July 20, 1990 • Page Image 51
…OPENING SUMMER 1990 Lerner, assistant curator of Judaica at the Jewish Mu- seum. But Lerner contends that Jews didn't always experi- ence such tolerance and egalitarianism in Ottoman Turkey. "There were restric- tions against Jews," she said. "Jews and Christians were second class to Moslems. The sultans issued discriminatory decrees periodically." It was forbidden, for ex- ample, for Jews to wear the sacred color green, and white was restric...…

















































