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Jacob Daniels

Jacob Daniels received his History PhD from Stanford University in 2022. He is currently Assistant Professor of Instruction at The University of Texas, Austin, where he also serves as Assistant Director of the Shusterman Center for Jewish Studies. His book on the Jews of Edirne, Turkey, is forthcoming with Stanford University Press.

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Angèle Guéron

Angèle Guéron was an educator in Edirne, once an important city in the late Ottoman Empire, now a border town in northwestern Turkey. The eloquent journal she kept during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) provides a rare glimpse of life in a besieged Ottoman city and the struggles of a Sephardi Jewish woman against a conservative communal patriarchy.