The Afterlives of Shabbatai Zvi: A Lecture on the Memory of Heresy

November 18, 2018
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar Lecture
In this lecture, David Biale examines the way 19th and 20th century authors remembered the Sabbatian movement, the great heretical explosion in the Jewish world of the 17th and 18th centuries. Contrary to the impression Gershom Scholem gave, Sabbatianism and especially the figure of Shabbatai Zvi was well known to modern authors, who often exploited the heretical messiah for their own heretical and secular agendas.
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