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Pursuit of Heresy
Rabbi Moses Hagiz, one of the most prominent and influential Jewish leaders of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, devoted his career to restoring rabbinic authority. His most prominent talent was as a polemicist, and he campaigned ceaselessly against Jewish heresy in an attempt to unify the rabbinate. During Hagiz's lifetime there was an overall decline in rabbinic authority, which the author argues was the result of migration and assimilation.
364 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 1990
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December 17, 2023
Amazingly thoroughly researched book. The author went through many original sources to draw a fascinating picture of Chagiz as well as the various crypto-Sabbateans of his time.
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