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

Künye

İÇİNDEKİLER 

AUTHORS.................................................................................................................................  7

Abbreviations.................................................................................................................  15

Preface and Acknowledgements......................................................................  17

Prologue By Michael Studemund-Halévy...................................................  21

HISTORY

The Beginnings of the Jewish Community in Smyrna..................................................  27
Jacob Barnai

Art, Tradition, and Innovation in The Jewish Community of Smyrna:
A Turkish Present and a Hispanic Past......................................................................  61
Miguel Ángel Espinosa Villegas

Urla Jewish Community and Cemeteries..........................................................................  95
Tayfun Caymaz

LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE

Alexandre Benghiat’s ‘Kabastil’ and his
‘Letters from the Village’, or the Modern Judezmo Speakers’
Conflicted Relationship with Turkish.......................................................................  125
David M. Bunis

Ne haber? Ke haber? Variation in Spoken 21^st Century Judeo-Spanish in İzmir...  211
Carolina Francisca Isabel Spiegel

Jewish Literary Production in Izmir...............................................................................  237
María José Cano Pérez

The Rabbinic Library of Izmir: A New Encounter and Initial Attempt of
Preservation...................................................................................................................  263
Donna DinaEliezer

Izmir, Cairo and Jerusalem, the (Non-real) Three Edges of
‘La sinyatura del kontrato’ (1906).............................................................................  377

..... Tania María García Arévalo

MEMOIRS

Izmir in the Heart of the Sephardim...............................................................................  401

..... Pilar Romeu Ferré

Beth Israel Synagogue of Izmir: The Jewel of Izmir’s Jews.......................................  431

..... Rachel Amado Bortnick

Introduction to Hayim Danon and Selim Amado Articles..........................................  441

..... Rachel Amado Bortnick

The Beth Israel Synagogue of Izmir................................................................................  447

..... Hayim Danon

On the 100^th Anniversary of Beth Israel.........................................................................  459

..... Selim Amado

The House in Gündoğdu....................................................................................................  479

..... Moshe Shaul

ALBUM.................................................................................................................................  485

INDEX...................................................................................................................................  499