This book is the first publication of the unfinished memoir by the Portuguese Jew Jacques José Abravanel (1906–1993). For almost sixty years he was Portugal’s honorary consul in Istanbul and an active defender of ladino language.
This book investigates the relationship between Turks and Jews in the Turkish Republic. A variety of sources, from popular literature to Islamist writings, are included in this unique study.
A comprehensive study on Varlik Vergisi (the Capital Tax) which was implemented on the minorities of the Turkish Republic in 1942–43 and affected their lives as well as conceptions of their place in the society.
This volume contains Rifat Bali’s study of the Jewish place in Istanbul’s nineteenth-century sex trade as well as three contemporary accounts of the practice.
This book contains a decade’s worth of American consular reports offering insights into life in the new Turkish republic and development of modern Turkey.
Rifat Bali’s collection of American consular reports concerning Mustafa Kemal Atatürk make an important new contribution to the study of the man and his personality.
Rifat Bali has collected in this volume several American consular reports concerning the state of early Turkish cinema, including a previously-unpublished report by the .American embassy in the 1930s.
This volume contains a collection of documents composed by American diplomatic representatives in Turkey concerning leftist and student movements during the Cold War.
Rifat Bali’s A Scapegoat for All Seasons considers the increase in the Turkish public’s interest in Dönmes, or Crypto-Jews, who are alleged by nationalists to secretly control the Turkish republic.