Monday, October 12, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
At the end of the nineteenth century and during the early years of the twentieth, thousands of Turks, Kurds, Armenians, Albanians, Greeks, and Sephardic Jews emigrated from the Ottoman Empire for economic and political reasons. Emigration from regions such as Harput, which had a considerable Christian population, was particularly high, fostered in part by the appeal of American charitable and philanthropic work. Circulation of information about American life and opportunities led to the general Ottoman immigration to the United States—particularly to New England.
In this online lecture, Dr. Işıl Acehan, a visiting scholar at George Mason University, traces the history of Turkish/Ottoman immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century and the Ottoman communities in New England.
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