J.C.H Blom, David J. Wertheim, Hetty Berg, and Bart T. Wallet (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781786941879
- eISBN:
- 9781800853188
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941879.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
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 ...
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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 book 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.Less
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 book 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.
Marc Saperstein
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781906764494
- eISBN:
- 9781800341081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764494.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter returns to Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira of Amsterdam and follows a single sermon as he adapted it some years after its original delivery. This contains explicit reference to catastrophic ...
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This chapter returns to Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira of Amsterdam and follows a single sermon as he adapted it some years after its original delivery. This contains explicit reference to catastrophic events that had befallen Jewish communities far away — in Lublin to the east and Recife to the west — and also a plague that had just decimated the population in Amsterdam though sparing most of its Jewish inhabitants. The body of the sermon makes a generalization about the occasions for weeping in the Bible. The same words may be used — ‘weeping’, ‘tears’ — but the significance of the words varies dramatically. Morteira affirmed that there are four different reasons for, or functions of, ‘tears that fall from the eyes’, and he provided a paradigmatic example of each.Less
This chapter returns to Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira of Amsterdam and follows a single sermon as he adapted it some years after its original delivery. This contains explicit reference to catastrophic events that had befallen Jewish communities far away — in Lublin to the east and Recife to the west — and also a plague that had just decimated the population in Amsterdam though sparing most of its Jewish inhabitants. The body of the sermon makes a generalization about the occasions for weeping in the Bible. The same words may be used — ‘weeping’, ‘tears’ — but the significance of the words varies dramatically. Morteira affirmed that there are four different reasons for, or functions of, ‘tears that fall from the eyes’, and he provided a paradigmatic example of each.
