The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1816
| Author | Paweł Maciejko |
|---|---|
| Published | 2011 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — A scholarly history of Jacob Frank, the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish messianic leader whose followers moved from Sabbateanism to mass conversion to Catholicism.
Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2011 in its Jewish Culture and Contexts series. Paweł Maciejko reconstructs the Frankist movement from its emergence in Podolia in the 1750s, through the public disputations with rabbis and the movement’s baptism into the Catholic Church, to the court Frank and his daughter kept in Offenbach.
The title comes from the “mixed multitude” of Exodus that left Egypt with the Israelites, a group the Zohar blames for the world’s corruption; an epigraph from each opens the book.
What it is: an academic monograph from a university press, still in print; this copy is from Z-Library.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
376 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.