List 93 (update): History of the Jews in the Netherlands
Update nov. 2011.
Publications in English, German and Hebrew
1. STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA. (Complete set). Tijdschrift voor Joodse wetenschap en geschiedenis in Nederland. Vols. 1-42. ISSN 1781-7838.
Amsterdam, 1967-2008. Orig. wraps. 1 vol. orig. cloth. Very good set. EUR 2,250.--
~Journal for Jewish history and literature in the Netherlands, published by the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana. Mainly in English (early volumes contain also Dutch contributions). Publication in progress. 2 issues a year. From volume 36 onwards published as a yearbook by Peeters publishers.
Separately available:
35/2 (2001). Uprooted roots. Amsterdam and the early sephardic diaspora. pp. 112-315. (25,--)
36 (2002-2003) Speaking Jewish - Jewish Speak. Multilingualism in Western Ashkenazic Culture. 360 pp. (47,--).
37. (2004) Jewish Ceremonial Objects in transcultural context. 436 pp. (55,--).
38/39. (2006). Omnia in Eo. Studies on Jewish books and libraries in honour of Adri Offenberg, celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana in Amsterdam. 400 pp.(110,--).
40 (2007-2008). Epigonism and the dynamic of Jewish culture. 295 pp.) (70,--).
41 (2009) Between two worlds: Yiddish-German encounters. (70,--).
42 Jewish art in context (forthcoming). Many earlier volumes separately available.
2. STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA. Tijdschrift voor Joodse wetenschap en geschiedenis in Nederland. Vols. 1-8 (16 issues).
Amsterdam, 1967-1974. Orig. wrps. All issues in good condition. EUR 130.--
~Journal for Jewish history and literature in the Netherlands, published by the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, which is most famous for its Sephardica collection. Contributions in English, German, Dutch and French.
3. ADLER, ISRAEL. - Musical life and traditions of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam in the XVIIIth century. (Yuval monograph series 1).
Jerusalem, 1974. Or. wrps. 142 pp. EUR 20.--
~With musical examples and Hebrew texts. A few illustrations
4. ASSAF, SHARON and EMILY D. BILSKI. - Salom Italia's Ester Scrolls and the Dutch Golden Age. (Essay Series in Jewish Cultue and Art).
Amsterdam, Joods Hisotrisch Museum, Menasseh Ben Israel Instituut., No date (after 2008). Softcover. 52 pp., illustrated. New.. EUR 9.50
~Essay, published on the occasion of the exhibition: The Triumph of Identity, Salom Italia's Ester Scrolls and the Dutch Golden Age', in the Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam
5. BARENDREGT, JAAP. - Securities at Risk. The restitution of jewish securities stolen in the Netherlands during World War II. Edited by Eric Fischer, Cherelt Kroeze and Joop Sanders. ISBN 9052601364.
Amsterdam, Aksant Academic Publishers, 2004. Softcover. 94 pp., illustrated; New. EUR 6.60
6. BELINFANTE, JUDITH C.E. and EDWARD VAN VOOLEN. - The Esnoga. A monument to Portuguese-Jewish culture. Co-authors: David Ph. Cohen Paraira, Jaffa Baruch-Sznaj and Julie-Marthe Cohen. 2nd ed. ISBN 9090043500.
Amsterdam, D'arts., 2001. Or. cloth with dustjacket. 95 pp. Illustrated. EUR 17.--
7. [BERGEN-BELSEN] - Holocaust and rebirth. Bergen Belsen 1945-1965. Foreword by Dr. Jacob Robinson. Introduction by Josef Rosensaft. Edited by Sam E. Bloch.
New York / Tel Aviv, Bergen-Belsen Memorial Press of the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations, 1965. Or. leather in or. slipcase. LXXXV, 386 pp. Guilt edges. Richly illustrated. Folio. EUR 250.--
~Edition de luxe. Text in Yiddish and English. Wiener Library 7, 4460
8. BERGER, SHLOMO. - Classical oratory and the Sephardim of Amsterdam. Rabbi Aguilar's Tratado de la Retórica. ISBN9065505474.
Hilversum, Verloren, 1996. Softcover. 141 pp. Illustrated. New. EUR 18.--
9. BESSO, HENRY V. - Dramatic literature of the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.
New York, Hispanic Institute, 1947. Or. wrps, slightly damaged.XI, 117 pp. Paper browned. Edges worn. Considering the paper used, a very good copy. EUR 55.--
10. BLOEMENDAL, HANS. - Shirei Chazanei Amsterdam. Amsterdams Chazzanoet. Synagogale muziek van de Ashkenazische Gemeente. With supplement: The (Amsterdam) Jewish religious service by H.M. Polak. Editor: Joppe Poelman van Beusekom. 2 vols.
Buren, Frits Knuf, 1990. Or. cloth. XL, 1-256; 257-476, 4 pp. Illustrated. Large 4to. English & Dutch. EUR 20.--
11. BLOEMENDAL, HANS (introduction). - IN MEMORIAM. With addendum. ISBN 9012091785.
Den Haag, SDU, 1995. Cloth, with dustjacket. Dustjacket has some slight traces of use. 858 pp. Very good copy. EUR 125.--
~Second edition containing the addendum. 103.000 names of Jewish war-victims from the Netherlands. In alphabetical order. With dates and places of birth and death. Short introduction in Dutch and Hebrew. Introduction by Hans Bloemendal
12. BLOM, J.C.H.; R.G. FUKS-MANSFELD and I. SCHÖFFER (eds.). - The history of the Jews in the Netherlands. ISBN 187477451X.
Oxford, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2002. Hardcover with dustjacket. 576 pp. Illustr. New. EUR 75.--
13. BLOOM, HERBERT I. - Economic Activities of the Jews of Amsterdam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 1937. REPRINT ISBN: 0804606463..
Port Washington, NY, Kennikat Press, 1970. Orig. cloth. XVIII, 332 pp. Some very slight folding marks. Very good copy. EUR 125.--
14. BLOOM, HERBERT I. - Economic Activities of the Jews of Amsterdam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Bayard Press, 1937. Orig. wrappers. XVIII, 332 pp. Some very slight foxing. Very good copy. EUR 160.--
~First edition.
15. BOAS, J.H. - Religious resistance in Holland.
London, Netherlands Government Information Bureau, 1945. Orig. wraps. 64 pp. Very good copy. EUR 35.--
~The author, a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism, escaped to England in May 1940. According to the author after the invasion, the christian churches `resisted all attempts of the usurpers to impose their pagan practices' like `championing the cause of the Jews'.
16. BODIAN, MIRIAM. - Hebrews of the Portuguese nation. Conversos and community in early modern Amsterdam. ISBN 0253213517.
Indiana University Press, 1999. Softcover. XIV, 219 pp. New. EUR 19.--
17. BOTS, HANS and JAN ROEGIERS (eds.). - The contribution of the Jews to the culture in the Netherlands. La contribution des Juifs à la culture des anciens Pays-Bas. Ed. by Hans Bots & Jan Roegiers. Offprint from: Lias 16, part 2. ISBN 9030210990.
Amsterdam / Maarssen, APA, 1989. Or. wrps. 159-362 pp. New. EUR 26.--
~J.W. Wesselius about Johannes Drusius. Offenberg about visit Menasseh ben Israel to Christina of Sweden at Antwerp. H.P. Salomon on `the oldest account concerning the origin of Portuguese Judaism at Amsterdam' and other articles.
18. BRASZ, CHAYA and Y. Kaplan (eds.). - Dutch Jews as perceived by themselves and by others. Proceedings of the Eight International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands. ISBN 978900411705 1.
Leiden, Brill, 2001. Orig. cloth with dustjacket. XIV, 457 pp. And plates. New. EUR 70.--
19. BRASZ, CHAYA. - Removing the yellow badge. The struggle for a jewish community in the postwar Netherlands 1944-1955. Published by the Institute for Research on Dutch Jewry.
Jerusalem, 1995. Softcover. 144 pp. Illustrated. New. EUR 15.--
20. BRASZ, INEKE (CHAYA). - Transport 222. Bergen-Belsen-Palestine July 1944.
Jerusalem, 1994. Or. wrps. 43, [6], 24 pp. Illustrated. Dutch, English and Hebrew text. ISBN 965 222 5006 1. EUR 25.--
~On rescue attempts by the Dutch Jewish community in Palestine.
21. CASTRO, DAVID HENRIQUEZ DE. - Keur van grafstenen op de Nederl. Portug.-Israël. begraafplaats te Ouderkerk a.d. Amstel. Met beschrijving en biographische aanteekeningen. Auswahl von Grabsteinen auf dem Niederl.-Port.-Israel. Begräbnissplatze zu Ouderkerk an den Amstel. Nebst beschreibung und biographischen Skizzen.
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1883. Large folio. Hcloth binding with minor defects. Or. frontcover mounted. XII, 126 pp. and 15, plates, 1 plan. Some slight foxing. Very good. EUR 270.--
~First edition. Bilingual. Text in Dutch and German.
22. CASTRO, DAVID HENRIQUEZ DE. - Keur van grafstenen / Selected Gravestones. A photographic reprint of the Dutch/German edition (1883) preceded by an English translation of the original and of additional descriptions of six gravestones and by introductory and bibliographical contributions.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, 1999. Large folio. Or. boards with dustjacket. 68, XII, 125 (5) pp. and plates. Very good copy. EUR 65.--
~Bilingual edition. Dutch and English.
23. [CASTRO, DAVID HENRIQUES DE] - COHEN, JULIE-MARTHE. - Up for auction - Onder de hamer. The variegated collection of David Henriques de Castro (1826-1898). Exhibition Catalogue Joods Historisch Museum Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, 1999. Soft cover. 40 pp. Illustrated. New. EUR 12.--
~Text in English and Dutch.
24. CLUSE, CHRISTOPH. - Studien zur Geschichte der Juden in den mittelalterlichen Niederlanden. ISBN 3775256199.
Hannover, Verlag Hansche Buchhandlung, 2000. Orig. cloth. VII, 495 pp. As new. EUR 40.--
25. COHEN, JULIE-MARTHE and JELKA KRÖGER (eds.). - Gifts from the heart. Ceremonial Objects from the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam. ISBN 9040090106..
Zwolle, Waanders, 2004. Softcover. 272 pp. Illustrated with many photo's. New. EUR 14.--
~In English. Among the contributions: Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig: Bernard Picart: Image, text and material culture. Jelka Kröger: Hebrew inscriptions on ceremonial objects. Mirjam Alexander-Knotter: The festive display at Amsterdam's Ashkenazi Synagogue Complex.
26. COHEN, JULIE-MARTE & FELICITAS HEIMANN-JELINEK (eds.). - Neglected Witnesses. The Fate of Jewish Ceremonial Objects During the Second World War and After. ISBN 9781903987216.
Amsterdam, Jewish Historical Museum, 2011. Softcover. 400 pp., illustrated after photographs. New. EUR 42.--
~With 11 contributions by different authors (and 5 Appendices), a.o. on Viennese judaica collections, Jewish Museums in former Czechoslovakia, Judaica Collections in Poland, Theft and Restitution of Judaica in the Netherlands, etc.
27. COHEN, ROBERT (ed.). - The Jewish nation in Surinam. Historical essays. Edited with an introduction.
Amsterdam, 1982. Or. wrps. 103 pp., illustrated. Very good copy. EUR 12.--
28. COHEN, ROBERT. - Jews in another environment. Surinam in the second half of the eighteenth century. ISBN 9004093737.
Leiden, Brill, 1991. Or. cloth. XVI, 350 pp. Very good. EUR 100.--
~Contains appendix: catalogue of the library of David de Isaac Cohen Nassy (late 18th cent.), editor of the Essay historique sur la colonie de Suriname, Paramaribo 1788. The catalogue mentions 433 items. In addition to this catalogue the author presents a list of 90 items listed by Nassy in his book and not found in his library.
29. [COHEN-NASSY, DAVID DE] - Essai historique sur la Colonie de Surinam. Sa fondation, ses révolutions, ses progrès, depuis son origine jusquà nos jours, ainsi que les causes qui dépuis quelques années ont arreté le cours de sa prosperité etc. Avec l'histoire de la Nation Juive Portugaise et Allemande y etablie, leurs privilèges immunités & franchises: leur Etat politique & moral, tant ancien que moderne: La part qu'ils ont eu dans la défense & dans les progrès de la Colonie. Le totu redigé sur des pieces authetiques y ointes, & mis en ordre par les Rérens & Réprésentans de ladite Nation Juive Portugaise. Paramaribo 1788. Reprint. 2 parts in 1 vol.
Amsterdam, S. Emmering, 1968. Or.cloth. EUR 32.--
~Unchanged reprint of the original edition.
30. DA COSTA, URIEL. - Examination of pharisaic traditions. Exame das tradiçoes phariseas. Facsimile of the unique copy in the Royal Library of Copenhagen. Supplemented by Samuel Da Silva's Treatise on the immortality of the soul. Tratado da immortalidade da alma. Translation, notes and introduction by H.P. Salomon and I.S.D. Sassoon. ISBN 9004099239.
Leiden / New York / Köln, Brill, 1993. Or. cloth, with dustjacket. XXIV, 578 pp, 2 folded maps and 8 plates. New. EUR 105.--
31. [DA COSTA, URIEL] - KASTEIN, JOSEF. - Uriel da Costa oder die Tragödie der Gesinnung.
Berlin, 1932. Or. wrps, loose. 340 pp. And 12 plates. EUR 10.--
32. DITZHUIJZEN, JEANNETTE. - A Shtetl under the Sun. The Ashkenazic Community of Curaçao. ISBN 9789460221576.
Amsterdam, KIT Publishers, 2011. Hardcover. 248 pp., illustrated after photograph throughout. New. EUR 27.50
~Translated from the Dutch first edition from 2009.
33. DUBIEZ, F.J. - La comunidad sefardita de Amsterdam. (Transl. from the Dutch).
4to. Orig. wraps. 12 pp. Illustrated. EUR 10.--
~Originally published in: `Ons Amsterdam', 17de jaargang, nos 11 en 12, 1965
34. DUBIEZ, F.J. - The Sephardi Community of Amsterdam. (Transl. from the Dutch). Or.wrps. 12 pp. 4to.
Orig. wraps. 12 pp. Illustrated. Very good copy. EUR 10.--
~Originally published in: `Ons Amsterdam', 17de jaargang, nos 11 en 12, 1965
35. FISHMAN, JOEL. - The Jewish Community in Post-War Netherlands, 1944-1975. Reprinted from Midstream, January 1976 (Or. wrps. pp. 42-53).
EUR 10.--
~Research done with support of the R.I.O.D.
36. FRANCO-MENDES, DAVID. - Memorias do estabelecimento e progresso dos Judeos Portuguezes e Espanhoes nesta famosa citade de Amsterdam. A portuguese chronicle of the history of the Sephardim in Amsterdam up to 1772. Ed. with introduction and annotation by L. Fuks and R.G. Fuks- Mansfeld.
Assen, 1975. Orig. cloth. XIV,233 pp. EUR 32.--
37. [FRANK, ANNE] - Beyond the diary. A photographic remembrance. With an introduction by Anna Quindlen. By Ruud van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven in association with the Anne Frank House. Translated (from the Dutch) by Tony Langham and Plym Peters. ISBN 0 670 84932 4.
London, Viking, 1993. Or. hcloth., with dustjacket. XII, 113 pp. Illustrated. EUR 20.--
38. FRANK, ANNE. - The diary of Anne Frank. The revised critical edition. ISBN 9780385508476.
New York, Doubleday books., 2003. Hardcover with dustjacket. 864 pp. New. EUR 70.--
~Prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation. Contains never-before-published material from the diary. Introduction by Harry Paape, Gerrold van der Stroom, and David Barnouw. Includes a summary of the report by the State Forensic Science Laboratory of the Ministry of Justice compiled by H. J. J. Hardy.
39. FRISHMAN, JUDITH and HETTY BERG (eds). - Dutch Jewry - in a Cultural Maelstrom 1880-1940. ISBN 9789052602684.
Amsterdam, Aksant, 2007. Softcover. 213 pp. New. EUR 21.50
~14 contributions. Among them 2 about Spinoza: Henri Krop: Spinozism and Dutch Jewry between 1880 and 1940. David Wertheim: Spinoza's popularity in perspective. A Dutch-German comparison.
40. FRISHMAN, JUDITH, DAVID WERTHEIM and others (eds.). - Borders and Boundaries in and around Dutch Jewish History. ISBN9789052603872.
Amsterdam, Aksant Academic Publishers, 2011. Softcover. 208 pp., illustrated. New. EUR 21.--
~First edition. With 13 contributions by a.o. S. Siegmund on the Ghetto of Florence, Dan Michman on the formation of ghetto's under nazi rule and its bearings on Amsterdam; David Wertheim on the political significance of Anne Frank, etc.
41. FUKS, LEO. - Aspects of Jewish life in the Netherlands. A selection from the writings of Leo Fuks. Edited and with an introduction by Renate G. Fuks-Mansfeld.
Assen, 1995. Orig. cloth. Bookplate inside frontcover. VIII, 220 pp. Very good copy. EUR 55.--
42. GALEN LAST, DICK and ROLF WOLFSWINKEL. - Anne Frank and after. Dutch holocaust literature in historical perspective.
Amsterdam, Amsterdan University Press, 1996. Hardcover. 184 pp. EUR 12.--
~Hannah Arendt calls the destruction of Dutch Jewry `a catastrophe unparalleled in any western country'. This book gives a survey of the individual accounts telling of this catastrophe and sets them in historical perspective. With many quotations of writers like Moshe Flinker, Gerard Durlacher, Margo Minco and Etty Hillesum.
43. GANS, M.S. - Memorbook. History of Dutch Jewry from the renaissance to 1940 with 1100 illustrations. Transl. from the Dutch.
Baarn, Bosch & Keuning, 1977. Large 4to. Orig. cloth with dustjacket (dj slightly dam. and repaired). 852 pp. Profusely illustrated. Very good. EUR 85.--
44. GRIJN SANTEN, WILHELM VAN DER. - Makum Aleph: Amsterdam als jüdischer Zufluchtsort In der deutschen und niederländischen Literatur. ISBN 9783826038365.
Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2008. Softcover. 383 pp. New. EUR 45.--
~Introductory survey on Jewish immigration to the Netherlands. The author selected 21 literary German and Dutch works which are discussed in detail. To name some examples: Karl Gutzkow: Ariel Acosta, Berthold Auerbach: Spinoza, Maurits Wertheim, De soete bazinne, Egon Erwin Kisch: Sieben Geschichten aus dem Ghetto, Siegfried van Praag: Pension Wessels, Grete Weil: Jüdin als Zustand, Arnon Grunberg: Blauwe maandagen.
45. HAAN, JACOB ISRAEL DE. - Jerusalem. Skizzen vom Tag. Aus dem Holländischem übersetzt.
Frankfurt am Main, L. Sänger Verlag, 1924. Orig.. boards. 184 pp. and portrait. Very good copy.
46. HAAR, CAREL TER and EDWARD VAN VOOLEN (eds.). - Jüdisches Städtebild Amsterdam. Aus dem Niederländischen von Helga van Beuningen. ISBN 3633540806.
Frankfurt am Main, Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag., 1993. Orig. boards, with dustjacket. 211 pp. Illustrated. Very good copy. EUR 15.--
47. HARARI, JACOB (ps. of Fritz Pick). - Die Ausrottung der Juden im besetzten Holland. Ein Tatsachenbericht.
Tel Aviv, Irgun Olej Merkaz Europa, 1944. Orig. wraps, edges damaged. Ends of spine worn. 100 pp. Paper yellowing. Good copy. EUR 40.--
~The author, born 1887 in Lissia, emigrated to Holland after 1933. Deported to Westerbork 20.6.1943 and to Bergen-Belsen 11.1.1944. On 29.6.1944 he was selected for an exchange transport to Palestine. He died in Munich in 1974. See Weinreb-Rapport (1976), p. 1639; Bibliogr. Judaica 2, p. 161.
48. HEIDE, A. VAN DER and E. VAN VOOLEN (eds.). - The Amsterdam Mahzor. History, liturgy, illumination.
Leiden, 1989. Or. wrps. 84 pp. and 32 plates. EUR 30.--
~With contr. by J.A. Brombacher, E. Fleischer, W.J. van Bekkum and G. Sed-Rajna.
49. HERRMANN, SIMON. - Austauschlager Bergen Belsen. Geschichte eines Austauschtransportes.
Tel Aviv, Irgun Olej Merkas Europa, 1944. Orig. wraps, minor dent in fore-edge. 96 pp. Paper rather brown. Very good. EUR 35.--
~Not in WL 7. In July 1944, 222 Dutch Jews, who had been transported from Westerbork to Bergen Belsen were selected for an exchange transport to Palestine and travelled by train to Haifa. In Vienna 60 Jews from other countries joined them. The group consisted mainly of children and middle-aged people. The author was an eye-witness of the journey and gives also many detail on the life in Westerbork and Bergen Belsen.
50. HES, HINDLE S. - Jewish Physicians in the Netherlands 1600-1940.
Assen, Van Gorcum, 1980. Orig. wrps.XXII, 206 pp. Illustrated. EUR 15.--
51. HILLESUM, ETTY. - Etty. A diary 1941-43. Introduced by J.G. Gaarlandt. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans.
London, Jonathan Cape, 1983. Or. cloth, with dustjacket. XIV, 226 pp. ISBN 0 224 0212 4. EUR 20.--
52. [HILLESUM, ETTY] - OORD, GERRIT VAN (ed.). - L'esperienza dell'altro. Testi di Hans C.H. Blom, Federico Cereja, Anrea Devoto, Vittorio E. Giuntella, Karel J. Hahn, Giacoma Limentani, Nadia Neri, Chiara Passanti, Sergio Quinzio, Fabio Russo, Piet H. Schrijvers e Klaas A.D. Smelik.
Roma, Sant'Oreste, 1990. Orig. wraps, slightly worn. 199 pp. Illustrated. EUR 14.--
53. HIRSCH, MENKO MAX. - Frucht vom Baum des Lebens. Ozer Peroth Ez Chajim. Die Sammlung der Rechtsgutachten Peri Ez Chajim des Rabbinerseminars Ets Haim zu Amsterdam. Zeitlich geordnet, ins Deutsche übertragen und in gekürzter Form herausgegeben.
Berlin / Antwerpen, 1936. Original warps. 367 pp. 4to. Fine copy. EUR 50.--
~Bibliophile edition of 1000 copies, published by the Soncino-Gesellschaft.
54. ILAN-ONDERWIJZER, JEHUDITH. - Aus finsteren Zeiten. 1940-1945. Spannungen und Erlebnisse eines holländisch-jüdischen Mädchens während der Holocaustzeit. Übersetzt aus dem Hebräischen von Manfred Rehfeld. Korigirt von Lea Sonnenschein-Onderwijzer.
Tel Aviv, geddruckt im Büro "Laot", 1995. 4to. Orig. wrps. 120 pp. Illustrated. Xerox publication. No ISBN. EUR 20.--
55. ISRAEL, JONATHAN and REINIER SALVERDA. - Dutch Jewry Its History and Secular Culture (1500-2000).
Leiden, Brill, 2002. Or. cloth. 335 pp. New. EUR 80.--
56. ISRAEL, JONATHAN and STUART B. SCHWARTZ. - The expansion of tolerance. Religion in Dutch Brazil (1624-1654). ISBN 9789053569023.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press., 2007. Softcover. 60 pp. Illustrated. New. EUR 17.--
~This volume analyses the unprecedented degree of toleration in the colony known as New Holland (...). Special attention is devoted to the position of Sephardic Jews in Recife and Mauritsstad, and to Portuguese responses to religious tolerance.
57. [JERUSALEM - JEWISH NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY] - The Portuguese community of Amsterdam in the 17th century. Berman Hall, the Jewish National and University Library. (Exhibition Catalogue).
Jerusalem, 1975. Orig. wraps. LXXIV, 68 pp. Illustrated. EUR 30.--
58. KAPLAN, YOSEF (ed.). - Menasseh ben Israel and his world. Edited by Yosef Kaplan, Henry Méchoulan, Richard H. Popkin. ISBN 9789004091146.
Leiden, 1989. Or. cloth with dustjacket. X, 278 pp. with portrait. New. EUR 100.--
~Among the contributions: Y.Kaplan: A generation of progress in the historical study of Dutch Sephardic Jewry. Henry Méchoulan: M. ben Israel and the world of the non-jew. Richard H. Popkin: The rise and fall of the Jewish Indian theory. J.I. Israel: M. van Israel and the Dutch Sephardic colonization movement of the mid-seventeenth century (1645-1657).
59. KAPLAN, YOSEF (ed.). - The Dutch Intersection. The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies) ISBN 9789004149960.
Leiden, Brill, 2008. Hardcover. 520 pp. Illustrations. EUR 125.--
~Contributions by Bernard Cooperman, Harm den Boer, Michael Studemund-Halévy, Jonathan Israel, Hilde Pach, Irene Zwiep, Rivka Weiss-Blok, Evelien Gans, David Weinberg and many others.
60. KAPLAN, YOSEF (ed.). - Religion, Politics and Freedom of Conscience, Excommunication in Early Modern Jewish Amsterdam. (Menasseh ben Israel Instituut Studies V). ISBN 9789081586016.
Amsterdam, Menasseh ben Israel Instituut, 2010. Softcover. 36 pp. New. EUR 9.50
~With a summary in Dutch.
61. KATCHEN, AARON L. - Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis. Seventeenth Century apologetics and the study of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1984. Modern cloth. XX, 391 pp. New. EUR 30.--
62. KATZ, DAVID S. and JONATHAN I. ISRAEL (eds.). - Sceptics, millenarians and Jews. ISBN 9789004091603.
Leiden, 1990. Orig. cloth. 293 pp. EUR 70.--
~Among the contributions: Michael Heyd: Descartes - an enthusiast malgré lui. Asa Kasher and Shlomo Biderman: Why was Baruch de Spinoza excommunicated? J.I. Israel: Dutch Sephardi Jewry, Millenarian politics and the struggle for Brazil (1640-1654). Yosef Kaplan: "Karaites" in early eighteenth-century Amsterdam.
63. [KAYSERLING] - DA SILVA ROSA, J.S. - Die spanischen und portugiesischen gedruckten Judaica in der Bibliothek des Jüd.Portug.Seminars "Ets Haïm" in Amsterdam. Eine Ergänzung zu Kayserlings "Biblioteca Española-Portugueza-Judaica" von J.S. da Silva Rosa." (Amsterdam, 1933, Or. wrps. 36 pp.).
Amsterdam, Menno Hertzberger, 1933. Or. wrps. 36 pp. EUR 30.--
~Shunami 1359a
64. LEVIE, ABRAHAM; SHLOMO BERGER. - Travels Among Jews and Gentiles: Abraham Levie's Travelogue Amsterdam 1764. Edition of the text with introduction and commentary by Shlomo Berger. (Hebrew Language and Literature Series, 3). ISBN 9004123881.
Leiden, Brill, 2002. Hardcover. 207 pp. Some folding-marks in last few pages. Good copy. EUR 75.--
65. LEYDESDORFF, SELMA. - We lived with dignity: the Jewish proletariat of Amsterdam, 1900-1940. Translated [from the Dutch] by Frank Heny. ISBN 9780814323380.
Detroit, Wayne State Univ. Press, 1994. Hardcover with dustjacket. IX, 278 pp. EUR 10.--
66. MA'ASEH-BOOK. Allerlei Geschichten. Maasse Buch. Buch der Sagen und Legenden aus Talmud und Midrasch nebst Volkserzählungen in jüdisch-deutscher Sprache. Nach der Ausgabe Amsterdam 1723 bearbeitet von Bertha Pappenheim. Mit einem Geleitwort von I. Elbogen. Herausgegeben vom Jüdischen Frauenbund.
Frankfurt a.M., 1929. Orig. boards, rebacked with original title-label mounted. Bumped corners. VIII, 346 pp. Some slight browning at the edges. Very good copy. EUR 60.--
67. [MEIJER, JAAP] - Neveh Ya'akov. Jubilee Volume presented to Dr. Jaap Meijer on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Edited by Lea Dasberg and Jonathan N. Cohen.
Assen, Van Gorcum, 1982. Or. cloth.XXIII,338 pp. Illustrations and 1 photographic plate. EUR 10.--
~Contributions in English, Dutch and one in Hebrew. A.o.: Swetschinski on Amsterdam Jewish Marchant-diplomat Moseh Curiel, Robert Cohen on Sephardi poor of 18th cent. Amsterdam. Added: Bibliography of the writings of Dr. Jaap Meijer.
68. [MEIJER, JAAP] - Hebraica and Judaica printed before 1900. Catalogue of the Jaap Meijer collection. Compiled by Jonathan N. Cohen. With introductions by A.K. Offenberg and Hans Visser.
Amsterdam, Library of the Amsterdam Municipal Archives, 1999. Orig. cloth. 140 pp. Illustrated. New. EUR 15.--
~Choice of 500 books from the important collection that was donated to the Amsterdam Municipal Archives by Jaap Meyer.
69. MEIJER, JAAP. - Hugo Grotius' Remonstrantie. Conference on Jewish Relations. Reprinted from Jewish Social Studies - Vol. XVII, No. 2.
New York, 1955. Orig. wraps. pp. 91-104. Stapled. Some traces of use. EUR 10.--
70. MELKMAN, DR. J. - David Franco Mendes. A Hebrew poet.
Jerusalem / Amsterdam, Massadah, Joachimsthal, 1951. Or. cloth. 170 pp. and 8 plates. EUR 12.--
71. MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL. - Rettung der Juden. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Moses Mendelssohn (Berlin 1782). (Reprint. Die Weltbücher. Eine jüdische Schriftenfolge, 3).
Berlin, Welt-Verlag, 1919. Or. paper boards. Spine damaged. Small sticker remainder. 63 pp. Portrait of the author incl. Stamp on titlepage. Good copy. EUR 15.--
~Meyer, nr.264
72. MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL. - Orígen de los Americanos. Mikveh Yisrael esto es Esperanza de Israel. Reimpresion. Con un preámbulo, una noticia bibliográfgica de las principales obras que sobre los orígenes, historia y conquistas de América y Asia se han impreso, y el retrato y la biografia del autor, por Santiago Perez Junquera.
Madrid, 1881. Small 8vo. Cont. leather, slightly worn. XXXVII, (16), 126, (8) pp. incl. portrait. Very good copy. EUR 250.--
73. MICHMAN, J. and MARION APTROOT (eds.). - Storm in the Community. Yiddish polemical pamphlets of Amsterdam Jewry 1797-1798. Selected, translated and introduced by Jozeph Michman and Marion Aptroot. ISBN 087820220X.
Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press, 2002. Or. cloth with dustjacket. 527 pp. New. EUR 50.--
~Yiddish text and English translation on facing pages
74. MICHMAN, JOZEPH (ed.). - Dutch Jewish history. 3 vols. Proceedings of the Symposia on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands. Volume 1: November 28-December 3, 1982. Vol.2: December 1986. Volume 3: November 1991..
Jerusalem, 1984. Vol. 1: orig. cloth with dustj. Volumes 2 and 3: Original boards. VIII,568; VIII, 438; VIII,410 pp. and 8 photographic plates. Very good set. EUR 90.--
75. MICHMAN, JOZEPH. - The history of Dutch Jewry during the Emancipation Period 1787-1815. Gothic turrets on a Corinthian building. ISBN 9053561862.
Amsterdam, University Press, 1995. Or. boards. X,238 pp. EUR 29.--
76. MOCK-DEGEN, MINNY. - The dynamics of becoming Orthodox. Dutch Jewish women returning to Judaism and how their mothers felt about it. ISBN 9789064460661.
Amsterdam, Amphorabooks, 2009. Softcover. 315 pp. New. EUR 32.60
77. MORGENSTEIN, SUSAN W. and RUTH E. LEVINE. - The Jews in the age of Rembrandt (Exhibition Catalogue). Organized by the Judaic Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington.
Rockville, 1981. Orig. wrappers, minor foldingmark lower corner. 84 pp. Many plates. Very good copy. EUR 45.--
78. [MORTEIRA, SAUL LEVI] - SALOMON, HERMAN PRINS. - Saul Levi Mortera en zijn "Traktaat betreffende de waarheid van de wet van Mozes", eigenhandig geschreven in de portugese taal te Amsterdam 1659-1660. Inleiding, transcriptie en aantekeningen.
Braga, 1988. Or.wrps. CXXXVIII, 23 plates and genealogical table. EUR 10.--
~In Dutch. Introduction at the dissertation. With bibliography. Morteira was probably a teacher of Spinoza. According to Salomon, Spinoza reacts in certain passages in his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus directly to Morteira's Tratado da Verdade.. (pp. CVII-CXIV)
79. MORTERA [MORTEIRA], SAUL LEVI. - Tratado da verdade da lei de Moisés. Escrito pelo su próprio punho em Portugues. Ediçao facsimilada, leitura di autografo (1659), introduçao e comentario por H.P. Salomon. (Acta universitatis Coimbrigensis).
Coimbra, 1988. 4to. Or. wrps. CXLVI, 1277 pp. and 23 plates. EUR 35.--
~Facsimile edition with transcription. Dissertation at the University of Nijmegen.
80. NADLER, STEVEN. - Rembrandt's Jews. ISBN 9780226567365.
Paperback. XII, 250 pp. Illustrated. EUR 20.--
81. OFFENBERG, ADRI. - Menasseh ben Israel 1604-1657. A biographical sketch.
Amsterdam, Menasseh ben Israel Inst., 2011. Softcover. 42 pp. Illustr. New. EUR 9.50
82. [ONDERWIJZER] - TIFERET BANIM - AVOTAM. Perakim be-Toledot Mishpachat Onderwijzer me- Amsterdam.
Tel Aviv, 1985. Orig. wraps. 76 pp. and 1 fold. genealogic table. Illustrated. EUR 28.--
~Text is in Hebrew
83. PIETERSE, WILHELMINA C. (ed.). - Livro de Bet Haim do kahal kados de Bet Yahacob. Original text. Introduction, notes and index in English.
Assen, 1970. Orig. cloth.XVI,208 pp. and 1 plate. EUR 14.--
84. [PINTO, ISAAC DE] - SALOMON, H.P. - The "De Pinto" manuscript. A 17th century Marrano family history. (Repr. from Studia Rosenthaliana).
Assen, 1975. Orig. wraps, slightly stained. 62 pp. and 10 plates. EUR 10.--
85. POLAK, ARTHUR. - Joodse penningen in de Nederlanden. Jewish medals in the Netherlands. English summaries by Lt.-Col. L.S. Forrer.
Amsterdam, Jacques Schulman, 1958. Or. wrps. 80 pp. and 17 photographic plates. EUR 30.--
~Dr. Polak became after the war director of CIZ, the Jewish hospital in Amsterdam. Devoted to Jewish cultural affairs he organised the exhibition "Mokum and Mediene" at the Jewish Historical Museum.
86. PRAAG, J.A. VAN. - Los Sefarditas de Amsterdam y sus actividades. Publicaciones de la catedra "Archer M. Huntington".
Madrid, Universidad de Madrid, 1967. Small 8vo. Or. wraps.36 pp. EUR 20.--
87. PRESSER, JACOB. - The destruction of the Dutch Jews. Translated from the Dutch by Arnold Pomerans.
New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1969. Or. cloth, with dustjacket. XIV, 556 pp. and 24 plates. EUR 35.--
88. PRESSER, JACQUES. - Ashes in the wind. The destruction of Dutch Jewry. Translated from the Dutch by Arnold Pomerans.
London, Souvenir Press, 1968. Or. cloth with dustjacket (dustj. worn). XIV, 556 pp. with plan of Westerbork camp and 24 photographic plates. Very good copy. EUR 30.--
~Standard work on the Dutch holocaust
89. [REMBRANDT] - Rembrandt et la nouvelle Jérusalem; juifs et chrétiens à Amsterdam au siècle d'or. ISBN 9782755702439.
Paris, Panama, 2007. Hardcover, slight traces of use. 368 pp. Illustrated. EUR 45.--
~Published at the occasion of the exhibition at Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme. Among the contributions: Yosef Kaplan: Les juifs portugais de la Jérusalem du Nord; Mirjam Alexander-Knotter, Les inscriptions hébraïques dans l'oeuvre de Rembrandt.
90. RIVLIN, BENJAMIN. - Letters of the Pekidim and Amarcalim of Amsterdam 5589/1828-9.
Jerusalem, Ben Zvi, 1978. Orig. cloth. 326 pp. Very good. EUR 30.--
~Book is entirely in HEBREW.
91. SALOMON, H.P. - Portrait of a new Christian, Fernao Alvares Melo (1569-1632). With contributions by J. de Lange.
Paris, 1982. Orig. wraps. XXXVIII, 372 pp. with 14 plates and 7 genealogical charts. New. Uncut. EUR 25.--
~Fernando Alvares Melo, Lisbon Marrano merchant, fled to Amsterdam around 1614.
92. SAPERSTEIN, MARC. - Exile In Amsterdam: Saul Levi Morteira's Sermons to a Congregation of "New Jews".
Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press, 2005. Orig. cloth with dustjacket. XXII, 585 pp. Dustjacket damaged. Otherwise new. EUR 50.--
~First comprehensive analysis of 550 manuscript sermons in Morteira's own writing, preserved in Budapest. (Some of these sermons must have been heard by the young Spinoza.)
93. [SEELIGMANN, S.] - Festskrift i anledning af Professor David Simonsens 70-aarige Fodselsdag.
Copenhagen, 1923. Orig. wraps, spine and edges damaged. 400, 56 pp. Hinges partly weak. Otherwise good. EUR 50.--
~pp. 253-257: Sigmund Seeligmann: Die Juden in Holland. Other contributions, to name a few: Elkan N. Adler: `Talmud printing before Bomberg'; J.S. Da Silva Rosa: `een eigenhandige brief van Daniel Levi de Barrios'; Julius Guttmann: 'John Spencers Erkläarung der biblischen Gesetze in ihrer Beziehung zu Maimonides.
94. SEROUSSI, EDWIN. - Diversity with Unity. Some Historical Aspects of Dutch Synagogue Music. (Menasseh ben Israel Instituut Studies I).
Amsterdam, Menasseh ben israel Instituut., 2008. Softcover. 40 pp. New. EUR 9.50
~The Leeser Rosenthal / Juda Palache-lezing (lecture) from 5 June 2008. With a summary in Dutch.
95. [SOLA, DAVID AARON DE] - BARNETT, R.D. - Haham Meldola and Hazan de Sola. (Transactions sessions 1962-1967). (Reprinted from the Jew. Hist. Society of England, vol.XXI).
London, 1968. Or. wrps. 38 pp. And VIII photographic plates. EUR 25.--
~With bibliographies of Meldola and the Dutchman David Aaron de Sola, and translations of several Hebrew and Dutch letters.
96. STENGERS, JEAN. - Les Juifs dans les Pays-Bas au Moyen Age..
Bruxelles, Palais des Académies, 1950. Orig. wraps. 190 pp. One map. Uncut. Very good. EUR 65.--
97. SWETSCHINSKI, DANIEL. - Reluctant cosmopolitans. The Portuguese Jews of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam. ISBN 1874774463.
London, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2000. Or. cloth with dustjacket. XIV, 380 pp. New. EUR 24.--
98. SWETSCHINSKI, DANIEL and LOEKI SCHÖNDUVE. - De familie Lopes Suasso financiers van Willem III. The Lopes Suasso family, bankers to William III.
Amsterdam, Joods Historisch Museum, 1988. Large 4to. Orig. wraps. 88 pp. Illustrated. EUR 34.--
~Bilingual, Dutch and English. Published on the occasion of the exhibition on the Suasso family. 30 June-21 November 1988.
99. VEGA, L. ALVARES. - The Beth Haim of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. Images of a Portugese cemetery in Holland. Het Beth Haim van Ouderkerk. Beelden van een Portugees-Joodse begraafplaats. 3rd expanded edition.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Stichting tot instandhouding van historische Joodse begraafplaatsen in Nederland, 1994. Hardcover. 72 pp. and map. Illustrated. English and Dutch text. EUR 15.--
~Photographs of all important gravestones. To name a few Jews who are buried in Ouderkerk: Menasseh ben Israel, Joseph Raphael Athias and Michael de Espinoza (father of Baruch).
100. VOUTE, PETER, RYNDERS, HENRY. - Only a free man. War memories of two Dutch doctors (1940-1945) by Peter Voute. With the journals of Henry Rynders.
Santa Fe, The Lightning Tree, 1982. Or. cloth. 188 pp. Illustrated. Contains Voute's signature, dated Fall 1982. Ex-libris on flyleaf. Some traces of use on halftitle. Else fine copy. EUR 20.--
~The authors, both Dutch doctors, participated in the Resistance movement known as Medisch Contact, a secret underground society formed at the time the Royal Netherlands Medical Society was outlawed by the Nazis.
101. VRIES, ANNEMARIE DE, VRIES, BENJAMIN DE. - Ashkenazi cholent and Spanish pepper. The colourful ancestry of Annemarie de Vries-Broekhuijsen. Facts and background.
Tel Aviv. Or. wrps. 131 pp. EUR 23.--
102. VRIES, B.W. DE (BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY). - From Pedlars to Textile Barons. The Economic Development of a Jewish Minority Group in the Netherlands. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 141. ISBN 0444856870.
Amsterdam, 1989. Softcover. Corners slightly bumped. 6], 341 pp. Illustrated. Good - very good copy. EUR 26.--
103. WEISER, RAFAEL and JOSEPH KAPLAN. - Treasures from the library Ets Haim - Livraria Montezinos of the Portugees Israëlietisch Seminarium Ets Haim, Amsterdam. Me-Otsrot Sifriyat Ets-Hayim/Montezinos... (Exhibition catalogue Jerusalem National and University Library ).
Jerusalem, 1980. 4to. Or. wrps. Spine slightly damaged. IX, 119 pp. Illustr. Very good. EUR 30.--
~English and Hebrew. Survey of Jewish bookculture in Amsterdam with many explanatory notes.
104. WIJLER, JACOB SAMUEL. - Isaac de Pinto, sa vie et ses oeuvres. (Dissertation at the University of Amsterdam).
Apeldoorn, C.M.B. Dixon & Co., 1923. Orig. wraps., spine worn, waterstain along top edge and spine, discoloured. 116, 2 pp. With handwritten annotation on halftitle signed by Jac. Zwarts. Some foxing. Leaf with propositions in Dutch loosely inserted (as issued). EUR 70.--
~In French. With appendix: Letter to Voltaire, and Voltaires answer.
105. ZELL, MICHAEL. - Reframing Rembrandt. Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam. ISBN 9790520227414.
Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002. Orig. cloth with dustjacket. XX, 264 pp. As new. Illustrated. EUR 44.--
~`By looking closely at the artist's relationship with his patron Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel and the ideas of a group of philosemitic Protestants with whom the rabbi was engaged in an apologetic dialogue, Zell deepens and complicates our understanding of Rembrandt's sacred art from this period.'
106. ZWARTS, JACOB. - The significance of Rembrandt's the Jewish Bride. Printed by G.J. van Amerongen.
Amersfoort, 1929. 4to. Orig. wraps., slightly discolored. 35 pp. and 8 photographic plates. Good copy. EUR 24.--
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