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208 Notes to Pages 147–153
71. Yosha, “Philosophical Background.”
72. Halperin, Abraham Miguel Cardozo, 112–13 (with very minor emendations of
mine to the translation.) An analysis of the kabbalistic significance of Cardoso’s
doubts concerning the Shekhinah can be found in Elliot R. Wolfson, “Constructions
of the Shekhinah.”
73. On the movement against enthusiasm see Michael Heyd, “Be Sober and Reasonable”:
The Critique of Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
(Leiden: Brill, 1995); Hillel Schwartz, Knaves, Fools, Madmen; Daniel Fouke, The
Enthusiastical Concerns of Dr. Henry More: Religious Meaning and the Psychology of
Delusion (Leiden: Brill, 1997).
74. Based on Judges 6:15.
75. Tishby (n6), cites this from Job 30:5.
76. Tishby (n7), cites Job 27:23.
77. Tishby (n8) cites Job 30:5.
78. Sasportas, Zizat Novel Zvi, p. 79.
79. See Werblowsky, Joseph Karo, 41–48.
80. On Descartes and the Rosicrucians see Heyd, “Be Sober and Reasonable”, 109–43.
On More see Fouke, Enthusiastical Concerns, 12 (part of an important discussion
about the problem of categories among enthusiasts and anti-enthusiasts);
Allison P. Coudert, Impact of the Kabbalah, 220–40. On Fatio de Duillier see
Heyd, ibid, 251–61; Schwartz, French Prophets, passim.
81. See Kagan, Lucrecia’s Dreams.
82. Anonymous, Relation de la veritable imposture du faux messia des iuifs (Avignon,
1667), 23; de la Croix, Memoire, 357.
83. Scholem, Sabbatai àevi, 332–354; Jetteke van Wijk, “The Rise and Fall of
Shabbatai Zevi as Reflected in Contemporary Press Reports,” Studia
Rosenthaliana 33 (1999): 7–27; and see the discussion of Ruderman and Popkin
in Chapter 1 above.
84. See van Wijk, “Rise and Fall,” 16. She cites Joseph Frank, The Beginnings of the
English Newspaper 1620–1660 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1961), as the source of her point that news of the Lost Tribes was a common
stylistic device of pamphleteers.
85. References to a number of these can be found in Copenhaggen, Menasseh, 209–
24; and Katz, Philo-Semitism, ch. 4, “The Debate over the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.”
86. See Richard H. Popkin, “The Fictional Jewish Council of 1650: A Great English
Pipedream,” Jewish History 5(2) (Fall 1991): 7–22.
87. In Scholem’s copy of the Wilenski article (see next note), found in the
Gershom Scholem Reading Room in the Jewish National and University Library,
Jerusalem, he has noted next to the word “informer” further on in the
letter: “Serrarius.”
88. Mordecai Wilenski, “Four English Pamphlets Concerning the Sabbatian Movement
in 1665–1666,” Zion 17 (1952): 160.
89. Ibid., 160–61.