Amsterdam's People of the Book: Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century

by Benjamin E. Fisher

The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centered on the Bible. School children studied the Bible systematically, while rabbinic literature was pushed to levels reached by few students; adults met in confraternities to study Scripture; and families listened to Scripture-based sermons in synagogue, and to help pass the long, cold winter nights of northwest Europe. The community's rabbis produced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878201882
• ISBN13: 9780878201884
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"