Mapping Jewish History: Two Illustrated Lectures — “From Mauritsstad to New Amsterdam: Mapping Early Jewish Presence in the Americas,” and “Topography of Terror: Maps of the Warsaw Ghetto”

• History
• Religion & Spirituality

With Harrie Teunissen, MSc, Ph.D., map curator and historian. The first illustrated talk traces, mainly with seventeenth century Dutch maps, the first Jewish communities in the Americas, from Mauritsstad (now Recife in Brazil) to New Amsterdam (now New York) and explores the role of Jews in the European expansion to the West, their share in the slave trade and the religious tolerance by the colonial regimes. The second visual lecture analyses wartime Warsaw Ghetto maps, mostly from the speaker’s private collection.