Laurence Sigal-Klagsbald, Alexis Merle du Bourg.

Laurence Sigal-Klagsbald.

Alexis Merle du Bourg.

Paris, France, 2007. 366 pp., illustrations: 280 col., 28.5 × 22.5 cm. French.

9782755702439

Musée d’ Art et d’ Histoire du Judaïsme (28 March–1 July 2007)

The relationship between Amsterdam’s Jewish community, its Christian population, and Rembrandt’s work. Particular importance is seen in the influx of Jewish refugees from the Iberian Peninsula and Central Europe at the end of the 16th C, at the very time that Holland’s Christians were undergoing an intense period of “Hebraic identification”. Both of these occurrences only slightly preceded the year of Rembrandt’s birth. 7 essays on: the Portuguese Jews (Yosef Kaplan), the influence of Flavius Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews on Dutch 16th–17th-C painting (Christian Tümpel), Hebrew writing in Rembrandt’s work (Mirjam Alexander-Knotter), a sketch presumably of Menasseh ben Israel (Henry Méchoulan), controversies around the work of Rembrandt (Albert Blankert), and Rembrandt in the collection of Baron Edmound de Rothschild. Majority of catalog dedicated to the exhibits. Extensive entries. 186 items.

AMSTERDAM
CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS
HEBREW LETTERS IN NON-JEWISH ART
HEBREW PRINTING, AMSTERDAM
MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL
PAINTINGS
PORTRAITS
PORTUGUESE JEWS
PRINTS
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN

Amsterdam
Cemeteries, Netherlands
Etrog containers
Ketubbot
Levite sets
Memento mori
Menasseh ben Israel
Minhagim books
Netherlands
Paintings, biblical images
Paintings, Jewish figures
Paintings, synagogues
Portraits, rabbis
Portugal
Printed books
Prints, biblical images
Prints, Jewish homes/residences
Prints, synagogues
Rothschild Family
Salom Italia
Salom Italia, Esther scroll borders
Salom Italia, Menasseh ben Israel portrait
Scrolls of Esther, engraved borders
Shabbat lamps
Shabbetai Tsvi
Spinoza, Baruch
Tass
Textiles
Tzedakah boxes/containers