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Word: sabbatai (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Talmudic heresies are as much a part of the passing show as a quarrel in the market place. The best of these eleven stories tells how Satan ruins the nicest girl in town. Satan contrives that Lise should marry a brilliant, homely scholar who is a secret disciple of Sabbatai Zevi, the False Messiah who taught that the world must become wholly corrupt before it could be made pure. Lise is corrupted by her husband's obscene sexual instruction. When he finally urges her to sleep with her father's coachman, she agrees. Jealous and remorseful, the husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

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