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Scholion Monthly Seminar: Lecture by Dr. Hadar Feldman Samet on : "Overt and Covert in Sabbatianism: Mysticism and Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire" | Mandel Scholion Research Center

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Scholion Monthly Seminar: Lecture by Dr. Hadar Feldman Samet on : "Overt and Covert in Sabbatianism: Mysticism and Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire"

Date: 
Thu, 07/01/202112:30-14:00

Overt and Covert in Sabbatianism: Mysticism and Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire

Dr. Hadar Feldman Samet

Abstract

The clandestine world of the Sabbatians – the devotees of the largest messianic movement in Jewish history – arouse great fascination and emotional turmoil within the Jewish world and beyond it, from the end of the seventeenth century to present day. Following processes of modernization, the second half of the nineteenth century saw far-reaching developments occurring among the Sabbatian communities which existed in the Ottoman Empire for generations. While studies of the Ottoman Sabbatian communities focused either on their esoteric subversive traditions, on the one hand, or on these communities’ prominent engagement in modern revolutionism, on the other hand, this lecture presents an integrative approach which fuses both perspectives. Based on examination of secret communal manuscripts alongside contemporary printed public documents, I argue that exploring the affinities between the covert “mystical” and the overt “modern” reveals a more holistic and accurate understanding of the history of Sabbatianism, concurrently offering an interdisciplinary prism for studying Jewish and non-Jewish surrounding societies of the late Ottoman era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1fYz0avtyA.