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Turkish Jews and their DiasporasEntangled Sovereignties: Turkish Jewish Spaces in Israel

Turkish Jews and their Diasporas: Entangled Sovereignties: Turkish Jewish Spaces in Israel [In “Entangled sovereignties: Turkish Jewish spaces in Israel”, Kerem Öktem introduces Israel’s complex Turkish Jewish community in the context of rising Jewish emigration from Turkey, exploring the impact of geopolitics and the competing sovereign projects of Turkey and Israel on Turkish Jews’ everyday life in Israel. The ‘Association for people from Turkey in Israel’ (Israil’deki Türkiyeliler Birliği, Itahdut Yotsey Turkiya Bel Israel) is examined as the foremost Turkish-Jewish space in Israel, where the sovereign projects of Turkey and Israel intersect, become entangled, and sometimes clash, and where the borders between Turkey and Israel, between ‘domestic’ and ‘external’ become permeable. Employing the notion of ‘sensitive spaces’, in which such entanglement and competition creates several insecurities, he discusses how individuals negotiate the complexities of a situation where—at least currently antagonistic—ideologies (Kemalism as well as Neo-Ottomanism in Turkey and Zionism in Israel) compete for authority over their subjects. Less geo-strategically overdetermined performances of Turkish Jewishness take place in more intimate spaces like Turkish synagogues and circles of friends.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Turkish Jews and their DiasporasEntangled Sovereignties: Turkish Jewish Spaces in Israel

Part of the Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe Book Series
Editors: Öktem, Kerem; Yosmaoğlu, Ipek Kocaömer
Öktem, Kerem
Turkish Jews and their Diasporas — Apr 13, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022. Baer, Marc David. Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide. pp. 191-211. © 2020 [Copyright Holder]. Reprinted with permission of Indiana University Press.
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978-3-030-87797-2
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141 –167
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10.1007/978-3-030-87798-9_7
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[In “Entangled sovereignties: Turkish Jewish spaces in Israel”, Kerem Öktem introduces Israel’s complex Turkish Jewish community in the context of rising Jewish emigration from Turkey, exploring the impact of geopolitics and the competing sovereign projects of Turkey and Israel on Turkish Jews’ everyday life in Israel. The ‘Association for people from Turkey in Israel’ (Israil’deki Türkiyeliler Birliği, Itahdut Yotsey Turkiya Bel Israel) is examined as the foremost Turkish-Jewish space in Israel, where the sovereign projects of Turkey and Israel intersect, become entangled, and sometimes clash, and where the borders between Turkey and Israel, between ‘domestic’ and ‘external’ become permeable. Employing the notion of ‘sensitive spaces’, in which such entanglement and competition creates several insecurities, he discusses how individuals negotiate the complexities of a situation where—at least currently antagonistic—ideologies (Kemalism as well as Neo-Ottomanism in Turkey and Zionism in Israel) compete for authority over their subjects. Less geo-strategically overdetermined performances of Turkish Jewishness take place in more intimate spaces like Turkish synagogues and circles of friends.]

Published: Apr 13, 2022

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