Download or read book The Economic Activities of the Jews of Amsterdam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by Herbert Ivan Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economic Activities of the Jews in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by Herbert Ivan Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economic Activities of the Jews of Amsterdam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by Herbert I. Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Economic Activities of the Jews of Amsterdam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Etc A Thesis written by Herbert Ivan BLOOM and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economic Activity of the Jews of Amsterdam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by Herbert Ivan Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economic Activities of the Jews in Amsterdam in 17 18 Centuries written by Herbert Ivan Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economic Activities of the Jews of Amsterdam in the XVII and XVIII Century written by Herbert Ivan Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reappraising the History of the Jews in the Netherlands written by J.C.H. Blom and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two decades since the last authoritative general history of Dutch Jews was published have seen such substantial developments in historical understanding that new assessment has become an imperative. This volume offers an indispensable survey from a contemporary viewpoint that reflects the new preoccupations of European historiography and allows the history of Dutch Jewry to be more integrated with that of other European Jewish histories. Historians from both older and newer generations shed significant light on all eras, providing fresh detail that reflects changed emphases and perspectives. In addition to such traditional subjects as the Jewish community’s relationship with the wider society and its internal structure, its leaders, and its international affiliations, new topics explored include the socio-economic aspects of Dutch Jewish life seen in the context of the integration of minorities more widely; a reassessment of the Holocaust years and consideration of the place of Holocaust memorialization in community life; and the impact of multiculturalist currents on Jews and Jewish politics. Memory studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and digital humanities all play their part in providing the fullest possible picture. This wide-ranging scholarship is complemented by a generous plate section with eighty fully captioned colour illustrations.

Download or read book Rembrandt s Jews written by Steven Nadler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Jewish themes and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it is no wonder that the myth has endured for centuries. Rembrandt's Jews puts this myth to the test as it examines both the legend and the reality of Rembrandt's relationship to Jews and Judaism. In his elegantly written and engrossing tour of Jewish Amsterdam—which begins in 1653 as workers are repairing Rembrandt's Portuguese-Jewish neighbor's house and completely disrupting the artist's life and livelihood—Steven Nadler tells us the stories of the artist's portraits of Jewish sitters, of his mundane and often contentious dealings with his neighbors in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, and of the tolerant setting that city provided for Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews fleeing persecution in other parts of Europe. As Nadler shows, Rembrandt was only one of a number of prominent seventeenth-century Dutch painters and draftsmen who found inspiration in Jewish subjects. Looking at other artists, such as the landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael and Emmanuel de Witte, a celebrated painter of architectural interiors, Nadler is able to build a deep and complex account of the remarkable relationship between Dutch and Jewish cultures in the period, evidenced in the dispassionate, even ordinary ways in which Jews and their religion are represented—far from the demonization and grotesque caricatures, the iconography of the outsider, so often found in depictions of Jews during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Through his close look at paintings, etchings, and drawings; in his discussion of intellectual and social life during the Dutch Golden Age; and even through his own travels in pursuit of his subject, Nadler takes the reader through Jewish Amsterdam then and now—a trip that, under ever-threatening Dutch skies, is full of colorful and eccentric personalities, fiery debates, and magnificent art.

Download or read book The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West 1450 1800 written by Paolo Bernardini and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European expansion.

Download or read book A People Within and Without written by Noah L. Gelfand and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines how Jews organized their communal and religious affairs, conducted business, maintained intercolonial and transnational networks, and acted as international intermediaries in bridging imperial boundaries in the Atlantic world during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It does this through an exploration of five colonial locations---Recife in Brazil, Curacao, New Netherland (later New York), Suriname, and Newport, Rhode Island---and argues that kin-based Jewish commercial networks played a significant role in Europe's expansion in the Americas and were a formative component in the development of an Atlantic system of private commercial exchange. Expanding upon recent scholarship on early modern Jewish mercantile activities, the dissertation is the first to compare these five colonial settlements together in one study and is unique in emphasizing the inseparable nature of organizing commercial networks and founding Jewish communities in the New World---a double project---that was at the heart of the Jewish colonizing efforts in the Dutch Atlantic. Thus, the leading merchants of Recife, Curacao, and Newport were also the most influential members of the synagogues in their communities. The central argument of "A People Within and Without" is that through their commercial connections and cultural skills, Jews were able to make themselves invaluable agents to the forces of European imperial expansion. As a result, Jews, who were a people free from attachment to any one nation, took advantage of the liminal Atlantic world of developing national empires to secure both economic and religious privileges in the Americas---privileges that were often closed to them in Europe. Yet, the dissertation details how, like other marginalized groups, Jews had to strive often to maintain their privileges and overcome episodic attempts to proscribe or limit their commercial and religious practices. Finally, in studying the commercial and communal orientation of Jews in places like Curacao, New York and Newport the dissertation complicates the traditional national narratives of colonization and illustrates the transnational connections that existed between North America, the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and Europe and thus offers a more realistic view of how the Atlantic world actually operated during the early modern period.

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Judaism Volume 2 The Hellenistic Age written by William David Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

Download or read book The Jewish Economic Elite written by Cornelia Aust and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Amsterdam: a center of credit -- 2. Frankfurt an der Oder: Central European middlemen -- 3. Border lands: legal restrictions, army supplying, and economic success -- 4. Praga: a stepping stone -- 5. Warsaw: the rise of a Jewish economic elite

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion written by Rachel M. McCleary and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a one-of-kind volume bringing together leading scholars in the economics of religion for the first time. The treatment of topics is interdisciplinary, comparative, as well as global in nature. Scholars apply the economics of religion approach to contemporary issues such as immigrants in the United States and ask historical questions such as why did Judaism as a religion promote investment in education? The economics of religion applies economic concepts (for example, supply and demand) and models of the market to the study of religion. Advocates of the economics of religion approach look at ways in which the religion market influences individual choices as well as institutional development. For example, economists would argue that when a large denomination declines, the religion is not supplying the right kind of religious good that appeals to the faithful. Like firms, religions compete and supply goods. The economics of religion approach using rational choice theory, assumes that all human beings, regardless of their cultural context, their socio-economic situation, act rationally to further his/her ends. The wide-ranging topics show the depth and breadth of the approach to the study of religion.

Download or read book The Same But Different written by Jessica V. Roitman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using cutting-edge theory regarding trade networks and diaspora, this book offers an innovative analysis of Sephardic merchants in 17th c. Amsterdam’s trade. Challenging views that Sephardic success stemmed from endogamous business relationships, it shows that Sephardic merchants traded with non-Sephardim.

Download or read book The History of the Jews in the Netherlands written by J.C.H. Blom and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed history of the Jewish role in Dutch society through the ages, now available in English, considers the internal evolution of the Jewish community as well as the social, cultural, and economic interaction with the wider population. 'This general survey should appeal to a wide public interested in the history of the Jews of the Netherlands.' Het Parool