Description: Through the lens of a long overlooked Sephardi community, The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History rethinks the emergence of Jewish modernity by exploring shifting attitudes towards poverty and charity.
Review Quotes: "In this skillfully researched and beautifully written book, Dina Danon gives voice to Jews from various social and economic backgrounds. In the best tradition of social history, she masterfully relates their experiences in an often overlooked corner of the Ottoman Sephardi world to the broader forces that reshaped their city, region, and the nineteenth-century world."--Reşat Kasaba, University of Washington