"Jews, Ottomans and Turks
I just reread Philip Mansel's great study Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924, and there's an interesting point that he makes in there about Jews in the Ottoman Empire: 'In Constantinople, the words pogrom, ghetto, inquisition had no meaning.' The official Ottoman tolerance of 'people of the book'- honestly more economic than philosophically-based- answers a question from Western European History, namely 'Where did the Jews go to flee the Inquisition?' Many of them fled to Constantinople."
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