Original Cloth. 8vo. 412 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Hebrew, with corrrespondence from the 17th and 18th centuries in English and Italian; includes a dozen illustrations and fascimiles. English title page: The days of the crescent: chapters in the history of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire. Edited by Minna Rozen. Includes essays on economic, political, and social histories of jewish communities in Ragusa, Salonika, Istanbul, Izmir, and generally in the Ottoman Empire. In the series: Publications of the Diaspora Research Institute, 111. Publications of the Chair for the History and Culture of the Jews of Salonika and Greece. New series, 2. Subjects: Jews - Turkey - History. Sephardim - Turkey - History. Turkey - History - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. Light wear to jacket, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (SEF-46-5)