Jews of Turkey: Migration, Culture and Memory

ISBN-13: 9781138580541 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 140 str.

Suleyman Şanlı

Opis

This book examines the lives and culture of the Jewish communities who migrated from Turkey to Israel. It explores their lives in a multicultural and multi-religious environment, societal relationships and their past.

Spis treści

Introduction: Invisible or Forgotten Jews of Turkey?  1. Origins and History  1.1 Origin Through Written Sources  1.2 History of the Eastern Jews of Turkey  1.3 Eastern Jewish Communities  2. Migration  2.1 Voluntary Migration or Compulsory?  2.2 Leaving the Forefathers’ Lands Behind  2.3 The Road to Jerusalem  3. Social Life, Culture and Collective Memory  3.1 Jewish Neighborhoods and Jewish Community  3.2 Relationships with Muslims  3.3 Houses of the Jews  3.4 Clothing  3.5 Food  3.6 The Family  3.7 Synagogues  3.8 Death and Funerals  3.9 Economic Conditions  3.10 Education  3.11 Shabbat  3.12 Holidays  Conclusion: Become Visible and be Remembered.

O autorze

Süleyman Şanlı is the chair of the Anthropology department at Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey. He was a visiting scholar at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, where he conducted the anthropological fieldwork on Jews who migrated to Israel from Turkey. His research interests are, Ottoman Jews, Jews of Turkey, Jewish Cultural Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology.