Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
Description
In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam took in several thousand New Christians from the Iberian peninsula, descendants of Jews who had been forcibly baptized some two hundred years earlier. Shortly after their initial settlement, the members of this mostly Portuguese refugee community chose to manifest themselves as Jews again. No real obstacles were put in their way. The tolerance extended to them by the Amsterdam authorities was as exemplary as their new-found commitment to Jewish orthodoxy (barring a few famous instances) was strong. These circumstances engendered the new dynamic of a tra...
ISBN(s)
1874774463, 9781874774464
