Istanbul’s Jewish community through the eyes of a European Jew: Ludwig A. Frankl in his "Nach Jerusalem"

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Abstract

Dr. Ludwig August Frankl, an Austrian-Jewish poet and intellectual was born in Chrast, Bohemia, in today's Czech Republic. He published the impressions of his travels in Eretz Israel and other Oriental countries in two books: Nach Jerusalem and Nach Agypten. Nach Jerusalem was popular and was printed in several editions. Frankl records in detail the community's expenditures. The establishment of a chief rabbinate in effect preceded the full reform of Jewish communal affairs. Frankl's works are an important, yet still underestimated source of information on the demography, economic condition and institutional organization of the Jewish communities in the East in the nineteenth century. Since 1840, European Jews took an ever-increasing interest in the fate of their brethren in Islamic countries. According to the demographic statistics provided by Frankl, the Istanbul community included 38,400 Jews, comprising 14,800 men and 23,600 women.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIstanbul - Kushta - Constantinople
Subtitle of host publicationNarratives of Identity in the Ottoman Capital, 1830–1930
EditorsChristoph Herzog, Richard Wittmann
Place of PublicationAbingdon, Oxon
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter8
Pages199-209
Number of pages11
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781315208961
StatePublished - 2019

Publication series

NameLife Narratives of the Ottoman Realm Individual and Empire in the Near East

RAMBI Publications

  • Rambi Publications
  • Frankl, Ludwig August -- 1810-1894 -- Nach Jerusalem
  • Camondo family
  • Jews -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 19th century
  • Orientalism
  • East and West in literature

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