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Book The Ouderkerk Family Saga

Download or read book The Ouderkerk Family Saga written by Henry John Ouderkirk and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Janse Ouderkerk, emigrated from the Netherlands to New York. He married Aariantje in about 1669. They had six children born between 1670 and 1691. Jan died after 1712 in Albany, New York. Descendants lived in New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Idaho, Utah, Ontario and elsewhere.

Book The Ouderkerk Family Newsletter of the Ouderkirk Oderkirk Families

Download or read book The Ouderkerk Family Newsletter of the Ouderkirk Oderkirk Families written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De Halve Maen

Download or read book De Halve Maen written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Associations

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Associations written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 1492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities

Download or read book Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities written by Yosef Kaplan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sixteenth century on, hundreds of Portuguese New Christians began to flow to Venice and Livorno in Italy, and to Amsterdam and Hamburg in northwest Europe. In those cities and later in London, Bordeaux, and Bayonne as well, Iberian conversos established their own Jewish communities, openly adhering to Judaism. Despite the features these communities shared with other confessional groups in exile, what set them apart was very significant. In contrast to other European confessional communities, whose religious affiliation was uninterrupted, the Western Sephardic Jews came to Judaism after a separation of generations from the religion of their ancestors. In this edited volume, several experts in the field detail the religious and cultural changes that occurred in the Early Modern Western Sephardic communities. "Highly recommended for all academic and Jewish libraries." - David B Levy, Touro College, NYC, in: Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews 1.2 (2019)

Book Looking for Spinoza

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antonio R. Damasio
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780156028714
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Looking for Spinoza written by Antonio R. Damasio and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Rembrandt s Jews

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  • Author : Steven Nadler
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-08-04
  • ISBN : 022636061X
  • Pages : 279 pages

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.

Book Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean

Download or read book Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean written by Edward Kritzler and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them took to the seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish fleet while forming alliances with other European powers to ensure the safety of Jews living in hiding. Filled with high-sea adventures–including encounters with Captain Morgan and other legendary pirates–Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean reveals a hidden chapter in Jewish history as well as the cruelty, terror, and greed that flourished during the Age of Discovery.

Book Westward to Destiny

Download or read book Westward to Destiny written by Denison Ray W. and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Denison was born 2 February 1571 in Bishop's-Stortford, Hertford, England. He married Margaret Chandler 7 November 1603. They emigrated in 1631 with their sons, Daniel, Edward and George. William died in 1653 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Book Medieval Archaeology in the Netherlands

Download or read book Medieval Archaeology in the Netherlands written by J. C. Besteman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jesuit Art

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  • Author : Mia M. Mochizuki
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2022-01-31
  • ISBN : 9004498222
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Jesuit Art written by Mia M. Mochizuki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jesuit Art, Mia Mochizuki considers the artistic production of the pre-suppression Society of Jesus (1540–1773) from a global perspective. Geographic and medial expansion of the standard corpus changes not only the objects under analysis, it also affects the kinds of queries that arise. Mochizuki draws upon masterpieces and material culture from around the world to assess the signature structural innovations pioneered by Jesuits in the history of the image. When the question of a ‘Jesuit style’ is rehabilitated as an inquiry into sources for a spectrum of works, the Society’s investment in the functional potential of illustrated books reveals the traits that would come to define the modern image as internally networked, technologically defined, and innately subjective.

Book Sephardim in the Americas

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  • Author : Martin A. Cohen
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 2003-08-08
  • ISBN : 0817311769
  • Pages : 511 pages

Download or read book Sephardim in the Americas written by Martin A. Cohen and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multidisciplinary essays examinig the historical and cultural history of the Sephardic experience in the Americas, from pre-expulsion Spain to the modern era, as recounted by some of the most outstanding interpreters of the field.

Book Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah

Download or read book Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry

Download or read book The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry written by Yosef Kaplan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World

Download or read book Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World written by Jonathan Schorsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-holding.

Book Ajax  the Dutch  the War

Download or read book Ajax the Dutch the War written by Simon Kuper and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When most people think about the Netherlands, images of tulips and peaceful pot smoking residents spring to mind. Bring up soccer, and most will think of Johan Cruyuff, the Dutch player thought to rival Pele in preternatural skill, and Ajax, one of the most influential soccer clubs in the world whose academy system for young athletes has been replicated around the globe (and most notably by Barcelona and the 2010 world champions, Spain). But as international bestselling author Simon Kuper writes in Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Soccer in Europe During the Second World War, the story of soccer in Holland cannot be understood without investigating what really occurred in this country during WWII. For decades, the Dutch have enjoyed the reputation of having a “good war.” The myth is even resonant in Israel where Ajax is celebrated. The fact is, the Jews suffered shocking persecution at the hands of Dutch collaborators. Holland had the second largest Nazi movement in Europe outside Germany, and in no other country except Poland was so high a percentage of Jews deported. Kuper challenges Holland's historical amnesia and uses soccer—particularly the experience of Ajax, a club long supported by Amsterdam's Jews—as a window on wartime Holland and Europe. Through interviews with Resistance fighters, survivors, wartime soccer players and more, Kuper uncovers this history that has been ignored, and also finds out why the Holocaust had a profound effect on soccer in the country. Ajax produced Cruyuff but was also built by members of the Dutch resistance and Holocaust survivors. It became a surrogate family for many who survived the war and its method for producing unparalleled talent became the envy of clubs around the world. In this passionate, haunting and moving work of forensic reporting, Kuper tells the breathtaking story of how Dutch Jews survived the unspeakable and came to play a strong role in the rise of the most exciting and revolutionary style of soccer — “Total Football” — the world had ever seen.

Book Of No Avail     Web of Wedlock

Download or read book Of No Avail Web of Wedlock written by BS Murthy and published by Self Imprint. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lured by the pitch - All marriages are made in heaven but some are delayed on earth: We endeavor to hasten them all - Priya goes to Renuka Marriage Bureau. Scanning the prospects, when she spotted Venu, whom she slighted long ago, she rushes to him to bring about a dramatic encounter. What brought about Priya’s change of heart to seek her former suitor and how Venu responds to his old flame’s fresh overtures lend suspense to their romance in this eclectic novella.