Turkish Jews and their Diasporas

Kerem Halil Latif Öktem is Associate Professor of International Relations at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. He previously held the Chair for Southeast European Studies and Modern Turkey at the University of Graz, Austria, and was Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK.  İpek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu is Associate Professor of History and Director of Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program at Northwestern University, USA. She previously taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and was a Mellon Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA.

• 1. Prologue: The Long Twilight.- 2. Introduction: Turkish-Jewish Entanglements from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic.- Part I: Jewish-Turkish Lives in the Late Ottoman Empire, the Turkish Republic, and Israel.- 3 Solidarity and Survival in an Ottoman Borderland: The Jews of Edirne, 1912–1918.- 4. On the Outside Looking In: Jewish Émigrés and Turkish Citizenship in the Early Republican Period.- 5. “The Ties that Bind Us to Turkey”: The Turkish Jewish Diaspora in Europe and Its Relations with the “Home Country”.- 6. The Founding of the State of Israel and the Turkish Jews: A View from Israel, 1948–1955.- Part II: Jewish-Turkish Entanglements in Contemporary Turkey and Israel.- 7. Entangled Sovereignties: Turkish Jewish Spaces in Israel.- 8. Creating [Jewish] Sites of Memory in Turkey Where Jews No Longer Exist: From Physical Sites to Virtual Ones.- 9. Whitewashing the Armenian Genocide with Holocaust Heroism.- 10. Turkish Jews in an Unwelcoming Public Space.- 11. Epilogue: “Aprontaremos Las Validjas” Shall We Start Packing the Suitcases?