The Divergence of Judaism and Islam. Interdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

1. Introduction 1
   Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev

Section I: Common Interests versus Latent and Overt Tensions

2. Ottoman Attitudes toward the Modernization of Jewish Education
   in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 17
   Avigdor Levy


3. “Zeal and Noise”: Jewish Imperial Allegiance and the Greco-
   Ottoman War of 1897 29
   Julia Phillips Cohen


4. Sharing the Same Fate: Muslims and Jews of the Balkans 51
   Ömer Turan


5. “We Don’t Want to Be the Jews of Tomorrow”: Jews and Turks in
   Germany after 9/11 74
   Gökçe Yurdakul and Y. Michal Bodemann


6. Jews and Muslims “Downunder”: Emerging Dialogue and
   Challenges 97
   Suzanne D. Rutland

Section II: Socioeconomic and Political Interaction in Arab Lands
and Central Asia: Toward Jewish Immigration

7. Yemen: Muslim and Jewish Interactions in the Tribal Sphere 125
   Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman