سجل الدخول باستخدام غوغل
تسجيل الدخول باستخدام فاسيبوك
Abraham Galante (1873-1961) was a Jewish educator, Turkish politician, journalist, social activist and historian of Ottoman Jews and Eastern peoples. He began his career as a teacher and an inspector in Jewish and Turkish schools in Rhodes and Izmir (Smyrna). In 1904 he moved to Egypt and founded in Cairo the Ladino biweekly journal La Vara. Abraham Galante actively promoted Jewish adoption of the Turkish language. In 1914 he was appointed professor of Semitic languages and later of History of the Ancient Orient at the University of Istanbul. He supported the Turkish nationalist movement and served as a deputy in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and was a member of the Parliament which met in 1943. Galante wrote many articles and books dealing with different aspects of Ottoman Jewish history and culture, as well as with a wide variety of other topics. The majority of his voluminous works were first published in the 1930s. The collection contains materials connected with various facets of Abraham Galante’s public, educational and scholarly activities. It includes: his biography and personal documents; pocket diaries; Galante’s correspondence with his family, friends, scholars, politicians and rabbis; correspondence with various Jewish and non-Jewish institutions and organizations including the Council of the Jewish community and the Chief Rabbinate in Istanbul, Council of the Sephardi Committee in Jerusalem, Jewish educational institutions, Turkish and Egyptian government institutions, Young Turks, the Spanish consul in Istanbul and the University of Istanbul; correspondence of the Alliance israélite universelle; correspondence with Jewish organizations and public figures abroad; telegrams regarding candidacy of Jews to the Ottoman House of Representatives; notes related to various scholarly works; manuscript of a Hebrew-Ladino dictionary; historical documents on the history of the Jewish people; and newspapers. An important part of the collection are Galante’s reports as inspector in various Jewish schools --
اللغة:
שפה נוכחית
