Rifat N. Bali
Mémoires posthumes et inachevees de Jacques Abravanel, juif portugais, salonicien de naissance, stam
By Jacques Abravanel; Preface by Rifat N. Bali
ISBN: 978-1-61143-812-3
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.
$123.00
Les relations entre turcs et juifs dans la turquie moderne
ISBN: 978-1-61143-811-6
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.
$128.00
The “Varlik Vergisi” Affair
A Study on its Legacy With Selected Documents
ISBN: 978-1-61719-124-4
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.
$188.00
Sports and Physical Education in Turkey in the 1930's
Prepared and Annotated by Rifat N. Bali
ISBN: 978-1-61719-867-0
A report by the American embassy in Ankara during the 1930s on the state of Turkish sport and physical education.
$121.00
The Jews and Prostitution in Constantinople, 1854-1922
ISBN: 978-1-61719-156-5
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.
$119.00
The First Ten Years of the Turkish Republic Thru the Reports of American Diplomats
US Diplomatic Documents on Turkey V
ISBN: 978-1-61719-153-4
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.
$129.00
New Documents on Atatürk
Atatürk as Viewed Through the Eyes of American Diplomats
ISBN: 978-1-61719-139-8
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.
$132.00
The Turkish Cinema in the Early Republican Years
US Diplomatic Documents on Turkey II
ISBN: 978-1-61719-138-1
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in this volume several American consular reports concerning the state of early Turkish cinema, including a previously-unpublished report by the .American embassy in the 1930s.
$133.00
Turkish Students' Movements and the Turkish Left in the 1950s-1960s
US Diplomatic Documents on Turkey I
ISBN: 978-1-61719-137-4
This volume contains a collection of documents composed by American diplomatic representatives in Turkey concerning leftist and student movements during the Cold War.
$118.00
A Scapegoat for all Seasons
The Dönmes or Crypto-Jews of Turkey
ISBN: 978-1-61719-101-5
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.
$186.00