Pogroms and reasons for gratitude.

Expulsion, reconversion, flourishing, and destruction.

Eighteenth-century dissertations.

The other Dutch Holocaust diarist.

And the Dutch-Portuguese ex-converts who founded it.

Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer.

The only Jewish silversmith in England.

Els Salomon-Prins Bendheim, in memoriam.

Founded by ex-conversos, it holds the world’s oldest manuscript of Maimonides’ code.

Reading the Bible as a justification for liberty.

Rather, they were dragged there by willing local civilians.

A growing force in the Netherlands’ politics?

And not always for good.