Dutch Jewry in a Cultural Maelstrom, 1880-1940 -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- The New "Mosaik" Jews and European Culture, 1750-1940 -- The Politics of Jewish Historiography -- "The First Shall Be the Last" : The Rise and Development of Modern Jewish Historiography in the Netherlands until 1940 -- Epigones and Identity: Jewish Scholarship in the Netherlands, 1850-1940 -- Judaism on Display: The Origins of Amsterdam's Jewish Historical Museum -- De Vrijdagavond as a Mirror of Dutch Jewry in the Interbellum, 1924-1932 -- "Holland is a country which provokes serious reflection…" : Images of Dutch Jewry in the German Jewish Press -- Spinozism and Dutch Jewry between 1880 and 1940 -- Spinoza's Popularity in Perspective: A Dutch-German Comparison -- Mozes Salomon Polak: Jewish "Lerner" and Propagator of Freemasonry, Spiritualism, and Theosophy -- Jewish Women, Philanthropy,and Modernization: The Changing Roles of Jewish Women in Modern Europe, 1850-1939 -- Roosje Vos, Sani Prijes, Alida de Jong, and the others: Jewish Women Workers and the Labor Movement as a Vehicle on the Road to Modernity -- Stemming the Current: Dutch Jewish Women and the First Feminist Movement -- Dutch Jewish Women: Integration and Modernity -- Index of names of persons -- Index of subjects.