{"title":"Eager to Belong : A Palestinian Jew in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam*","authors":"O. Cohen","doi":"10.5117/sr2020.1-2.010.cohe","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/sr2020.1-2.010.cohe","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the middle of the eighteenth-century, Mordechai Tama, a Jew from Hebron, left his hometown carrying a manuscript containing his grandfather’s commentary on Midrash Mekhilta, with the aim of printing it in Amsterdam. That plan was unsuccessful, but\u0000 once in Amsterdam, Tama did become a member of scholarly circles of the Portuguese-Jewish community. He absorbed that community’s blend of Rabbinic learning and Spanish literary tastes and, in turn, was valued for his knowledge of Arabic. This article examines the encounter in Amsterdam\u0000 between Western Sephardi and Levantine Jewish learned cultures by a close reading of the paratexts of the two books Tama produced in Amsterdam, published there in 1765: Pe’er ha-Dor (a Hebrew translation of the Responsa of Maimonides from a Judaeo-Arabic manuscript that had belonged\u0000 to Jacob Sasportas) and Maskiyot Kessef, a medieval glossary of homonyms by Solomon b. Meshullam Dapiera.","PeriodicalId":359095,"journal":{"name":"Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands","volume":"154 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128656115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the special issue: The Jewish Bookshop of the World : Aspects of Print and Manuscript Culture in Early Modern Amsterdam To the memory of Shlomo Berger (1953-2015)","authors":"Theodor Dunkelgrün","doi":"10.5117/sr2020.1-2.001.dunk","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/sr2020.1-2.001.dunk","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":359095,"journal":{"name":"Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129769998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}