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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Part 1: Messianic Hopes and Redemption 1 The Phoenix, the Exodus and the Temple: Constructing Self-identity in the Sephardi Congregation of Amsterdam in the Early Modern Period Limor Mintz-Manor 2 In the Land of Expectation: The Sense of Redemption among Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jews Matt Goldish Part 2: Aspects of Daily Religious Life 3 Religious Life among Portuguese Women in Amsterdam’s Golden Age Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld 4 The Amsterdam Way of Death: R. Shimon Frankfurt’s Sefer ha-hayyim (The Book of Life), 1703 Avriel Bar-Levav 5 Reading Yiddish and Lernen: Being a Pious Ashkenazi in Amsterdam, 1650–1800 Shlomo Berger Z”l 6 From Yiddish to Dutch: Holiday Entertainment between Literary and Linguistic Codes Marion Aptroot Part 3: Jewish Religion in Troubled Waters: The Dutch-Sephardi Diaspora Overseas 7 A Tale of Caribbean Deviance: David Aboab and Community Conflicts in Curaçao Evelyne Oliel-Grausz 8 The Dutch Jewish Enlightenment in Surinam, 1770–1800 Jonathan Israel Part 4: Ceremonial Dimensions 9 Jewish Liturgy in the Netherlands: Liturgical Intentions and Historical Dimensions Wout van Bekkum 10 Paving the Way: “Deaf and Dumb” Children and the Introduction of Confirmation Ceremonies in Dutch Judaism Chaya Brasz Part 5: Jewish Identity and Religiosity 11 Religion, Culture (and Nation) in Nineteenth-century Dutch Jewish Thought Irene E. Zwiep 12 “Religiosity” in Dutch Jewish Art in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Rivka Weiss-Blok Part 6: The Master: Images of Chief Rabbi Jozeph Zvi (Hirsch) Dünner 13 “The Great Eagle, the Pride of Jacob”: Joseph Hirsch Dünner in Dutch-Jewish Memory Culture Bart Wallet 14 Image(s) of “The Rav” through the Lens of an Involved Historian: Jaap Meijer’s Depiction of Rabbi Joseph Hirsch Dünner Evelien Gans Part 7: Religious Life after the Catastrophe: Post-1945 Developments 15 The Return to Judaism in the Netherlands Minny E. Mock-Degen 16 Vanishing Diaspora? Jews in the Netherlands and Their Ties with Judaism: Facts and Expectations about Their Future Marlene de Vries
