Emmanuel Carasso

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Emmanuel Carasso
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1908–1912
ConstituencySalonica
Personal details
Born1862
Italy
Resting placeJewish cemetery in Arnavutköy
Political partyCommittee of Union and Progress
RelationsIsaac Carasso (nephew)
OccupationPolitician

Emmanuel Carasso or Emanuel Karasu (1862 in Salonica – 1934 in Trieste) was an

Sephardic Jewish Carasso family of Ottoman Salonica (now Thessaloniki, Greece). He was also a prominent member of the Young Turks. The name is also spelled Karaso, Karassu, Karso, Karsu and Karasso. The form Karasu is a Turkification of his name, meaning literally 'dark water'. Emmanuel's nephew was the physician Isaac Carasso, also Salonica-born Sephardic Jew from the Ottoman Empire, who began producing Danone yogurt in Barcelona, Spain in 1919.[1]

Karasu was a member (some sources say founder) and later president of the

Italy
.

Death

He died in 1934, and is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Arnavutköy, Istanbul.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Danone: History of Danone group". danone.ua. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  2. ^ "The History of Freemasonry in Turkey". Archived from the original on May 20, 2006. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
  3. ^ Marc David Baer, The Dönme: Jewish converts, Muslim revolutionaries, and secular Turks, p. 94 full text
  4. ^ Ahsene Gül Tokay, "Macedonian Reforms and Muslim Opposition during the Hamidian Era: 1878–1908", Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 14:1 (2003)
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  6. ^ Stella Salem, ‘Portraits of famous Jewish lawyers and jurists in Greece’, Justice (Special issue: Remembering Salonika) (Spring 1999), 17.
  7. ^ Uçak, Zeynep (2018-08-06). "Emanuel Karasu ve faaliyetleri" (in Turkish). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)