Index
Cumhuriyet (newspaper), 222 , 223 , 235 ,
237
CUP, see Committee of Union and
Progress (CUP)
Curzon, Lord, 143
Demolins, Edmond, 92 , 286 n 44
Dilber family: assets left in Salonika,
153 ; in Bülbüldere Cemetery,
Istanbul, 204 ; businesses set up
in Istanbul, 191 ; Feyziye school in
Istanbul supported by, 194 – 95 ; leave
Salonika, 152 ; Mixed Commission
register does not include, 113 ;
property lost in fire of 1917 , 116 ;
tombstones of, 205
Dönme
early history of: followers of
Shabbatai Tzevi coalesce in
Salonika, 4 , 5 – 12 ; splits in, 8 – 10
in Greek Thessaloníki, x, 111 – 19 ;
in political office, 114 ; property
ownership, 113 – 14 ; remain in
Thessaloníki after 1923 , 213 – 21 ;
switching their citizenship for
political reasons, 218
in Istanbul, 139 – 241 ; arrive in
Istanbul, 119 – 21 ; attacks on
prominent Dönme, 221 – 23 ;
become secular, 230 , 258 ;
businesses established, 191 ;
cosmopolitanism of, 187 – 88 , 243 ,
249 , 256 ; debate over identity
of, 155 – 83 ; dissolution of, ix,
253 , 256 , 257 – 58 ; growing loss of
cohesion among, 301 n 2 ; idealized
as secular national citizens, 248 – 51 ;
identifying in Turkey, 231 – 32 ;
immorality attributed to, 123 – 24 ,
252 , 253 ; last longer than expected,
251 ; life expectancy of, 198 ;
parasitism attributed to, 160 – 62 ;
physical problems attributed to,
122 – 23 , 129 , 165 , 198 ; racialized
nationalism in attacks on, 92 , 163 –
67 ; from racism to antisemitism,
254 – 58 ; racist written attacks on,
xvi, 121 – 25 ; in secular nation-state,
184 – 212 ; seen as economic threat,
166 – 67 ; settle together, 184 – 85 ;
social boundaries less tight,
190 – 92 ; social self-segregation,
189 – 93 , 212 ; as still identifiable,
262 ; strategies open to in Turkey,
182 – 83 ; as useful to Turkish
Republic, 248 ; wealth tax assessed
on, 223 – 35 , 239 , 252 , 256 , 258
in Ottoman Salonika, ix–x, xiv,
23 – 80 ; Abdülhamid II on political
opposition from, 83 – 84 ; ability to
rise in Ottoman society, 20 , 257 ;
assimilation into Ottoman society,
17 ; in Committee of Union and
Progress, x–xi, 63 , 91 – 98 , 110 , 227 ;
in Constitutional Revolution of
1908 , 90 – 101 , 108 , 165 , 298 n 25 ;
Constitutional Revolution of
1908 ushers in era of vilification
of, 101 – 8 ; the diaspora, 77 – 80 ; as
Freemasons, 94 – 95 , 108 ; Gonca-i
Edeb literary journal of, 55 – 60 ; in
governmental positions, 87 – 88 ;
institutional structures established
b y, 10 – 12 ; on internationalizing
Salonika, 112 ; in local politics,
84 – 90 ; marriage of Sabiha to
Mehmet Zekeriya, 25 – 27 ; as
mayors, 88 ; Muslim neighbors spy
on, 42 ; neighborhoods of, 32 – 36 ,
78 ; in new Ottoman bourgeoisie,
86 ; in Ottoman administration
and military, 79 ; in Ottoman
politics, 83 – 110 ; population
at turn of twentieth century,
13 , 67 ; in post-revolutionary
politics, 98 – 99 ; separate identity
maintained by, x, xv, xvii, 25 – 43 ;
social exclusivity turns others
against them, 79 ; social self-
segregation, 32 – 36 , 78