Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Sabbathian memories from the 1830s

Here's a fascinating bit of testimony about Sabbateans, real and imagined, in Prossnitz in the 1830s. Prossnitz was known from the prior century as a place of Sabbateans. 

This is excerpted from an article in the American Hebrew 3.27.1896 by Gotthard Deutsch, in honor of Moritz Steinschneider's 80th birthday.


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