1. The Origins And Development Of Hasidic Jewry And Its Alterations Of Jewish Faith In Poland
... influential for just more than a year, when he converted to Islam. A similar, but more significant figure was that of Jacob (Jakub) Frank. The Frankists" were a huge movement statistically, with members by the thousands, but, similarly to Sabbatai Zevi, Jakub Frank and many of his followers converted to Christianity less than a decade they began [Davies, G-d's Playground, Vol II, 247]. There were ... massacres countless thousands of Polish Jews had been deranged into a kind of prayerful expectancy that a Messiah would arise to lead them back to the Holy Land Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank...
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