Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Sabbatai Zvi and Kabbala, Part 2
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Summary
This fascinating lecturer takes us back to Portuguese Jewish Amsterdam in the 17th century. We examine advances in cartography, Jewish geography, and the activities of Menasseh Ben-Israel’s (1604-57) mission to Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) and his “Jewish World History.”
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at NYU. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); He is co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017), and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History, (Hawaii University Press, 2023).