2005/09/23 by Michelle U. Campos · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Jewish Identity and Society #Hispanic-African Historical Relations
paper · doi:10.1017/s0020743805052165
openalex publication_date 2005/09/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
In the winter of 1910, the Salonikan Judeo-Spanish newspaper La Tribuna Libera published a plebiscite in which it asked its readers to decide where the future of Ottoman Jewry lay: nationalism, assimilation, or Zionism. The paper's appeal was an effort to settle the battle that had raged in the Judeo-Spanish press of the empire in the preceding eighteen months over the growing clash between Ottomanism and Zionism. According to the paper, the situation was “bordering on fratricide,” threatening to engulf Ottoman Jewry entirely.