[Year of first publication] c. 1668 [Character(s)] Mergata [Work] The Jewish Bride or On Dimo, the Albanian Baker who Loved a Jewish Girl [Creator] Eremya Chelebi Kömürjian [Country of publication] Ottoman Empire [Details] The poem tells the story of how Dimo, an Albanian Christian boy kidnaps the Jewish Mergata from the city of Constantinople to his home town where he converts her and they are married by the Prince.[19] Versions of the poem have been found in Armenian, Turkish and Greek. Some scholars believe that Eremya's depiction of the Jewish religion as being inferior to Christianity was a stand-in for a critique of the dominant Islamic religion.[20] [Media] 
Narrative poem