Zwolle has an interesting history, especially from a Jewish point of view. It was the most important Jewish center of east Holland. Jewish merchants were given a
permanent place on the market, quite unusual for those days. The authorities were accommodating and the local guilds accept them as members. Most merchants arrived from Amsterdam; a wholesale dealer in grain, a cloth painter, a wig maker and a cattle dealer. There were even two Jewish physicians from Leiden. The cemetery had a wall to prevent "vandalismby the public". The city fathers donated the library of an old monastery and a synagogue was dedicated there. There was a rabbi with the longname of David Jacobs Stibbe Sjoesjan; Stibbe, because he bought the apothecary of Meindert Stibbe. He
was a Sephardic Jew and had thirteen children by his first wife, who died at age forty-eight. His second wife gave him two more sons. The oldest, Salomon Davids Stibbe settled as a merchant in nearby
port of Kampen on the Southern Sea. Like his father he became a rabbi, and he was elected to the Upper Consistory of the province. At his inauguration he said: "In which province, in which country, in which continent, under which government have Jews received so much freedom as here and now, in this country?" At the age of fifty-five his father became the chief rabbi of Overijsel for the next thirty years".
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