Nehemiah Hayyun

Nehemiah Hiyya ben Moses Hayyun (ca. 1650 – ca. 1730) was a Bosnian Kabalist, described by scholars as linked to Sabbateanism.[1][2] His parents, of Sephardic descent, lived in Sarajevo, Bosnia (then a part of the Ottoman Empire), where he was most likely born, though later in life he pretended that he was a Palestinian emissary born in Safed. He received his Talmudic education in Hebron.

  1. ^ Huss, B. (2017). Translations of the Zohar: Historical contexts and ideological frameworks. Correspondences, 4.
  2. ^ Petrovsky-Shtern, Y. (2008). Hasidei de'ar ‘a and Hasidei dekokhvaya’: Two Trends in Modern Jewish Historiography. AJS review, 32(1), 141-167.