Exile in Amsterdam: Saul Levi Morteira's Sermons to a Congregation of "New Jews"

by Marc Saperstein

Book Overview

Exile in Amsterdam is based on a rich, extensive, and previously untapped source for one of the most important and fascinating Jewish communities in early modern Europe: the sermons of Saul Levi Morteira (ca. 1596-1660). Morteira, the leading rabbi of Amsterdam and a master of Jewish homiletical art, was known to have published only one book of fifty sermons in 1645, until a collection of 550 manuscript sermons in his own handwriting turned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822963736
• ISBN13: 9780822963738
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
• Length: 612 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.9" x 6.0"