A multiculturalidade otomana. Imigrantes, judeus do Império Otomano no Brasil

Abstract

the obligatory requirement to join the Turkish army in the first decade of the XX th. Century, unemployment, poverty and conflicts between the ethnic groups in the old Ottoman Empire, lead the Sephardim (Jews from the Iberian Peninsula) and the Oriental Jews (Arabic-speaking Jews) to migrate to the Americas. Although some of these immigrants preferred to settle themselves in Argentina, Uruguay or Chile, a few families settled in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Sephardim from Izmir, Istambul, Rhodes Island and other places of the present Turkish Republic and the Oriental-Jews from Sidon, Beirut, Safed and from other cities of old Palestine organized themselves in communities different and distinct of those of the Askenazim (Yiddish-speaking Jews from Central and Oriental Europe), that migrated in that same period.