Early modern Amsterdam was a prosperous city renowned for its relative tolerance, and many people hoping for a better future - away from persecution, wars, and economic malaise - chose to make a new life there. Conversos and Jews from many countries were among them, attracted by…
A pioneering study of the relationship between rich and poor that adds a new dimension to the understanding of Jewish life in early modernAmsterdam.
The reputed wealth and benevolence of the Portuguese Jews of early modern Amsterdam attracted many impoverished people to the city, both ex-Conversos from the Iberian peninsula and Jews from many other countries. In describing the consequences of that migration in terms of demog…
The reputed wealth and benevolence of the Portuguese Jews of early modern Amsterdam attracted many poor and impoverished people to the city, both ex-conversos from the Iberian peninsula and Jews from many other countries. In describing the consequences of that migration in terms…
Early modern Amsterdam was a prosperous city renowned for its relative tolerance, and many people hoping for a better future - away from persecution, wars, and economic malaise - chose to make a new life there. Conversos and Jews from many countries were among them, attracted by…
A pioneering study of the relationship between rich and poor that adds a new dimension to the understanding of Jewish life in early modern Amsterdam.