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Reluctant
Cosmopolitans
The
Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth- Century Amsterdam
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'A
social history that focuses . . . upon political status, economic pursuits,
and community organization . . . advanced students will find this book
of considerable value.'
M. A. Meyer, Choice
'Admirable . . . a fine addition to the growing number of studies
of this fascinating community.'
Stephen D. Benin, Religious Studies Review
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, the first traditional Jewish society to engage creatively with the non-Jewish, secular world in relative harmony. A broad, authentic, and original vision of the transition from medieval to modern Jewish history.
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Daniel M. Swetschinski was born in Brussels in 1944 and grew up in Amsterdam. He studied Semitic languages, philosophy, and history at the universities of Ghent, Amsterdam and Brandeis, and has taught Jewish history at McGill University and the University of Arizona. His many published articles on Dutch Jewish history include a contribution on the period 1516-1621 in Geschiedenis van de Joden in Nederland edited by J.C.H. Blom et al (the English-language edition of which is also published by the Littman Library as The History of the Jews in the Netherlands). He co-edited Mystics, Philosophers, and Politicians (1982) in honour of Alexander Altmann, and has been a major collaborator on projects of the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam: The Lopes Suasso Family, Bankers to William III (1988) and Orphans Objects: Facets of the Textiles Collection of the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (1997). He presently lives in Massachusetts.
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| Format | 23.5 x 15.5 cm / 6" x 9"; |
| Pages | 394 pages, 19 tables |
| ISBN | 978-1-874774-46-4 978-1-904113-12-6 (paperback) |
| Price | £32.50 / $49.50 hardback £18.95 / $29.95 paperback |
| Date of publication | 2000 hardback 25 November 2004 paperback |
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Winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Studies
© The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008