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From: "Richard Kitchen" <>
Subject: Re: «The Jews in New Amsterdam»
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 13:32:10 PST

>Who was Solomon Pietersen, a Jew'? He is not included in the pages of
>Dr. Stern's book, nor does he appear to have been one of the
>twenty-three Saint Charles' passengers. Had he preceded the
>twenty-three in some way? Perhaps so. His willingness to go before the
>court in their behalf indicates that he had a certain familiarity with
>the burgonmasters of New Amsterdam, and he obviously spoke fluent
>Dutch. There is also evidence (his name, for one thing) that Pietersen
>was an Ashkenazic or German, Jew..."

Well, not necessarily. Pietersen implies that his father's name was Pieter.
That's a following of the Dutch form of patronymic. It also certainly
doesn't seem particularly Jewish, let alone Ashkenazic during the time
period. But besides that, since the Spanish ruled the Low Countries for so
long, wouldn't there have been Ladinos in Holland?

Rick Kitchen

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