The Dönme. Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

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Notes

Preface

1. Soner Yalçın, Efendi: Beyaz Türklerin büyük sırrı, 72 nd printing ( 148 , 000
   copies sold) (Istanbul: Dogˇan, 2006 ); id., Efendi 2 : Beyaz Müslümanların büyük
   sırrı, 39 th printing (Istanbul: Dogˇan, 2007 ).


2. Ergün Poyraz, Musanın çocukları Tayyip ve Emine (Istanbul: Togˇan, 2007 ).


3. For an analysis of the demonization of Dönme in contemporary Turkey,
   see Rıfat Bali, A Scapegoat for All Seasons: The Dönme or Crypto-Jews of Turkey
   (Istanbul: Isis Press, 2008 ). For an example of a similar phenomenon—the wide-
   spread dissemination of and belief in conspiracy theories about secret Jews—in a
   society with virtually no Jews, see David G. Goodman and Masanori Miyazawa,
   Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype (New
   York: Free Press, 1995 ).


4. Publicly referring to Atatürk as a secret Jew or Dönme would be consid-
   ered insulting or cursing his memory and thus violate the 1951 Turkish penal
   code statute 5816 , “Concerning Crimes Committed Against Atatürk.”


5. See esp. Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi, the Mystical Messiah, 1626 – 1676 ,
   trans. R. J. Zwi Werblowsky (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973 ). For
   the most recent account, see Cengiz Şişman, “A Jewish Messiah in the Otto-
   man Court: Sabbetai Sevi and the Emergence of a Judeo-Islamic Community
   ( 1666 – 1720 )” (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 2004 ).

Introduction

1. See copy of a contemporary Ottoman miniature in Padişahın portresi:
   T esavir-i Âl-i Osman (Istanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası, 2000 ), 360.


2. Sir Paul Ricaut, The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 4 th
   ed. (London: John Starkey and Henry Brome, 1675 ), 262.