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 New Book
Schocken Institute for Jewish Research
Schocken Books / Jerusalem – Tel Aviv, 2018, 408 pp. (Hebrew)

History of the Sabbatian Movement

Lectures given at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1939-1940
by
Gershom Scholem

Edited and introduced by

Jonatan Meir
Shinichi Yamamoto
 History of the Sabbatian Movement was the first attempt by one
of the giants of scholarship on Jewish mysticism, Gershom
Scholem (1897-1982), to present a comprehensive picture of
Sabbatianism as a single narrative. The book is based on the
series of lectures given at the Hebrew University during 1939-
1940, which are of special importance in that they laid the
foundation for all of Scholem’s research in the years to come,
including his extensive monograph Sabbatai Sevi: the mystical Messiah, 1626-
1676, first published in 1957. What follows is a sketch of the massive History of
the Sabbatian Movement, over which Gershom Scholem toiled his whole life but
never completed. The lectures are presented here for the first time based on the
original manuscripts, alongside the text of an additional series of lectures that
Scholem gave as part of the “Month of Study” organized by Berl Katznelson in
1941. These long-hidden texts reveal new facets of the Sabbatian movement and
its history, as well as of Gershom Scholem as a historian, and serve as prologue to
any further study of this most stormy and complicated episode in Jewish history.
The new edition includes a comprehensive introduction by the editors on all of
Gershom Scholem’s studies on Sabbatianism.

Table of Contents
“The Open Book” / Jonatan Meir and Shinichi Yamamoto
Introduction
Chapter One: The Faces of the Generation
Chapter Two: The Messianic Movement from its Beginnings to its Height
Chapter Three: The Twists and Turns of the Sabbatian Movement
Chapter Four: The Historical Development of Sabbatianism
Appendix A: Messianism from the Spanish Expulsion to the Eve of Emancipation
(Month of Study, 1941)
Appendix B: The Sabbatian Movement: Its Roots, Its Development, and its
Aftermath (Introduction, 1942-45
Appendix C: Bibliography of Works by Gershom Scholem on Sabbatianism
Index
Notes on the Cover Image (from the collection of Paweł Maciejko)