Sabbatai Zevi (Hebrew: שַׁבְּתַי צְבִי, romanized: Šabbəṯay Ṣəvī; Turkish: Sabetay Sevi; August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676) was an Ottoman Jewish...

Sabbatians) were a variety of Jewish followers, disciples, and believers in Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676), an Ottoman Jewish rabbi and Kabbalist who was proclaimed...

called Marranos. In 1648 Sabbatai Zevi claimed to be the Jewish Messiah. His Jewish followers were known as Sabbateans. Zevi converted to Islam in 1666...

who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676) and also of the biblical patriarch Jacob. The Jewish authorities...

Commonwealth, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. Frankists believed in Sabbatai Zevi, one of the most famous of all self-proclaimed messiahs in Jewish history...

where he became famous as a prophet for the Jewish messiah claimant Sabbatai Zevi. Nathan of Gaza was born in Jerusalem around 1643-1644; he died on Friday...

mainly in Thessaloniki. It originated during and soon after the era of Sabbatai Zevi, a 17th-century Sephardic Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist who claimed to...

editor Fausto Zevi, Italian archaeologist Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676), Ottoman rabbi Tullia Zevi (1919–2011), Italian journalist and writer Zevi Eckhaus, American...

young and brilliant Rabbi who had been expelled from nearby Smyrna: Sabbatai Zevi. Banned from this city in 1651 after proclaiming himself the messiah...

Querido – 17th-century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Ibn Sahl of Seville – 13th-century Andalusian poet. Harun ibn Musa...

Baba), successor of Sabbatai Zevi. Mordecai Mokia (1650–1729), ("the Rebuker") of Eisenstadt, another follower of Sabbatai Zevi who remained faithful...

cultist movement which regarded Frank as the Messiah, modelled after Sabbatai Zevi.) After the mass conversion of the Frankists, the Baal Shem Tov allegedly...

Sabbatai Sevi, the mystical messiah, which focuses on the 17th-century movement centered on the self-proclaimed messiahship (1648) of Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676)...

It also became a center for commercial and industrial activities. Sabbatai Zevi, a self-proclaimed messiah who attracted numerous followers, was from...

resolute opponent of the followers of the self-proclaimed messiah, Sabbatai Zevi. He had a chequered career owing to his independence of character. He...

Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Born in Thessaloniki, he was the son of Joseph the Philosopher and brother of Jochebed, Shabbatai Zevi's last wife. Jochebed...

population of Hamburg to Altona, the scandal of the "Messianic pretender" Sabbatai Zevi, the Franco-Dutch War, and the War of the Spanish Succession. Glückel's...

Pressburg) was a Jewish Sabbatean prophet and Messiah claimant. The death of Sabbatai Zevi (1676) seems to have encouraged his followers, who claimed that he had...

Concerto à Louis Cahuzac for clarinet and orchestra (1957) Sabbataï Zevi, le faux messie (Sabbatai Zevi, the False Messiah), opera (1957–1958) Symphonie No....

perhaps best known for his vocal opposition to the messianic claims of Sabbatai Zevi. Sasportas was born in Oran, Algeria, then under Spanish rule, to a...

Wiig—forced to convert at gunpoint by terrorists of the Holy Jihad Brigades. Sabbatai Zevi—convert from Judaism, 17th century mystic, pseudo-Messiah and the self-proclaimed...

separate congregations. Another tremendous upheaval was caused when Sabbatai Zevi claimed to be the Messiah. He was eventually caught by the Ottoman authorities...

the main supporter among Protestants in Amsterdam of the message that Sabbatai Zevi was the Messiah, as proclaimed by Nathan of Gaza (his followers, the...

intelligence, made him the most suitable representative of Sabbatai Zevi. Yachini persuaded Sabbatai Zevi, who at that time was convinced that he was the Messiah...

Joseph Çelebi, nagid of Egypt and rich friend and protector of Sabbatai Zevi. Sabbatai Zevi was twice in Cairo, the second time in 1660. It was there that...

another young mystic, Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676), had rocked the Jewish world by claiming to be the Messiah. Although, at one point, Zevi had convinced many...

He saw this as the cause of the contemporary mystical heresies of Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank. Cited in The Great Maggid by Jacob Immanuel Schochet...

Messianic Idea in Judaism and other Essays on Jewish Spirituality, trans. 1971 Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1973 Kabbalah, Meridian 1974, Plume Books 1987...

century. He was one of the most influential pupils and followers of Sabbatai Zevi. He was held in high esteem on account of his religious and kabbalistic...

by Mehmed Pasha Bushati. In 1673, the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi was exiled here from Istanbul. Ulcinj remained an Ottoman town for more...