Eschatological expectations and messianic hopes aroused by the expulsion of Jews from Spain climaxed in the seventeenth century with the appearance of Sabbatai Tzevi. In 1666, Sultan Mehmed iv, eager to halt the uproar without creating a martyr, offered Tzevi a choice between conversion to Islam and death. Tzevi chose life. Although many Jews were devastated by his apostasy, a nucleus of Sabbatai’s most ardent followers preferred to interpret it as the ultimate tiqqun. This article presents one of the most intriguing Sabbatian literary accounts of their Messiah’s apostasy, the internal Sabbatian version of the romansa “Tarquin and Lucretia.”
Keywords:
ladino književnost / Jevrejsko-španska oralna književnost / Sefardski romensero / Otomanski Jevreji / Karakaş Sabbatians / Judeo-Spanish oral literature / ladino literature / Ottoman Jewry / Šabetaj Cvi / Sabbatai Tzevi / Sabbatianism / Sephardic romancero
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The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2016, 24, 1, 31-59
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Papo, E.. (2016). From Lucretia to Don Kr[e]ensia, or, Sorry, I Just Had to Convert: The Karakaş Sabbatian Oikotype of a Medieval Romance. in The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
Brill., 24(1), 31-59.
https://doi.org/10.1163/1477285X-12341268
Papo E. From Lucretia to Don Kr[e]ensia, or, Sorry, I Just Had to Convert: The Karakaş Sabbatian Oikotype of a Medieval Romance. in The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy. 2016;24(1):31-59.
doi:10.1163/1477285X-12341268 .
Papo, Eliezer, "From Lucretia to Don Kr[e]ensia, or, Sorry, I Just Had to Convert: The Karakaş Sabbatian Oikotype of a Medieval Romance" in The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 24, no. 1 (2016):31-59,
https://doi.org/10.1163/1477285X-12341268 . .
