Educational activities of the Ottoman jews from the last decades of the empire to the early years of the Turkish Republic : The Alliance Israélite Universelle experience in light of Turkish and French archival documents (1860-1937)

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Güven, Ahmet Hilmi
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This thesis analyzes the educational activities of the Ottoman Jews in a time period between the last decades of the Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Turkish Republic covering the reforms the new regime performed for a secular education system. The particular education society called the Alliance Israélite Universelle is taken as a case study with all its activities from its establishment in 1860 to the closing its last school in Turkey. The French origin AIU schools are considered with different scopes, including their impacts upon the Ottoman and Turkish education systems and interactions with the social life in each. However, in order to analyze this institution, the administration of the heterogeneous Ottoman state is required to be revised and the status of the Jewish communities in the Ottoman Empire is to be overviewed. In the study, besides the AIU archival resources, mainly the first and second hand sources in the Turkish archives are used.
Education, Higher, Colleges and universities, Jewish scientists, Jews, Schools, French
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22571
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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A. H. Güven, “Educational activities of the Ottoman jews from the last decades of the empire to the early years of the Turkish Republic : The Alliance Israélite Universelle experience in light of Turkish and French archival documents (1860-1937) ,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2013.
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