The Shifting Legal and Political Status of Early Modern Jewries

Gotzmann, Andreas

doi:10.1017/9781139017169.006

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 10 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…21 But they also managed to maintain 16 Burger (2014), p. 75. 17 On the legal status of Jews in the early modern Holy Roman Empire see Gotzmann (2017) Cervani and Buda (1973), p. 108-109. their links with Ottoman diplomacy, with Haim Camondo's son acting as a translator and guide for Ebubekir Ratib Efendi (1750-1799), the Ottoman ambassador to Vienna in 1791-1792 and later advisor of Sultan Selim III (1761-1808). 22 The family's exile to the Habsburg Empire was, in fact, not the end of their Ottoman story.…”

Section: The Commerce Of the Camondos Between Ottoman And Habsburg Empiresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Birth, Berat, and Banishment

Fliter

2021

Übersetzungskulturen Der Frühen Neuzeit

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The paper analyses the claims to Habsburg subjecthood advanced by the prominent Jewish merchant Haim Camondo following an Ottoman imperial order banishing him from Istanbul to Cyprus in 1782. As the Jewish merchant was the holder of Habsburg and British berats, the Camondo affair came to concern the European ambassadors in Istanbul. Eventually, the merchant and his family were able to escape to Habsburg Trieste with their lives and most of their fortune secured. How the European ambassadors, the Ottoman government, and Haim Camondo translated their understandings of legal belonging and identification to each other during the affair, omitting aspects which did not help their respective cases, sheds further light on notions of imperial subjecthood at a crucial period of transition of these concepts in the Ottoman and Habsburg empires. Analysing the web of cultural and political translations in which the Camondo family was caught up also adds to our understanding of trans-imperial families and contributes to the history of (national) identification and subjecthood.

show abstract

Section: The Commerce Of the Camondos Between Ottoman And Habsburg Empiresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Birth, Berat, and Banishment

Fliter

2021

Übersetzungskulturen Der Frühen Neuzeit

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

The Shifting Legal and Political Status of Early Modern Jewries

Cited by 1 publication

References 10 publications

Birth, Berat, and Banishment

Birth, Berat, and Banishment

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About