Dr. Kemal Karpat delivered a lecture entitled "Jews & Turks: Model of Coexistence" discussing the relationship between the Turkish-Muslim population and the Jewish population in the Ottoman State on April 24, 2008. The event is organized by SEF, and sponsored by Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, and Students for Dialogue at OSU. The lecture is open to the public.

 

Audio for the OSU lecture

Audio for the WOSU Open Line program with Fred Andrle

 

About Kemal Karpat
Kemal Karpat is a Turkish historian and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his LLB from the University of Istanbul, his MA from the University of Washington and his PhD from New York University. He has previously worked for the UN Economics and Social Council and taught at Montana State University and New York University. He has several books on the history of the Ottoman State such as The Politicization of Islam (Oxford UP, 2001), The Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey (Brill, 2000), An Inquiry into the Social Foundations of Nationalism in the Ottoman State (Princeton UP, 1973).