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Reluctant cosmopolitans the Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam
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Title
Reluctant cosmopolitans [electronic resource] : the Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam / Daniel M. Swetschinski.
ISBN
9781909821804
1909821802
1904113125
9781904113126
1874774463
9781874774464
9781904113126
Published
London ; Portland, Ore : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2000.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 380 pages).
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Littman library of Jewish civilization. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Swetschinski, Daniel, 1944- Reluctant cosmopolitans. London ; Portland, Ore. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2000
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 03, 2024
Series
The Littman library of Jewish civilization
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-362) and indexes.
Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Note on Orthography, Transliteration, and Special Usages; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Dutch Jerusalem: The Distortions of History; 1: 'The True Book of Experience': Amsterdam's Toleration of the Jews; 2: Refuge and Opportunity: The Geography of a Jewish Migration; 3: Commerce, Networks, and Other Relations: The Inner Workings of Portuguese Jewish Entrepreneurship; 4: Nação and Kahal: A Religious Community in the Making.
5: 'Dissonant Words', 'Bad Opinions', and 'Scandals': Varieties of Religious Discord and Social Conflict6: A Patchwork Culture: Iberian, Jewish, and Dutch Elements in Peaceable Coexistence; Conclusion: Reluctant Cosmopolitans: Jewish Ethnicity in statu renascendi; Appendix: Details of Freight Contracts; Bibliography; Index of Persons; Index of Subjects.
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History.
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