Mediene Remnants
Yiddish Sources in the Netherlands Outside of Amsterdam
Biographical note
Tehilah van Luit is a doctoral candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD expected 2009) and a Posen Fellowship recipient from 2002-2005. Her current research interests include Yiddish sources in the Netherlands, Polish Jewish history and Galician Jewry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Research for this title was conducted on behalf of the Menasseh ben Israel Institute in Amsterdam, in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam and the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf (Germany). The Henriette Boaz Fund provided funding for the editing of the book.
Readership
All those interested in Yiddish, history of Dutch Jewry, and Ashkenazi Jewry in The Netherlands
Table of contents
Introduction
PART ONE
PUBLIC RECORDS
Jewish Communities
Independent Institutions
Supra-Communal Institutions
PART TWO
PRIVATE RECORDS
Rabbis
Commercial Records
Private Archives
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
PART ONE
PUBLIC RECORDS
Jewish Communities
Independent Institutions
Supra-Communal Institutions
PART TWO
PRIVATE RECORDS
Rabbis
Commercial Records
Private Archives
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
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