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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brink-Danan, Marcy.

Series:

New anthropologies of Europe

Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Turkey--Istanbul--History--21st century.

Jews.

Jews--Turkey--Instanbul--Identity.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

History.

Istanbul (Turkey)--Ethnic relations.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Turkey.

Turkey--Istanbul.

Physical Description:

xviii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Turkey is famed for a history of tolerance in both the Ottoman and Republican periods, and some Turks are nostalgic for a lost Ottoman cosmopolitanism. Marcy Brink-Danan questions these views of history and 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. In this richly detailed study, 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. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253356901

0253356903

9780253223500

0253223504

OCLC:

707212770