The burden of silence

By Cengiz Şişman

Subjects: Crypto-Jews, Turkey, history, Sabbath, Sabbathaians, Messiah, Shabbethai zebi, 1626-1676, Judaism, Jews, turkey, History, Jews

Description: "This is the first comprehensive social, intellectual and religious history of the wide-spread Sabbatean movement from its birth in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century to the Republic of Turkey in the first half of the twentieth century, claiming that they owed their survival to the internalization of the Kabbalistic "burden of silence"--