Republic – David Fresco as a Leader of Public Opinion (1908-1923)
• David Fresco Against Zionism
• Winds of Nationalism: Turkish and ‘Turkism’ and David Fresco's Attack on Ladino as a Tool Against Zionism
• The Press War in Jewish Istanbul – the Press Against the pro-Zionist Press.
• David Fresco in Front of the ‘Maccabi’
• The Trial and its Outcome – Fresco Versus his Accusers
• Fresco, ‘The Committee’ and the Anti-Zionist Arab Front (1911)
• David Fresco and the Internal Struggle Within the Community of Constantinople
• The Jewish Press and David Fresco during World War I – The Struggle Between Zionists and ‘Nahumists’ over the Future of Jewry in the Empire
• The Swan Song of David Fresco and El Tiempo (1920-1933)

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ADDENDUM : DOCUMENTS FROM THE OTTOMAN ARCHİVES

FACSIMILE OF DAVID FRESCO’s LE SIONISME

ALBUM

INDEX