Abstract
A Comparative Study on the Turkish Literature of the Ottoman Jews Press (1850-1922)
Newspapers and magazines, which are the first examples of the printed media in
the Ottoman Empire, served as an important communication for many purposes by
almost every ethnic and religious community living in the Ottoman geography. For this
reason, newspapers and magazines have been used as an important information medium
especially in recent years. The same is true for the history of the study of Ottoman Jews.
Written press samples produced by the Ottoman Jews are of great importance in this sense
not only for the Jews but also for the understanding of the Ottoman Empire, especially
the last century. Cause, the Jewish population, which became quite crowded after the
great immigration in 1492, played important roles in the Ottoman Empire, especially
in administrative and economic areas; and also the Ottoman Empire has become an
important social, economic, religious and cultural center for the Jews of the world. In this
study, while the subject is so important, answers were sought to questions such as what
extent has Turkish literature produced information about these print media products;
what are the content, framework, limits and limitations of this information; what are the
knowledge production processes needed in the field. For this purpose, the information
about the newspapers and magazines published by the Ottoman Jews was comparatively
compiled as reflected in the Turkish literature, and the problems and deficiencies in the
field were discussed. In the Turkish literature, it has been observed that the studies made
from the primary sources about the history of the Ottoman Jews are quite low despite the
importance of the subject, that most of the studies in the literature are translations from
other languages, and there is controversial information among them.
Keywords
Communication Studies, History of Press, Ottoman Jewish Press, Ladino, Rashi, Yidish.
