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

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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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Table of Contents

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

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