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Studia Rosenthaliana - Volume 48, Issue 1, 2022
Volume 48, Issue 1, 2022
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A Philosopher in the Stock Market
By Meir BnayaAbstract This contextualization of Confusión de Confusiones (Amsterdam, 1688), the first description ever written of the stock market, within the broader European Baroque culture, will allow us to reconstruct Penso de la Vega’s attitude towards capitalism and to reassess the intellectual personality of one of the most interesting figures of Amsterdam Jewry and the Western Sephardic Diaspora in the seventeenth century. Read More
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A ‘Haro’ing Tale of a Jewish Medical Student
More LessAbstract The University of Padua Medical School is known to be the first institution to officially allow Jews to matriculate, beginning in the early fifteenth century. It remained the only university to do so until around the mid-seventeenth century, when medical schools in the Netherlands first began accepting Jewish students as well. In this essay we focus on one student from this Dutch historical chapter, David de Haro, rescui Read More
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A Walk Around the Block on Vlooienburg (1650-1700)
By Maarten HellAbstract In early modern Amsterdam, Vlooienburg was the heart of the Jewish Quarter. The vibrant neighborhood was the home of Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews, as well as German and Scandinavian Lutherans, Dutch Protestants and Catholics, French and Walloon Huguenots, English Puritans, and a small Black community. Recent spatial historical research sheds new light on these seventeenth-century inhabitants and provides i Read More
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