Research Catalog

Title

An alternative path to modernity : the Sephardi diaspora in western Europe / by Yosef Kaplan.

Author

Kaplan, Yosef.

Publication

Leiden : Brill, 2000.

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Details

Description

ix, 309 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Brill's series in Jewish studies, 0926-2261 ; v. 28

Uniform Title

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 28.

Subject

• 1600-1699
• Sephardim > Europe > History > 17th century
• Jews > Europe > History > 17th century
• Crypto-Jews > Iberian Peninsula > History > 17th century
• Sephardim > Europe > History
• Jews > Europe > History
• Crypto-Jews
• Ethnic relations
• Jews
• Sephardim
• Sefarden
• Sephardim > Europe
• Europe > Ethnic relations
• Europe > Iberian Peninsula
• Europe
• Netherlands > Amsterdam

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

An alternative path to modernity -- For whom did Emanuel de Witte paint his three pictures of the Sephardi Synagogue in Amsterdam? -- The self-definition of the Sephardi Jews of Western Europe and their relation to the alien and the stranger -- Amsterdam and Ashkenazi migration in the seventeenth century -- The social functions of the herem -- Deviance and excommunication in the eighteenth century -- The Jewish profile of the Spanish-Portuguese community of London during the seventeenth century -- The place of the Herem in the Sephardi community of Hamburg -- Sephardi students at the University of Leiden -- The attitude of the Sephardi leadership in Amsterdam to the Sabbatian Movement, 1665-1671 -- 'Karaites' in the early eighteenth century -- The threat of Eros in eighteenth-century Sephardi Amsterdam.

ISBN

• 9004117423
• 9789004117426

LCCN

2001274622

OCLC

• ocm45572600
• 45572600
• SCSB-1205039

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library