A Scapegoat for All Seasons

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Rifat Bali's A Scapegoat for All Seasons considers the increase in the Turkish public's interest in Donmes, or Crypto-Jews, who are alleged by nationalists to secretly control the Turkish republic. About the Author TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS PREFACE 1. A Scapcgoat for All Seasons: the Dônmes or Crypto-Jews of Turkey 2. A Delusional Obsession: the "Dônme" Question 3. Statements by Persons Accused of Being Dönmes 4. The Dönmes in Memoirs and Interviews 5. A Testimony by V. Avdet: "How I Discovered the Truth About My Ancestors' Origins" 6. The Nazis Perceptions of the Dönmes 7. Mustafa Kemal and the Claim of his Dönme Roots 8. The Dönmes as a Theme of Turkish Antisemitism 9. A Recent Antisemitic Theme: The Sabbatean Role in the Armenian Genocide 10. What is Efendi Telling us? 11. What is Really Being Discussed Here, Sabbateanism or the Republican Regime? 12. A Mutilated Translation: Gerschom Scholem's Sabbatai Sevi APPENDICES GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY