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Author Michaelson, Jay

Title The Heresy of Jacob Frank From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (209 p.)
Summary Jacob Frank (1726-1791) was once known as the most sinister of Jewish heretics, a man who led his sect to convert en masse to Christianity and led sexual orgies in secret meetings. But what was the truth behind these myths? The Heresy of Jacob Frank argues, based on close readings of Frank's late teachings, that Frank was not some sex-crazed ""degenerate"" but an original and prescient figure at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, reason and magic, Kabbalah and Western Esotericism
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Subject Pseudo-Messiahs -- Biography
Jewish messianic movements -- Europe, Eastern -- History
Mysticism -- Judaism -- History -- 18th century
Judaism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 18th century
Jewish messianic movements
Judaism
Mysticism -- Judaism
Pseudo-Messiahs
Eastern Europe
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780197530658
0197530656