Jacob Daniels Introduces The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders

In this book talk delivered on February 26, 2026, Jacob Daniels introduces The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders, which explores how one of the world’s largest Sephardi communities navigated the political and territorial upheavals that transformed Edirne from a diverse Ottoman provincial center into a Turkish border town by 1923.

Jacob Daniels is Assistant Professor of Instruction and Assistant Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.