Liat Maggid-Alon, a historian, delves into the emergence of the Jewish bourgeoisie in Egypt during the early-to-mid 20th century, analyzing how modernity, religion, nationalism, and minority politics intersected within this newly established upper-middle-class Jewish community.

A new theory surrounding the Armenian genocide suggests that Jews, particularly the Ottoman Empire's Jewish bourgeoisie known as Sabbateans or Dönme, were responsible for orchestrating the massacre as a means to eliminate their Armenian rivals in the region.