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Author: Daniel M. Swetschinski Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1909821802 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 395
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Winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Studies Focusing on the social dimension of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish economic and religious life, Swetschinski paints a lively and unconventional picture of the dynamics of a remarkable Jewish community, the first traditional Jewish society to engage creatively with the non-Jewish, secular world in relative harmony. A broad, authentic, and original vision of the transition from medieval to modern Jewish history.
Author: Daniel M. Swetschinski Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1909821802 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 395
Book Description
Winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Studies Focusing on the social dimension of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish economic and religious life, Swetschinski paints a lively and unconventional picture of the dynamics of a remarkable Jewish community, the first traditional Jewish society to engage creatively with the non-Jewish, secular world in relative harmony. A broad, authentic, and original vision of the transition from medieval to modern Jewish history.
Author: Yosef Kaplan Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004343164 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 398
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In The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry an international group of scholars examines aspects of religious belief and practice of pre-emancipation Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Amsterdam, Curaçao and Surinam, ceremonial dimensions, artistic representations of religious life, and religious life after the Shoa. The origins of Dutch Jewry trace back to diverse locations and ancestries: Marranos from Spain and Portugal and Ashkenazi refugees from Germany, Poland and Lithuania. In the new setting and with the passing of time and developments in Dutch society at large, the religious life of Dutch Jews took on new forms. Dutch Jewish society was thus a microcosm of essential changes in Jewish history.
Author: Anne O. Albert Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1802070753 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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This book untangles a web of ideas about politics, religion, exile, and community that emerged at a key moment in Jewish history and left a lasting mark on Jewish ideas. In the shadow of their former member Baruch Spinoza’s notoriety, and amid the aftermath of the Sabbatian messianic movement, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam underwent a conceptual shift that led them to treat their self-governed diaspora community as a commonwealth. Preoccupied by the question of why and how Jews should rule themselves in the absence of a biblical or messianic sovereign state or king, they forged a creative synthesis of insights from early modern Christian politics and Jewish law and traditions to assess and argue over their formidable communal government. In so doing they shaped a proud new theopolitical self-understanding of their community as analogous to a Christian state. Through readings of rarely studied sermons, commentaries, polemics, administrative records, and architecture, Anne Albert shows that a concentrated period of public Jewish political discourse among the community’s leaders and thinkers led to the formation of a strong image of itself as a totalizing, state-like entity—an image that eventually came to define its portrayal by twentieth-century historians. Her study presents a new perspective on a Jewish population that has long fascinated readers, as well as new evidence of Jewish reactions to Spinoza and Sabbatianism, and analyses the first Jewish reckoning with modern western political concepts.
Author: Kalman Dubov Publisher: Kalman Dubov ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages :
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Following a 91-day voyage aboard the Rotterdam, a beautiful Holland America cruise ship, I disembarked at the city of Rotterdam, and then made my way to Amsterdam. I stayed for several weeks, visiting local museums, the Jewish community and other sites in the city. The Jewish community in this city has special historic importance. Following the expulsions of Jews from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1497, Jewish refugees made their way to other receptive countries, finding refuge in these countries, distant from the harsh anti-Semitism prevailing in the two Iberian Peninsula countries. And one of the places these refugees came to was to the city of Amsterdam. The transition to the Netherlands was not easy. Those who were able to leave Spain or Portugal with their wealth, found that business opportunities abounded as European powers expanded their horizons in the Far East, to access the trade routes for the importation of silk and spices to Europe. But many other co-religionists lived in dire circumstances, barely eking out a living in this new, colder, but welcoming clime. Inevitably, there were clashes. Rabbinic and communal authority was wielded harshly, with those not complying with leadership ideology, finding themselves excommunicated and shunned from all community interaction. I review two such persons, both whose ancestry hails from Portugal but finding that their ideas and questions caused the leadership to oust them. These are the unfortunate members, who were unable to bridge the divide between communal mores and dictates and their desire for individual expression. Amazingly, the original structures still stand, in mute testimony to the enduring commitment Jews made to withstand both the pressures and persecutions of anti-Semitic authorities and transplant themselves in other more hospitable settings. I hope I have done some measure of justice by reviewing this painful history and its enduring message.
Author: Barry L. Stiefel Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 1611173213 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 601
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A cultural and architectural history of Judaism as it expanded and took root in the Atlantic world Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a unique blend of cultural and architectural history that considers Jewish heritage as it expanded among the continents and islands linked by the Atlantic Ocean between the mid-fifteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Barry L. Stiefel achieves a powerful synthesis of material culture research and traditional historical research in his examination of the early modern Jewish diaspora in the New World. Through this generously illustrated work, Stiefel examines forty-six synagogues built in Europe, South America, the Caribbean Islands, colonial and antebellum North America, and Gibraltar to discover what liturgies, construction methods, and architectural styles were transported from the Old World to the New World. Some are famous—Touro in Newport, Rhode Island; Bevis Marks in London; and Mikve Israel in Curaçao—while others had short-lived congregations whose buildings were lost. The two great traditions of Judaism—Sephardic and Ashkenazic—found homes in the Atlantic World. Examining buildings and congregations that survive, Stiefel offers valuable insights on their connections and commonalities. If both the congregations and buildings are gone, the author re-creates them by using modern heritage preservation tools that have expanded the heuristic repertoire, tools from such diverse sources as architectural studies, archaeology, computer modeling and rendering, and geographic information systems. When combined these bring a richer understanding of the past than incomplete, uncertain traditional historical resources. Buildings figure as key indicators in Stiefel's analysis of Jewish life and social experience, while the author's immersion in the faith and practice of Judaism invigorates every aspect of his work.
Author: Jane S. Gerber Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1837649448 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 444
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The Jewish diaspora of the Caribbean constantly redefined itself under changing circumstances. This volume looks at many aspects of this complex past and suggests different ways to understand it: as a Jewish diaspora dispersed under different European colonial empires; as a Jewish body joined together by a set of shared Jewish traditions and historical memories; and as one component in a web of relationships that characterized the Atlantic world.
Author: Steven Fine Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004370099 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 398
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Jewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit, from the biblical Tabernacle to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together in this volume to explore this extraordinary architectural tradition.
Author: Helmer J. Helmers Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107172268 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 453
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An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
Author: Lipika Pelham Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 1787381846 Category : History Languages : en Pages :
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Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a cosmopolitan "carnival of nations:" French Huguenots, North African merchants, Spanish Moriscos--and Iberian New Christians, formerly Jewish families forcibly converted to Catholicism, now fleeing the Inquisition and rediscovering their ancestral faith. This is the extraordinary tale of Amsterdam's prosperous Sephardi community during the Dutch Golden Age. Trading, writing, publishing, staging plays and being painted by Rembrandt, this Nação (Nation) of formerly wandering Jews not only settled but thrived, enjoying high status and unparalleled freedom. At a time when Dutch Catholics were repressed and Jews elsewhere were confined to the ghetto, this community dared to nurture the 'Hope of Israel', sowing the seeds of Zionism. Lipika Pelham charts the captivating history of Amsterdam's Jews, from their integral role in the Dutch economic miracle and the Enlightenment to a somber coda in 1942, when the Nazis herded them into the "Jewish Theater" for deportation to the camps. But this was not the death of the resilient Nação--Pelham also seeks out its descendants in present-day Amsterdam, offering poignant reflection on the meaning of nationhood, the Holocaust and what remains of Jerusalem on the Amstel.
Author: Daniel M. Swetschinski
Author: Daniel M. Swetschinski
Author: Yosef Kaplan
Author: Anne O. Albert
Author: Kalman Dubov
Author: Maya Balakirsky Katz
Author: Barry L. Stiefel
Author: Jane S. Gerber
Author: Steven Fine
Author: Helmer J. Helmers
Author: Lipika Pelham