Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide
What has compelled Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and abroad to promote a positive image of Ottomans and Turks while they deny the Armenian genocide and the existence of anti-Semitism in Turkey? The dominant historical narrative is that Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 were embraced by the Otto...
| Published in: | Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ottoman Empire
/ Jews
/ Admission
/ Armenians
/ Genocide
/ Rejection of
/ Religious pluralism
/ Reevaluation
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BH Judaism BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa ZC Politics in general |
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| Summary: | What has compelled Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and abroad to promote a positive image of Ottomans and Turks while they deny the Armenian genocide and the existence of anti-Semitism in Turkey? The dominant historical narrative is that 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 it is hard for us to accept that the Turks could have committed genocide against the Armenians. In this article, the author 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 tease out the origin of these many tangled truths. He aims to bring about reconciliation between Jews, Muslims, and Christians, not only to face inconvenient historical facts, but to confront it and come to terms with it. By looking at the complexities of interreligious relations, Holocaust denial, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and confronting some long-standing historical stereotypes, the author sets out to tell a new history that goes against Turkish antisemitism and admits to the Armenian genocide. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0739 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700739-07301005 |