An engaging introduction to the tortuous plight faced by exiledconversos in Amsterdam and their methods of response. Choicet, In this skillful andwell-argued book Miriam Bodian explores the communal history of the PortugueseJews... who settled in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century." -- SixteenthCentury JournaDrawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, and literary works, among other sources, Miriam Bodian tells the movingstory of how Portuguese "new Christian" immigrants in 17th-centuryAmsterdam fashioned a close and cohesive community that recreated a Jewish religiousidentity while retaining its Iberian heritage.