Shabbetai Tzvi

The bizarre career of Jacob Frank.

Pawel Maciejko
Feb. 20 2025 12:01AM

Heresy, kabbalah, magic, science, Freemasonry, and two angry rabbis.

Maoz Kahana
Feb. 5 2025 12:01AM

A mystical creed that hasn’t entirely faded away.

Matt Goldish
Jan. 16 2025 12:01AM

A rich 1,800-year history.

Avi Kumar
Dec. 22 2022 12:01AM

Jacob Frank and his daughter Eva claimed the mantle of Shabbetai Tzvi.

Shira Telushkin
May 19 2022 12:01AM

Shabbetai Tsvi and the last global Jewish movement until modern Zionism.

Matt Goldish
Dec. 31 2021 12:01AM

Explaining the mystery of Shabbetai Tsvi.

David Berger
March 5 2021 12:01AM

From the Hasmoneans, to a famed poet, to the rabbi and imam who coauthored a book.

Nadav Shragai
March 24 2020 12:01AM

In the words of Gershom Scholem, “Nonsense based on me!”

Zvi Leshem
Feb. 3 2020 12:01AM

Why did one great rabbi help a cantankerous social misfit and rabbinic genius tar a third rabbi as a heretic?

Shnayer Leiman
Nov. 6 2019 12:01AM

Conspiracy theories about the Dönme.

Türkay Salim Nefes
April 17 2019 12:01AM

Zalman Shazar and Shabbetai Tsvi.

Stuart Schoffman
March 28 2018 12:01AM

What happened after Shabbetai Tsvi chose conversion over death.

Cengiz Sisman
Dec. 26 2016 12:01AM