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55. Jacob Sasportas | Dr. Yaacob Dweck (Shabbetai Tzevi #2)

55. Jacob Sasportas | Dr. Yaacob Dweck (Shabbetai Tzevi #2)

Update: 2025-01-16
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J.J. and Dr. Yaacob Dweck Introduce us to the critic-in-chief of the Sabbatean movement in the 17th century: Rabbi Jacob Sasportas. This is episode 2 or our mini-series about Sabbateanism and its afterlife. 

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Yaacob Dweck is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice (2011) and Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas (2019) both published by Princeton University Press.
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Moshe Wise

Emden did not quote Agnon

Jul 10th
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55. Jacob Sasportas | Dr. Yaacob Dweck (Shabbetai Tzevi #2)

55. Jacob Sasportas | Dr. Yaacob Dweck (Shabbetai Tzevi #2)

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