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The Kohens del de Campavias

A Family's Sweet and Sour Story in Ottoman and Republican Turkey


This volume is a history of the Khoens del de Campavias, a Sephardic Jewish family in the Ottoman Empire. The book chronicles the lives of family members from the 1830s through to the Second World War.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Availability: In stock
SKU (ISBN): 978-1-61719-083-4
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Publication Status: In Print
Publication Date: Jun 8,2010
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 172
Languages: English
ISBN: 978-1-61719-083-4
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The history of the Khoens del de Campavias describes the lives of a Sephardic Jewish family of the Ottoman Empire. It focuses on the life of Eliya Kohen, an intellectual in the Istanbul Jewish community of the early twentieth century. Besides being a lawyer, Eliya Kohen was also engaged in journalism and a notable public conflict with the Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire, Haim Nahum, during the emergence of Zionism. The book continues by detailing the lives of Turkey’s Jewish community after the First World War and then the hardships Jews and other non-Muslims endured during the Second World War. The Khoens del de Campavias also covers the history of the Gabay branch from Baghdad, which produced a leading banker and powerful court figure in the nineteenth century.

The history of the Khoens del de Campavias describes the lives of a Sephardic Jewish family of the Ottoman Empire. It focuses on the life of Eliya Kohen, an intellectual in the Istanbul Jewish community of the early twentieth century. Besides being a lawyer, Eliya Kohen was also engaged in journalism and a notable public conflict with the Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire, Haim Nahum, during the emergence of Zionism. The book continues by detailing the lives of Turkey’s Jewish community after the First World War and then the hardships Jews and other non-Muslims endured during the Second World War. The Khoens del de Campavias also covers the history of the Gabay branch from Baghdad, which produced a leading banker and powerful court figure in the nineteenth century.

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  • TABLE OF CONTENTS (page 9)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 13)
  • I. THE ANCESTOR, THE PATRIARCH (page 17)
  • II. THE DUEL BETWEEN THE LION (Eliya Kohen)AND THE FOX (Grand-Rabbi Nahum) (page 27)
  • III. THE ENIGMA OF ADMIRAL ELIAS COHEN PASHA SURGEON GENERAL OF SULTAN HAMID'S NAVY (page 37)
  • IV. SONS AND DAUGHTERS (page 39)
  • V. ESTELLA CAMPAVIAS, EXTRAVAGANT, WHIMSICAL PRINCESS. FATA MORGANA OF THE FAMILY (page 55)
  • VI. ATATURK STYLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN CHALCEDONIA ALL SEEMS WELL, BUT... (page 63)
  • VII. JOURNEY TO HELL AND THEN...BONBONS FROM ISTANBUL (page 77)
  • VIII. FROM CHARYBDES TO SCYLLA (page 95)
  • IX. ON THE WAY TO HEALING: RECOVERY OF PARADISE LOST-BUT ... A FEW RELAPSES (page 105)