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

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pt. 2 , Georgios Hadjikiriakou, Makedonia meta tou parakeimenou tmēmatos tēs
Thrakis (Athens: n.p., 1911 ), 35 , 39 , 48 , 49.
61. Annuaire commercial & administratif du Vilayet de Salonique, 144.
62. Julia Phillips Cohen, private collection.
63. Eden and Stavroulakis, Salonika: A Family Cookbook, 17.
64. Interview, summer 2002
65. For a discussion of the transformation of the meaning of food from the
mystical to the nostalgic in the context of the secularization of Dönme cul-
ture, see Avram Elqayam, “Bishulim Shabtaim: Ochel, zikaron, ve-zehut nashit
ba-tarbut ha-Shabta’it be-Turkia ha-modernit,” Pe’amim 105 – 6 (Autumn– Winter
2005 – 6 ), 219 - 51.
66. Scholem, “Sprouting of the Horn of the Son of David,” 99 – 138.
67. Ibid., 103.
68. Eden and Stavroulakis, Salonika: A Family Cookbook, 29 – 30.
69. Ibid., 203.
70. Yıldız Sertel, Annem, 48.
71. Danon, “Une secte judéo-musulmane,” 272 , 275 ; Scholem, “Sprouting of
the Horn of the Son of David,” 385.
72. Eden and Stavroulakis, Salonika: A Family Cookbook, 29 – 30.
73. By the early twentieth century, small branches had also appeared in New
York and Boston.
74. Kevin H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and His-
tory: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy (Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press, 1999 ).
75. Faruk Tabak, “Imperial Rivalry and Port-Cities: A World-Historical Ap-
proach” (paper presented at the Eighth Mediterranean Social and Political Re-
search Meeting, Florence and Montecatini Terme, March 21 – 25 , 2007 , organized
by the Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced
Studies at the European University Institute).
76. In the seventeenth century, when the Dönme established themselves, for
example, the leading Jewish palace physician converted to Islam, and two de-
scendants of his received the title of Sheikhulislam, that of the leading Muslim
religious authority in the empire. See Baer, Honored by the Glory of Islam, 136.
77. Jacob, Strangers Nowhere in the World, 2.


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  1. Galanté, Nouveaux documents sur Sabbetaï Sevi, 75 – 77.

  2. Haim Nahum: A Sephardic Chief Rabbi in Politics, 1892 – 1923 , ed. Esther
    Benbassa, trans. Miriam Kochan (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,
    1995 ), 5 – 9.

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