Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry

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).

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsList of Contributors Part 1: Messianic Hopes and Redemption1 The Phoenix, the Exodus and the Temple: Constructing Self-identity in the Sephardi Congregation of Amsterdam in the Early Modern PeriodLimor Mintz-Manor2 In the Land of Expectation: The Sense of Redemption among Amsterdam’s Portuguese JewsMatt GoldishPart 2: Aspects of Daily Religious Life3 Religious Life among Portuguese Women in Amsterdam’s Golden AgeTirtsah Levie Bernfeld4 The Amsterdam Way of Death: R. Shimon Frankfurt’s Sefer ha-hayyim (The Book of Life), 1703Avriel Bar-Levav5 Reading Yiddish and Lernen: Being a Pious Ashkenazi in Amsterdam, 1650–1800Shlomo Berger Z”l6 From Yiddish to Dutch: Holiday Entertainment between Literary and Linguistic CodesMarion AptrootPart 3: Jewish Religion in Troubled Waters: The Dutch-Sephardi Diaspora Overseas7 A Tale of Caribbean Deviance: David Aboab and Community Conflicts in CuraçaoEvelyne Oliel-Grausz8 The Dutch Jewish Enlightenment in Surinam, 1770–1800Jonathan IsraelPart 4: Ceremonial Dimensions9 Jewish Liturgy in the Netherlands: Liturgical Intentions and Historical DimensionsWout van Bekkum10 Paving the Way: “Deaf and Dumb” Children and the Introduction of Confirmation Ceremonies in Dutch JudaismChaya BraszPart 5: Jewish Identity and Religiosity11 Religion, Culture (and Nation) in Nineteenth-century Dutch Jewish ThoughtIrene E. Zwiep12 “Religiosity” in Dutch Jewish Art in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesRivka Weiss-BlokPart 6: The Master: Images of Chief Rabbi Jozeph Zvi (Hirsch) Dünner13 “The Great Eagle, the Pride of Jacob”: Joseph Hirsch Dünner in Dutch-Jewish Memory CultureBart Wallet14 Image(s) of “The Rav” through the Lens of an Involved Historian: Jaap Meijer’s Depiction of Rabbi Joseph Hirsch DünnerEvelien GansPart 7: Religious Life after the Catastrophe: Post-1945 Developments15 The Return to Judaism in the NetherlandsMinny E. Mock-Degen16 Vanishing Diaspora? Jews in the Netherlands and Their Ties with Judaism: Facts and Expectations about Their FutureMarlene de Vries