Model Citizens of the State
Model Citizens of the State

Author: Rifat Bali

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012-04-13

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1611475376

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Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party Period is about the history of the Turkish Jews from 1950 to present. By using unpublished primary sources as well as secondary sources, the book describes the struggle of Turkish Jews for the application of their constitutional rights, their fight against anti-Semitism and the indifferent attitude of the Turkish establishment to these problems. Finally, it describes Turkish Jewish leadership’s involvement in the lobbying efforts on behalf of the Turkish Republic against the acceptance of resolutions in the U.S. Congress recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust
Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust

Author: Corry Guttstadt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 0521769914

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This book analyses the minority politics of the Turkish republic and the country's ambivalent policies regarding Jewish refugees and Turkish Jews living abroad.

Turkey and the Rescue of European Jews
Turkey and the Rescue of European Jews

Author: I. Izzet Bahar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1317625994

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This book exposes Turkish policies concerning European Jews during the Hitler era, focusing on three events: 1. The recruitment of German Jewish scholars by the Turkish government after Hitler came to power, 2. The fate of Jews of Turkish origin in German-controlled France during WWII, 3. The Turkish approach to Jewish refugees who were in transit to Palestine through Turkey. These events have been widely presented in literature and popular media as conspicuous evidence of the humanitarian policies of the Turkish government, as well as indications of the compassionate acts of the Turkish officials vis-à-vis Jewish people both in the pre-war years of the Nazi regime and during WWII. This volume contrasts the evidence and facts from a wealth of newly-disclosed documents with the current populist presentation of Turkey as protector of Jews.

Turkish Jews in Contemporary Turkey
Turkish Jews in Contemporary Turkey

Author: Rıfat N. Bali

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9786059022163

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The present volume consists of a selection of articles by scholars on the social and cultural situation of Turkish Jews in the last two decades. The tensions created by political events in Turkey and/or by the Israeli-Palestian conflict, the bursts of anti-Semitism which result from these tensions are some of the many aspects studied in this volume. Others aspects such as the cultural life and the cultural heritage of a demographically dwindling community are also studied. This book is indispensable for the general readership and scholars who would like to grasp and understand better the reality of a very small community living in a country which for the last two decades has been going through a transformation from a so-called secular society into one where Islamist and conservative values are dominant. Collection of articles 7 in French, 6 in English.

Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Turkey
Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in Turkey

Author: Efrat Aviv

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-02-17

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1315314126

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This book examines the place Antisemitism occupies within Turkish history and society, especially since the rise of the AKP. It also elucidates and analyses the various actors, factors, and changes that the term and the phenomena "Antisemitism" have gone through. Additionally the book presents the Turkish regime's relations, attitude, and approach toward the Turkish-Jewish community in Turkey.

Turkey and the Holocaust
Turkey and the Holocaust

Author: Stanford J. Shaw

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1349130419

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The neutrality maintained by Turkey during most of the Second World War enabled it to rescue thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in the Nazi-occupied or collaborating countries of Europe. This book shows how in France, the Turkish consuls in Paris and Marseilles intervened to protect Turkish Jews from application of anti-Jewish laws introduced both by the German occupying authorities and the Vichy government and rescued them from concentration camps, getting them off trains destined for the extermination chambers in the East, and arranging train caravans and other special transportation to take them through Nazi-occupied territory to safety in Turkey. 'an important and unique addition to the vast scholarship available on that tragic era' Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey
Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey

Author: Soner Cagaptay

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-05-02

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1134174489

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This book examines Turkish and Balkan nationalism, arguing that the legacy of the Ottomon millet system which divided the Ottoman population into religious compartments called millets, shaped Turkey’s understanding of nationalism during the interwar period.

Jews, Turks, and Ottomans
Jews, Turks, and Ottomans

Author: Avigdor Levy

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780815629412

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This book focuses on central topics, such as the structure of the Jewish community, its organization and institutions and its relations with the state; the place Jews occupied in the Ottoman economy and their interactions with the general society; Jewish scholarship and its contribution to Ottoman and Turkish culture, science, and medicine. Written by leading scholars from Israel, Turkey, Europe, and the United States, these pieces present an unusually broad historical canvas that brings together different perspectives and viewpoints. The book is a major, original contribution to Jewish history as well as to Turkish, Balkan, and Middle East studies.

Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey
Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey

Author: Marcy Brink-Danan

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2011-12-06

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0253005264

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Turkey is famed for a history of tolerance toward minorities, and there is a growing nostalgia for the "Ottoman mosaic." In this richly detailed study, Marcy Brink-Danan examines what it means for Jews to live as a tolerated minority in contemporary Istanbul. Often portrayed as the "good minority," Jews in Turkey celebrate their long history in the region, yet they are subject to discrimination and their institutions are regularly threatened and periodically attacked. Brink-Danan explores the contradictions and gaps in the popular ideology of Turkey as a land of tolerance, describing how Turkish Jews manage the tensions between cosmopolitanism and patriotism, difference as Jews and sameness as Turkish citizens, tolerance and violence.

Turkish Jews and their Diasporas
Turkish Jews and their Diasporas

Author: Kerem Öktem

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 3030877981

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This book introduces the reader to the past and present of Jewish life in Turkey and to Turkish Jewish diaspora communities in Israel, Europe, Latin America and the United States. It surveys the history of Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, examining the survival of Jewish communities during the dissolution of the empire and their emigration to America, Europe, and Israel. In the cases discussed, members of these communities often sought and seek close connections with Turkey, even if those ‘ties that bind’ are rarely reciprocated by Turkish governments. Contributors also explore Turkish Jewishness today, as it is lived in Israel and Turkey, and as found in ‘places of memory’ in many cities in Turkey, where Jews no longer exist today.