The present volume consists of a selection of articles by scholars on the social and cultural situation of Turkish Jews in the last two decades. The tensions created by political events in Turkey and/or by the Israeli-Palestian conflict, the bursts of anti-Semitism which result from these tensions are some of the many aspects studied in this volume. Others aspects such as the cultural life and the cultural heritage of a demographically dwindling community are also studied. This book is indispensable for the general readership and scholars who would like to grasp and understand better the reality of a very small community living in a country which for the last two decades has been going through a transformation from a so-called secular society into one where Islamist and conservative values are dominant. İçindekiler TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Laurent-Olivier MALLET
Preface
CHAPTER I
GENERAL SURVEY OF TURKISH JEWRY
Christoph Giesel
"Status and Situation of the Jews in Turkey: Historical Lines of Development and Contemporary Circumstances in the Context of Socio-political Transformations"
Nora Seni
"Survivance de la Communauté Juive en Turquie"
CHAPTER II
MEMORIES AND REPRESENTATION
OF TURKISH JEWS IN THE PUBLIC SPACE
Laurent-Olivier Mallet
"Quand le Présent Fait le Passé: Modalité et Finalité du Récit de l'Harmonie Turco-Juive"
"La Communauté Juive de Turquie au Piège des Enjeux de Mémoire"
Nora Seni
"Le Mausolée Camondo Restauré: Un Lieu de Mémoire Partagée?"
CHAPTER III
AN UNEASY COHABITATION - LIVING UNDER THE SHADOW OF ANTISEMITISM
Laurent-Olivier Mallet
"Jeu Trouble: Les Complexes Représentations du Juif en Turquie"
Yoann Morvan
"La Vie Juive à Istanbul: Entre Post-Kémalisme et Néo-Ottomanisme"
Igal Aciman
"The Apology: A Turkish-Jewish Perspective"
"Snapshot of an Uneasy Community"
" 'I Defend Therefore I am' Says Survivor of 2003 Bombing at Istanbul's Neve Shalom Synagogue"
CHAPTER IV
TURKISH JEWISH COMMUNITY - A SOCIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH
Yoann Morvan
"Juifs d'Istanbul, Territorialités d'une Communauté Entre Recompositions et Dislocations"
Marcy-Brink Danan
"Love, Luck and Long Distances. Choice and Change in Turkish Women's Emigration Stories"
CHAPTER V
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF JEWISH TURKISH LITERATURE
Laurent Mignon
"From İshak to İsak: The Birth Pangs of Jewish Turkish Literature"
