When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country’s long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945. With freedom reclaimed, a wave of joy and hope swept through the nation, finding its most powerful expression in the stirring liberation songs that resonated across the land. These songs, an evocative transatlantic soundtrack of freedom, captured the spirit of the time through music, lyrics, and dance, c...

The yearbook offers an international, interdisciplinary, innovative platform for scholarly research in the field of contextual Biblical interpretation. Embracing contextuality as a catalyst for interpretation, the Yearbook is dedicated to fostering interpretations of Biblical texts.

The identification of ceramic imports within prehistoric and historic assemblages has long been the primary indicator for identifying connections between different sites and regions. Yet this has fostered a presence/absence diagnosis for contact between different communities. Approaches such as post-colonial perspectives and network analysis, which focus on the nature of the connections, are now beginning to offer more meaningful ways of considering past interactions. These approaches can bri...

Amstelveen is de tweede joodse plaats van Nederland met een rijkgeschakeerd joods leven. Toch staat het sterk in de schaduw van de Amsterdams-joodse gemeenschap. Bart Wallet gaat op zoek naar de wortels van de Amstelveense joodse gemeenschap en zoekt naar een verklaring voor de late start in de jaren 1930, de hogere overlevingskansen tijdens de jaren 1940-1945 en de naoorlogse opbloei. De Amstelveense joden worden uit de schaduw van Amsterdam gehaald terwijl de band tussen beide steden zichtb...