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- Title
Romulus and Moses: Expressing Social Conformity through Images of the Past in the Amsterdam Haggadot of 1695 and 1712.
- Authors
Frankel, David
- Abstract
As in many other times and places Jews of seventeenth century Amsterdam developed an acceptance of and conformity to the social and cultural context of the host society. Aspects of this accommodation are explored in relation to an analysis of the illustrations in the Amsterdam Passover Haggadah, published in 1695 and 1712, scenes which were destined to become the archetypes for subsequent printed and hand-made versions for the next three centuries. The images themselves were based on historical and biblical illustrations by Matthais Merian the Elder. Here their selection, modification and transformation from a secular or Christian into a Jewish context takes as a starting point the re-imagining of a picture of Romulus and Remus as Moses and the Egyptian overseer.
- Subjects
AMSTERDAM (Netherlands); CONFORMITY; SOCIAL acceptance; SEVENTEENTH century; SOCIAL context; PASSOVER
- Publication
Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, 2022, Vol 35, p106
- ISSN
1037-0838
- Publication type
Article