The Jews of Edirne

Jacob Daniels is Assistant Professor of Instruction and Assistant Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.

"Jacob Daniels is not only a skilled historian: he is also a gifted storyteller who makes his subject come to life. The Jews of Edirne offers a sweeping new perspective on Jewish history between empire and nation state, and timely insight into the fate of a minority inhabiting a contested borderland." -Matthias Lehmann, University of Cologne "In this skillfully researched monograph, Jacob Daniels tells the story of one of southeast Europe's oldest Sephardi Jewish communities, careful to establish the community's agency, diversity, and conflict in opinion as they weathered the tumultuous changes that shook, remade, and ultimately collapsed their world on the eve of World War II. The Jews of Edirne is a significant accomplishment." -Ipek Kocaoemer Yosmaoglu, Northwestern University "The Jews of Edirne deftly explores the complex and unexpected ways a minority community on the frontlines of some of the twentieth century's greatest catastrophes made sense of their uncertain futures. An eminently readable and powerful work, this book prompts us to rethink the meanings of borderlands amid the localized logics of nationhood." -Devi Mays, University of Michigan