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Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide Kindle Edition

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An examination of why Jews promote a positive image of Ottomans and Turks while denying the Armenian genocide and the existence of antisemitism in Turkey.

Based on historical narrative, the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 were embraced by the Ottoman Empire and then, later, protected from the Nazis during WWII. If we believe that Turks and Jews have lived in harmony for so long, then how can we believe that the Turks could have committed genocide against the Armenians?

Marc David Baer confronts these convictions and circumstances to reflect on what moral responsibility the descendants of the victims of one genocide have to the descendants of victims of another. Baer delves into the history of Muslim-Jewish relations in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey to find the origin of these myths. He aims to foster reconciliation between Jews, Muslims, and Christians, not only to face inconvenient historical facts but to confront, accept, and deal with them. By looking at the complexities of interreligious relations, Holocaust denial, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and confronting some long-standing historical stereotypes, Baer aims to tell a new history that goes against Turkish antisemitism and admits to the Armenian genocide.

“[Baer] demonstrates not only his erudition and knowledge of the sources but his courage on confronting a major myth of Ottoman history and current Turkish politics: the tolerance and defense of Jews by the Ottoman and Turkish state.” —Ronald Grigor Suny, editor of A Question of Genocide

“A very significant study regarding the origins of violence and its denial in Turkey through the empirical study of not only antisemitism, but also its connection to genocide denial.” —Fatma Müge Göçek, author of The Transformation of Turkey
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"Marc Baer is a major scholar of Ottoman Jewish history, and in this manuscript he demonstrates not only his erudition and knowledge of the sources but his courage on confronting a major myth of Ottoman history and current Turkish politics: the tolerance and defense of Jews by the Ottoman and Turkish state."―Ronald Grigor Suny, editor of A Question of Genocide

"A very significant study regarding the origins of violence and its denial in Turkey through the empirical study of not only antisemitism, but also its connection to genocide denial."―Fatma Müge Göçek, author of The Transformation of Turkey

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A very significant study regarding the origins of violence and its denial in Turkey through the empirical study of not only antisemitism, but also its connection to genocide denial.

-- Fatma Müge Göçek, author of The Transformation of Turkey

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07Z1DCS79
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press (March 10, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 10, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4225 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 025304541X
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Marc David Baer (PhD, History, University of Chicago) is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

His first book is Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), winner, Albert Hourani Prize, Middle East Studies Association of North America, Best Book in Middle East Studies. Its Turkish translation is IV. Mehmet Döneminde Osmanlı Avrupa'sında İhtida ve Fetih (Istanbul: Hil, 2010);

His second book is The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), translated into Turkish as Selânikli Dönmeler: Musevilikten Dönenler, Müslüman Devrimciler, ve Laik Türkler (Istanbul: Doğan, 2011) and translated into Greek.

His third book is At Meydanı'nda Ölüm: 17. Yüzyıl İstanbul'unda Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Hoşgörü ve İhtida (Death on the Hippodrome: Gender, Tolerance, and Conversion in 17th century Istanbul) (Istanbul: Koç Yayınları, 2016).

His fourth book is Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020).

His fifth book is German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020).

His latest book is The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs (New York: Basic Books, 2021 and London: John Murray, 2021).

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5.0 out of 5 stars A New Appraisal of Jewish and Ottoman/Turkish Relations
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As more recognize that Turkey committed genocide against the Armenian people, the question arises what is the relationship between Turkey and the Jews. The standard answer from Turkish Jews has been that Turkey could never engage in genocide because Turkey and the Ottoman Empire always protected the Jews. While this answer is a non sequitur, the factual assertion in the statement is not true. While the Jewish people will always be grateful to the Ottoman Empire for allowing Spanish Jews a haven when they were thrown out of Spain, Jewish life in the Ottoman Empire was not always peaceful. More significantly, Jewish life under the Turkish nation has seen progroms, a severe confiscatory tax aimed at Jews and Christians, and concentration camps for those who did not fully pay the tax. Further, while Turkey claims it protected the Turkish Jews in Nazi occupied Europe through its diplomats, the claims of particular rescues are weak and there is abundant evidence that while Turkey could have taken significant actions to protect its expatriates, It chose not to. Turkey which previously claimed to be a secular state, never was a secular state. To be Turkish is to be Moslem. The current Turkish regime simply is explicit about its religious basis. Sultanic Saviors presents history that was long ignored. Turkish Jews are in a difficult position. To acknowledge this history puts them in a dangerous position with the Turkish regime. Still some Jews, Turkish and non-Turkish, are speaking out.
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