| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 380 pages) |
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The Littman library of Jewish civilization |
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Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-362) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Sephardim -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century
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Jews -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century
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Judaism -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Ethnic relations
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Jews
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Judaism
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Sephardim
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Sefarden.
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Portugese joden.
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Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Ethnic relations
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Netherlands -- Amsterdam
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Amsterdam
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Portugiesen.
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Juden.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781909821804 |
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1909821802 |
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1904113125 |
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9781904113126 |
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