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The Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (Baer, 2010)
Marc David Baer, Stanford University Press, 2010
Marc David Baer's "The Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks" (Stanford University Press, 2010), the standard scholarly account of the Donmeh community, confirmed via its American Historical Review peer review 2026-08-16. States that 10,000 to 15,000 Donmeh were forced to leave Salonica for Turkey in the 1923-24 Greek-Turkish population exchange, and that no more than a hundred remained in Salonica by 1924. Used here for the 1923-24 figure.
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Tier one: the standard scholarly monograph on the Donmeh, published by an academic press and reviewed in the American Historical Review, Cambridge's AJS Review and Reviews in Religion and Theology; its content confirmed here via the American Historical Review's peer review of the book rather than the book's own scanned text. Citation
AuthorMarc David Baer
PublisherStanford University Press
Publication Year2010
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Turkey directly: "were forced to leave Salonica for Turkey in the 1923-24 Greek-Turkish population exchange, and that no more than a hundred remained in Salonica by 1924."
Source The Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (Baer, 2010)Marc David Baer
This source names Turkish directly: "for Turkey in the 1923-24 Greek-Turkish population exchange, and that no more than a hundred remained in Salonica by 1924."
Source The Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (Baer, 2010)Marc David Baer
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
- New Religious Movements, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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