Abraham Coster (1575–1620)[1] was a Dutch anti-Jewish preacher who lived at Amsterdam in the seventeenth century.
Abraham Coster | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1575 |
| Died | 1620 (aged 44–45) |
| Denomination | Calvinism |
| Residence | Amsterdam |
He wrote Histoire der Joden, a three-part history of the Jews from their dispersion to the author's time,[2] first published in 1608.[3] In this history he described the manners, customs, and fables of the exiles, with the purpose of influencing the authorities to prevent the Jews of Amsterdam from building a new synagogue.[4]
Publications
edit- Historie der Joden, die tsedert de verstooringe Jerusalems in alle landen verstroyt zijn (in Dutch). Rotterdam. 1608.
- De grouwelike ongehoorde blasphemien ende raserijen van Thomas Leamer, Engelsman (in Dutch). Rotterdam. 1613.[5]
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1903). "Coster, Abraham". The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 292.
- ^ Swetschinski, Daniel M. (2021). "Settlement, Toleration, and Association until 1639". In Blom, H.; Wertheim, D. J.; Berg, H.; Wallet, B. T. (eds.). Reappraising the History of the Jews in the Netherlands. Liverpool University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-80085-721-6.
- ^ Fürst, Julius (1863). Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 189.
- ^ Deutsch, Yaacov (2012). Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Europe. Oxford University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-19-997435-1.
- ^ Koenen, Hendrik Jakob (1843). Geschiedenis der Joden in Nederland (in Dutch). Utrecht: C. van der Post Jr. pp. 28, 335.
- ^ Sprunger, Keith L. (1993). Trumpets from the Tower: English Puritan Printing in the Netherlands, 1600–1640. Brill. p. 81. ISBN 978-90-04-09935-7.