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.