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Reluctant Cosmopolitans - The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (Paperback)
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Reluctant Cosmopolitans - The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (Paperback)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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National Jewish Book Awards Winner of the Maurice Amado Foundation
Award for Sephardic Studies, 2000. 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 traditional Jewish
society creatively engaged with the non-Jewish, secular world in
relative harmony. Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewry was in this sense
the first modern Jewish community. Through a fresh and rigorous
approach to the documents, Daniel Swetschinki's lively and original
portrait of this justly famous community presents some unexpected
conclusions. As well as characterizing the major dimensions of the
New Christian migrations and identifying trends within an array of
economic activities, it explores the appeal that Judaism as a
religion and as a communal structure exercised. Throughout, the
analysis focuses on the common rather than the exceptional and
seeks the centre from which the interrelationship of all the
constituent parts may be grasped. Swetschinski's emphasis is on the
social dimension of Portuguese Jewish economic and religious life,
formal and informal. He thereby uncovers the internal dynamics of
this remarkable Jewish community that moulded a renegade New
Christian population into a model Jewish society, 'model' in the
sense that it had the support of proponents of modernity and
traditionalism alike and also won the respect of the Christian
population. His research adds a broad and authentic vision to the
panoply of images of early modern Jewish history and enables him to
offer new insights into the troublesome question of the transition
from medieval to modern Judaism.
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