- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Note on Place-Names and Transliteration
- Maps
- Introduction
-
Chapter One The Khmelnytsky Uprising and the Jews -
Chapter Two The Chaos of War -
Chapter Three The Refugees outside Ukraine -
Chapter Four Facing the Refugee Experience -
Chapter Five The Second Wave of Wars -
Chapter Six Return and Reconstruction -
Chapter Seven Resolution -
Chapter Eight Introduction -
Chapter Nine The Captives -
Chapter Ten From Crimea to Istanbul -
Chapter Eleven Ransoming Captives -
Chapter Twelve On the Istanbul Slave Market -
Chapter Thirteen David Carcassoni’s Mission to Europe -
Chapter Fourteen The Role of Italian Jewry -
Chapter Fifteen The Jews in the Land of Israel and the Spread of Sabbatheanism -
Chapter Sixteen The Fate of the Ransomed -
Chapter Seventeen Transregional Contexts -
Chapter Eighteen Introduction -
Chapter Nineteen Background -
Chapter Twenty The Trickle before the Flood -
Chapter Twenty-One On the Road -
Chapter Twenty-Two Over the Border -
Chapter Twenty-Three Polish Jews Meet German Jews -
Chapter Twenty-Four Amsterdam -
Chapter Twenty-Five Starting New Lives -
Chapter Twenty-Six The End of the Crisis - Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index
From Crimea to Istanbul
From Crimea to Istanbul
- Chapter:
- (p.107) Chapter Ten From Crimea to Istanbul
- Source:
- Rescue the Surviving Souls
- Author(s):
Adam Teller
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter addresses how some of the Jewish captives were bought by professional slave merchants for resale elsewhere—most commonly Istanbul or Iran. With Jews so deeply engaged in the slave trade, it is surprising that so few of the Jewish captives from Ukraine following 1648 were actually ransomed in Crimea. It is impossible to determine why the local Jews and Karaites did not do more to help, but perhaps the huge number of captives overwhelmed them. They may have thought it better for the Jewish slaves to be shipped to Istanbul where there was a very large and wealthy community that could afford to ransom them. In addition to those taken to Istanbul via Crimea, however, there were other Ukrainian Jews captured by Tatars whose experiences were different. These Jewish captives found refuge in the provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia.
Keywords: Jewish captives, slave merchants, Istanbul, Jews, slave trade, Crimea, Jewish slaves, ransom, Ukrainian Jews, Crimean Tatars
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Note on Place-Names and Transliteration
- Maps
- Introduction
-
Chapter One The Khmelnytsky Uprising and the Jews -
Chapter Two The Chaos of War -
Chapter Three The Refugees outside Ukraine -
Chapter Four Facing the Refugee Experience -
Chapter Five The Second Wave of Wars -
Chapter Six Return and Reconstruction -
Chapter Seven Resolution -
Chapter Eight Introduction -
Chapter Nine The Captives -
Chapter Ten From Crimea to Istanbul -
Chapter Eleven Ransoming Captives -
Chapter Twelve On the Istanbul Slave Market -
Chapter Thirteen David Carcassoni’s Mission to Europe -
Chapter Fourteen The Role of Italian Jewry -
Chapter Fifteen The Jews in the Land of Israel and the Spread of Sabbatheanism -
Chapter Sixteen The Fate of the Ransomed -
Chapter Seventeen Transregional Contexts -
Chapter Eighteen Introduction -
Chapter Nineteen Background -
Chapter Twenty The Trickle before the Flood -
Chapter Twenty-One On the Road -
Chapter Twenty-Two Over the Border -
Chapter Twenty-Three Polish Jews Meet German Jews -
Chapter Twenty-Four Amsterdam -
Chapter Twenty-Five Starting New Lives -
Chapter Twenty-Six The End of the Crisis - Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index
