Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Turkish Jews and their Diasporas
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 113-138
Keywords:
Jews, Turkish Government policy
;
Israel Relations
;
Israel Ethnic relations 20th century
;
History
;
Israel Politics and government 1948-1956
Abstract:
While many historians have studied Turkey’s treatment of its minorities, and Israel’s treatment of Jewish immigrants from Middle Eastern and North African countries, Israeli attitudes and policies on Turkish Jews have remained as mere footnotes in scholarly literature. This chapter aims to fill this gap by focusing on Israel’s approach to Turkish Jewry and its immigration to Israel in the crucial decade after the founding of the Israeli state. It concentrates on the less-studied question of how the Israeli government saw the initial Turkish immigration to Israel and how the state treated or considered these Jews. How did the Israeli government view Turkish Jews, who chose to remain in Turkey, especially after the pogrom of September 6–7, 1955? I argue that two major factors determined the nascent state’s approach toward and perception of Turkish Jews, both inherited from its predecessor, the Yishuv. The first was the value Israel placed on its relations with Turkey, and the second was the hierarchical nature of the Israeli state, one governed by a well-ensconced and tightly interlocked Ashkenazi establishment, which displayed an Orientalist and discriminatory approach towards non-Ashkenazi Jewish communities.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-87798-9_6
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