Sabbatian Heresy Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity

by Pawel Maciejko

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 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 | A 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 -- Part II | Sabbatai Tsevi's Conversion and Its Interpretation -- 5 | A 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 -- Part III | Sabbatianism in the Ottoman Empire -- 10 | Israel Hazzan of Kastoria, Commentary on the Midnight-Vigil Liturgy -- 11 | Songs and Poems of the Dönmeh -- 12 | Yehudah Levi Tovah, Commentary on the Torah Portion Bereshit -- Part 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 -- Part V | The 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 -- Part VI | The Eibeschütz Controversy -- 21 | Jonathan Eibeschütz, And I Came This Day unto the Fountain -- 22 | Jacob Emden, Purim's Letter -- 23 | Jonathan Eibeschütz, A Letter to Rabbi Jacob Yehoshuah Falk

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