ISBN:
9781787381797
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (413 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.89240492352
Keywords:
Jews-Netherlands-Amsterdam-History
;
Jews-Netherlands-Amsterdam-History
;
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Abstract:
This is the fascinating, and previously largely unknown history of Amsterdam's unlikely Jewish "Nation" - prosperous community of Catholic converts fleeing the Spanish Inquisition.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: An End to Wandering -- 1. Tempest-Tossed and Found -- 2. From Atonement to Salvation -- 3. A Sea-Change in Seafaring -- 4. The War of the Rabbis -- 5. Judaism as Nationality -- 6. The Double Life of Uriel da Costa -- 7. Baruch Spinoza: The Heretic Within -- 8. Hope of Israel: In "the Land of Milk and Cheese" -- 9. The Messiah Who Almost Came -- 10. Rembrandt's Neighbours -- 11. The Makom: "The Glory of the Amstel and its Senate" -- Part II: From Riches to Rags -- 12. Abraham Palache, still a Wandering Jew -- 13. David Cohen Paraira, the Last Cohen of the Esnoga -- 14. The Curious Case of the Curiels -- 15. "They Closed the Curtains When the Trains Passed By" -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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