In the early seventeenth century, members of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish community assembled a significant collection of Jewishand especially Sephardiliterature that served as a crucial resource for scholars, religious leaders, and students. This...
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In the early seventeenth century, members of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish community assembled a significant collection of Jewishand especially Sephardiliterature that served as a crucial resource for scholars, religious leaders, and students. This article explores Jewish and Christian models that may have shaped the project of book collecting; it traces the changing perception of book collecting in the community; and it identifies shifts in the cultural profile of the texts being collected. The arrival of Ashkenazi immigrants fleeing war in eastern Europe spurred the collection of new texts, and the blending of Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish cultures.
