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National Association for Armenian
Studies and Research (NAASR)
395 Concord Avenue
Belmont, MA 02478
Tel.: 617-489-1610
E-mail: [email protected]
AUTHOR RIFAT BALI TO SPEAK AT NAASR ON JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN MODERN TURKEY
Rifat Bali, author of Model Citizens of The State: The Jews of Turkey
during the Multi-Party Period (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
2012), will give a lecture entitled "Forced Turkification,
Anti-Semitism, and Lobbying against Recognition of the Armenian
Genocide," at the National Association for Armenian Studies and
Research (NAASR) Center, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA, on Thursday,
October 17, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. The lecture will be co-sponsored by
the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and
Documentation and NAASR.
Using archival material and first-hand accounts, Model Citizens of the
State exposes the treatment of the Jewish community in Turkey from
1950 to present, the struggle of Turkish Jews for their constitutional
rights, their fight against anti-Semitism and the indifferent attitude
of the Turkish establishment to these problems, and illustrates how
the Turkish establishment coerced the leaders of the Jewish
community-and through them Jewish organizations in the United
States-to thwart efforts to gain recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Rifat N. Bali is an independent scholar specializing in the history of
Turkish Jews and an associate member of the Alberto-Benveniste Center
for Sephardic Studies and the Sociocultural History of the Jews (Ecole
Pratique des Hautes Etudes/CNRS/Université Paris-Sorbonne). He is the
winner of the Alberto Benveniste Research Award for 2009 for his
publications on Turkish Jewry.
The NAASR Bookstore will open at 7:00 p.m. the night of the lecture.
Model Citizens of The State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party
Period will be available for purchase the night of the lecture.
More information about this program may be had by calling
617-489-1610, faxing 617-484-1759, e-mailing [email protected], or writing
to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478.
Belmont, MA
September 27, 2013
National Association for Armenian
Studies and Research (NAASR)
395 Concord Avenue
Belmont, MA 02478
Tel.: 617-489-1610
E-mail: [email protected]
AUTHOR RIFAT BALI TO SPEAK AT NAASR ON JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN MODERN TURKEY
Rifat Bali, author of Model Citizens of The State: The Jews of Turkey
during the Multi-Party Period (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
2012), will give a lecture entitled "Forced Turkification,
Anti-Semitism, and Lobbying against Recognition of the Armenian
Genocide," at the National Association for Armenian Studies and
Research (NAASR) Center, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA, on Thursday,
October 17, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. The lecture will be co-sponsored by
the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and
Documentation and NAASR.
Using archival material and first-hand accounts, Model Citizens of the
State exposes the treatment of the Jewish community in Turkey from
1950 to present, the struggle of Turkish Jews for their constitutional
rights, their fight against anti-Semitism and the indifferent attitude
of the Turkish establishment to these problems, and illustrates how
the Turkish establishment coerced the leaders of the Jewish
community-and through them Jewish organizations in the United
States-to thwart efforts to gain recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Rifat N. Bali is an independent scholar specializing in the history of
Turkish Jews and an associate member of the Alberto-Benveniste Center
for Sephardic Studies and the Sociocultural History of the Jews (Ecole
Pratique des Hautes Etudes/CNRS/Université Paris-Sorbonne). He is the
winner of the Alberto Benveniste Research Award for 2009 for his
publications on Turkish Jewry.
The NAASR Bookstore will open at 7:00 p.m. the night of the lecture.
Model Citizens of The State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party
Period will be available for purchase the night of the lecture.
More information about this program may be had by calling
617-489-1610, faxing 617-484-1759, e-mailing [email protected], or writing
to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478.
Belmont, MA
September 27, 2013