The pursuit of heresy : Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian controversies / Elisheva Carlebach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlebach, Elisheva.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ḥagiz, Moses, 1671-approximately 1750.

Ḥagiz, Moses.

Rabbis--Biography.

Rabbis.

Sabbathaians.

Local Subjects:

Ḥagiz, Moses, 1671-approximately 1750.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 364 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1990]

Summary:

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 1730-1736. Each episode, Carlebach argues, illuminates the struggle for control of the Jewish community between rabbinate and lay leaders.

Notes:

"Winner of the Salo Baron Dissertation Prize in Jewish Studies"--Half title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-357) and index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish History, Winner, 1991

Local Notes:

Acc# 207513

ISBN:

0231071906

9780231071901

0231071914

9780231071918

OCLC:

22003590