Dönmeh
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The Dönmeh are a group of Sabbatean crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire who embraced Islam, but retained their Jewish faith and Kabbalistic beliefs in secret.
Illustration of Shabbetai Tzevi from the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam
The Yeni Mosque in Thessalonika, built by the Dönmeh community towards the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Dönme gravestones in the Bülbüldere Cemetery in Üsküdar, Istanbul
Crypto-Judaism
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Crypto-Judaism is the secretive adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith. Practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews".
Dönmeh
…The Dönmeh (Hebrew: דוֹנְמֶה, romanized: Dōnme, Ottoman Turkish: دونمه, Turkish: Dönme) are a group of Sabbatean crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire who embraced Islam, but retained their Jewish faith and Kabbalistic beliefs in secret. The Sabbatean movement was centered mainly…
The village of Belmonte, Portugal, home to a crypto-Jewish community for centuries, which was only discovered in the 20th century
Jewish religious items at the Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey.
An auto-da-fé in New Spain, 18th century