Colonial and Imperial Legacies, National Transformations: Jewish Minorities in 1950s to 1970s Morocco and Turkey
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores the experiences of Jewish minorities in Morocco and Turkey and examines how these experiences shaped patterns of identification within postcolonial and post-Ottoman contexts. While Jews from the Middle East and North Africa have been widely studied, comparative research across groups remains limited. Drawing on life-story interviews, comparative historical analysis, and secondary sources, the study highlights variations in minority strategies, identity negotiation, and political adaptation. The findings reveal that Moroccan Jewish identity was shaped by geographical distinctions and the Israel–Palestine conflict, which heightened feelings of alienation, whereas Turkish Jews navigated the norms of kayadez and experienced neither decolonization pressures nor large-scale emigration during the same period. Social class and educational differences further influenced individual experiences, illustrating the nuanced ways participants adapted to socio-historical and political challenges. By comparing these populations, the article sheds light on the diverse strategies of survival, negotiation, and identity formation employed by minority groups in response to the postcolonial and post-Ottoman nation-building and political transformations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".