Elisheva Carlebach's "The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies" won the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History.
Elisheva Carlebach is professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History, and coeditor of Jewish History and Jewish Memory.
"Carlebach's reading of autobiographical texts by converts from Judaism is careful, intelligent, and skeptical - a model of how to treat spiritual memoirs." Todd M. Endelman, University of Michigan "This superb book highlights the ambiguous identities of these boundary crossers and their impact on both German and Jewish self-definitions." Paula E. Hyman, Yale University
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