The scene of centuries of Jewish hopes, achievement, and catastrophe.
Once one of the world’s largest and most important Jewish communities.
Amsterdam’s Biblioteca Ets Haim.
And perhaps by love, too.
And the traditional importance of Maimonides’ principles of faith.
A crypto-Jew’s diary, written so as to be hidden from the Inquisition.
A bygone Sephardi metropolis.
Of Moorish synagogues and Lewis Carroll.
The scene of centuries of Jewish hopes, achievement, and catastrophe.
And what it says about the origins of English Jewry.
And the story of its repression.
Profayt Duran and Honoratus de Bonafide.
Composing silabarios to prepare for apocalypse.