This book focuses on the western Balkans in the period 1820-1912, in particular on the peoples and social groups that the later national history would claim to

The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by

In the first half of the 20th century, throughout the Balkans and Middle East, a familiar story of destroyed communities forced to flee war or economic crisis u

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