The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry

"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, Curaðcao 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"--

Yosef Kaplan, PhD (1978), The Hebrew University, is Bernard Cherrick Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at that university. He has published many studies on the history of early modern Jews, the Marranos and the Sephardi Diaspora. He is the editor of The Dutch Intersection. The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History (Brill 2008). Dan Michman, PhD (1978), The Hebrew University, is Emeritus Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar -Ilan University and Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research , Yad Vashem. He is the author of The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press 2011).