Tekinalp’s Anti-socialism as a Modern Ottoman Jewish

Rıdvan Turhan ()
Additional contact information
Rıdvan Turhan: İstanbul Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü, İstanbul, Türkiye

Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 2020, vol. 61, issue 0, 323-339

Abstract: Tekinalp is an intellectual of Jewish origin, who lived in the period of transition from empire to nation state with radical social, economic and political changes. Tekinalp was, for a certain period of time, a fervid advocate of the Ottomanism ideal, which envisaged the Ottomanization of Jews and their adaptation to the society they lived in. Tekinalp also expressed his opinions on such modern ideologies as Zionism and socialism on various platforms. In the political arena of the period, Tekinalp took an explicit position as an antagonist of socialism. Nevertheless, a significant proportion of the Jewish intellectuals living in Europe at that time gathered around socialism and it was to such extent that the most prominent socialist theoreticians stood out among Jewish intellectuals. In this paper, Tekinalp’s negative stance against socialism was outlined and the underlying reasons for the dissenting opinions between European Jewish intellectuals and Tekinalp, an Ottoman Jew, during the early 20th century were discussed. In this context, such discussion hopefully aims to introduce an unassuming contribution to the understanding of the relation between Judaism and socialism.

Keywords: Tekinalp; judaism; socialism; jewish identit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/946640 (application/pdf)
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jecs/issue/55581/680933 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ist:iujecs:v:61:y:2020:i:0:p:323-339

DOI: 10.26650/JECS2019-0010

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Economy Culture and Society is currently edited by Veysel Bozkurt

More articles in Journal of Economy Culture and Society from Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Istanbul University Press Operational Team (Ertuğrul YAŞAR) ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).