The goal of this project is to initiate and implement research and other academic activities that contribute to research on the Jewish communities of the Balkans and Ladino culture.

During the 2016–2017 academic year Prof. Rozen has continued her writing of two books on which she has been working for the past several years: 1) A History of the Jews of Salonika under Greek Rule (1912–1943), and 2) the second volume of her trilogy on the Jews of Istanbul during the Ottoman Period (1566–1808).

Publications

Books

Minna Rozen, The Mediterranean in the Seventeenth Century: Captives, Pirates, and Ransomers at the Juncture between Religion, Politics, Economics and Society, Palermo: New Digital Frontiers S.R.L. and Casa Editrice Mediterranea, 2016.

Articles

Minna Rozen, “The Jewish Community of Salonika, 1912–1941: Organizational Patterns”,  Αρχείων Ανάλεκτα:Περιοδική έκδοση μελέτης και έρευνας αρχείων(δεύτερη περίοδος), 1 (Θεσσαλονίκη 2016), pp. 306–367.

Minna Rozen, “Money, Power, Politics and the Great Salonika Fire of 1917”, Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Winter 2017), pp. 74–115

Forthcoming Publications

Books

Minna Rozen, Entre le spirituel et le terrestre : la perception de la mort dans la culture juive méditerranéenne à la période moderne antérieure (200 pp.). Will be published by Brepols.

Minna Rozen, A Very Narrow Bridge : The Jewish Community of Saloniki under Greek Rule, 1912–1943 (Hebrew).

Articles Accepted for Publication

Minna Rozen, “The Death of Precious Women: The Tombstones of Upper-Class Jewish Women in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul”, Peamim.

Minna Rozen, “The Jewish Guilds in Istanbul in the Last Ottoman Century (1833–1920)”, in the Proceedings of the 21th conference of the Comité international des études pré-ottomanes et ottomans, Budapest 7–11 October, 2014.