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[–] Quaestorr 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
In Dutch history books, the Sephardic Jews that came from Portugal, are usually lumped together with Huguenots (protestants from France) and various patricians from Antwerp, who all came to (the province of) Holland, mainly Amsterdam, and who indeed stimulated commerce. These ' immigrants' are often (ab)used as examples by pro-immigrationists to make their point that immigration brings wealth with it (an absurd argument because those Jews, Huguenots and Flemish brought wealth with them, and didn't apply for social benefit doles).
To be honest I do not know much about Jewish life in the Netherlands, only that Spinoza, arguably the best-know philosopher from the Netherlands, was a Jew who was banished by the Jewish community because of his religious ideas.
I think that the various Jewish communities in the Netherlands, were organized parallel to the various protestant-Christian denominations in the sense that in both religions there was (is) a gradient from an orthodox to a liberal interpretations of the religious lore.
Antisemitism seems to never have been as virulent as in other countries. Even in the era of nascent fascism, the largest Dutch nazi movement, the NSB, originally hadn't any antisemitic ideas, and even had several Jewish members. Later, under increasing influence from Germany (especially after the 10th of May 1940, when the Netherlands were occupied by the German military and de facto placed into custody of the SS) the NSB radicalized. Mussert, its leader who became increasingly less popular with the German occupier (who favoured the radical Rost-van Tonningen), tried to save some of these Jews (by having them placed into a care home), but eventually all but one were sent to the concentration camps anyway.