The burden of silence : Sabbatai Sevi and the evolution of the Ottoman-Turkish dönmes /

This is the first comprehensive social and religious history of the Sabbatean movement from its birth in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century to the Republic of Turkey in the first half of the twentieth century. Initiated by a Jewish 'messiah', Sabbatai Sevi (1626-1676), the movem...

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