Posts by Barış Telimen
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A Hidden Liturgy, A Forgotten Flame: The Secret Songs of Shabbetai Tzvi’s BelieversIn a groundbreaking study, historian Hadar Feldman Samet uncovers this forgotten world in her newly published book, The Poetry of the Sabbatean Believers (Magnes Press). Drawing from rare manuscripts housed in Jerusalem and Harvard, Samet brings to light a corpus of over 1,500 ritual songs, revealing a complex spiri...
https://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/cal-details/18021213%20CSMC%20Sefardic%20MSS%20Conference.pdf
Manifesto (Defense of the suspected Sabbatian Nehemiah Hiyya Hayyon), Sephardic rabbinic court, Amsterdam, 1713https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/manifiesto-defense-of-the-suspected-sabbatian-ne-D7D4E86BCC
Relations Between Jews and Dönmes in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish RepublicC. M. Kosemen December 2016, on the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByV5-S712cg8QXVSSEZNR0hfWE0/view
Hi guys, I'm desperately trying to find information about the Bension family of Salonika. I found out from the online surname index of this book, "Les juifs de Salonique 1492-1943" by Elie Carasso, that this family is mentioned numerous times. Does anyone have this book on pdf? Thanks.
http://forward.com/news/world/346996/turkey-cracks-down-and-an-ancient-messianic-sect-burrows-deep/
Do we have a list of the chief rabbis of Salonika from the 1680's to the 1930's?
Hi everyone. I had a quick question. I had my father's DNA tested recently. And I need to have a genetic scientist (recognized by the FCJE) to analyze and evaluate its results. Do you know any?[I am of Salonikan Dönme descent and the report will be submitted to the FCJE together with other documents in order to get a certificate of Sephardic origin.]
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/the-evolution-of-ottoman-turkish-donmes.aspx?pageID=238&nID=91040&NewsCatID=474
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/728/411.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CioQV8UpL0E
Iggale Kevod Malkhutekha– A Piyyut by R. Israel Najara Sung by the Sabbateans, and its Melodies'יגלה כבוד מלכותך': פיוט של ר' ישראל נג'ארה בפי השבתאים ולחניוEdwin SeroussiTarbiz / תרביץ, 1 April 1993, Vol.סב(ג), pp.361-379• Description: Sacred poems by R. Israel Najara about redemption and the messianic era could be interpreted by Sabbateans as predicting the imminent arrival of the messiah. One o...
http://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/zifferland/.premium-1.2696537
http://www.amazon.com/Burden-Silence-Sabbatai-Evolution-Ottoman-Turkish/dp/0190244054
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/spiritofthings/jews3a-secrets-of-survival/6343560
The Burden of Silence:Sabbatai Sevi and the evolution of the Ottoman-Turkish DönmesCengiz ŞişmanNew York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2015]Contents:Chapt. I: Remapping a Messianic movement in the early modern world -- The Messiah of an Ottoman City -- The early modern Ottoman crisis, Ottoman Jewry and the Sabbatean movement -- Ottoman Sultans, European monarchs and Sabbatai Sevi -- Grand viziers...
http://centroestudiossefardies.org/Revista%20Magu%C3%A9n-Escudo/Revista%20153/donme-los-otros-judios-secretos
http://yabangee.com/2015/01/discussing-donme-artist-researcher-c-m-kosemen-part-2/
Maybe placing these sort-of graven images in a Muslim context was a purposefully antinomian act. Not only were they recording members of the dead, but they were saying to the rest of the Muslims, “we are not like you and here we stand.”
http://andrewgough.co.uk/articles_butterbees/
http://www.cnrseditions.fr/histoire/7019-istanbul-la-sepharade.html
Images from the (Sabbatean) Bülbülderesi cemetery, IstanbulPhotos by: Marc David Baer