Istanbul - Kushta - Constantinople : Narratives of Identity in the Ottoman Capital, 1830-1930 (Hardcover)

Contents

Christoph Herzog and Richard Wittmann

1. The Memories of German-speaking Women of Constantinople

Gudrun Wedel

2. Wanderlust, Follies, and Self-Inflicted Misfortunes: The Memoirs of Anna Forneris and her Thirty Years in Constantinople and the Levant

Malte Fuhrmann

3. The Imperial Harem Network in Istanbul, 1850s to 1922

Borte Sagaster

Part II: Outside Observers of Istanbul

4. Amalgamated Observations: Assessing American Impressions of Nineteenth-Century Constantinople and its Peoples

Kent Schull

5. Istanbul and the Formation of an Arab Teenager’s Identity. Recollections of a Cadet in the Ottoman Army in 1914 and 1916?17

Malek Sharif

6. Hispanic Observers of Istanbul

Pablo Martin Asuero

Part III: Jewish Communities

7. The Autobiographical Writings of the Constantinople Judezmo Journalist David Fresco as a Clue toward His Attitude to Language

David M. Bunis

8. Jewish Life in Istanbul in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century:
   The Memoirs of Nissim Benezra

Rıfat N. Bali

9. Istanbul’s Jewish Community through the Eyes of a European Jew. Ludwig A. Frankl in his Nach Jerusalem

Yaron Ben-Naeh

　

Part IV: Armenian and Bulgarian Christian Communities

10. A Stroll through the Quarters of Constantinople: Sketches of the City as Seen through the Eyes of the Great Satirist Hagop Baronian

Rachel Goshgarian

11. From Short Stories to Social Topography: Misak Kocunyan’s Life Landscapes

Aylin Kocunyan

12. "Bulgar Milleti Nedir?" Syncretic Forms of Belonging in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Istanbul.

Darin Stephanov

13. Twenty Years in the Ottoman Capital: The Memoirs of Doctor Hristo Tanev Stambolski of Kazanlik (1843-1932) from an Ottoman Point of View

Johann Strauss