The Club is set in a Jewish area of Istanbul in the 1950s, telling the stories of a forgotten peopleWhen Forti Barokas was a girl, in the 1950s, she lived in a tight-knit Jewish community among the cobbled streets of Pera, Istanbul’s most cosmopolitan, and glamorous, neighbourhood. Tailors whipped up the newest European fashions, and women with names like Rasel and Ester would not dream of stepping outside without a hat. SponsoredIn the street, you were less likely to hear Turkish spoken than French, Greek, Armenian or Ladino — a language brought over by Jews who fled persecution in Spain in the late 15th century. Yet within a generation this vibrant history was all but forgotten by many Turks and the city’s Jews had nearly all left or assimilated themselves to the point of invisibility. It took a hit television series to bring their

Source: The Times January 10, 2022 01:28 UTC