The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816

Pawel Maciejko

ISBN 10: 0812243153 / ISBN 13: 9780812243154

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011

An excellent copy of this book on the Frankist Movement and its founder. Interior is crisp, clean, and free of marks. Binding is solid, sturdy, square. Boards are clean and firm, lightly bumped at the bottom corner of both front and back panel. There is a very small and hardly visible red mark on the top edge of both front and back boards, perhaps from a pencil. Dust jacket is bright and clean with just some very mild wear at the very edges, now protected in Brodart. Seller Inventory # ABE-1725489270018

Synopsis:

"Awarded the 2012 Baron Book Prize by the American Academy for Jewish Research

Awarded the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Modern Jewish History by the Association for Jewish Studies"

In 1756, the Jewish heretical leader Jacob Frank was discovered leading a group of fellow travelers in a suspect religious service. At the request of the local rabbis, Polish authorities arrested the participants. Jewish authorities contacted the bishop in whose diocese the service had taken place and argued that since the rites of Frank's followers involved the practice of magic and immoral conduct, both Jews and Christians should condemn them and burn them at the stake. The scheme backfired, as the Frankists took the opportunity to ally themselves with the Church, presenting themselves as Contra-Talmudists who believed in a triune God.

Who were Jacob Frank and his followers? To most Christians, they seemed to be members of a Jewish sect; to Jewish reformers, they formed a group making a valiant if misguided attempt to bring an end to the power of the rabbis. Based on extensive archival research in Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel, Germany, the United States, and the Vatican, The Mixed Multitude is the first comprehensive study of Frank and Frankism in more than a century and offers an important new perspective on Jewish-Christian relations in the Age of Enlightenment.

The Mixed Multitude was awarded the Salo Baron Prize by the American Academy of Jewish Research and the Polonsky Prize by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

About the Author: Pawel Maciejko is a Joseph H. and Belle Braun Senior Lecturer in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the ...
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition