1st Edition
The Early Modern Rabbis of Amsterdam: Urban Dynamics, Communal Tensions, and Diasporic Entanglement Studia Rosenthaliana. Volume 2025, 51-1/2
1. The Early Modern Rabbis of Amsterdam: Urban Dynamics, Communal Tensions, and Diasporic Entanglements - Introduction to the special issue
Bart Wallet
2. Christian Hebraism and Jewish Responses. A Comparison between Menasseh ben Israel, Saul Levi Morteira, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, and Raphael Moshe de Aguilar
Sina Rauschenbach
3. Menasseh ben Israel (and Maimonides) on Human Freedom
Steven Nadler
4. Isaac Aboab da Fonseca: Leadership between the Spinozist and Sabbatian Storms
Moisés Orfali
5. The Committee of Six: What a Little-Known Regulation Reveals about Rabbinic Opposition to Communal Authority
Anne Oravetz Albert
6. Creating an Urban Rabbinate: The Dynamics of the Early Rabbinate of the Ashkenazi Community in Amsterdam
Bart Wallet
7. Western Sephardic Prayer Books and an Evolving Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
David Sclar
8. ‘No Person Shall Act Against the Resolutions of the Ma’amad.’ Dynamics of Printing in the Amsterdam Sephardic Congregation in the Seventeenth Century
Heide Warncke
9. Shadows of Support: Women and Religious Leadership of the Portuguese Jewish Community in Early Modern Amsterdam
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
10. Hakham Solomon Ayllon: Amsterdam’s Sabbatean Rabbi, 1700-1728
Matt Goldish
Book reviews:
11. Mirjam Knotter, Gary Schwartz, eds. Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes: The Artist’s Meaning to Jews from His Time to Ours
Thijs Weststeijn
12. Ian Buruma, Spinoza. Freedom’s Messiah
Jonathan Israel
Biography
Bart Wallet is professor of early modern and modern Jewish history at the University of Amsterdam. He is co-editor-in-chief of Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands and editor of the European Journal of Jewish Studies.
