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… Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Portuguese Jews of 17th-Century Amsterdam” by Daniel M. Swetschinski, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 394 pages, $55
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The Dutch, like the Jews, are a highly practical people, able to live quite well with ambiguity and to finesse their own laws and regulations out of practical considerations Swetschinski describes well the basic attitude of tolerance with which Holland has long been imbued. But he also notes that the Jews were never officially granted freedom of worship by Amsterdam. They were recognized as a community in 1598 and allowed to become burghers (citizens of the city) under condition, as was stated at the time, “that before making the oath [of citizenship], they be warned that in this city no other religion can nor may be practiced than that practiced publicly in the churches.”
See the full article from “Ha’aretz”
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