"Talking Turkish History
Gabe Levenson - Travel Writer
From my high balcony at the Pera Palas Hotel in Istanbul, I can see the nearly 2,000 years of Jewish history in the capital of the Republic of Turkey. The hotel is in the Galata/Pera district, on the north shore of the Golden Horn, an area in which the Jews were sequestered during the centuries when the city was named Constantinople, its Byzantine rulers not Muslims but Christians. "
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