SABBATAI ZEVI

säbätīˈ zāˈvē, 1626–76, Jewish mystic and pseudo-Messiah, founder of the Sabbatean sect, b. Smyrna. After a period of study of Lurianic kabbalah (see Luria, Isaac ben Solomon), he became deeply influenced by its ideas of imminent national redemption. In 1648 he proclaimed himself the Messiah, named the year 1666 as the millennium, and gathered a host of followers. In 1666 he attempted to land in Constantinople, was captured, and to escape death embraced Islam. Nevertheless, the influence of the Sabbatean movement survived for many years; it had secret adherents in the 18th cent. and was revived under Jacob Frank. The name is also spelled Shabbatai Zvi.

See G. G. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (3d rev. ed. 1954, repr. 1967), The Messianic Ideas in Judaism (tr. 1971), and Sabbatai Sevi, the Mystical Messiah (tr. 1973).

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books on: Sabbatai Zevi  - 141 results

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Queer Theory and the Jewish Question
Book by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, Ann Pellegrini; Columbia University Press, 2003
Subjects: Jewish Gays, Jewish Lesbians
...widespread messianic enthusiasm around Sabbatai Zevi came to an abrupt end when, arrested...death and conversion to Islam, Sabbatai Zevi donned the turban in September 1666. Sabbatai Zevi lived in exile in Alba- nia until...
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The Actor's Way
Book by Erik Exe Christoffersen; Routledge, 1993
...Antigone stands and walks, singing, down towards Sabbatai Zevi. She presents the child, lifts it up over her...Inquisitor and Joan of Arc take up positions beside Sabbatai Zevi. All sing. Sabbatai Zevi takes the knife with the flower that the Grand...
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The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World
Book by Nathaniel Deutsch; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Volodymyr-Volyns?Ky?I (Ukraine)--Biography, Werbermacher, Chana Rochel--1815-1892, Women Rabbis--Biography
...In I672 the Jewish opponents of Sabbatai Zevi (or Mahmet Efendi, as he was...the height of his influence, Sabbatai Zevi warmly received two visitors from...Halevi sent his sons to meet with Sabbatai Zevi or whether they volunteered for...
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Eyewitness to Jewish History
Book by Benjamin Blech; Wiley, 2004
Subjects: Jews--History
...Sabbatian Sect, had to say about Sabbatai Zevi: You must believe that this was...born on the ninth day of Av. Sabbatai Zevi, as it happens, was born on...charismatic figure. Remarkably, Sabbatai Zevi had as followers not only most...
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History of the Jews - Vol. 5
Book by Heinrich Graetz; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1949
Subjects: Jews--History
...David, and maintained that he was Sabbatai Zevi risen from the dead. The latter...assume a Christian disguise, as Sabbatai Zevi had been obliged to veil himself...reappeared under new forms in Turkey. Sabbatai Zevi had left a widow, the daughter...
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journal articles on: Sabbatai Zevi  - 10 results

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David J. Halperin, Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah
Journal article by Marc Saperstein; European Judaism, Vol. 40, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah (Book)--Book reviews
David J. Halperin, Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah...Saperstein David J. Halperin, Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah...messianic movement inspired by Sabbatai Zevi. His translation in the Classics...
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Isaac Bashevis Singer's Satan in Goray and Bakhtin's Vision of the Carnivalesque
Journal article by John Guzlowski; Critique, Vol. 39, 1998
Subjects: Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...The novel is set in the time of Sabbatai Zevi, the false messiah who "served...is their Ghetto" (ix). Though Zevi is not a character in the novel...debating Benishs unwillingness to accept Zevi. When Chanina, one of the rabbis...
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Jew D'esprit
Journal article by Eugene Goodheart; Shofar, Vol. 21, 2003
Subjects: Autobiographical literature, Communism, Culture, Jews, Literature, Minority & ethnic groups, Politics, Race relations
...messiah, most notably Jesus and in more recent times Sabbatai Zevi, he is seen as a false messiah. So questions arise...novel Satan in Goray, which deals with the time of Sabbatai Zevi. In his first novel, The Family Moskat, Singer concludes...
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If Only: Finding America in Hasidism
Journal article by Pearl Abraham; Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Immigration, Jews, Spirituality, United States
...susceptible to the false messiahs of the seventeenth century, Sabbatai Zevi and Joseph Frank, and later, to the charismatic leaders...became a renowned mystical center. And in the 1600s, Sabbatai Zevi initiated the messianic movement. A hundred years later...
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Book Notes
Journal article; Shofar, Vol. 27, 2008
Subjects: Books, Community, Cultural identity, Feminism, Jewish culture, Jewish life & ethics, Judaism, Minority & ethnic groups, Public figures, Religion, Religious congregations, War
...sought to protect, restrict, or prohibit these rites. Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah, by David J. Halperin...235 pp. $49.50. ISBN 978-1-904113-25-6. Sabbatai Zevi stirred up the Jewish world in the mid-seventeenth...
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'The End Is Nigh': At a Moment When 'End-Timers' Are Said to Hold Sway in Washington, Penelope J. Corfield Considers How Catastrophic Visions of the End of the World Have Recurred-Throughout History, in All Societies and Religions
Magazine article by Penelope J. Corfield; History Today, Vol. 57, March 2007
Subjects: Bible and literature--Analysis, Bible as literature--Analysis, Biblical literature--Analysis, End of the world--Portrayals, Eschatology--Analysis, Islamic literature--Analysis
...experienced a notorious schism. In 1665 a mystic named Sabbatai Zevi, from Izmir (Smyrna) in Turkey, was acknowledged...from all over Europe. Even the shock conversion of Sabbatai to Islam, after his capture by the Ottoman Turks in...
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Israel & the Liberal Imagination
Magazine article by Eric Alterman; The Nation, Vol. 266, May 4, 1998
Subjects: American Jews--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Israel--History, Israeli history, Jews, American--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Zionism--History
...Theodor Herzls The Jewish State in which she compared the God of Zionism to the false seventeenth-century messiah, Sabbatai Zevi. These misgivings reached a fever pitch as open warfare with the Arabs loomed and the State of Israel was declared...
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Millennium and Historical Hope
Magazine article by Natalie Zemon Davis; Tikkun, Vol. 14, November 1999
Subjects: Calendars, History, Millennium, Religion
...marriage. A century later, millennial spirit infused much that went on during the English Civil War, and in 1666, when Sabbatai Zevi declared himself the Jewish Messiah, both Christians and Jews thought excitedly that the final redemption was at hand...
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The Difference: Christianity's Uncomfortable Claim
Magazine article by John Garvey; Commonweal, Vol. 134, November 23, 2007
Subjects: Christianity--Analysis, Religion--Analysis
...prophets and messiahs will arise is especially prominent in the Judeo-Christian tradition, leading, for Jews, to Sabbatai Zevi in the seventeenth century, and, among Christians, to Joseph Smith and Mormonism, and to Sun Myung Moon and the...
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Ex Libris
Magazine article; Humanities, Vol. 32, May/Jun 2011
Subjects: African art, Book awards, Books, Buddhism, Cambridge University Press, Habeas corpus, Historians, History, Jews, New York, Religion, Science
...W. Adorno, and Colleagues. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. RELIGION Halperin, David J., trans. Sabbatai Zevi: Testimonies to a Fallen Messiah. Portland, OR: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007. Holt, John...
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Sabbatai Zevi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SABBATAI ZEVI sabati za ve, 1626 76, Jewish mystic and pseudo-Messiah, founder...1954, repr. 1967), The Messianic Ideas in Judaism (tr. 1971), and Sabbatai Sevi, the Mystical Messiah (tr. 1973...
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Frank, Jacob
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Frankists, a heretical Jewish sect that was an anti-Talmudic outgrowth of the mysticism of the false Messiah Sabbatai Zevi . After traveling in Turkey, where he was called Frank and where he joined the Sabbatean sect, he returned (c...
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Judaism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...much messianic and kabbalist speculation, culminating in the spectacular career of the self-proclaimed Messiah, Sabbatai Zevi . The Amsterdam community of Marranos (those Jews forced by the Inquisition to adopt Christianity, but who continued...
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Jews
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and religious faith of the Jews led to the rise of several messianic movements; one of the most important was led by Sabbatai Zevi . In the 18th cent. Hasidism arose among the Jews of Eastern Europe. Emancipation and Secularization Modern political...
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Kabbalah
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Palestine. Kabbalah in this form was widely adopted and created fertile gound for the movement of the pseudo-Messiah Sabbatai Zevi . It was also a major influence in the development of Hasidism . Kabbalah still has adherents, especially among Hasidic...
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