This thesis examines the life and works of Benjamin Wolf Rosoff (1869–1957), a pious Jewish tailor and mystical visionary of the period of the great immigration of East European Jews to the United States. The thesis focuses on Rosoff as a member of this migration who sought neit…
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The memories of medieval Sufi saints had an important influence on Turkish society and culture during the Ottoman Empire, but when the empire came to its demise in the early twentieth century and its central lands were taken over by the modernist, nationalist, secularist Republi…