Abraham Coster

Abraham Coster (1575–1620) was a Dutch anti-Jewish preacher who lived at Amsterdam in the seventeenth century.

He wrote Histoire der Joden, a three-part history of the Jews from their dispersion to the author's time, first published in 1608. In this history he described the manners, customs, and fables of the exiles, with the purpose of influencing the authorities to prevent the Jews of Amsterdam from building a new synagogue.

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