Book of Donmon Teith

Early modern Amsterdam was a prosperous city renowned for its relative tolerance, and many people hoping for a better future, away from persecution, wars, and e

The reputed wealth and benevolence of the Portuguese Jews of early modern Amsterdam attracted many impoverished people to the city, both ex-Conversos from the I

The political and economic rise of this small but influential community of New Christian bankers and merchants is analysed against the backdrop of its instituti

From the sixteenth century on, hundreds of Portuguese New Christians began to flow to Venice and Livorno in Italy, and to Amsterdam and Hamburg in northwest Eur

This collection is an introductory historical survey and selective cultural analysis of the development, coalescence, and eventual waning of a diasporic civiliz