beautiful cover illustration from 1670s, Isaac Cardoso
Nesi Altaras
@nesialtaras.bsky.social
Stanford phd in ottoman jewish history. diaspora montrealer. istanbul jew. Me karisheo en meseles. Eskriviendo bazen en djudio and eng, ve turkce he/him/ijiko
at the part of the paper writing process where im costantly writing it in my head. Crafting little mental footnotes. Its shaping up.
Bugun ogrendigim sey: Niksar (Tokat) adi Nea Caesaria’den geliyomus. Yani Turkiyede adi Sezar olan iki sehir var. Oburu eskisi zaar, direkt Caesaria = Kayseri
Turkce tayfa sonunda twitterdan buraya gelmeye basladi. Artik burasi canlanir
A delightful Turkish saying translated into Ladino in Vienna’s Ladino paper El Koreo de Viena 1871. “El azno se fue ala Kâbe, azno se fue i azno torno” The ass went to the Kaaba (on hajj) he went an ass and returned an ass. Hadnt heard it in either language!
Preparing a syllabus might be one of the most enjoyable academic things ive done Inshallah they let me teach this class on the history of Istanbul
your interlibrary loan request is ready to pick up btw if you even care
This made me crack up “It is not appropriate here to say whether they (christians) or the Jews are the more accursed community.”
finally caught up all the things i had sent myself on twitter to read (aug-dec) Whens @bsky.app gonna introduce a way to save stuff or dm oneself?
I didnt publish much this year bc ive been buried under phd course work. The things i'll remember from this year are my essay on yogurt and the english translation of a a Ladino story. 1 - Yogurt in Sephardi Life, w reminiscing about Buyukada. jewishstudies.washington.edu/sephardic-st...
Muestras Konsejas: Yogurt in Sephardi Life - UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
Runner up, student category. Nesi Altaras recounts summers spent on the island of Buyukada, close to Istanbul, and the "traditional but extremely practical" feeling of being Sephardic in Turkey.
jewishstudies.washington.edu
Feeling similarly and finding that many many people are failing the test.
Arthur Asseraf@arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 2y agoWatching the news from Syria this week, hopes and anxieties that had been kept frozen for a decade are thawing. I feel like I'm time-traveling, feeling things I had not felt since 2015. Now more than ever, Syria is the true test of people's politics.
Destroying a worldclass public uni to own the libs
Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · 2y agoI don't know if this is getting attention because ((waves arms)), but Michigan's Regents will consider defunding DEI tomorrow. Unlike the situation in Florida or Texas, this is under a board that is 6-2 Democrats.
Reading this rn and for a book from 2010 it feels fresh
Endivina ken topi en la prensa djudia? una famoza turka "Halide Edib Hanum, la eskrivana bien konosida la kual fue un sierto tiempo komisarya dela instruksyon publiko en angora."
Turkce twitter tasinsin da burasi o zaman senlenir, daha sakin simdilik
Are people still calling posts on here “skeets”? I really hope that caught on
When i search the word “ottoman” in bluesky, most of the posts that come up are photos of cats and dogs sitting on ottomans. The empire has really disintegrated i guess
Is everyone on bluesky an academic? It seems disproportionate
I joined bluesky my last day on the job doing social media and it was v exciting for a week Then i stopped looking, now we’re back i guess
Nesi Altaras@nesialtaras.bsky.social · 4y agoYou come to me on the day i quit my social media management job
Early modern class finally got to the ottoman empire, im Home 🫡
