Memorbook : history of Dutch Jewry from the Renaissance to 1940 with 1100 illustrations / text by Mozes Heiman Gans ; [English translation Arnold J. Pomerans].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gans, M. H. (Mozes Heiman)

Contributor:

Pomerans, Arnold.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Memorboek. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Netherlands--History.

Jews.

Netherlands.

History.

Netherlands--History.

Memorial books--Netherlands.

Local Subjects:

Memorial books--Netherlands.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

851 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles. ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Baarn : Bosch & Keuning n.v., [1977]

Contents:

The long, dark Middle Ages

The Golden Age

The eighteenth century

Seventeenth and eighteen century settlements outside Amsterdam

The Jewish Nation bcomes the Dutch-Israelitic Congregation

Nineteenth-century elders' rule

Rise and fall of the smaller communities between 1800 and 1940

Between two centuries

The Amsterdam Jewish quarter

Social and cultural life between 1900 and 1940

1933-1940: The writing on the wall; 1940-1945

Ailee ezkera, those I remember.

Notes:

Translation of Memorboek.

"Embossed on the front cover are the arms of the Dutch Israelitic Congregation."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 838-843) and index.

Local Notes:

Acc.# 201942

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy inscribed "This book was compiled by a man of great wisdom and tolerance. It is a document about the wanderings of the Jews of Holland. With many thanks for your visit to our congregation, and as a memory of your own week of omzwerringen in this country. Liberal Joodse Geneent Amsterdam". Signed by Rabbi and President.

ISBN:

9024642507 :

OCLC:

3482953