Sabbat

Exploring how the tragic misperception of the Jewish Sabbath by the non-Jewish world led to a linkage of Jews with sorcery in 14th and 15th-century Europe, associating their holy day with the witches' 'Sabbat' gathering, Idel brings this wide-ranging study into the present day with an analysis of 20th-century scholarship and thought influenced by Saturnism, particularly lingering themes related to melancholy in the works of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin.-- (About) Saturn's Jews: On the Witches' Sabbat and Sabbateanism (The Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies) by Moshe Idel, amazon.com
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Sabbath; Saturn
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