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Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Series).) by Daniel M. Swetschinski is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Series).) about?
Winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Studies Focusing on the social dimension of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish economic and religious life, Swetschinski paints a lively and unconventional picture of the dynamics of a remarkable Jewish community, the first traditional Jewish society to engage creatively with the non-Jewish, secular world in relative harmony. A broad, authentic, and original vision of the transition from medieval to modern Jewish history.
Who reads Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Series).)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Daniel M. Swetschinski
- Publisher
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781909821804
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Science, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25