“Turkey’s Modernization” is about the German-speaking Jewish academics and artists who looked for and found shelter along the Bosporus during the difficult times of the Third Reich and World War II. Reisman indicates that there was a brief and shining moment in the early 1930s when providence sent a group of the most active, intelligent and dedicated people alive from Germany and Austria to Istanbul to push and pull Turkey into the modern age. The story of these Jewish émigrés is one of the least known episodes of World War II in non-Turkish, non-German-speaking countries. In fact, even in Turkish and German-speaking countries, the conditions under which Turkey provided a secure base for the émigré professors and their contributions to the advances in various scientific disciplines on a world scale are not well enough appreciated.
Turkey’s Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Atatürk’s Vision
“Turkey’s Modernization” is about the German-speaking Jewish academics and artists who looked for and found shelter along the Bosporus during the difficult times of the Third Reich and World War II. Reisman indicates that there was a brief and shining moment in the early 1930s when providence sent a group of the most active, intelligent and dedicated people alive from Germany and Austria to Istanbul to push and pull Turkey into the modern age. The story of these Jewish émigrés is one of the least known episodes of World War II in non-Turkish, non-German-speaking countries. In fact, even in Turkish and German-speaking countries, the conditions under which Turkey provided a secure base for the émigré professors and their contributions to the advances in various scientific disciplines on a world scale are not well enough appreciated.
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İdris Demir
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Arnold Reisman
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D.C.: New Academia Publishing
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0-9777908-8-6.
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