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Author: Elisheva Carlebach
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Category: United States
Condition: New
ISBN-13: 9780231071918
ISBN-10: 0231071914

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Pursuit of Heresy

Name: Pursuit of Heresy
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: NEW0231071914
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Author: Elisheva Carlebach
ISBN: 9780231071918

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ISBN: 0231071914

Author: Carlebach, Elisheva

Condition: New

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.

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