History of the Jews in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) (with Prof. Bart Wallet)

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[Music] welcome to another episode of this far chatter podcast I'm Naki weiny this episode was recorded a while back but I'm posting now as it is unfortunately appropriate because of the events in Amsterdam Thursday night where Jewish supporters of makv were attacked in Amsterdam following the soccer match which is sadly ironic as Amsterdam was once the the very city in Europe where the former Morano conversos went to escaped the Inquisition and they were episode hi everyone welcome to another edition of the farum chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined by Professor Bart vet who is the professor of Jewish history at the University of Amsterdam and he is the one of the editors or co-editors of the brand new uh reissued book it's really a new book called reappraising the history of the Jews in the ne in the Netherlands and we will be discussing the book and in general the history of the Jews and the Netherlands Dutch jewry as it is so thank you Professor valet for joining me thank you for having me it's pleasure to be here so let's start off tell the be here so let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background yeah so I'm a professor of Jewish history at University of Amsterdam uh be very precise professor of early modern and modern Jewish history in particular of Amsterdam uh and of course that that already says something about the focus of my um my scholarly work which mostly deals with um Amsterdam and uh Dutch jury of course in the broader context of both saftic and ashkanazi histories um now I'm I'm

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1. 0:01[Music] welcome to another episode of this far chatter podcast I'm Naki weiny this episode was…
2. 6:53to be a republic um it was a colonial Empire as well um so it's it's…
3. 13:04think was until recently a lot of Jewish history there as well I've been written on…
4. 18:51uh the the flow of um of Economic and Colonial Goods um now that's also how…
5. 24:59Jewish nation which which means that they are um um welcome in to settle in Amsterdam…
6. 31:13their functions were yeah so it's it's a it's it's interesting that in contrast to several…
7. 36:55published um across and and they were like transported to like Jewish community across Europe but…
8. 43:42there were also cities that didn't want to to have Jew at least until 1796 since…
9. 50:01great culture of a great cultural tradition the tradition of Israel um we are Israelites now…
10. 56:22relative success of um adhering to this moderate Orthodox identity and keeping everyone inside uh the…

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