Millet-i Israiliye (1887-88, Ottoman Empire)
Ebüzziya Tevfik | Istanbul: Matbaa-i Ebüzziya | Ottoman Turkish | 1305 (1887 to 1888), first edition
An early example of antisemitic writing in Ottoman Turkish, presented as a history of the Jewish people.
First edition (Birinci tab’ı), Kütüphane-i Ebüzziya no. 66; 78 pages.
Title: Millet-i Israiliye [Nation of Israel]
Author: Ebüzziya Tevfik
Year: 1305 [1887-88]
Publisher: Matbaa-i Ebüzziya
Pages: 78 pp.
Language: Ottoman Turkish
Historical context
Ebüzziya Tevfik wrote within an Ottoman debate about religion, citizenship and commerce while drawing on European anti-Jewish stereotypes. His account combines hostile generalizations about Jewish economic life with passages praising Jewish loyalty, and with a conversation with a French Jewish bookseller in Istanbul that, in a 2019 study’s reading, embarrassed him about his own religious framing. The same study places the book’s European influences alongside older religious hostility and economic rivalry within Ottoman society.
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