This works attempts to the reconstruct the life story of Jak Barbut, a Turkish Jewish doctor who, for several decades served with a tirelessly as surgeon general of the Istanbul State Penitentiary, the Or Ahayim Jewish Hospital and several others. Using the available sources the author brings to life the single-minded devotion of a man unanimously praised with equal parts gratitude and respect by his patients, his colleagues, and the convicts of the Istanbul Prison on whose behalf he devoted his entire professional life. As such, the work represents a modest but important contribution to the history of Ottoman-Turkish Jewry, and of Turkish medicine.

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Introduction

PART I - A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

a) Life Story

b) Dr. Jak Barbut Retires

c) Dr. Barbut's Illnes and his death

PART II - EULOGIES PUBLISHED AFTER HIS DEATH

a) The Eulogy Published in the Turkish Jewish NewspaperŞalom

b) Eulogies Published in theJournal d'Orient

• Dr. Samuel Abrevaya Marmaralı

• Angela Loreley Karasu

• Dr. Isaac Nahum

• Dr. M.[arko] O.[vadya] Albukrek

1. Eulogy published in the French daily

2. Newspaper La République

PART III - THE FUNERAL

a) Eulogy of Albert Karasu

b) Coverage of the Funeral in the Journal d'Orient

c) The Ceremony at the Or Ahayim Hospital

• Journal d'Orient

• Şalom newspaper correspondent Leon Levi Gülman

PART IV - RECOLLECTIONS OF DR. JAK BARBUT

a) Lea Weinstein Yahya

b) Meri Hatem

c) Dr. Moiz Akşiote

d) Jak Barbut in the Novels of Kemal Tahir

PART V - THE DESCENDANTS OF DR. JAK BARBUT

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ALBUM

INDEX