Rifat Bali

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Rıfat N. Bali (* 1948 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish - Jewish historian .

Career and research focus

Bali attended the private French schools of Saint Michel (in the Şişli district ) and Saint Benoit (in the Karaköy district ) in Istanbul .

Between 1970 and 1995 he worked first as a manager and then as a managing partner in a private company. In 2001 he graduated from the École pratique des hautes études .

Since 1996 he has researched and published on non-Muslim minorities in Turkey, on anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories as well as on the social and cultural change in Turkish society. His research interests also include the kebab .

Bali is a research fellow at the Alberto Benveniste Center for Sephardic Studies and Social History of the Jews at the École pratique des hautes études and a member of the Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center in Istanbul.

Bali is married and has two children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lycée Français Saint-Michel
  2. ^ Lycée Saint Benoît d'Istanbul