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Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666–1816
Rapoport-Albert, Ada

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

Ada Rapoport-Albert is Reader in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. Born in Israel, she studied at University College London, and has also taught at the Oriental Institute in Oxford and been a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Divinity College. She is the author of various studies on the history of hasidism, and the editor of Hasidism Reappraised (1996), published by the Littman Library, of Essays in Jewish Historiography (1988) and, with Steven J. Zipperstein, of Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky (1988).  Her forthcoming books, to be published by the Littman Library, include Female Bodies, Male Souls: Ascetism and Gender in the Jewish Tradition, Emergent Hasidism: Spontaneity and Institutionalization and Messianic Hasidism: From Nineteenth-Century Bratslav to Twentieth-Century Habad.

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PUBLICATION DETAILS

Format

23.5 x 15.5 cm / 6" x 9";

Pages 360
ISBN 978-1-904113-84-3
Price £35.00 / $49.50
Date of publication September 2009

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