Reluctant Cosmopolitans

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Reluctant Cosmopolitans is written by Daniel M. Swetschinski and published by Liverpool University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1909821802 (ISBN 10) and 9781909821804 (ISBN 13).

Winner of the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Studies Focusing on the social dimension of Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish economic and religious life, Swetschinski paints a lively and unconventional picture of the dynamics of a remarkable Jewish community, the first traditional Jewish society to engage creatively with the non-Jewish, secular world in relative harmony. A broad, authentic, and original vision of the transition from medieval to modern Jewish history.