According to Margarethe Weissenstein, the Vienna-born Jewish author of The Power of the Charlatan, Casanova — who was born ...
Sabbatai Zevi, born in 1626 in Smyrna (modern-day Izmir, Turkey), remains a fascinating figure in Jewish history. Raised in a Sephardic Jewish family with a strong interest in Kabbalah, or Jewish ...
Judaism had undergone great disappointments including the rise and fall of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi, and the religion had become legalistic and uninspiring. Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer ...