Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Note on Orthography, Transliteration, and Special Usages
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction. The Dutch Jerusalem: The Distortions of History
- 1 ‘The True Book of Experience’: Amsterdam's Toleration of the Jews
- 2 Refuge and Opportunity: The Geography of a Jewish Migration
- 3 Commerce, Networks, and Other Relations: The Inner Workings of Portuguese Jewish Entrepreneurship
- 4 Nação and Kahal: A Religious Community in the Making
- 5 ‘Dissonant Words’, ‘Bad Opinions’, and ‘Scandals’: Varieties of Religious Discord and Social Conflict
- 6 A Patchwork Culture: Iberian, Jewish, and Dutch Elements in Peaceable Coexistence
- Conclusion. Reluctant Cosmopolitans: Jewish Ethnicity in statu renascendi
- Appendix: Details of Freight Contracts
- Bibliography
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects
Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Note on Orthography, Transliteration, and Special Usages
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction. The Dutch Jerusalem: The Distortions of History
- 1 ‘The True Book of Experience’: Amsterdam's Toleration of the Jews
- 2 Refuge and Opportunity: The Geography of a Jewish Migration
- 3 Commerce, Networks, and Other Relations: The Inner Workings of Portuguese Jewish Entrepreneurship
- 4 Nação and Kahal: A Religious Community in the Making
- 5 ‘Dissonant Words’, ‘Bad Opinions’, and ‘Scandals’: Varieties of Religious Discord and Social Conflict
- 6 A Patchwork Culture: Iberian, Jewish, and Dutch Elements in Peaceable Coexistence
- Conclusion. Reluctant Cosmopolitans: Jewish Ethnicity in statu renascendi
- Appendix: Details of Freight Contracts
- Bibliography
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects
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- Reluctant CosmopolitansThe Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam, pp. i - ivPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2000