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

• Autore: Brink-Danan Marcy
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/40561
• Soggetto topico: Jews - Turkey - Istanbul - History - 21st century; Jews - Turkey - Istanbul - Identity
• Soggetto geografico: Istanbul (Turkey) Ethnic relations
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Jewish life in 21st-century Turkey
• ISBN: 1-280-59652-X; 9786613626356; 0-253-00526-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781411503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New anthropologies of Europe.; Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.