De nieuwe Studia Rosenthaliana is uit (jg 50 nr. 1), met Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld over de Portugees Joodse pandjesbank Honen Dalim, Lilac Torgeman over het 19e eeuwse shadarut en de inaugurele rede van Jessica Roitman Als altijd gratis te lezen via https://t.co/QVuhVWHRcx
The new Studia Rosenthaliana is out, with articles on probably the oldest mention of Dutch Jews, Ashkenasi religious laxity in early modern Amsterdam, an English translation of the inaugural lecture of @BartWallet on Jewish city history. read it here: https://t.co/QVuhVWHRcx
Just out: our special issue of Studia Rosenthaliana
The Imperial Turn in Dutch Jewish History: Cases, Questions, and Considerations
guest editor: Jessica Roitman
https://t.co/QVuhVWHRcx
In Machseh Lajesoumim 'the author(s) managed to create both a personal monument for so many individuals as well as a comprehensive overview of the Shoah in the Netherlands' according to Hannah L. van den Ende:
https://t.co/8LBnhZnNms
Aviva Ben-Ur's Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society is 'a very well-written, meticulous study that makes important interventions in Jewish history and Atlantic studies in general and Surinamese studies in particular' says Rosemarijn Hoefte: https://t.co/pV46FXWLzi
Isaac Aboab da Fonseca. Jewish Leadership in the New World by Moisés Orfali is 'a welcome contribution to our knowledge of the Jewish communities of the early modern New World' according to Daniël Metz. Read his review here: https://t.co/j1xCYdsZYE
‘Een schitterende erfenis: 125 jaar nalatenschap van de Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkersbond��� by Karin Hofmeester (ed.) ‘is a timely contribution to the fields of Jewish Studies and labor history’, writes Saskia Coenen Snyder. Read her review here https://t.co/UUHhM0yk2j
‘Hugo Grotius’s Remonstrantie of 1615: Facsimile, Transliteration, Modern Translations and Analysis’ written by David Kromhout and Adri K. Offenberg ‘facilitates a deeper understanding of this fascinating document’, according to Benjamin J. Kaplan: https://t.co/IYqCa6pH2d
Alexander van der Haven reviews two books on Menasseh ben Israel: Steven Nadler’s ‘Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam’ and Sina Rauschenbach’s ‘Judaism for Christians. Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657)’. Read his review here https://t.co/SGBEB8IgqZ
‘Isaac Orobio: The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt’ by Carsten Wilke (ed.) ‘contains six essays by experts dealing with different aspects of topic all marked by very high quality of erudition and insight’, writes Jonathan Israel. Read his review here https://t.co/3IF2ZE0jqe
Yda Schreuder’s ‘Amsterdam’s Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century’ is ‘a very good overview of the different strands at play during this formative time in European colonialism’, writes Jessica V. Roitman: https://t.co/78ypwEZ66t
Read the review by @AnneOAlbert of ‘Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities’ by Yosef Kaplan (ed.): https://t.co/eR7etWvAZh
‘Rescuing the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century’, written by @AdamTeller4 is ‘a remarkable achievement’, according to Jesse Spohnholz. Read his review here https://t.co/R8cK9EqpAc
Read the review by Ronnie Perelis. @ronisito of ‘Paths to Modernity: A Tribute to Yosef Kaplan’ by Avriel Bar-Levav, Claude B. Stuczynski and Michael Heyd, ed.: https://t.co/MEvrRQpKyC
‘Refugees or Migrants’ by @ChazanRobert ‘provides a solid foundation for future scholars to investigate the motives of Jewish individuals and communities to migrate to different parts of the world’, according to @DavidRdeBoer. Read his review https://t.co/w9jRoUh620
‘Lachen om Levie: Komisch bedoeld antisemitisme (1830-1930)’ by @ewoudsanders gives ‘more insight into the ways that stereotypes with humor as a lubricant have entered Dutch society’, according to Dienke Hondius. Read her review here https://t.co/nYBUOywkzp
Read the review by Kees Ribbens @HistK of ‘Etty Hillesum en de receptie van haar dagboeken’, written by Klaas A.D. Smelik, Marja Clement, Gerrit Van Oord, Jurjen Wiersma, ed.: https://t.co/9AitxR9NMK
Read the review by @scholten_koen of ‘Erasmus and the “Other”: On Turks, Jews, and Indigenous Peoples’, written by @NathanRon1: https://t.co/yh0W3hA93K