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.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

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"

INDEX