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Title Sabbatian heresy : writings on mysticism, messianism, and the origins of Jewish modernity / edited by Pawel Maciejko
Published Lebanon, New Hampshire : Brandeis University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
The Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought.
Contents Machine generated contents note: I. Sabbatian Movement prior to Sabbatai Tsevi's Conversion to Islam -- 1. Nathan of Gaza, A Letter to Raphael Joseph -- 2. Thomas Coenen, Vain Hopes of the Jews -- 3. Letter of Rabbi Aaron Sarfatti of Amsterdam to Rabbi Jacob Sasportas of Hamburg -- 4. Exchange of Letters between Isaac Nahar of Amsterdam and Jacob Sasportas of Hamburg -- II. Sabbatai Tsevi's Conversion and Its Interpretation -- 5. Letter of Rabbi Joseph Halevi of Livorno to Rabbi Hosea Nantawa of Alexandria -- 6. Moses Ben Habib, A Testimony Given before the Rabbinic Court in Jerusalem -- 7. Sabbatai Tsevi, A Letter on Conversion -- 8. Sabbatai Tsevi, Bury My Faith! -- 9. Nathan of Gaza, A Letter on Conversion -- III. Sabbatianism in the Ottoman Empire -- 10. Israel Hazzan of Kastoria, Commentary on the Midnight-Vigil Liturgy -- 11. Songs and Poems of the Donmeh -- 12. Yehudah Levi Tovah, Commentary on the Torah Portion Bereshit -- IV. Avraham Miguel Cardozo -- 13. Avraham Miguel Cardozo, A Letter to Isaac Cardozo -- 14. Avraham Miguel Cardozo, A Letter to Baruch Enriques -- 15. Avraham Miguel Cardozo, Abraham's Morn -- 16. Elijah Kohen, The Book of the Sacred Contention -- V. Hayon Controversy -- 17. Nehemiah Hiyya Hayon, Power to the Lord -- 18. Tsevi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi (Hakham Tsevi), In the Sight of All the House of Israel -- 19. Moses Hagiz, Destruction of the Wrongdoers -- 20. Anonymous, A Review of Hayon's Oz le-Elohim -- VI. Eibeschutz Controversy -- 21. Jonathan Eibeschutz, And I Came This Day unto the Fountain -- 22. Jacob Emden, Purim's Letter -- 23. Jonathan Eibeschutz, A Letter to Rabbi Jacob Yehoshuah Falk -- 24. David Friedrich Megerlin, Hidden Testimonies for the Truth of the Christian Religion Deduced from Twenty-Four New and Rare Jewish Amulets -- 25. Jacob Emden, A Whip on the Fool's Back -- VII. Jacob Frank and the Frankists -- 26. Jacob Emden, A Bridle for the Deceiver -- 27. Jacob Frank, The Words of the Lord Spoken in Brunn -- 28. Jacob Frank, Appendix to the Words of the Lord Spoken in Brunn -- 29. Jacob Frank, The Red Letter -- 30. Eleazar Fleckeles, The Love of David -- VIII. Literary Accounts of Sabbatianism -- 31. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Sabbatai Tsevi -- 32. Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Man of Dreams -- 33. Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Knots upon Knots
Summary Key writings on Sabbatianism and its legacy and afterlife in Jewish culture, memory, and religion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 24, 2017)
Subject Sabbathaians -- History
Jewish messianic movements -- History
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Jewish messianic movements
Sabbathaians
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Maciejko, Paweł, 1971- editor.
LC no. 2016050001
ISBN 9781512600537
1512600539