Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Amsterdam from an International Perspective: Tolerance and Kehillah in the Portuguese Diaspora (Bernard D. Cooperman) -- The Boundaries of Community: Urban Space and Intercultural Interaction in Early Modern, Sephardi Amsterdam, and London (Adam Sutcliffe) -- Amsterdam, the Forbidden Lands, and the Dynamics of the Sephardi Diaspora (Yosef Kaplan) -- Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva: An Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish Merchant Abroad in the Seventeenth Century (Jonathan Schorsch) -- Amsterdam as "Locus" of Iberian Printing in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Harm den Boer) -- The Temple Mount in the Lowlands (Gary Schwartz) -- The Persistence of Images: Reproductive Success in the History of Sephardi Sepulchral Art (Michael Studemund-Halévy) -- Patrocinio and Authority: Assessing the Metropolitan Role of the Portuguese Nation of Amsterdam in the Eighteenth Century (Evelyne Oliel-Grausz) -- Philosophy, Deism, and the Early Jewish Enlightenment (1655-1740) (Jonathan Israel ) -- Yiddish Book Production in Amsterdam between 1650-1800: Local and International Aspects (Shlomo Berger) -- "In Hamburg a High German Jew Was Murdered": The Representation of Foreign Jews in the Dinstagishe un Fraytagishe Kuranten (Amsterdam, 1686-1687) (Hilde Pach) -- Amsterdam and the Inception of the Jewish Republic of Letters (Avriel Bar-Levav) -- Ashkenazi-Dutch Pinkassim as Sources for Studying European-Jewish Migration: The Cases of Middelburg and The Hague in the Eighteenth Century (Stefan Litt) -- The Hague, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Jerusalem: David de Pinto and the Jesiba Magen David, 1750-1767 (Gérard Nahon) -- From Amsterdam to Bombay, Baghdad, and Casablanca: The Infl uence of the Amsterdam Haggadah on Haggadah Illustration among the Jews in India and the Lands of Islam (Shalom Sabar).

A Maskil Reads Zunz: Samuel Mulder and the Earliest Dutch Reception of the Wissenschaft des Judentums (Irene E. Zwiep) -- Dutch National Identity and Jewish International Solidarity: An Impossible Combination? Dutch Jewry and the Signifi cance of the Damascus Affair (1840) (Bart Wallet) -- Jewish Artists Facing Holland (Rivka Weiss-Blok) -- Alfred Klee and Hans Goslar: From Amsterdam to Westerbork to Bergen Belsen (Benjamin Ravid) -- Next Year in Paramaribo: Galut and Diaspora as Scene-changes in the Jewish Life of Jakob Meijer (Evelien Gans) -- Writing against Silence. Jewish Writers of the Generation-After in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and France: A Comparison (Elrud Ibsch) -- Patrons or Partners? Relations between the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Dutch Jewish Community in the Immediate Postwar Period (David Weinberg) -- International Aspects of the Restitution Process in the Netherlands at the End of the Twentieth Century (Manfred Gerstenfeld) -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Plates.