Jacob Frank

Jacob Frank

male, deceased (1791)
Jacob Frank was an 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi, and also...
Sabbatai Zevi

Sabbatai Zevi

male, deceased (1676)
Sabbatai Zevi, was a Jewish rabbi and Kabbalist who claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. He was the founder of the Jewish Sabbatean...
Nathan Of Gaza

Nathan Of Gaza

male, deceased (1680)
Nathan Benjamin ben Elisha ha-Levi Ghazzati or Nathan of Gaza (Hebrew: נתן עזתי) was a theologian, born in Jerusalem, who became famous as a prophet...
Jacob Querido

Jacob Querido

male, deceased (1690)
Jacob Querido (d. 1690 in Alexandria, Egypt) was the successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Born in Salonika, he was the...

Moses Pinheiro

male
Moses Pinheiro, an Italian Jew who lived at Leghorn in the seventeenth century, was one of the most influential pupils and followers of Shabbethai...

Nehemiah Hayyun

male
Nehemiah Hiyya ben Moses Hayyun (ca. 1650-ca. 1730) was a Bosnian kabalist. His parents, of Sephardic descent, lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where...

Judah He-Hasid

male, deceased (1700)
Judah he-Hasid ("Yehudah he-Hasid", "Judah the Pious") (around 1650, Siedlce - October 17, 1700, Jerusalem), was a Jewish Sabbatean preacher who...

Mordecai Mokiach

male, deceased (1729)
Mordecai Mokiach (Eisenstadt) was a Jewish Sabbatian "prophet" and false Messiah; born in Alsace about 1650; died at Pressburg May 18, 1729. The...

Judah Leib Prossnitz

male, deceased (1750)
Judah Leib (Leibele) Prossnitz was a kabalistic impostor born about the end of the seventeenth century at Brody, Galicia. He left his native city...

Joshua Heschel Zoref

male
Joshua Heschel Zoref (b.1633) was a 17th-century ascetic, and an important personality in the Lithuanian Sabbatean movement. During the messianic...