Reluctant Cosmopolitans The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam |
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| Author:
| Swetschinski, Daniel M. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-904113-12-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2004 |
| Publisher: | Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $41.75USD $41.75 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.