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Dweck provides an exceptionally rich and truly brilliant interpretation not only of Sasportas's confrontation with the Sabbatian movement but also of the various contexts in which to situate the development of his ideas at every stage of his life. aEURO Ada Rapoport-Albert, author of Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666aEURO 1816 Dweck has reclaimed the figure and the person of Sasportas while also viewing his subject as a creation of his opponents during his lifetime and, more crucially, of a raft of influential Jewish thinkers in the centuries that followed. This book is a triumph. aEURO Elisheva Carlebach, author of Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe

"""Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture"" ""Dweck’s new book is not merely another study of the Sabbatian affair; it canvasses seventeenth-century Sephardic diaspora, rabbinic epistemology and the crises between them, a crisis of which Sasportas’ anti-Sabbatian campaign was only an external manifestation.""---Zvi Kunshtat, Studia Rosenthaliana"

Dweck provides an exceptionally rich and truly brilliant interpretation not only of Sasportas's confrontation with the Sabbatian movement but also of the various contexts in which to situate the development of his ideas at every stage of his life. Ada Rapoport-Albert, author of Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 1816 Dweck has reclaimed the figure and the person of Sasportas while also viewing his subject as a creation of his opponents during his lifetime and, more crucially, of a raft of influential Jewish thinkers in the centuries that followed. This book is a triumph. Elisheva Carlebach, author of Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe

Dweck provides an exceptionally rich and truly brilliant interpretation not only of Sasportas's confrontation with the Sabbatian movement but also of the various contexts in which to situate the development of his ideas at every stage of his life. -Ada Rapoport-Albert, author of Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666-1816 Dweck has reclaimed the figure and the person of Sasportas while also viewing his subject as a creation of his opponents during his lifetime and, more crucially, of a raft of influential Jewish thinkers in the centuries that followed. This book is a triumph. -Elisheva Carlebach, author of Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe

Dweck has reclaimed the figure and the person of Sasportas while also viewing his subject as a creation of his opponents during his lifetime and, more crucially, of a raft of influential Jewish thinkers in the centuries that followed. This book is a triumph. Elisheva Carlebach, author of Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe Dweck provides an exceptionally rich and truly brilliant interpretation not only of Sasportas's confrontation with the Sabbatian movement but also of the various contexts in which to situate the development of his ideas at every stage of his life. Ada Rapoport-Albert, author of Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666 1816

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Yaacob Dweck is associate professor of history and Judaic studies at Princeton University. He is the author of The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice (Princeton).

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