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¶ … human memory -- whether individual or group memory -- to historical trauma. The historical traumas discussed, however, fall across a broad spectrum. Welzer's article "Re-Narrations" looks at Germany's Nazi past, but from the perspective of succeeding generations of Germans, from those who had direct involvement with the Nazi period to successive generations born after 1945. Allan's article "The Politics of Witness" looks at a community of Palestinian refugees displaced from their village in 1948 after the establishment of the state of Israel and the clearing of existing Palestinian populations in the territory. Cenarro's article "Memory Beyond the Public Sphere" looks at Spain after the fall of Franco's Fascist government, and the way in which Franco maintained his hold on the country by suppressing discussion or commemoration of those atrocities which had occurred during the Spanish Civil War. And in perhaps the most complicated of the...
The particular complication here is that Sabbatai himself converted to Islam at the behest of the Ottoman Sultan, and would eventually die in exile in Albania -- but his large following remained in Turkey, and occupied a peculiar social niche as Jewish converts to Islam, who nevertheless maintained some Jewish practices and did maintain a distinct group identity (forbidding exogamy with the Muslim Turks, for example). If Sabbatai's Messianic leadership proved to be traumatic in one way for his followers, Neyzi demonstrates how Kemal Ataturk's secularization campaign would prove to be traumatic in another way.
In all of these cases, several common themes stand out. One is…
Ottoman Empire In 1683, when the Ottoman forces were besieging Vienna, the empire reached its high-water mark and then began its slow, steady decline after suffering a major defeat in this battle. Only very gradually did Europeans come to perceive it as the Sick Man of Europe, however, since it was still formidable enough to play an important role in the defeat of Russia in the Crimean War of 1854-56. This
Ottoman Empire was a sick old man that just collapsed The Ottoman Empire was perhaps amongst the short-lived glories that history has seen yet. Many scholars believed that the power of the Caliphate ruling over the Empire had started declining from early 1680s; yet, there are also many others who feel that the historical accounts of the Empire show that it was a dynamic and ever-advancing Empire that had an intricate
Ottoman Empire is among the most fascinating periods in the history of civilization, and it remains the subject of scholarly study because of the impact it had on the world, and continues to have today. The empire began around as a medieval state in the late 13th Century around what is now known as Turkey; the region had largely been unaffected, either socially, militarily or economically by the social progress
Sharif Hussein Ibn Saud and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire Introduction The Ottoman Empire was served by a strong military and centralized political structure, but with territory that stretched into both the East and the West, the Ottoman Empire was also greatly served by its geography and the diversity of this realm. At the heart of its rule was the power of Mecca and the religious significance Mecca held for the
Ataturk's Influence On The New Turkish Republic And Village Institutes Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, or "Father Turk," is credited with being the father of the modern nation of Turkey. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Turkey did not exist as we know it today. Its territory was part of the Ottoman Empire, a conglomeration of different ethnicities and religions of various tribal affiliations. Under Ataturk's vision and leadership, a new nation
WWI: The Forces of Nationalism, Imperialism and Militarism The forces of nationalism, imperialism and militarism irrevocably led to World War I in several ways. Germany had become an industrialized nation, vying for economic power and rivaling the power of Britain (Gilbert, 1994). Germany had also defeated France in the prior century in the Franco-Prussian War and taken the territories of Alsace and Lorraine. France wanted them back (Bradberry, 2012). Russia also