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Rembrandt's Jews by Steven M Nadler; Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rembrandt's Jews about?

There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Jewish themes and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it is no wonder that the myth has endured for centuries. Rembrandt's Jews puts this myth to the test as it examines both the legend and the reality of Rembrandt's relationship to Jews and Judaism. In his elegantly written and engrossing tour of Jewish Amsterdam—which begins in 1653 as workers are repairing Rembrandt's Portuguese-Jewish neighbor's house and completely disrupting the artist's life and livelihood—Steven Nadler tells us the stories of the artist's portraits of Jewish sitters, of his mundane and often contentious dealings with his neighbors in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, and of the tolerant setting that city provided for Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews fleeing persecution in other parts of Europe. As Nadler shows, Rembrandt was only one of a number of prominent seventeenth-century Dutch painters and draftsmen who found inspiration in Jew

Who reads Rembrandt's Jews?

Author

Steven M Nadler; Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Publisher

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226567365

Category

history

Subjects

Western, Fiction, History

Rating

3.68 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14