Download or read book An Alternative Path to Modernity written by Yosef Kaplan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book depict the social and intellectual ferment of the former Marranos from Spain and Portugal who returned to the fold of Judaism in Western Europe during the seventeenth century and established new Jewish communities in Amsterdam, Hamburg and London.