Esra Almas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6713317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esra Almas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esra |
| FAMILY NAME | Almas |
| SIGNATURE | ALMAS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Strangers in a Strange Land: Jewish Memories of Istanbul in the Memoirs of Roni Margulies
This essay investigates the role of Istanbul, and of drastic urban change, in the shaping of a particular form of autoethnograpy, and, reciprocally, the role of life writing as a particular constituent of the city’s urban imaginary. The focus is the upscale cosmopolitan neighborhood of Nişantaşı, as seen largely through Jewish eyes, in the memoirs by the dissident writer and poet Roni Margulies: Jews Go Wild on Sundays [Margulies, Roni. 2006. Bug…
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Strangers in a Strange Land: Jewish Memories of Istanbul in the Memoirs of Roni Margulies
This essay investigates the role of Istanbul, and of drastic urban change, in the shaping of a particular form of autoethnograpy, and, reciprocally, the role of life writing as a particular constituent of the city’s urban imaginary. The focus is the upscale cosmopolitan neighborhood of Nişantaşı, as seen largely through Jewish eyes, in the memoirs by the dissident writer and poet Roni Margulies: Jews Go Wild on Sundays [Margulies, Roni. 2006. Bug…
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