Dutch Intersection

Yosef Kaplan is Bernard Cherrick Chair of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on early modern Jewish history, on the history of the marranos and on the western Sephardi diaspora, including From Christianity to Judaism. The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro (Oxford, 1989) and An Alternative Path to Modernity (Brill, 2000).

• CONTENTSBernard D. CoopermanAmsterdam from an International Perspective: Tolerance and Kehillah in the Portuguese Diaspora Adam SutcliffeThe Boundaries of Community: Urban Space and Intercultural Interaction in Early Modern, Sephardi Amsterdam, and London Yosef KaplanAmsterdam, the Forbidden Lands, and the Dynamics of the Sephardi Diaspora Jonathan SchorschMosseh Pereyra de Paiva: An Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish Merchant Abroad in the Seventeenth Century Harm den BoerAmsterdam as “Locus” of Iberian Printing in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Gary SchwartzThe Temple Mount in the Lowlands Michael Studemund-HalévyThe Persistence of Images: Reproductive Success in the History of Sephardi Sepulchral Art Evelyne Oliel-GrauszPatrocinio and Authority: Assessing the Metropolitan Role of the Portuguese Nation of Amsterdam in the Eighteenth Century Jonathan IsraelPhilosophy, Deism, and the Early Jewish Enlightenment (1655–1740) Shlomo BergerYiddish Book Production in Amsterdam between 1650–1800: Local and International Aspects Hilde Pach“In Hamburg a High German Jew Was Murdered”: The Representation of Foreign Jews in the Dinstagishe un Fraytagishe Kuranten (Amsterdam, 1686–1687) Avriel Bar-LevavAmsterdam and the Inception of the Jewish Republic of Letters Stefan LittAshkenazi-Dutch Pinkassim as Sources for Studying European-Jewish Migration: The Cases of Middelburg and The Hague in the Eighteenth Century Gérard NahonThe Hague, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Jerusalem: David de Pinto and the Jesiba Magen David, 1750–1767 Shalom SabarFrom Amsterdam to Bombay, Baghdad, and Casablanca:The Infl uence of the Amsterdam Haggadah on Haggadah Illustration among the Jews in India and the Lands of IslamIrene E. ZwiepA Maskil Reads Zunz: Samuel Mulder and the Earliest Dutch Reception of the Wissenschaft des Judentums Bart WalletDutch National Identity and Jewish International Solidarity: An Impossible Combination? Dutch Jewry and the Signifi cance of the Damascus Affair (1840) Rivka Weiss-BlokJewish Artists Facing Holland Benjamin RavidAlfred Klee and Hans Goslar: From Amsterdam to Westerbork to Bergen Belsen Evelien GansNext Year in Paramaribo: Galut and Diaspora as Scene-changes in the Jewish Life of Jakob Meijer Elrud IbschWriting against Silence. Jewish Writers of the Generation-After in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and France: A Comparison David WeinbergPatrons or Partners? Relations between the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Dutch Jewish Community in the Immediate Postwar Period Manfred GerstenfeldInternational Aspects of the Restitution Process in the Netherlands at the End of the Twentieth Century