The History of the Jews in the Netherlands
Edited by J. C. H. Blom, R. G. Fuks-Mansfeld, and I. Schöffer
Translated from Dutch by Arnold J. and Erica Pomerans

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This acclaimed history of the Jewish role in Dutch society through the ages, now available in English, considers the internal evolution of the Jewish community as well as the social, cultural, and economic interaction with the wider population.

'Presents a clear picture of the longer-term developments . . . Much space is devoted to social and religious life, to culture and to the economy.'
De Volkskrant

'This general survey should appeal to a wide public interested in the history of the Jews of the Netherlands.'
Het Parool

AUTHOR INFORMATION

J. C. H. Blom has been attached to the Department of History at the University of Amsterdam since 1970, from 1983 as Professor of Dutch History. In 1996 he became the director of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation. His main field of academic interest is nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dutch history, particularly the origins and development of denominational segregation and the years before and after the German occupation. He is the author of De Muiterij op De Zeven Provincien: Reacties en Gevolgen in Nederland (1975), Crisis, Bezetting en Herstel: Tien Studies over Nederland, 1930-1950 (1989), and, with E. Lamberts, Geschiedenis van de Nederlanden (1993).

R. G. Fuks-Mansfeld is Emeritus Professor Extraordinary in the History and Culture of Modern Jewry at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include De Sefardim in Amsterdam tot 1795: Aspecten van een Joodse Minderheid in een Hollandse Stad (1989).

I. Schöffer was Professor of Dutch History at the University of Leiden from 1961 until his retirement in 1987. Previously he taught history at the University of Amsterdam, and in 1958-1961 was a fellow of the University of Western Australia. His publications include a number of studies of the history of Dutch Jewry, among them Veelvuldig Verleden: Seventien Studies in der Vaderlandse Geschiedenis (1987).

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CONTRIBUTORS

J. C. H. Blom, F. C. Brasz, J. J. Cahen, R. G. Fuks-Mansfeld, J. I. Israel, Y. Kaplan, P. Romijn, I. Schöffer, B. M. J. Speet, D. M. Swetschinski

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