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21 augustus verschijnt het boek, waarvan ik de komst in dit blog van 20 december 2017 al gesignaleerd had:
Steven
Nadler, Menasseh ben Israel. Rabbi of
Amsterdam. Yale University Press, 21 aug. 2018 – voor een schappelijke
prijs!
An illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi
and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century
Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was among the most
accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual
figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the
“Portuguese Nation” in Amsterdam, a community that quickly earned renown
worldwide for its mercantile and scholarly vitality.
Born in Lisbon, Menasseh and his family were forcibly converted
to Catholicism but suspected of insincerity in their new faith. To avoid the
horrors of the Inquisition, they fled first to southwestern France, and then to
Amsterdam, where they finally settled. Menasseh played an important role during
the formative decades of one of the most vital Jewish communities of early
modern Europe, and was influential through his extraordinary work as a printer
and his efforts on behalf of the readmission of Jews to England. In this lively
biography, Steven Nadler provides a fresh perspective on this seminal figure.
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