{"product_id":"jewish-messiahs-abroad-nan-goodman-9780197845899","title":"Jewish Messiahs Abroad: American Encounters with the Sabbatian Past","description":"\u003cem\u003eJewish Messiahs Abroad\u003c\/em\u003e explores a previously overlooked aspect of Jewish American identity, thought, and cultural production: the legacy and retelling of Sabbatian and Frankist narratives in America from the seventeenth century to the present day. Although Sabbatai Sevi and Jacob Frank-two controversial figures in Jewish messianic history-never came to America or developed followings there, stories about them circulated across the centuries in a wide array of American texts and contexts. More specifically, the book examines stories about and references to the Sabbatian past in a seventeenth-century Puritan sermon by Increase Mather, an eighteenth-century conversion narrative of a Jew turned American missionary, a nineteenth-century law review article by Louis Brandeis, plays and novels by Isaac Bashevis Singer, David Pinski, Scholem Ash and Moyshe Nadir, twentieth- and twenty-first century conspiracy narratives and finally, the New Age spiritual movements and avant-garde poetry of the 1960s to the 1980s. In reworking Sabbatian history, the book argues, American Jews and non-Jews found a usable past that allowed them to reimagine themselves in relation to a host of issues, including national belonging, religious tradition, public identity, and anti-Jewish animus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nan Goodman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197845894\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197845899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.56d","brand":"Nan Goodman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50665693872383,"sku":"9780197845899","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fade0425-62b6-4e11-af41-8c9e2e5971bb.jpg?v=1792013349","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jewish-messiahs-abroad-nan-goodman-9780197845899","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}