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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781411503321

Autore

Brink-Danan Marcy

Titolo

Jewish life in 21st-century Turkey [[electronic resource] ] : the other side of tolerance / / Marcy Brink-Danan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-59652-X

9786613626356

0-253-00526-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

New anthropologies of Europe

Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies

Disciplina

305.892/40561

Soggetti

Jews - Turkey - Istanbul - History - 21st century

Jews - Turkey - Istanbul - Identity

Istanbul (Turkey) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 ""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. Brink-Danan explores the contradictions and gaps in the popular ideology of Turkey as a land of tolerance, describing ho