Ottoman Songs in Sabbatian Manuscripts: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Inner Writings of the "Ma'aminim"

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Abstract

Research on the secret internal communal writings of the Sabbatian "Ma'aminim" of Salonica—known derogatorily in Turkish as "Dönme"—has to date mostly been focused on intra-Jewish questions. The initial and partial research on the Sabbatians' interaction with their non-Jewish environment, as reflected in their writings, invites a complementary, systematic, and cross-cultural analysis. This is especially true concerning a corpus of hundreds of songs, contained in five manuscripts, which are a precious and rare source for the study of the secret community of the Ma'aminim. This essay focuses on incipits appearing in manuscripts of the Sabbatian songs
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)567-597
Number of pages31
JournalThe Jewish Quarterly Review
Volume109
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
European Research Starting
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Keywords

    • Christian Islamic relations
    • Corpus analysis
    • Cultural factors
    • Descendants
    • Dönmeh -- Greece -- Thessalonike
    • Islam
    • Jewish people
    • Manuscripts, Hebrew
    • Muslims
    • Piyyutim -- History and criticism
    • Poets
    • Redemption
    • Religion
    • Sabbathaians
    • Secrecy
    • Sephardic Jews
    • Songs
    • Writing

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