Jewish life in 21st-century Turkey : the other side of tolerance

Jewish life in 21st-century Turkey : the other side of tolerance / Marcy Brink-Danan.

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 "g...

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Main Author: Brink-Danan, Marcy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2012.
Series:New anthropologies of Europe.
Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Jews > Turkey > Istanbul > History > 21st century.
Jews > Turkey > Istanbul > Identity.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Jews > Identity
Istanbul (Turkey) > Ethnic relations.
Turkey > Istanbul
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Tolerance, difference, and citizenship
  • Cosmopolitan signs: names as foreign and local
  • The limits of cosmopolitanism
  • Performing difference: Turkish Jews on the national stage
  • Intimate negotiations: Turkish Jews between stages
  • The one who writes difference: inside secrecy.

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