The University of Wisconsin-Madison, The University of Amsterdam and the Menasseh ben Israel Institute (an academic collaboration of the Jewish Museum Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) present:
The Rabbis of Early Modern Amsterdam: Challenges, Achievements and Legacies
May 15-16, Jewish Museum, Amsterdam
In this symposium we will consider the individuals who made up the rabbinate of Amsterdam in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the particular challenges (and successes) they had in building and preserving Jewish communities in the Dutch