Amsterdam; Bookstore of the World

Jews are the People of the Book. Emile Schrijver is the General Director of the Jewish Historical Museum and the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam. He is a world expert on Jewish culture and history in the Netherlands. We were privileged to welcome him on 14 March 2021 to discuss Sephardic printers, booksellers, and readers in Amsterdam.
The Netherlands had been a publishing and literary superpower since the 17th Century. Historically, the Dutch read and owned more books per capita than anyone else. Books printed in Amsterdam found their way to the four corners of the world. Holland and more specifically Amsterdam was the world's bookstore.
Prof. Dr. Emile Schrijver is General Director of the Jewish Historical Museum and the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam, as well Professor of Jewish Book History at the University of Amsterdam. He is also one of the curators of the private Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books in Zürich, Switzerland. He has served as curator of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana at the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam for many years. In 2015 he was the Sigi Feigel guest professor of Jewish Studies at the universities of Zürich and Basle, Switzerland. Emile is an expert of Jewish cultural history and Jewish book history, who has published and lectured extensively in Europe, Israel and North America. He is the executive editor of an Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Culture (2019) and serves on boards and advisory committees of numerous Jewish cultural organizations in and outside the Netherlands.
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