This book conveys new insights into a century-old controversy. Jits van Straten argues that there is no evidence for the most common assumption that German Jews fled en masse to Eastern Europe to constitute East European Jewry.

This book intends to answer these questions, but first it discusses some of the important questions that are neglected in the literature but important in the author's work such as the ethnic composition of Canaan/Palestine and the switch ...

Contains the records of the burial books of Zeeburg divided into two categories: adults and children. Adults are persons over 12 (girls) or 13 (boys) and only those records mentioning a name are recorded.