^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} Evanescent Happiness: Ottoman Jews Encounter Modernity - The Case of Lea Mitrani and Joseph Niego 1863 - 1923 -

This book aims to be a collective biography of Joseph Niego and Lea Mitrani, two Ottoman Jews, whose lives spanned a sixty-year period of profound changes for Ottoman Jewry. Born in Edirne, Joseph and Lea were educated in the schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle. Subsequently, they were sent to Paris in order to be trained as teachers and be sent back to help "regenerate" Ottoman Jews through a Western-style education. After their marriage, Joseph was appointed director of the agricultural school "Mikveh Israel," established by the Alliance in the outskirts of Jaffa, where the family would reside for twelve years.

Their time in an agricultural school and contact with Zionism and the Jewish pioneers in late nineteenth-century Palestine would define their lives as a married couple and as Jews in the vortex of modernization and nationalism. While Joseph would thrive professionally, Lea would gradually lose control of her life.

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Chapter 1: Introduction
In Search of Home: The Lives of Joseph Niego and Lea Mitrani
In Search of Truth: A Synthesis of Sorts

Chapter 2: Edirne
Section 1: A Balkan "Alma Mater": Edirne and its Jewish community
Section 2: "Molded and Shaped" by the Alliance Israélite Universelle
Section 3: "Assiduity and Perseverance": Joseph and Lea's Early Schooling

Chapter 3: Paris
Section 1: "Instruments of Regeneration": Becoming an Alliance Teacher
Section 2: At the École Normale Israélite Orientale: Joseph Niego
Section 3: At the École Bischoffsheim: Lea Mitrani
Section 4: "Orientals" in the City of Light

Chapter 4: Tetuan and Edirne
Section 1: "Strange Phases of Life": The Jewish Community of Tetuan
Section 2: Killer Modernity: Lea Mitrani at the Alliance Schools in Tetuan and Edirne

Chapter 5: Palestine
Section 1: Ottoman Palestine
Section 2: A Holy Land
Section 3: Return to the Homeland
Section 4: Mikveh Israel: "The Jewel of the New Palestine"
Subsection 1: The beginnings
Subsection 2: Arriving in Jaffa
Subsection 3: At Mikveh Israel
Section 5: Lea and the Halutzot

Chapter 6: Istanbul
Section 1: Return to the Cradle
Section 2: "Last Soldier of an Elite Army"
Section 3: Epilogue

Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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