The religious cultures of Dutch Jewry / edited by Yosef Kaplan, Dan Michman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaplan, Yosef, editor.

Mikhman, Dan, 1947- editor.

Series:

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; Volume 58.

Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 0926-2261 ; Volume 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Netherlands--History--To 1900.

Jews.

Sephardim--Netherlands--History--To 1900.

Sephardim.

Ashkenazim--Netherlands--History--To 1900.

Ashkenazim.

Netherlands--History.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

In The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry an international group of scholars examines aspects of religious belief and practice of pre-emancipation Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Amsterdam, Curaçao and Surinam, ceremonial dimensions, artistic representations of religious life, and religious life after the Shoa. The origins of Dutch Jewry trace back to diverse locations and ancestries: Marranos from Spain and Portugal and Ashkenazi refugees from Germany, Poland and Lithuania. In the new setting and with the passing of time and developments in Dutch society at large, the religious life of Dutch Jews took on new forms. Dutch Jewish society was thus a microcosm of essential changes in Jewish history.

Contents:

Messianic Hopes and Redemption / Yosef Kaplan and Dan Michman

The Phoenix, the Exodus and the Temple: Constructing Self-Identity in the Sephardi Congregation of Amsterdam in the Early Modern Period / Limor Mintz-Manor

In the Land of Expectation: The Sense of Redemption among Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jews / Matt Goldish

Aspects of Daily Religious Life / Yosef Kaplan and Dan Michman

Religious Life among Portuguese Women in Amsterdam’s Golden Age / Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld

The Amsterdam Way of Death: R. Shimon Frankfurt’s Sefer ha-hayyim (The Book of Life), 1703 / Avriel Bar-Levav

Reading Yiddish and Lernen: Being a Pious Ashkenazi in Amsterdam, 1650–1800 / Shlomo Berger

From Yiddish to Dutch: Holiday Entertainment between Literary and Linguistic Codes / Marion Aptroot

Jewish Religion in Troubled Waters: The Dutch-Sephardi Diaspora Overseas / Yosef Kaplan and Dan Michman

A Tale of Caribbean Deviance: David Aboab and Community Conflicts in Curaçao / Evelyne Oliel-Grausz

The Dutch Jewish Enlightenment in Surinam, 1770–1800 / Jonathan Israel

Ceremonial Dimensions / Yosef Kaplan and Dan Michman

Jewish Liturgy in the Netherlands: Liturgical Intentions and Historical Dimensions / Wout van Bekkum

Paving the Way: “Deaf and Dumb” Children and the Introduction of Confirmation Ceremonies in Dutch Judaism / Chaya Brasz

Jewish Identity and Religiosity / Yosef Kaplan and Dan Michman

Religion, Culture (and Nation) in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Jewish Thought / Irene E. Zwiep

“Religiosity” in Dutch Jewish Art in the Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Century / Rivka Weiss-Blok

The Master: Images of Chief Rabbi Jozeph Zvi (Hirsch) Dünner / Yosef Kaplan and Dan Michman

“The Great Eagle, the Pride of Jacob”: Jozeph Hirsch Dünner in Dutch Jewish Memory Culture / Bart Wallet

Image(s) of “The Rav” through the Lens of an Involved Historian: Jaap Meijer’s Depiction of Rabbi Jozeph Hirsch Dünner / Evelien Gans

Religious Life after the Catastrophe: Post-1945 Developments / Yosef Kaplan and Dan Michman

The Return to Judaism in the Netherlands / Minny E. Mock-Degen

Vanishing Diaspora? / Marlene de Vries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34316-4

OCLC:

974796315

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004343160 DOI