Language:
English
Year of publication:
2017
Titel der Quelle:
The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2017) 3-33
Keywords:
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Crypto-Jews
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Sephardim History
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Jews History 17th century
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Jews History 18th century
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Phoenix (Mythical bird)
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Exodus, The
Abstract:
This article sets out to explore the religious and cultural context of the phoenix and related imagery used as symbols by the Sephardi community in Amsterdam in the 17th-18th centuries. Proposes that the biblical narrative of the Exodus was combined with the symbol of the phoenix to form a metaphor for the journey of the members of the Sephardi Jewish community from Christianity to Judaism, and from exile (galut ) in Spain and Portugal to redemption (geula) in Amsterdam. Another image that will be considered in this context is the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, which also figured prominently in the construction of the community’s revived identity as Jews in the Netherlands.
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In Hebrew:
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"פעמים" 120 (תשסט) 9-59
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