Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, And Jews In Early Twentieth-Century Palestine - Plot & Excerpts
The paper's appeal was an effort to settle the battle that had raged in the Judeo-Spanish press in the preceding eighteen months over the growing clash between Ottomanism and Zionism. According to the paper, the situation was “bordering on fratricide” and threatening to engulf Ottoman Jewry entirely.1 In the years between the 1908 revolution and World War I, the Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire were on the brink of a real communal crisis. For one, questions over changing communal leadership led to a series of power struggles in cities all over the empire, from the capital in Istanbul, to symbolically important Jerusalem, to even relatively small Jewish communities such as Tiberias and Beirut. These power struggles centered on issues related to the modernization of Ottoman Jewry in favor of a younger generation of reformist (maskilic) rabbis who were considered reflective of the times as well as more accountable to their flocks.2 At the same time, Ottoman Jewry was faced with the same dilemma that confronted their neighbors: what would be their role within the reforming empire, as Ottoman citizens but also as Jews?
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