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In 1665, as Jews abandoned reason for the ecstasy of enthusiasm for self-proclaimed Messiah Sabbetai Zevi, Jacob Sasportas watched in horror. Dweck tells the story of the Sephardic rabbi who challenged Sabbetai Zevi's improbable claims and warned his fellow Jews that their Messiah was not the answer to their prayers..



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"Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture"
"Dweck’s new book is not merely another study of the Sabbatian affair; it canvasses seventeenth-century Sephardic diaspora, rabbinic epistemology and the crises between them, a crisis of which Sasportas’ anti-Sabbatian campaign was only an external manifestation."---Zvi Kunshtat, Studia Rosenthaliana

Dissident Rabbi The Life of Jacob Sasportas

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 06/08/2019
      ISBN13: 9780691183572, 978-0691183572
      ISBN10: 0691183570
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In 1665, as Jews abandoned reason for the ecstasy of enthusiasm for self-proclaimed Messiah Sabbetai Zevi, Jacob Sasportas watched in horror. Dweck tells the story of the Sephardic rabbi who challenged Sabbetai Zevi's improbable claims and warned his fellow Jews that their Messiah was not the answer to their prayers..



      Trade Review
      "Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture"
      "Dweck’s new book is not merely another study of the Sabbatian affair; it canvasses seventeenth-century Sephardic diaspora, rabbinic epistemology and the crises between them, a crisis of which Sasportas’ anti-Sabbatian campaign was only an external manifestation."---Zvi Kunshtat, Studia Rosenthaliana

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