{"product_id":"sultanic-saviors-and-tolerant-turks-9780253045447","title":"Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. This bold work takes on many of the myths of Ottoman tolerance of Jews.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. It links ties between Muslims and Jews in Turkey to denial of the Armenian genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. It presents meaningful information about the history of Muslim-Jewish relations, reflection on the Jewish experience in Turkey, and ignorance of inconvenient historical facts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e that is written with a backdrop of 500 years of Jewish history, spanning from when the Ottoman Empire embraced Jewish refugees fleeing Spain in 1492 all the way until today. In between those years, there were \u003ci\u003edays of honey\u003c\/i\u003e and days of \u003ci\u003eonions\u003c\/i\u003e, and as Baer shows, it was often only the sweetness we heard about, with the bitterness buried deep within the souls who suffered it, covered up by an 'utopian narrative of Ottoman and Turkish Jewish history.'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Louis Fishman * Turkish Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this disturbing and thought-provoking book, Marc David Baer, a Jewish American and a long-time academic scholar of Turkish Studies, bursts the bubble that the Turks throughout history were \"God's rod\" for the Jews, who smote the antisemitic Christians, welcomed Jews from the Spanish Inquisition and saved them from the Holocaust. \u003c\/p\u003e * Times Literary Supplement TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u0026lt;\\\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Friend and Enemy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Sultans as Saviors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. The Empire of Tolerant Turks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Grateful Jews and Anti-Semitic Armenians and Greeks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Turkish Jews as Turkish Lobbyists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. \"Five Hundred Years of Friendship\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Whitewashing the Armenian Genocide with Holocaust Heroism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. The Emergence of Critical Turkish Jewish Voices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Living in Peace and Harmony, or in Fear?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: New Friends and Enemies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400595972439,"sku":"9780253045447","price":67.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253045447.jpg?v=1730471064","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sultanic-saviors-and-tolerant-turks-9780253045447","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}