From Lucretia to Don Kr[e]ensia, or, Sorry, I Just Had to Convert
Eschatological expectations and messianic hopes aroused by the expulsion of Jews from Spain climaxed in the seventeenth century with the appearance of Sabbatai Tzevi. In 1666, Sultan Mehmed iv, eager to halt the uproar without creating a martyr, offered Tzevi a choice between conversion to Islam and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
Year: 2016, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-59 |
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Apostasy
conversion to Islam
Karakaş Sabbatians
Ladino / Judeo-Spanish oral literature
Ottoman Jewry
Sabbatai Tzevi
Sabbatianism
Sephardic romancero
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| Summary: | Eschatological expectations and messianic hopes aroused by the expulsion of Jews from Spain climaxed in the seventeenth century with the appearance of Sabbatai Tzevi. In 1666, Sultan Mehmed iv, eager to halt the uproar without creating a martyr, offered Tzevi a choice between conversion to Islam and death. Tzevi chose life. Although many Jews were devastated by his apostasy, a nucleus of Sabbatai’s most ardent followers preferred to interpret it as the ultimate tiqqun. This article presents one of the most intriguing Sabbatian literary accounts of their Messiah’s apostasy, the internal Sabbatian version of the romansa “Tarquin and Lucretia.” |
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| ISSN: | 1477-285X |
| Contains: | In: The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1477285X-12341268 |