Bart Wallet is professor of early modern and modern Jewish history at the University of Amsterdam. He is co-editor-in-chief of Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands and editor of the European Journal of Jewish Studies.

• 1. The Early Modern Rabbis of Amsterdam: Urban Dynamics, Communal Tensions, and Diasporic Entanglements - Introduction to the special issue 2. Christian Hebraism and Jewish Responses: A Comparison between Menasseh ben Israel, Saul Levi Morteira, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, and Raphael Moshe de Aguilar 3. Menasseh ben Israel (and Maimonides) on Human Freedom 4. Isaac Aboab da Fonseca: Leadership between the Spinozist and Sabbatian Storms 5. The Committee of Six: What a Little-Known Regulation Reveals about Rabbinic Opposition to Communal Authority 6. Creating an Urban Rabbinate: The Dynamics of the Early Rabbinate of the Ashkenazi Community in Amsterdam 7. Western Sephardic Prayer Books and an Evolving Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam 8. ‘No Person Shall Act Against the Resolutions of the Ma’amad:’ Dynamics of Printing in the Amsterdam Sephardic Congregation in the Seventeenth Century 9. Shadows of Support: Women and Religious Leadership of the Portuguese Jewish Community in Early Modern Amsterdam 10. Hakham Solomon Ayllon: Amsterdam’s Sabbatean Rabbi, 1700-1728 11. Mirjam Knotter, Gary Schwartz, eds. Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes: The Artist’s Meaning to Jews from His Time to Ours 12. Ian Buruma, Spinoza. Freedom’s Messiah

Bart Wallet is professor of early modern and modern Jewish history at the University of Amsterdam. He is co-editor-in-chief of Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands and editor of the European Journal of Jewish Studies.

• 1. The Early Modern Rabbis of Amsterdam: Urban Dynamics, Communal Tensions, and Diasporic Entanglements - Introduction to the special issue 2. Christian Hebraism and Jewish Responses: A Comparison between Menasseh ben Israel, Saul Levi Morteira, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, and Raphael Moshe de Aguilar 3. Menasseh ben Israel (and Maimonides) on Human Freedom 4. Isaac Aboab da Fonseca: Leadership between the Spinozist and Sabbatian Storms 5. The Committee of Six: What a Little-Known Regulation Reveals about Rabbinic Opposition to Communal Authority 6. Creating an Urban Rabbinate: The Dynamics of the Early Rabbinate of the Ashkenazi Community in Amsterdam 7. Western Sephardic Prayer Books and an Evolving Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam 8. ‘No Person Shall Act Against the Resolutions of the Ma’amad:’ Dynamics of Printing in the Amsterdam Sephardic Congregation in the Seventeenth Century 9. Shadows of Support: Women and Religious Leadership of the Portuguese Jewish Community in Early Modern Amsterdam 10. Hakham Solomon Ayllon: Amsterdam’s Sabbatean Rabbi, 1700-1728 11. Mirjam Knotter, Gary Schwartz, eds. Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes: The Artist’s Meaning to Jews from His Time to Ours 12. Ian Buruma, Spinoza. Freedom’s Messiah

Bart Wallet is professor of early modern and modern Jewish history at the University of Amsterdam. He is co-editor-in-chief of Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands and editor of the European Journal of Jewish Studies.

• 1. The Early Modern Rabbis of Amsterdam: Urban Dynamics, Communal Tensions, and Diasporic Entanglements - Introduction to the special issue 2. Christian Hebraism and Jewish Responses: A Comparison between Menasseh ben Israel, Saul Levi Morteira, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, and Raphael Moshe de Aguilar 3. Menasseh ben Israel (and Maimonides) on Human Freedom 4. Isaac Aboab da Fonseca: Leadership between the Spinozist and Sabbatian Storms 5. The Committee of Six: What a Little-Known Regulation Reveals about Rabbinic Opposition to Communal Authority 6. Creating an Urban Rabbinate: The Dynamics of the Early Rabbinate of the Ashkenazi Community in Amsterdam 7. Western Sephardic Prayer Books and an Evolving Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam 8. ‘No Person Shall Act Against the Resolutions of the Ma’amad:’ Dynamics of Printing in the Amsterdam Sephardic Congregation in the Seventeenth Century 9. Shadows of Support: Women and Religious Leadership of the Portuguese Jewish Community in Early Modern Amsterdam 10. Hakham Solomon Ayllon: Amsterdam’s Sabbatean Rabbi, 1700-1728 11. Mirjam Knotter, Gary Schwartz, eds. Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes: The Artist’s Meaning to Jews from His Time to Ours 12. Ian Buruma, Spinoza. Freedom’s Messiah