From Boxes and Cabinets to the Bibliotheca: Building the Jewish Library of the Ex-Conversos in Amsterdam, 1620-1665
In the early seventeenth century, members of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish community assembled a significant collection of Jewishand especially Sephardiliterature that served as a crucial resource for scholars, religious leaders, and students. This article explores Jewish and Christian models...
| Published in: | European journal of jewish studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
European journal of jewish studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Amsterdam
/ Sephardim
/ Jewish literature
/ Collection
/ Ashkenazim
/ History 1620-1665
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BH Judaism KBD Benelux countries KBH Iberian Peninsula |
| Further subjects: | B
School
B Amsterdam B Education B Curriculum B Levush B Library B ex-converso |
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| Summary: | In the early seventeenth century, members of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish community assembled a significant collection of Jewishand especially Sephardiliterature that served as a crucial resource for scholars, religious leaders, and students. This article explores Jewish and Christian models that may have shaped the project of book collecting; it traces the changing perception of book collecting in the community; and it identifies shifts in the cultural profile of the texts being collected. The arrival of Ashkenazi immigrants fleeing war in eastern Europe spurred the collection of new texts, and the blending of Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish cultures. |
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| ISSN: | 1872-471X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal of jewish studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1872471X-11321063 |