Jewish Studies. PhD student
Lawrence Rabone received funding from the NWCDTP (a consortia of AHRC) to undertake a week of study in libraries in Amsterdam. The trip included research on unpublished manuscripts in the
Ets Haim Library, which is the oldest Jewish Studies library in the world, as well as spending time at the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, University of Amsterdam, and the Jewish Historical Museum. This fieldwork allowed Rabone to explore the rich cultural, theological and social history of Dutch Jewry during the Dutch Republic's Golden Age in the seventeenth century and to trace the footsteps of the converso Jewish community which first settled alongside the River Amstel over three hundred years ago.
