Paula E. Hyman, Yale University
"This superb book highlights the ambiguous identities of these boundary crossers and their impact on both German and Jewish self-definitions."
About the author
Elisheva Carlebach is professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish History, and coeditor of Jewish History and Jewish Memory.
