Based on extensive archival research, this book presents the state of Jewish schooling in Ottoman Edirne during the period of activity by the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
Erol Haker recounts the history of the Sephardic Jewish Adoto family, which originally hails from the town of Kirklareli. This is one of the few books to describe the Jewish population of Turkish Thrace.
Erol Haker’s second book on Turkey’s Jews is the personal account of growing up during the 1930s and 1940s, when nationalist pressures on non-Turks were at their greatest.