Author: FRISHMAN, JUDITH and HETTY BERG (eds)
Title: Dutch Jewry - in a Cultural Maelstrom 1880-1940. ISBN 9789052602684
Description: Amsterdam, Aksant, 2007. 213 pp. Very good copy. Clean, no traces of use. Softcover, frontcover slightly discolored. 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. In failing to form a separate pillar in a period when various population groups were doing just that, the Jews were certainly unlike contemporary Catholics or Protestants. But were those involved in the socialist, labor and women's movements different from non-Jewish members of the same organizations? The traditional answer is that their high degree of assimilation made them indistinguishable. However, the authors in this volume suggest that the category of assimilation does not suffice to explain the attraction of Jews to these very movements and their disproportionate representation. In fact the Jews were not trying to gain entrance in a pre-existing culture but were involved with non-Jews in constructing a new culture. Thus the complexity of Dutch Jewish history once more becomes evident if not new. ISBN: 9789052602684

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