" The philosopher Baruch Spinoza was a product of Amsterdam’s vigorous Jewish community. To this day, Amsterdammers’ proud slang term for their city is Mokum, the centuries-old Jewish name for it. (For that matter, Amsterdam slang for “see you later” is the Yiddishism de mazzel.) "

― Russell Shorto , The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America