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Rifat Bali - Model Citizens of the State - 9781611475364 - V9781611475364
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Model Citizens of the State

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Description for Model Citizens of the State Hardback. The book is about the history of Turkish Jews and Turkish-Jewish relations in the last half century in the Republic of Turkey. Num Pages: 540 pages, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 39. Weight in Grams: 950.
Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party Period is about the history of the Turkish Jews from 1950 to present. By using unpublished primary sources as well as secondary sources, the book describes the struggle of Turkish Jews for the application of their constitutional rights, their fight against anti-Semitism and the indifferent attitude of the Turkish establishment to these problems. Finally, it describes Turkish Jewish leadership’s involvement in the lobbying efforts on behalf of the Turkish Republic against the acceptance of resolutions in the U.S. Congress recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
540
Condition
New
Number of Pages
540
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611475364
SKU
V9781611475364
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Rifat Bali
Rifat N. Bali is an independent scholar specializing in the history of Turkish Jews and an associate member of the Alberto-Benveniste Center for Sephardic Studies and the Sociocultural History of the Jews (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes/CNRS/Université Paris-Sorbonne). He is the winner of the Alberto Benveniste Research Award for 2009 for his publications on Turkish Jewry.   

Reviews for Model Citizens of the State
The book provides an expose of the treatment of the Jewish community in Turkey from 1950 to the present, their fight against anti-Semitism, the struggle for their constitutional rights, and the attitude of the Turkish state and society towards these problems. ... Groundbreaking…unearthing facts and first-hand accounts that unmistakably illustrate how the Turkish establishment blackmailed the leaders of the Jewish ... Read more

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