Pursuit of Heresy Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversy

Name: Pursuit of Heresy Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversy
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ISBN: 9780231071918

ISBN-10: 0231071914

ISBN-13: 9780231071918

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Authors: Elisheva Carlebach

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Rabbi Moses Hagiz was one of the most prominent and influential Jewish leaders of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. During Hagiz's lifetime there was an overall decline in rabbinic authority which the author argues was the result of migration and assimilation. Hagiz devoted his career to restoring rabbinic authority. His most prominent talent was as a polemicist, and he campaigned ceaselessly against Jewish heresy in an attempt to unify the rabbinate. Elisheva Carlebach focuses on three of the most important episodes in Hagiz' organized campaigns against heresy: The Haylon Controversy in Amsterdam, 1713-1715; a campaign against Sabbatian emissaries in 1725-1726; and the Luzatto controversy of…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/21/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.89" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Elisheva Carlebach is Salo W. Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society at Columbia University.