Blond, tall, with honey-colored eyes: Jewish ownership of slaves in the Ottoman Empire

Makale İngilizce Tarih×

Künye:

Yazarlar:

Prof.Dr. Yaron Ben-Naeh

Ekle

Emeği Geçenler:

Ekle

Yayın Yılı:

2006

Yayınlandığı Eser:

Jewish History

Cilt:

Sayı:

Sayfa Aralığı:

73-90

İçerik Dosyası:

Web adresi:

http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~yaronbn/No.26.pdf

Operatör:

İhsan Turhan

Güncelleyen:

İhsan Turhan

Özet:

t Hundreds of Hebrew written sources, dozens of official decrees, judicial records
(sijillat), and reports of European travelers indicate that slaveholding – particularly of females of
slavic origin – in Jewish households in the urban centers of the Ottoman Empire was
widespread from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. This halachically and legally
problematic habit was an unparalleled phenomenon in any other Jewish community in the early
modern period. The presence of slaves in Jewish households effected family life in many ways.
I dealt with two of them: The first is cohabitation of Jewish men with female slaves, usually
non-Jewish, who in effect served as their concubines and bore them legitimate children; the
second is marriage with manumitted slaves who converted to Judaism and became an integral
part of the community. These phenomena attest once again to the great extent to which Jewish
society and its norms and codes were influenced by Muslim urban society, and the gap between
rabbinic rhetoric ideals and the dynamic daily existence of Jews from all social strata