This collection of essays is dedicated to Prof. Yosef Kaplan upon his
retirement from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as Bernhard Cherrick
Professor of the History of the Jewish People. Under the title Mapping
Jewish Amsterdam: The Early Modern Perspective prominent
international colleagues and friends deal with a number of Kaplan's most
important research topics in the field of Dutch Jewish history, such as
the critical study of primary sources, the contacts between Jews and the
surrounding non-Jewish world, the Sephardic diaspora, the coexistence of
Ashkenazim and Sephardim, the life and work of Sephardic luminaries and
Jewish material culture. These studies celebrate Yosef Kaplan's
outstanding contribution to the study of Jewish history in general, and
of the history of the Jews in the Netherlands in particular.