{"product_id":"the-pursuit-of-heresy-by-elisheva-carlebach-9780231071918","title":"The Pursuit of Heresy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRabbi Moses Hagiz, one of the most prominent and influential Jewish leaders of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, devoted his career to restoring rabbinic authority. His most prominent talent was as a polemicist, and he campaigned ceaselessly against Jewish heresy in an attempt to unify the rabbinate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring Hagiz's lifetime, there was an overall decline in rabbinic authority, which the author argues was the result of migration and assimilation. Elisheva Carlebach focuses on three of the most important episodes in Hagiz's organized campaigns against heresy:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Haylon controversy in Amsterdam, 1713-1715;\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA campaign against Sabbatian emissaries in 1725-1726;\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Luzatto controversy of 1730-1736.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach episode, Carlebach argues, illuminates the struggle for control of the Jewish community between rabbinate and lay leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Pursuit of Heresy\u003c\/em\u003e offers a detailed exploration of these events and the wider implications for Jewish communal leadership in the face of change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47600166306028,"sku":"9780231071918","price":180.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f3c4afcfc08b3c6595422de9a17cca76.jpg?v=1778021002","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-pursuit-of-heresy-by-elisheva-carlebach-9780231071918","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}