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September 6, 2002
Michael Zell Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 264 pp.; 114 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (0520227417)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2002.62

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In addition to providing refuge for Europe’s oppressed Jewry, seventeenth-century Amsterdam served as the hub of a theological movement devoted to effecting rapprochement between Jews and Christians. This program, known today as “philosemitism,” was mainly the brainchild of Dutch and English Protestant millenarians who, inspired by their interpretation of biblical prophecy, held such reconciliation to be a precondition of messianic redemption. Also central to the effort was a leading member of Amsterdam’s Jewish community, the...