Blood libels, Elite Competition and Inter-Confessional Violence: Jewish-Christian Relations in Ottoman Damascus in the first part of the 19th century
In 1860, the Christian quarter of the city of Damascus was attacked. Houses were plundered and many Christians lost their lives. This attack not only points to tensions between Christians and Muslims but also reveals underlying dynamics in the relationship between Christians and Jews in the city. In...
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Cahiers de la Méditerranée
2023
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| Zusammenfassung: | In 1860, the Christian quarter of the city of Damascus was attacked. Houses were plundered and many Christians lost their lives. This attack not only points to tensions between Christians and Muslims but also reveals underlying dynamics in the relationship between Christians and Jews in the city. Indeed, Jews were accused of participating or at least benefiting from the violence against Christians. The themes present in the accusations each reveals a specific aspect of the Damascene Jews’ social and economic positions and builds on a repertoire of Christian-Jewish relations in the previous decades. This paper will analyse the relationship between Christians and Jews in Damascus in the first part of the nineteenth century, considering it within the wider development of confessionalization and sectarianism. |
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