Rıfat Nesim Bali (born 1948) is a Turkish historian specialized in
Jews in Turkey
The history of the Jews in Turkey ( or ; ; () covers the 2400 years that Jews have lived in what is now Turkey.
There have been Jewish communities in Anatolia since at least the beginning of the common era. Anatolia's Jewish population befo ...
.
Bali was born to a
Sephardic
Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...
family in
Istanbul
Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...
in 1948. After receiving his primary education in a Jewish school, he went to
Lycée Français Saint-Michel for secondary school and Saint-Benoit for high school. He is married and has two children.
References
Bibliography
* {{cite encyclopedia , last1=Şişman , first1=Cengiz , editor-last1= Stillman , editor-first1= Norman A. , title=Bali, Rifat , year=2010 , encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World , publisher= E. J. Brill , url=https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EJIO/SIM-0003040.xml?language=en
1948 births
Turkish people of Jewish descent
Living people
People from Istanbul