UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

Public Lecture - The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
2026-05-19 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HUB 145, UW Campus, 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
Join us in welcoming visiting author and scholar Jacob Daniels, discussing his new book, The Jews of Edirne: The End of the Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders.
Free and open to all; registration required here.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne Province—among the most religiously diverse regions of the Ottoman Empire. But by 1923, the city had become a Turkish border town, and the province had lost much of its non-Muslim population. With this book, Jacob Daniels explores how one of the world’s largest Sephardi communities dealt with the encroachment of modern borders.
Daniels will give a short presentation and will then be joined by Canan Bolel, Assistant Professor in Jewish Cultures, Languages, and Literatures of the Eastern Mediterranean, for a lively conversation and Q&A.
Jacob Daniels is Assistant Professor of Instruction and Assistant Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University in 2022.
Sponsored by the Sephardic Studies Program, the Middle East Center, and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.
