Jewish Life in İstanbul - 1984 to 89 - Photographs by Laurence Salzmann

Jewish Life in İstanbul is more of 'In Search of Turkey's Jews', which is part of Salzmann's Photographic Retrospective
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[@rifatsonsino6346]

I left Istanbul in 1960 after law school and military service and came to the US to become a Rabbi. I remember many of these synagogues and recognize many of the Rabbis who were my class mates. Thanks for recording these images. They reflect a glorious history. Rabbi RIFAT Sonsino, Ph.D. Boston. , May, 2017.

[@tuffstuff9809]

@@marshalldteachblackbeard1468 and we own you, too.

[@dancemonkey118]

Greetings From Turkey. I hope you will visit istanbul again.

[@fighttheevilrobots3417]

I am a Turkish Sephardic Jew who lived in Boston for 14 years... I had to go to Rhode Island because the fascists beat me and harassed my family.

[@HelEn-qw6qs]

@@fighttheevilrobots3417 Boston used to be the capital of antisemitism

[@fighttheevilrobots3417]

My father who a Sephardic Jew born in Ankara, raised in Istanbul, moved to the US 1969, passed away October 2020. I regret never learning Ladino. My cousins are all still there. I remember that traveling there as a child was incredibly formational in my future choice of study: Anthropology. My grandpa used to play the Kanun in coffee shops in Ankara before my grandma had children, then she told him he had to learn western accounting practices to make money. My grandpa survived the terrorist attack on the Temple in Istanbul in 1987 because the plumbing broke in the apartment and he didn't go to Minyon that day. Buyukada is the most beautiful place I have ever been, and I miss it there so so much. The first nightclub I ever went to was Shamdala. I miss my dad. We have been Kabbalists for 400 years.

[@halilsahin6733]

What is KABBALIST?

[@RIFATRAFAELI]

Herşeyden önce bu güzel nostalji videoyu hazırlayan bu dost fedakâr arkadaşımıza candanteşekür ederim ben 1937 yılında Galata kuledibindedünyaya gelen Mordohay. Susi klarasusinınoglu rafaelrifatsusi Bu videoda çok kimseleri arabalarını gördüğüm ü ifade etmek isterim elinize saglık shalom ve hak hanuka sameah

[@user-yz8pw9dv2n]

I am from an old Sephardi greek family and in my great grandparents time we had relatives of ours in Istanbul.Our family in Salonika had married in with them.Such was that area in the good old days of the Ottoman Empire.

[@shirarubin4840]

Beautiful! I just recognized my aunt in one of the photos. Very exciting :)

[@judaismo4720]

thank you for this iam a latino jewish and thid is ladino

[@benjamindavidson4289]

Shalom from India....thank you for this upload on youtube. Seeing the tension between Arabs and Israel today, it is easy to forget that Jews and the Arab/ Muslim world have primarily lived in harmony for more than 500 years. In fact the Ottomans provided them with refuge during the infamous expulsions from Europe such as the expulsion from Spain in 1492. Are there any efforts to highlights these facts which would help reduce the current atmosphere of animosity between Jews and Arabs ?

[@Ahmetaslan998]

Benjamin Davidson these are Turkish jews have nothing to do with arabs.

[@MarkoAbo]

Excellent video! Salud y beracha!

[@LaurenceSalzmann2022]

John Bey Music credits are at the end of the piece. where are you located? Lorenzo Bey

[@MrAlkolog]

May i have some Info about Musics?

[@lnr243]

Originally not only Istanbul but Ankara according to historical books such as Evliya Celebi had 12 Jewish Neighbourhoods. Ankara has an 800 years old Synagogue currently closed. Considering it's older than the oldest Mosque on Ankara it's a proof as well. Ankara Jews were not originally Sephardic but mainly Romaniot left from the days of Byzantium Empire. In the South and South East so many Mizrachi families mostly were forced to convert to Islam during the days of Ottomans. At the moment approximately 450 Jewish Clans live in the south and east mostly based in Urfa Mardin Bitlis and Siirt. But the birth registers have been modified it's so difficult to prove a families origins. My mother's family had their birth registers tampered with my great grand father and great grand mother both looks like 3 different family names registered and 2 of them been scribbled over. Despite this I somehow managed to chase my roots. If you are in doubt try and do a DNA test which will lead to some names in their database that will match you by DNA results..

[@HelEn-qw6qs]

Have you been to the Synagogue in Yesilköy and in the princess islands when you were in Turkey? Amazing documentaries! Thank you

[@cembilgen6996]

Great musics and culture that must protect,can you write name of musics?

[@dakhilaf]

I'm proud, as a Muslim, to see how we treated our minorities with empathy and compassion. Not only in Turkey and the Iberian peninsula where Arabs ruled, but also in northern Africa and Palestine. Jews were treated with respect and given their religious freedom. To be sure, many incidents occurred where this harmony was disrupted. It is unjust to say the least to see what the state of Israel is doing to Palestinians on their own land. I second @Benjamin Davidson in spreading this message of Harmony by looking into our past.

[@LaurenceSalzmann2022]

Totally agree with you and wish it was otherwise. Thanks for your kind comments. LS

[@dakhilaf]

Laurence Salzmann unfortunetly there's endoctrination on both sides that will take ages to change but hopefully with information available so openly and easily these days ppl will find the truth that underlies all human beings regardless of creed.

[@ottosecond3818]

AFD dakhilaf you turks committed the armenian genocide. you committed genocide against greeks and assyrians as well.

[@Yitzhakhazak]

@fuck jews Hem cahilsin, hem salaksın ve hem de terbiyesizsin.

[@Yitzhakhazak]

Israeli Palestinians live a very comfortable life. Those who attack Jews are stopped. Not counting Jordan, there is no Palestinian Arab territory.

[@mysl4307]

love sephardim jews greetings from istanbul

[@OnkelCromson]

the pictures outside of buildings looks for me like normal turkish ppl doing their business, living their lifes... 18:22 great picture. greatings from almanya :)

[@franmrtks1173]

shalom daha büyük bir toplum yunan yahudilere göre daha güzel sinogoglar. Saludos de Grecia (Salonica) a los hermanos.

[@user-yz8pw9dv2n]

Our synagogues in what became Greece were more beautiful before the nazis deported our beloved families to be tortured and murdered in Poland and other places.An empty synagogue is hauntingly very sad.

[@erenfincan7805]

13. dakikadaki müziğin adı nedir

[@maryaltabev5275]

Bebeklere söylenden bir ninni, arkasından gele şarkı ise ‘Sirkeci’nin yolları’ adında bir şarkı

[@joseftari]

remember the visit

[@MrAlkolog]

Arkadaşlar müzikler hakkında bilgi alabilir miyim? Nefis!

[@izakpalti3650]

1 .. Adon Aselihot ( İbranice dini bir ilahi ) 2.. Nanni nanni (Ninni) 3.. Mi chika flor (Benim küçük çiçeğim)

[@LaurenceSalzmann2022]

tamam

[@sedatiko]

Ceki Bennun @11:50

[@bilaltugrulugurlu8577]

Unfortunately, the number of Turkish Jews decreased to 15-16 thousand

[@izakpalti3650]

Bu gidişle sayılarının çok düşeceği gerçeği de üzücü...!

[@sedatiko]

Babanin resmi var @08:27 de

[@enesakay1546]

Babanız hangisi

[@user-cl3wv1ys2q]

I don't appreciate such generation because its purity level is too low beside one rarely see sold confidence in its members' thought result in a person hard to deal with, could be easy person but a person who has no borders, no values, no principals

[@izakpalti3650]

@Koksal Ceylan Yukarıda yorum yapan ırkçı yorumcunun bu videoları seyretme sebebini bir türlü çözemedim.Saygılar..

[@ottomans9420]

There is no such thing as a turkish jew there is ottoman empire islam

[@ottomans9420]

@@sedatiko just like the rest of those fake people who claimed to be sultans blood right who are you people fooling over here