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SUMMARY:Aron Freimann Lecture of Jewish Cultural History: &quot\;Reshaping the Early Modern Jewish World:  Jewish Philanthropic Networks and the Rise of Sabbathean Messianism&quot\;
DESCRIPTION:The Aron Freimann Lecture is organized in cooperation with the Institute for Jewish Studies and the Cornelia Goethe Centre.\nThis lecture examines the seventeenth century development of the Jewish trans-regional network that supported Jews in the Land of Israel and its effects on the Jews’ social\, economic\, and religious lives.&amp\;nbsp\; Following the collapse of Polish-Jewish funding in the aftermath of the 1648 Khmelnytsky uprising\, poverty in Jerusalem caused great suffering including a famine in which many women died. The search for new sources of income put increased pressure on the philanthropic network: the Ashkenazi women of Jerusalem tried to establish their own fundraising mechanism\, while the men employed a kabbalist\, Nathan Shapira\, to collect for them. While in north-western Europe\, Shapira met with millenarian Protestants who saw in the Jews’ sufferings a sign of the Messiah’s imminent return. When they sent money to Jerusalem\, the community there – including the young Nathan of Gaza – was forced to reconsider its attitude towards them. Nathan had grown up in the post-1648 world of Jewish philanthropy and his use of trans-regional fundraising strategies gave the new Sabbathean messianism its global reach.\nAdam Teller is Professor of History and of Judaic Studies at Brown University\, Providence\, USA\n
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