![]() ![]() Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom Seller Rating: Contact seller. The most successful and outrageous of these pretenders appeared roughly 100 years later: Jacob Frank, a student of Kabbalist mysticism from a small Polish town whose breakaway sect attracted the attention of kings and emperors and who died a wealthy nobleman in a castle in Germany, surrounded by acolytes.Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Tokarczuk, Olga/ Croft, Jennifer (Translator) Published by Riverhead Books, 2022. ![]() In 1665 in the Turkish city of Smyrna, an obscure Jewish mystic named Sabbatai Tzvi proclaimed himself the messiah, beginning, in the words of historian Gershom Scholem, “the most important messianic movement in the history of Judaism since the destruction of the Second Temple.” Followers of all ranks throughout the Diaspora embraced his teachings, and though his immediate impact was brief-under threat of execution, Tzvi converted to Islam and ended his days in disgrace-the apocalyptic ferment bred successors claiming to incarnate his spirit and vowing to fulfill his mission. Sabbatai Tzvi (1626-1676), Turkish-born Jew who claimed to be the Messiah. ![]()
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