TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maciejko,Paweł
TI  - The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816 
T2  - Jewish Culture and Contexts
SN  - 9780812243154
AV  - BM755.F68 ǂb M33 2011eb 
U1  - 296.83 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Jewish Messianic movements
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - History
KW  - Judaism
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Jewish Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. In the Shadow of the Herem --; Chapter 2. The Peril of Heresy, the Birth of a New Faith --; Chapter 3. Where Does Frankism Fit In? --; Chapter 4. The Politics of the Blood Libel --; Chapter 5. How Rabbis and Priests Created the Frankist Movement --; Chapter 6. Ghosts of the Past, Heralds of the Future --; Chapter 7. The Fall of Edom --; Chapter 8. The Vagaries of the Charlatans --; Chapter 9. The Ever-Changing Masquerade --; Current and Historical Place Names --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis, Polish authorities arrested the participants. Jewish authorities contacted the bishop in whose diocese the service had taken place and argued that since the rites of Frank's followers involved the practice of magic and immoral conduct, both Jews and Christians should condemn them and burn them at the stake. The scheme backfired, as the Frankists took the opportunity to ally themselves with the Church, presenting themselves as Contra-Talmudists who believed in a triune God. As a Turkish subject, Frank was released and temporarily expelled to the Ottoman territories, but the others were found guilty of breaking numerous halakhic prohibitions and were subject to a Jewish ban of excommunication. While they professed their adherence to everything that was commanded by God in the Old Testament, they asserted as well that the Rabbis of old had introduced innumerable lies and misconstructions in their interpretations of that holy book.Who were Jacob Frank and his followers? To most Christians, they seemed to be members of a Jewish sect; to Jewish reformers, they formed a group making a valiant if misguided attempt to bring an end to the power of the rabbis; and to more traditional Jews, they were heretics to be suppressed by the rabbinate. What is undeniable is that by the late eighteenth century, the Frankists numbered in the tens of thousands and had a significant political and ideological influence on non-Jewish communities throughout eastern and central Europe.Based on extensive archival research in Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel, Germany, the United States, and the Vatican, The Mixed Multitude is the first comprehensive study of Frank and Frankism in more than a century and offers an important new perspective on Jewish-Christian relations in the Age of Enlightenment
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204582
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812204582
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812204582/original
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