The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversy

By Elisheva Carlebach

Rabbi Moses Hagiz, one of the most prominent and influential Jewish leaders of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, 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. During Hagiz's lifetime there was an overall decline in rabbinic authority, which the author argues was the result of migration and assimilation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231071914
• ISBN13: 9780231071918
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher