The Dönme. Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
Introduction subsequent conversion. The yearly cycle was also rooted in the holidays he instituted, such as making the ninth ...
Introduction According to the rabbis, the Dönme were deviants, engaging in all cat- egories of what was considered religious ...
Introduction of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, the Dönme were compelled to abandon their ethno-religious ...
Introduction tice is proof of their being secret Jews. Jewish historians in Turkey share this assumption. Thus Avram Galanté, ...
Introduction group. In the Ottoman Empire, they were able to be fully Dönme among other Dönme and fully Ottoman Muslim in pub ...
Introduction necessary evil, pining for the moment when they would be able to re- vert to the prior religion.^85 They largely ...
Introduction Scholarship also assumes that crypto-Jews engage in accommodation and resistance to cultural hegemony and assimi ...
Introduction tioned about their religious belief, faith, or sincerity as Muslims. Sir James Porter writes: “It is difficult t ...
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§1 Keeping It Within the Family, 1862 – 1908 The marriage of the Muslim Mehmet Zekeriya and the Kapancı Dönme Sabiha, daughte ...
Ottoman Salonika up close, because the decision they are going to make about me is very important, even bearing historic impo ...
Keeping It Within the Family, 1862–1908 portant development, a first serious step in establishing closer relations with Musli ...
Ottoman Salonika by descendants of the Yakubi, Karakaş, and Kapancı, which like genealo- gies of other diaspora groups, have ...
Keeping It Within the Family, 1862–1908 Conflicts could arise in diaspora among such a group, and genealo- gies could serve a ...
Ottoman Salonika to marry the Muslim, and he was as dead set both against her marriage to the Muslim and to her conversion. H ...
Keeping It Within the Family, 1862–1908 additional children, including Osman ( 1880 – 1932 ). Osman is also discussed at leng ...
Ottoman Salonika nation-state, where those of “Jewish blood” were not welcome. Since they chose to marry one another, it is n ...
Keeping It Within the Family, 1862–1908 Similarly, they built their schools where they resided. This ensured that a Dönme cou ...
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