Index
British and French occupy, 121 ,
136 , 143 ; Christians in, 145 – 46 , 186 ,
188 – 89 ; corruption associated with,
187 ; cosmopolitanism of, 187 , 189 ,
230 , 245 ; debate over Dönme identity
in, 155 – 83 ; Dönme arrive in, 119 – 21 ;
Dönme cemeteries in, 185 , 197 – 208 ,
261 – 62 ; Dönme schools in, 62 , 185 ,
192 – 96 ; Dönme self-segregation in,
189 – 93 , 212 ; Dönme settle together
in, 184 – 85 ; in early republic, 186 – 89 ;
fear of Holocaust in, 256 – 57 ; Masonic
lodge established in, 101 , 105 ; mob
searches for Sertels, 237 – 38 ; Muslims
as percentage of population of, 67 ;
non-Muslims and foreigners face
hostility in, 188 – 89 ; provincialization
of, 230 , 245 ; racist written attacks
against Dönme in, xvi, 121 – 25 ; in
secular nation-state, 184 – 212 ; turn-of-
century transformation of, 66
Itzkowitz, Norman, 64
Izmir, 66 , 72 , 78 , 87 , 123 , 215 , 227
Jacob, Margaret, 101
Jacobs, Janet Liebman, 15 , 254
Jadid al-Islam, see Mashhadis
Janissaries, 86 , 87 , 93
Javid Bey, see Mehmet Cavid
Jews: antisemitism, 102 – 3 , 219 – 20 , 228 –
29 , 246 , 254 – 58 , 259 – 60 ; converts to
Christianity in Britain and Germany,
181 ; countercoup of 1909 opposed by,
108 ; denaturalization of Turkish, 229 ;
Dönme deportees contrasted with,
147 – 48 ; emigration from Turkey,
233 ; Greek antisemitism, 219 – 20 ; in
Greek Thessaloníki, 112 ; Holocaust,
xviii, 254 , 256 – 57 , 258 ; as largest non-
Muslim community in Turkey, 228 ;
Nazis deport Thessaloníki, 220 – 21 ,
246 , 257 ; parasitism attributed to,
161 ; Rıza Nur’s hatred for, 141 – 42 ;
seen as economic threat, 166 ; as
those other men consider Jews, 16 ,
256 ; Turkish antisemitism, 228 – 29 ;
Turkish Republic prohibits from
converting to Islam, 144 ; Vahdetî
associates Committee of Union
and Progress with, 102 ; wealth tax
assessed on, 230 , 231 , 232 – 33. See also
Kabbalah; Ottoman Jews
Jochebed (Aisha), 5
Journal de Salonique, 53 , 54 , 60 , 96 , 97Kabbalah: in Dönme religious
synthesis, 17 , 128 , 243 ; Salonika as
center of, 4 ; on sanctification of
the moon, 77 ; on transmigration of
souls, 5
Kapancı: in Bülbüldere Cemetery,
Istanbul, 197 – 208 ; cemetery in
Salonika of, 43 , 219 ; Dönmeler:
Hunyos, Kavayeros, Sazan on, 122 ,
123 ; as dynamic and forward-
looking, 35 ; emigrate to Istanbul,
120 ; establishment of, 9 – 10 ;
expelled from Salonika, 148 ; in
Greek Thessaloníki, 113 ; Levirate
and first-cousin marriage among,
30 – 31 ; neighborhoods in Salonika
of, 34 , 35 – 36 ; places of worship of,
10 ; religious themes on tombstones
of, 208 – 9 ; Rüştü on, 162 ; settle in
Istanbul, 190 ; Sufi connections of, 17 ,
34 , 35 , 92 ; in trade, 71 , 72 – 74 ; trade
relations with Karakaş, 74 ; Yalman
on, 175. See also Terakki school
Kapancı, Ahmet: business interests
of, 70 , 72 , 73 , 74 ; family leaves for
Istanbul, 152 ; on municipal council,
90 ; as municipal president, 98 ;
parents of, 30 ; in photograph of early
twentieth century, 38 ; questioning
property rights in Thessaloníki,
217 , 218 ; teacher obtained for Şemsi
Efendi’s school by, 48 ; on Terakki
school board, 49 , 50 ; villa of, 35 , 36 ,
37 , 38, 114 , 117 , 118 , 246 , 310 n 10 ; wife
in Greek Thessaloníki, 113 – 14 , 118