The last Ottoman century and beyond : the Jews in Turkey and the Balkans 1808-1945 / edited by Minna Rozen.

Vol. 2 has subtitle: Proceedings of the International Conference on "The Jewish Communities in the Balkans and Turkey in the 19th and 20th Centuries through the End of World War II," the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University, June 5-8, 1995.

Vol. 1 published 2005; vol. 2 published 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume 1 -- Thoughts about Modern Nationalism -- Turkish Nationalism and Other National Movements at the Twilight of the Ottoman Era -- The Reforms in the Ottoman Empire and the Status of the Jews -- The Impact of the Reforms on the Social and Spiritual World of the Empire's Jewry -- The Istanbul Community between the Hatt-l Serif of Gulhane and the Treaty of Lausanne (1839-1923) -- The Balkan Nations' Wars of Independence and the Fate of the Jewish Communities -- The Jewish Community of Salonika between the Hatt-l Serif of Gulhane and the Treaty of Lausanne (1839-1923) -- Balkan Jewry from the Establishment of the Nation States to the End of World War I -- Between the Two World Wars -- The End of a Diaspora -- Epilogue: Rethinking Nationalism -- -- Volume 2 -- Greek and Jewish Nationalism in the Balkans in the Early Nineteenth Century / Steven Bowman -- Official Ideology and Lay Mentality during the Greek Revolution: Attitudes towards the Jews / Maria Efthymiou -- The Evolution of the Serbian State and the Struggle of Serbian Jewry for Equal Rights / Jennie Lebel -- The Jews of Ruscuk: Growth of a Community in the Capital of the Danube District / Zvi Keren -- Jewish Converts to Islam and Christianity in the Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth Century / Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky -- Ottoman Jewry and the Turkish Language / Ilber Ortayli -- Jewish Immigration to the Ottoman Empire at the Time of the First Zionist Congresses: A Comment / Selim Deringil -- The Young Turk Triumvirate, Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, and the Future of Palestine, December 1913-January 1916 / Heath W. Lowry -- The Contribution of the Jewish Community to the Modernization of Salonika at the End of the Nineteenth Century / Vassilis Colonas -- Jewish Working-Class Neighborhoods Established in Salonika Following the 1890 and 1917 Fires / Rena Molho -- Jewish Pauperism in Salonika, 1940-1941 / Evanghelos Hekimoglou -- The Longing for Zion in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Poetry / Shmuel Raphael -- The Policy of the Jewish Community Leadership in Face of Bulgaria's Changing Reality - 1939-1941 / Shlomo Shealtiel -- The Jewish Community in Bulgaria During the 1940s / Boyka Vassileva -- The Rescue of the Jews of Macedonia (1941-1943): Options and Opportunities / Maria Pandevska -- A New Approach to Some Episodes in the History of the Jews in Salonika during the Holocaust: Memory, Myth, Documentation / Daniel Carpi -- The Jews of Rhodes: The Decline and Extinction of an Ancient Community / Renee Hirschon -- Between Friendly and Hostile Neutrality: Turkey and the Jews during World War II / Tuvia Friling