Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey: The Other Side of Tolerance

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Jewish Life in 21st-Century Turkey New Anthropologies of Europe Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl, and Michael Herzfeld, founding editors Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies Harvey E. Goldberg and Matthias Lehmann, editors Jewish Life in 21st-Century Turkey The Other Side of Tolerance Marcy Brink-Danan Indiana University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 USA iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931© 2012 by Marcy Brink-Danan All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-inPublication Data Brink-Danan, Marcy. Jewish life in twenty-first-century Turkey : the other side of tolerance / Marcy Brink-Danan. p. cm. — (New anthropologies of Europe) (Indiana series in Sephardi and Mizrahi studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-253-35690-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-22350-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Jews—Turkey—Istanbul— History—21st century. 2. Jews—Turkey— Istanbul—Identity. 3. Istanbul (Turkey)— Ethnic relations. I. Title. DS135.T8B75 2012 305.892’40561—dc23 2011021187 1 2 3 4 5 17 16 15 14 13 12 For Sagi, Ari, Eitan, and Zohar ...