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Located in Istanbul’s Üsküdar district, the neighborhood of Kuzguncuk has long been populated by the city’s Jewish community, though shrinking in number in recent years. The neighborhood is literally sacred for Jews, as for over five centuries its Jewish cemetery on Nakkaştepe has been the resting place of buried pilgrims …

Something happens the moment you step into Istanbul’s Jewish Museum of Turkey. The world outside seems to stop… and time somehow becomes irrelevant. You could say it’s like being in your aunt Esther’s attic… with unlimited access to the family’s treasure chest.

Wolfgang Vogt Hasta la tercera década del siglo XX los sultanes otomanos gobernaban Turquía desde Istanbul, la antigua ciudad de Bizancio o Constantinopla. Pero cuando en 1923 Kemal Atatürk ocupa la presidencia de la recién fundada república turca, traslada la capital a Ankara, una ciudad nueva en el interior de …