An Interreligious Dialogue: Portrayal of Jews in Dutch French-Language Periodicals (1680–1715)

• Druk: Łódź, 2022
• Autor: Michael Green
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

This monograph analyses the way that Jews were portrayed in various scholarly journals and lay gazettes published in French in the United Provinces of the Netherlands, mostly by Huguenot refugees. Many of these sources have previously escaped scholarly attention, and as such are valuable sources for exploration. The scholarly journals are mostly focused on the discussion of historical and theological aspects of Jewish people and Judaism, the origins of their language and its influence on others, and their customs and nuances related to worship. The lay gazettes discuss gossip and contemporary events, portraying the Jews as their editors see them. Jews were depicted in these sources in several unique ways which are identified in this study. Particular attention is given to the dimension of privacy, which provides an additional tool of analysis aimed at better understanding how these constructs were created. The final part of this book examines how Muslims in general and Turks in particular, as well as the Siamese, were portrayed in the same sources, in order to investigate whether they were treated differently than the Jews.

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• ISBN: 978-83-8220-910-5
• ISBN druku: 978-83-8220-909-9
• Liczba stron: 126

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List of Illustrations	7
Acknowledgements	11

Introduction	13
Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue	13
Historical Background	17
The Huguenots	17
Huguenot Refuge in the United Provinces of the Netherlands	19
Jews in France	22
Jews in the United Provinces of the Netherlands 	23
Republic of Letters and Its Scholarly Journals	35
The Gazettes	38
Notions of Privacy and Private Life	40
Methodology	41

Part I. Jewish Image in the Scholarly Journals	43
Nouveau journal des sçavans	43
Journal littéraire	51
Histoire critique de la République des Lettres	57

Part II. Jewish Image in the French-Language Dutch Lay Gazettes	73
L’année burlesque ou recueil des pieces	73
L’esprit des cours de l’Europe	89

Part III. Non-Christians in Scholarly Journals and Gazettes	93
Islam	93
The Ottoman Turks	96
The Kingdom of Siam	101

Conclusion	107
Bibliography	111
Primary Sources	111
Secondary Literature	113
Webography 	120
Index Nominum	121
Index Locorum	123