Marc David Baer is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks.

"Marc Baer is a major scholar of Ottoman Jewish history, and in this manuscript he demonstrates not only his erudition and knowledge of the sources but his courage on confronting a major myth of Ottoman history and current Turkish politics: the tolerance and defense of Jews by the Ottoman and Turkish state."—Ronald Grigor Suny, editor of A Question of Genocide"A very significant study regarding the origins of violence and its denial in Turkey through the empirical study of not only antisemitism, but also its connection to genocide denial."—Fatma Müge Göçek, author of The Transformation of Turkey

• Contents<\>PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Friend and Enemy1. Sultans as Saviors2. The Empire of Tolerant Turks3. Grateful Jews and Anti-Semitic Armenians and Greeks4. Turkish Jews as Turkish Lobbyists5. "Five Hundred Years of Friendship"6. Whitewashing the Armenian Genocide with Holocaust Heroism7. The Emergence of Critical Turkish Jewish Voices8. Living in Peace and Harmony, or in Fear?Conclusion: New Friends and EnemiesEpilogue

Marc David Baer is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks.

"Marc Baer is a major scholar of Ottoman Jewish history, and in this manuscript he demonstrates not only his erudition and knowledge of the sources but his courage on confronting a major myth of Ottoman history and current Turkish politics: the tolerance and defense of Jews by the Ottoman and Turkish state."—Ronald Grigor Suny, editor of A Question of Genocide"A very significant study regarding the origins of violence and its denial in Turkey through the empirical study of not only antisemitism, but also its connection to genocide denial."—Fatma Müge Göçek, author of The Transformation of Turkey

• Contents<\>PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Friend and Enemy1. Sultans as Saviors2. The Empire of Tolerant Turks3. Grateful Jews and Anti-Semitic Armenians and Greeks4. Turkish Jews as Turkish Lobbyists5. "Five Hundred Years of Friendship"6. Whitewashing the Armenian Genocide with Holocaust Heroism7. The Emergence of Critical Turkish Jewish Voices8. Living in Peace and Harmony, or in Fear?Conclusion: New Friends and EnemiesEpilogue

Marc David Baer is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks.

"Marc Baer is a major scholar of Ottoman Jewish history, and in this manuscript he demonstrates not only his erudition and knowledge of the sources but his courage on confronting a major myth of Ottoman history and current Turkish politics: the tolerance and defense of Jews by the Ottoman and Turkish state."—Ronald Grigor Suny, editor of A Question of Genocide"A very significant study regarding the origins of violence and its denial in Turkey through the empirical study of not only antisemitism, but also its connection to genocide denial."—Fatma Müge Göçek, author of The Transformation of Turkey

• Contents<\>PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Friend and Enemy1. Sultans as Saviors2. The Empire of Tolerant Turks3. Grateful Jews and Anti-Semitic Armenians and Greeks4. Turkish Jews as Turkish Lobbyists5. "Five Hundred Years of Friendship"6. Whitewashing the Armenian Genocide with Holocaust Heroism7. The Emergence of Critical Turkish Jewish Voices8. Living in Peace and Harmony, or in Fear?Conclusion: New Friends and EnemiesEpilogue