Description

This pamphlet, written and published by Ebüzziya Tevfik, was the first one in the Ottoman language to question the moral character of the Jews and discuss the expulsion from their homeland.

Ebüzziya Tevfik, a journalist, writer and publisher, was known as the person “who turned printing into an art” and lifted the Ottoman press on a level, which could be compared with the contemporary western examples.

In 1881, Tevfik opened his printing shop, the so called Matbaa-i Ebüzziya, in Karaköy in Istanbul, close to the Arab Mosque, where he published his own magazine and a series of biographies and pamphlets on actual topics, called Kitaphane-i Ebuzziya. The series was the first Ottoman series of pamphlets on popular subjects, available to the wider audience, in the sense of the Western pocket books.

Worldcat lists 8 institutional examples (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden, Harvard University, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York Public Library System, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, University of California Los Angeles).

References: OCLC 644108158, 642833577. Özege 13579.