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What happened on September 16 in history? This is the story Historai has told for this date. Listen, or read the transcript and sources.
September 16, 1666
The conversion of Sabbatai Zevi on September 16, 1666
For a year, Jews from Amsterdam to Yemen sold their homes and waited for redemption led by one man. Then, standing before the Ottoman sultan, he was handed a choice that unmade everything — and chose the turban.
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