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Subject: [ha-Safran]: A new book: The Jewish Community in Istanbul
A new book about the Jews in Turkey:
The Jewish Community in Istanbul, 1948-1992 (English and Hebrew)
Author: Tuval,Shaul
Publisher: WZO- Zionist Library
Jerusalem, 2004, 384 pages
ISBN: 965-440-050-2
cat#: 119921
Price: US$28.00 + $16 air delivery, total: US$ 44.00
Distributor: Rubin Mass ltd.; POB 990, Jerusalem 91009, Israel;
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About the book:
As a result of the Ataturk Revolution of 1923 and the events that took
place in its wake, the Jewish community in Turkey was cut off from the
Jewish communities of the Diaspora. For its part, the Jewish community in
Turkey withdrew into its shell, as it were, adopting a policy of
self-imposed silence, both within the community and in its relations with
the outside world. For decades, the community maintained this low profile,
becoming in the process a closed and thoroughly introverted society.
In this book, the author analyzes the life of a contemporary Jewish
community living in a Muslim country, examining the symbolic dimension of
its Jewish identity and existence as these are manifested in the
community’s lifestyle, its leadership and its institutions. Exercising
great sensitivity, he analyzes the life of this society from the
demographic, pedagogical, social and economic points of view. Skillfully,
the author traces the history of the shifting relations between the
authorities and the Jewish community during the decades of rule of the
Turkish republic. Step by step, he leads the reader along an unusual
progression of events that saw the Jewish community transformed from one
that was getting ready to “pack its suitcases,” at the outset of the
Revolution – and that was casting grave doubts on its own chances of
survival under the new regime – into a community in whose welfare and
continued existence as a Jewish community the Turkish authorities have
begun to show keen interest.
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About the author:
Shaul Tuval, scholar and researcher, is a native of the New City of
Jerusalem. He received his degree in Education at the Mizrahi Teachers
Seminary in Jerusalem. During the five years preceding Israel’s War of
Independence, he taught at the Talmud Torah for Sephardim in the Old City
of Jerusalem. In December 1947 he headed the Educational Delegation that
“went down” to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. There he organized a
company of 90 boys and girls, acting as its Commander during five months of
siege and 16 days of fighting. Later, he represented the Haganah (Jewish
defense) organization in the first stage of the cease-fire negotiations
with Abdallah el-Tal. During the fighting with the Arab Legion, Tuval was
taken prisoner and interned for nine months in Transjordan, where he served
as Deputy Commander of the prisoners’ camp.
After joining Israel’s foreign service, Shaul Tuval served as Consul in
Addis Ababa and in Istanbul and, later, as Consul General in Alexandria, Egypt.
For his study, “The Jewish Community in Istanbul, 1948-1992,” prepared
under the auspices of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
The study was subsequently published as a book with the same name.
Meanwhile, Tuval also published his study on “The Gadna in the Jewish
Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, 1948/5708.” He is currently working
on a research project entitled “Synagogues in Istanbul and Throughout
Turkey” – and another that addresses the question: What caused the fall of
the Old City of Jerusalem in 1948?
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Cover Photo:
Ottoman Turkey welcomes a shipload of Jews who had been expelled from
Christian Spain.
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