Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Friend and Enemy
1. Sultans as Saviors
2. The Empire of Tolerant Turks
3. Grateful Jews and Anti-Semitic Armenians and Greeks
4. Turkish Jews as Turkish Lobbyists
5. "Five Hundred Years of Friendship"
6. Whitewashing the Armenian Genocide with Holocaust Heroism
7. The Emergence of Critical Turkish Jewish Voices
8. Living in Peace and Harmony, or in Fear?
Conclusion: New Friends and Enemies
Epilogue
Marc David Baer is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks.
Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks is a tour de force that is
written with a backdrop of 500 years of Jewish history, spanning
from when the Ottoman Empire embraced Jewish refugees fleeing Spain
in 1492 all the way until today. In between those years, there were
days of honey and days of onions, and as Baer shows, it was often
only the sweetness we heard about, with the bitterness buried deep
within the souls who suffered it, covered up by an 'utopian
narrative of Ottoman and Turkish Jewish history.'
*Turkish Studies*
In this disturbing and thought-provoking book, Marc David Baer, a
Jewish American and a long-time academic scholar of Turkish
Studies, bursts the bubble that the Turks throughout history were
"God's rod" for the Jews, who smote the antisemitic Christians,
welcomed Jews from the Spanish Inquisition and saved them from the
Holocaust.
*Times Literary Supplement TLS*
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