Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "van der Haven, Alexander"

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The Earliest Footprint of a Messianic Queen: Sarah the Ashkenazi in Amsterdam

van der Haven, Alexander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

A record from 1 November 1655 of a donation to a certain Sarah from Poland is probably the first documented historical appearance of Sarah the Ashkenazi, future wife of messiah Sabbatai Tsevi. Individually recorded donations ...
Eschatology and Conversion in the Sperling Letters

van der Haven, Alexander (Chapter, 2020)
Jews and Christians United: The 1701 Prosecution of Oliger Paulli and his Dutch Printers

Kunert, Jeannine; van der Haven, Alexander (Journal article, 2020)

Numerous religious texts were printed that would have been censored, elsewhere including Jewish religious texts. Yet freedom had its limits. In August 1701, Amsterdam’s judiciary council ordered the books authored by the ...