Jews and religious toleration in the Dutch Republic

Salo Baron on Emancipation

“…Baron, "Newer Approaches," 59. their own poor. 31 Yet, one should not overlook the inchoate nature of the Jews' position. The community was, in Daniel Swetschinski's formulation, a "voluntary religious association governed, in part, as a mercantile community."…”

Manners and Method in Classical Criticism of the Early Eighteenth Century

“…13Several of the essays in Bots and Waquet (1994) give useful detail on the culture of academic communication. See van Rooden (1994) 51–2 on the role of Latin; Levine (1994) on a variety of fault-lines in the communities of scholarship; van Lieshout (1994) on the role of dictionaries and encyclopaedias in defining the world of scholarship.…”

Creating Confusion in the Colonies: Jews, Citizenship, and the Dutch and British Atlantics

“…On the contrary, he asserts that the policies towards other dissenting groups became more like those that had always governed Jews." 40 Despite the fact that the legal status of the Jews was similar to that of Christian dissenters in both countries, there was a clear difference in how Jews were perceived vis-à-vis dissenters. A typical view expressed in mid-eighteenth century Britain was that of Sir Edmund Isham, a Tory MP who drew a distinction between Jews and other would-be immigrants in a speech to the House of Commons:…”