Sabbatai Sevi's guest appearances

Sabbatai Sevi

LA Review of Books

Ottoman History Podcast

Donald Trump

Tom McCarthy

Ijeoma Oluo

Patti Smith

Emily Dickinson

Bassem Youssef

Nicholson Baker

Mister Rogers

Peter Thiel

Alan Alda

Hans Sluga

Susan Kaiser Greenland

Amy Schumer

Bryan Stevenson

Rainn Wilson

OwlTail

Gershom Scholem

In a powerful show, author Abdellah Taia talks with co-hosts Kate Wolf and Eric Newman about his new collection from Semiotexte, "Another Morocco;" and also about his experience as the first prominent Moroccan author to come out of the closet; his love of Morocco; how he knew he would lose part of himself when he moved to France; and his bitterness towards French liberal society, which may be less homophobic, but is not tolerant of the young man he was in Morocco.  George Prochnik, author of a new book about Gershom Scholem, returns to recommend Scholem's magisterial biography The Mystical Messiah: Sabbatai Sevi about one of the most astonishing figures in Jewish history.

Abdellah Taia's Another Morocco; & Gershom Scholem's Mystical Messiah Sabbatai Sevi

Episode 308  with Cengiz Şişman  hosted by  Matthew Ghazarian   Download the podcast  Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud   In 1665, an Izmir-born Rabbi named Sabbatai Sevi (1626-76) was proclaimed to be the Jewish Messiah. His messianic movement attracted tens of thousands of followers and become known throughout the early modern world. Ottoman authorities, however, arrested Sevi in 1666, and, under duress, the charismatic leader converted to Islam. Many members of his movement followed suit and became the communities who today are called dönme (which literally means "convert"). After Sevi's death, dönme communities continued to outwardly practice Islam but inwardly retain practices of Judaism. In this episode, Cengiz Şişman talks about his research on the development of Sevi’s movement, the trajectories of dönme communities, and questions of conversion and communal boundaries, which became more pressing in the late nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.  « Click for More »

Episode 308 <a href="https://uhcl.academia.edu/CengizSisman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">with Cengiz Şişman</a> hosted by <a href="https://columbia.academia.edu/MatthewGhazarian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Matthew Ghazarian</a> <center> Download the podcast</center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/donme" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> In 1665, an Izmir-born Rabbi named Sabbatai Sevi (1626-76) was proclaimed to be the Jewish Messiah. His messianic movement attracted tens of thousands of followers and become known throughout the early modern world. Ottoman authorities, however, arrested Sevi in 1666, and, under duress, the charismatic leader converted to Islam. Many members of his movement followed suit and became the communities who today are called dönme (which literally means "convert"). After Sevi's death, dönme communities continued to outwardly practice Islam but inwardly retain practices of Judaism. In this episode, Cengiz Şişman talks about his research on the development of Sevi’s movement, the trajectories of dönme communities, and questions of conversion and communal boundaries, which became more pressing in the late nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. <a href="http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2017/03/donme.html#more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">« Click for More »</a>

Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes