Jews In Turkish Cartoons

Mavi Boncuk | JEWS IN TURKISH CARTOONS (1924-1940) Rıfat N. Bali[1]

ISBN 9786256124172

Size: 17 x 26.50 cm.

Page Count: 466

Publication Place: Istanbul

Publication Date: 2025

This study is a compilation of cartoons featuring "Jews" published in humor magazines and newspapers between 1924 and 1940. This period was the nation-building years of the young Republic of Turkey, and one of the most important issues during this period was the issue of "Jews not speaking Turkish." This issue, to which the press attached particular importance, was frequently covered by humor magazines. Some of the cartoons in this compilation satirize this issue. To better understand the social and political climate in which these cartoons were published, some articles about Jews published in humor magazines are included in this compilation. Both the excerpted articles and the cartoons strikingly illustrate the degree to which the negative image of "Jews" permeated society, the press, and its opinion leaders during the early Republican period.

[1] Born in 1948 in Istanbul. Graduated from the Saint Michel and Saint Benoit French schools. Between the years 1970-1995 he worked first as a manager then as a managing partner in a private company. In 2001 he graduated from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes of the Sorbonne University. Since 1996 he has been researching and publishing in the field of non-Muslim minorities of Turkey, antisemitism, conspiracy theories, the social and cultural transformation of the Turkish society and Doenmes (Crypto Jews). He is a research fellow of the Alberto Benveniste Center for Sephardic Studies and Culture based in the Religious Studies Department of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne (Paris). He is fluent in English, French and Ladino.

He lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey.