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The Mixed Multitude - Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816 (Paperback)
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The Mixed Multitude - Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816 (Paperback)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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In 1756, Jacob Frank, an Ottoman Jew who had returned to the Poland
of his birth, was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in
a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis,
Polish authorities arrested the participants. Jewish authorities
contacted the bishop in whose diocese the service had taken place
and argued that since the rites of Frank's followers involved the
practice of magic and immoral conduct, both Jews and Christians
should condemn them and burn them at the stake. The scheme
backfired, as the Frankists took the opportunity to ally themselves
with the Church, presenting themselves as Contra-Talmudists who
believed in a triune God. As a Turkish subject, Frank was released
and temporarily expelled to the Ottoman territories, but the others
were found guilty of breaking numerous halakhic prohibitions and
were subject to a Jewish ban of excommunication. While they
professed their adherence to everything that was commanded by God
in the Old Testament, they asserted as well that the Rabbis of old
had introduced innumerable lies and misconstructions in their
interpretations of that holy book. Who were Jacob Frank and his
followers? To most Christians, they seemed to be members of a
Jewish sect; to Jewish reformers, they formed a group making a
valiant if misguided attempt to bring an end to the power of the
rabbis; and to more traditional Jews, they were heretics to be
suppressed by the rabbinate. What is undeniable is that by the late
eighteenth century, the Frankists numbered in the tens of thousands
and had a significant political and ideological influence on
non-Jewish communities throughout eastern and central Europe. Based
on extensive archival research in Poland, the Czech Republic,
Israel, Germany, the United States, and the Vatican, The Mixed
Multitude is the first comprehensive study of Frank and Frankism in
more than a century and offers an important new perspective on
Jewish-Christian relations in the Age of Enlightenment.
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