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Doctoral Dissertation

Ginio, Eyal. Marginality in the Ottoman state: The Case of 18th Century Salonica Advisor: Prof. Haim Gerber, June 1999.

Books

Ginio, Eyal. The Ottoman Culture of Defeat and the Shifting of Ottoman Identities : The Balkan Wars and Their Aftermath (1912-1914). London: Hurst Publications and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, 391 pages


 

Ginio, Eyal. The Ottoman Empire: The Balkan Provinces. Raanana: The Open University Press, In Press, 2016, 167 pages, in Hebrew.

 

Books Edited

Ginio, Eyal (ed.). Greece – Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 2014, xi+460 pages, in Hebrew.

Ginio, Eyal, Anthony Molho and Paris Chronakis (eds.). The Jews of Salonica in the Modern Period – A Special Issue of Jewish History, 28:3 (2014), 206 pages.

Ginio, Eyal and Elie Podeh (eds.). The Ottoman Middle East: Studies in Honor of Amnon Cohen. Leiden: Brill, 2014,  xv+265 pages.

Ginio, Eyal and Karl Kaser (eds.). Ottoman Legacies in the Contemporary  Mediterranean: the Balkans and the Middle East Compared.  Jerusalem: The Forum for European Studies, 2013, 367 pages.

Ben-Bassat, Yuval and Eyal Ginio (eds.). Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period  of Young Turk Rule. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011, 310 pages. A Turkish version of the volume will be published by Koç University Press, Istanbul.

Chapters in edited volumes

Ginio, Eyal. “War, Dynasty, and Philanthropy: Kavala and the Khedivial Relief Campaign during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913.” In Evguenia Davidova (ed.), Wealth in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans: A Socio-Economic History. London: I.B. Tauris, 2015 [forthcoming].

Ginio, Eyal. “War, Civic Mobilization and the Ottoman Home-front during the Balkan Wars: The Case of the Children.” In Dominik Geppert, William Mulligan and Andreas Rose (eds.), The Wars before the Great War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 92-113.

Ginio, Eyal. “'Landscapes of Modernity and Order': War and Propaganda in Ottoman Writing during World War I.” In M. Hakan Yavuz and Ahmed Feroz (eds.), War and Collapse: World War and the Ottoman Empire. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015 [forthcoming].

Ginio, Eyal. “Eνσωμάτωση μέσω του παρελθόντος: Εβραίοι μελετητές  γράφουν ιστορία στη μεσοπολεμική Θεσσαλονίκην.” (“Integration through  the Past: Jewish Scholars Write History in Inter-war Salonica.”) In Dimitris Keridis (ed.), ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ: ΜΙΑ ΠΟΛΗ ΣΕ ΜΕΤΑΒΑΣΠ (Thessaloniki:  A City in Transition, 1912-2012. Thessaloniki, EPIKETRO, 2015, 266-280, in Greek.  

Ginio, Eyal. “Değişim Adına Çocuklara Verilen Önem: Balkan Savaşları (1912-1913) sırasında Çocuk Edebiyatı ve Basın.” [The Significance of Children as Bearers of Change: Children Literature and Press during the Balkan War]. In Mehmet Ersan and Nuri Karakaş (ed.), Osmanlı Devleti'nin  Dağılma Sürecinde Trablusgarp ve Balkan Savaşları. Ankara: The Turkish Historical Society Publications, 2013, 649-665.

Ginio, Eyal. “Making Sense of the Defeat in the Balkan Wars: Voices from the Arab Provinces.” In M. Hakan Yavuz and Isa Blumi (eds.),  War and Nationalism: The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, and Their Sociopolitical Implications. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press,  2013, 594-617.

Ginio, Eyal, “Paving the Way for Ethnic Cleansing: Eastern Thrace during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and Their Aftermath.” In Omer  Bartov and Eric Weitz (eds.) Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013, 283-297.

Ginio, Eyal. “Balkan Savaşları Döneminde Kırkkilise (Kırklareli) Musevi Cemaati” [The Jewish Community of  Kırkkilise (Kırklareli)  during  the Balkan Wars]. In Kenan Gültürk and S. Bilal Nur (eds.), Balkan  Savaşlarının 100. Yılı [The Centenary of the Balkan Wars]. Bağcılar: Kültür Yayınları, 2012, 554-563, [in Turkish].

Ginio, Eyal, “Coping with Decline: The Political Responses of the Jewish Community to the Eighteenth-Century Crisis in Salonica.” In Antonis Anastasopoulos (ed.), Political Initiatives ‘From the Bottom Up’ in the Ottoman Empire. Rethymno: Crete University Press, 2012, 69-  90.

Ginio, Eyal, “Between the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and the 'Third Balkan War' of the 1990s. The Memory of the Balkans in Arabic Writings.” In Amy Singer, Christoph K. Neumann and Selçuk Akşin Somel (eds.), Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19^th and 20^th Centuries. London: Routledge, 2011, 179-196, (an extended version of #44).

Ginio, Eyal.  “El Dovér al mas Sànto – The Mobilization of the Ottoman Jewish Population during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913).” In  Nathalie Clayer, Hannes Grandits and Robert Pichler (eds.), Social Integration and National Turn in the Late and Post-Ottoman Balkan Societies (1839-1914). London: I.B. Tauris, 2011, 157-181 (an extended version of #45).

Ginio, Eyal.  “Coping with the State’s Agents ‘from Below’: Petitions, Legal Appeal and the Sultan’s Justice in Ottoman Legal Practice.” In Eleni Gara, M. Erdem Kabadayı and Christoph K. Neumann (eds.), Popular Protest and Political Participation in the Ottoman Empire – Studies in Honor of Suraiya Faroqhi. Istanbul:  İstanbul Bilgi University Press, 2011, 41-56.

Ginio, Eyal. “Transmitting the Agony of a Besieged Population: Edirne (Adrianople) during the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913.” In Stefan Goebel and Derek Keene (eds.), Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan  Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of  Total War. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011, 83-99.

Ginio, Eyal. “Women, Domestic Violence and Breaking Silence: The Evidence of the Şeriat Court of Eighteenth-century Salonica.” In Abdeljelil  Temimi (ed.), Mélanges en l'Honneur du Prof. Dr Suraiya Faroqhi . Tunis:  Publications de la Fondation Temimi pour la Recherche Scientifique et l'Information, 2008, 153-168.

Ginio, Eyal.  “La montagne comme ‘zone dangereuse’: un aperçu de la Salonique Ottomane.” [“The Mountains as a ‘dangerous zone’: a regard from Ottoman Salonica .” In Claudia Moatti and Wolfgang Kaiser and Christophe Pébarthe (eds.), Le monde de  l'itinérance en Méditerranée de l'Antiquité à l'époque moderne: Procédures de contrôle et d'identification. Bordeaux: Editions  Ausonius, 2008, 253-264.

Ginio, Eyal. “Patronage and Violence in the Legal Process in Eighteenth Century Salonica and Its Province.” In Ron Shaham (ed.), Custom, Shari`a, and State in the Muslim World: Studies in Honor of Aharon Layish.  Leiden: Brill, 2007, 111-130.

Ginio, Eyal. “Aspects of Muslim Culture in the Ottoman Balkans during the Eighteenth Century: A View from Salonica.” In Dimitris Tziovas (ed.) Greece and the Balkans: Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters since the Enlightenment. London: Ashgate, 2003, 114-126.

Ginio, Eyal. “Living on the Margins of Charity: Coping with Poverty in an Ottoman Provincial City.” In Michael Bonner, Mine Ener and Amy Singer (eds.) Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Context. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003, 165- 184.

Ginio, Eyal. “Migrants and Unskilled Local Workers in an Ottoman Port City: Ottoman Salonica in the Eighteenth-Century.” In Eugene Rogan (ed.) Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002, 126-148.

Ginio, Eyal. “A Safavid Pretender in the City of the White Tower: The Self Styled Mirza Safi in Salonica (1731-34)”.  In H.C. Güzel, Cem Oğuz and Osman Karatay (eds.) The Turks, vol. 4. Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, 2002, 124-129.

Ginio, Eyal. “Beyaz Kule Şehrinde bir Safevî Prensi: Selanik’teki Beyzâde (1731-1734)”.  In H.C. Güzel, K. Çiçek and S. Koca (eds.) Türkler. Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, 2002, vol. 12, 576-581.

Ginio, Eyal. “The Inauguration of the Hebrew University (1925) as Reflected in the Contemporary Ladino press of Greece and Turkey.” In W. Zeev Harvey, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Haim Saadoun and Amnon   Shiloah (eds.) Zion and Zionism among Sephardi and Oriental Jews.  Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalayim, 2002, 261-274 [In Hebrew].

Ginio, Eyal. “Unutulmuş Bir Osmanlı Balkan Eliti: Mısır’daki Müslüman Tüccarlar.”  In Kemal Çiçek and Cem Oğuz (eds.). Osmanlı. Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, 1999, vol. 3, 498-503.

Ginio, Eyal. “A Forgotten Muslim Balkan Elite: The Muslim Merchants with Egypt.” In Kemal Çiçek and Cem Oğuz (eds.), The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilization, vol. 2. Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayınları, 1999, 75-81.

 

Articles

Ginio, Eyal. “Debating the Nation in Court: The Torlakian Trial (Istanbul, 1921).” The Armenian Review 55:1-2 (2015), forthcoming.

Ginio, Eyal. “Jews and European Subjects in Eighteenth-Century Salonica: The Ottoman Perspectives”. Jewish History (2014), 289-312.

Ginio, Eyal. “Shaping a Symbol of Success in Times of Catastrophe: The Hamidiye Battleship during the Balkan Wars.” Études Balkaniques XLIX: 2 (2013), 91-108.

Ginio, Eyal. “Perceiving French Presence in the Levant: French Subjects in the Sicil of 18^th Century Ottoman Salonica.” Südost-Forschungen 65/66 (2006/07), 137-164.

Ginio, Eyal.  “When Coffee Brought about Wealth and Prestige: The Impact of Egyptian Trade on Salonica.” Oriente Moderno XXV n.s. (LXXXVI):1 (2006), 93-107 (an extended version of #9).

Ginio, Eyal. “The Shaping of a Sacred Space: The Tekke of Zühuri Şeyh Ahmet Efendi in Eighteenth-Century Salonica.” Medieval History Journal 9:2 (2006), 271-296.

Ginio, Eyal. “Presenting the Desert to the Ottomans during WWI: The Perspective of the Harb Mecmuası.” New Perspectives on Turkey 33 (2005), 43-62.

Ginio, Eyal.  “Mobilizing the Ottoman Nation during the Balkan Wars (1912-13) – Awakening from the Ottoman Dream.” War In History 12 (2005), 156-177.

Ginio, Eyal.  “Musulmans et non-musulmans dans la Salonique ottomane: L’affrontement sur les espaces et les lignes de démarcation” [“Muslims and non-Muslims in Ottoman Salonica (18th century): Conflicts of Space and Boundaries”].  Revue des mondes musulmans et de  la Méditerranée 107-110 (2005), 403-414 [in French].

Ginio, Eyal.  “Ottoman Jews during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913).” Peamim 105-106 (2005/2006), 5-28.

Ginio, Eyal.  “’The Forgotten Muslims’: The Balkans as Reflected in Arabic Writing.” Ha-Mizrah He-Hadash 45 (2005), 115-140.

Ginio, Eyal.  “Neither Muslims nor Zimmis: the Gypsies (Roma) in the Ottoman State.”. Romani Studies 14: 2 (2004), 117-144.

Ginio, Eyal.  “The Enlargement of the Jewish Cemetery of Salonica [1709]: A Case Study of a Dispute over the Public Space in the Ottoman City.” Peamim 98-99 (2004), 319-332 [in Hebrew].

Ginio, Eyal. “’Learning the Beautiful Language of Homer’: Judeo-Spanish-Speaking Jews and the Greek Language and Culture between the Wars.” Jewish History 16:3 (2002), 235-262.

Ginio, Eyal.  “Islam and Muslims in the Balkans: Orientalist Perceptions, Historical Myths, and Memory.” Jama`a 9 (2002), 11-52 [in Hebrew].

Ginio, Eyal.  “Piracy and Redemption in the Aegean Sea during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century.” Turcica 33 (2001), 135-147.

Ginio, Eyal. “’Every Soul Shall Taste Death’ – Dealing with Death and the Afterlife in Eighteenth Century Ottoman Salonica”. Studia Islamica 93 (2001), 91-110.

Ginio, Eyal. “Childhood, Mental Capacity and Conversion in the Ottoman State.”  Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 25 (2001), 90-119.

Ginio, Eyal. “Kadınlar, Yoksulluk ve 18. Yüzyıl Selânik’de Hayatta Kalma Stratejileri.” Toplum ve Bilim 89 (2001), 190-204. [Women, Poverty and Survival Strategies in 18^th-Century Salonica, in Turkish].

Ginio, Eyal. “The Administration of Criminal Justice in Ottoman Selânik (Salonica) during the Eighteenth Century.” Turcica 30 (1998), 185-209.

Ginio, Eyal. “Violations of Founders’ Stipulations in the Sharī´a Court of Jaffa during the British Mandate.” Islamic Law and Society 4:3 (1997), 389-415.

Ginio, Eyal. “Istanbul Jewry in Search of National Identity.” Contemporary Jewry 10 (1996), 115-138 [in Hebrew].

Reviews

Review of Julia Phillips Cohen, Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) in The Middle East Journal 68:4 (2014), 659-660.

Review of François Georgeon and Frédéric Hitzel (eds.), Les Ottomans et le temps (Leiden: Brill, 2012) in Turcica 45 (2014), 399-401.

Review of Michelle U. Campos. Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011) in International Journal of Turkish Studies 19 (1-2) 2013, 177-180.

Review of Hervé Greorgelin, La fin de Smyrne: Du cosmopolitisme aux nationalismes (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2005) and Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis (ed.), Smyrne, la ville oubliée 1830-1930: Mémoires d'un grand port ottoman (Paris: Editions Autrement, 2006) in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 41:1 (2009), 133-136.

Review of Mine Ener, Managing Egypt's Poor and the Politics of Benevolence, 1800-1952 (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003) in Mediterranean Historical Review 20:1 (2005), 125-127.

Encyclopedic Entries

Ginio, Eyal. “Edirne”, in Encyclopedia Judaica, 2ed Edition, 2008, 400 words.

Ginio, Eyal. “Jews in the Ottoman Empire”, in New Jewish Time: Jewish Culture in a Secular Age –An Encyclopedic View (Tel Aviv: Keter Publishing, 2007) [in Hebrew and English].

Ginio, Eyal. “Guerres balkaniques” (15000 signes), “Salonique (XIVe-XVIIIe siècle,  7500 signes) ”, “Tsiganes” (4500 signes) in Dictionnaire historique de  l'Empire Ottoman (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard) [forthcoming, in French].

Ginio, Eyal. “Balkan Wars” (1200 words) in Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI), 3ed Edition, forthcoming.

Others

­­­­Ginio, Eyal. “The Nation on trial: A Nighty Assassination in Istanbul and the Trial of Misak Torlakian.” Zmanin 130 (2015), 46-57, [in Hebrew].

Ginio, Eyal. “Manumission of a Jewish slave in Salonica [1700].”  In Julia Phillip Cohen and Sara Abrevaya Stein (eds.), Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History of the Ottoman Judeo-Spanish World and Its Diaspora. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014, 27-28.

Ginio, Eyal. “The Sicil as a Source for Writing the History of the Jewish Community of Salonica.” Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies 29 (2001/2002), 42- 44.