Past Member
Yaacob Dweck
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Assistant Professors
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Early Modern Intellectual History
Website
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Yaacob Dweck is reconstructing the worldview of Jacob Sasportas (1610–98), a rabbi from North Africa, who wandered throughout the Sephardic Diaspora in Western Europe for much of his life and emerged as the primary opponent of the mass messianic movement that coalesced around Sabbetai Sevi in the 1660s.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D.
2008