United States—Israel Relations (1953–1957) Revisited

Tal, David

doi:10.2979/israelstudies.26.1.02

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“…For instance, the Republic demanded that all of its citizens have knowledge of Turkish, [40] in a way that threatened their century-old Ottoman Ladino culture ( [39], pp. [57][58][59][60][61][62].…”

Section: Contextualizing the Jewish-turkish Rupturementioning

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“…210-211+237-238). In parallel, the United States, one of the key supporters of the establishment of the State of Israel, forged strong ties with Israel and consolidated the pro-Western orientation of the Ben-Gurion administration, which gradually distanced itself from the Soviet Union [59]. Under the promise of the strategic alliance forged between the United States, Turkey, and Israel, the transnational affinity of the remaining Turkish Jews to the new Jewish state was, therefore, a relatively early exception to the low-profile policy that was enabled by the unique conditions of the Western pole in the Cold War period.…”

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Repositioning Ethnicity and Transnationalism: Community Resilience Strategies among the Non-Migratory Segment of Turkish Jewry

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Karkason

2023

Societies

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The methods that communities exploit to cope with national hegemonies that dispossess and exclude them have attracted the interest of migration scholars who emphasize the development of transnational strategies as community-building vehicles. Some scholars focus on migrant communities, whereas other studies analyze the “stayers”—those who remain in the countries of origin—in their analyses of the impacts of transnational trends on these groups. Yet how such transnational dynamics influence the “stayers” among ethnonational communities whose members rapidly “repatriate” en masse to their perceived nation-state, such as the migration of Middle Eastern Jews to Israel in the era of regional decolonization and nationalization, remain understudied. This article focuses on the community of “stayers” among Turkish Jews, whose leaders sought methods to cope with the effects of rising nationalism on their community structure and the intensity of an emigration crisis that engulfed them due to the vacuum they faced after losing 40 percent of their members in 1948–1949 to Israel. We analyze Şalom, the most important newspaper that Turkish Jewry continued to publish well after 1948. To escape marginalization and to re-establish their base in Turkey, one of Şalom’s main strategies, we find, is conveying to its readership in Turkey the advantage of connecting and twinning the two national centers that had become the focal points of most of the community by 1950—the Turkish Republic and the State of Israel.

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