The Burden of Silence

The Burden of Silence
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 339
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ISBN-10 : 9780190698560
ISBN-13 : 019069856X
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Book Synopsis The Burden of Silence by : Cengiz Sisman

Download or read book The Burden of Silence written by Cengiz Sisman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first comprehensive social, intellectual and religious history of the wide-spread Sabbatean movement from its birth in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century to the Republic of Turkey in the first half of the twentieth century, claiming that they owed their survival to the internalization of the Kabbalistic "burden of silence"--


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