Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate
Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate

Author: Yosie Levine

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2024-11-15

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1802072047

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With the social and cultural upheavals of early modern Europe, rabbis had to fight to preserve Jewish tradition. Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi, chief rabbi of Amsterdam, emerged as one of the leading halakhic authorities of the epoch, and the battles he waged would come to define rabbinic norms in the decades that followed.

Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others
Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others

Author: Chaya Brasz

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-22

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 9004498044

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How did Jews in the Netherlands view themselves and how were they viewed by others? This is the single theme around which the twenty-five essays in this volume, written by scholars from the Netherlands, Israel and other countries, revolve. The studies encompass a variety of topics and periods, from the beginning of the Jewish settlement in the Dutch Republic through the Shoah and its aftermath. They include examinations of the Sephardi Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Jews in the periods of Emancipation and Enlightenment, social and cultural encounters between Jews and non-Jews throughout the ages, the image of the Jew in Dutch literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the churches' attitudes toward Jews. Also highlighted are the second World War and its consequences, Dutch Jews in Israel and Israelis in the contemporary Netherlands.