Title: The burden of silence
Description: "This is the first comprehensive social, intellectual and religious history of the wide-spread Sabbatean movement from its birth in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century to the Republic of Turkey in the first half of the twentieth century, claiming that they owed their survival to the internalization of the Kabbalistic "burden of silence"--
Subjects: Judaism, Jews, Crypto-Jews, Sabbathaians, Messiah, History, Jews, turkey, Sabbath, Shabbethai zebi, 1626-1676, Turkey, history
Places: Turkey
People: Shabbethai Tzevi (1626-1676)
Time periods: Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918