Elisheva Carlebach, ‘The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies’

Originally published in European History Quarterly, 28:4 (1998), pp. 578-9. Elisheva Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies, New York, Columbia University Press, 1990; ISBN 0-231-07191-4; xv + 364 pp.; £16.50 Moses Hagiz, the subject of this superbly well-documented biography, was born in Jerusalem in 1671, became renowned as a…