The Kohens Del De Campavias: A Family's Sweet and Sour Story in Ottoman and Republican Turkey (Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies)

This volume is a history of the Khoens del de Campavias, a Sephardic Jewish family in the Ottoman Empire. The book chronicles the lives of family members from the 1830s through to the Second World War. Mother and son 1941 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION I. THE ANCESTOR, THE PATRIARCH II. THE DUEL BETWEEN THE LION (Eliya Kohen) AND THE FOX (Grand- Rabbi Nahum) III. THE ENIGMA OF ADMIRAL ELIAS COHEN PASHA SURGEON GENERAL OF SULTAN HAMİD’S NAVY IV. SONS AND DAUGHTERS V. ESTELLA CAMPAVIAS. EXTRAVAGANT, WHIMSICAL PRINCESS. FATA MORGANA OF THE FAMILY VI. ATATURK STYLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN CHALCEDONIA ALL SEEMS WELL, BUT ... VII. JOURNEY TO HELL AND THEN ... BONBONS FROM ISTANBUL VIII. FROM CHARYBDES TO SCYLLA IX. ON THE WAY TO HEALING: RECOVERY OF PARADISE LOST- BUT ... A FEW RELAPSES FAMILY EPILOGUE GENERAL PERSPECTIVE Appendices SOURCES