TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swetschinski,Daniel M.
TI  - Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
T2  - The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Series
SN  - 9781909821804
U1  - 949.2/352 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Jews-Netherlands-Amsterdam-History-17th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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 -- 5: 'Dissonant Words', 'Bad Opinions', and 'Scandals': Varieties of Religious Discord and Social Conflict -- 6: 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
N2  - Winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Studies   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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