The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800
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Review
This monumental collection of articles is the print version of a conference that was held at the John Carter Brown Library in the summer of 1997. The fruit of seven years of research, it brought together a diverse body of colonial Atlantic scholars and encouraged them to “peek over the wall of their academic confinement” to approach Jewish ingress to the New World from the broadest possible lens.
Sephardim participated in the westward expansion of Europe from both sides of the Atlantic, contributing to this effort as New Christians and open Jews. Perhaps even more than other minority traders like the Huguenots and Armenians, this enabled them to set up trans-oceanic networks with access to the Iberian, Dutch, French, and English empires, using agents who were conversant in both Catholic and Protestant culture. Taking this as a point of departure, the editors make a powerful argument that Jewish history in the colonial New World must be understood as a dynamic interaction between no less than three continents.
Sephardim participated in the westward expansion of Europe from both sides of the Atlantic, contributing to this effort as New Christians and open Jews. Perhaps even more than other minority traders like the Huguenots and Armenians, this enabled them to set up trans-oceanic networks with access to the Iberian, Dutch, French, and English empires, using agents who were conversant in both Catholic and Protestant culture. Taking this as a point of departure, the editors make a powerful argument that Jewish history in the colonial New World must be understood as a dynamic interaction between no less than three continents.
Contents
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A Milder Colonization: Jewish Expansion to the New World
Paolo Bernardini Biblical History and the Americas James Romm Knowledge of Discovered Lands among Jews in Europe Noah J. Efron Jewish Scientists and the Origin of Modern Navigation Patricia Seed Menasseh ben Israel and the Dutch Idea of America Benjamin Schmidt Israel in America: The Wanderings of the Lost Ten Tribes David S. Katz New Christian, Marrano, Jew Robert Rowland Marrano Religiosity in Hispanic America in the 17th c. Nathan Wachtel Crypto-Jews and the Mexican Holy Office in the 17th c. Solange Alberro The Participation of New Christians in the Conquest Eva Alexandra Uchmany Crypto-Jews and New Christians in Colonial Peru and Chile Günter Böhm Marranos and the Inquisition: On the Gold Route in Brazil Anita Novinsky The Inquisition and the Banishment of New Christians to Brazil Geraldo Pieroni The Portuguese Jewish Nation of Saint-Esprit-lès-Bayonne Gérard Nahon |
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Atlantic Trade and Sephardim Merchants in 18th c. France
Silvia Marzagalli Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean French Colonies Mordechai Arbell New Christians/”New Whites” in Saint-Domingue John D. Garrigus The Jews of Dutch America Jonathan I. Israel The Jews in Suriname and Curaçao Wim Klooster An Atlantic Perspective on the Jewish Struggle for Rights James Homer Williams The Synagogues and Cemeteries of New World Jews Rachel Frankel Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic Slave Trade Seymour Drescher New Christians and Jews in the Sugar Trade James C. Boyajian New Christians as Sugar Cultivators and Traders Ernst Pijning Two Expansion Systems in the Atlantic, 1580–1650 Pieter Emmer The Jews in British America Jonathan D. Sarna Indicies |
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