Jews and Port Cities, 1590-1990
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Review
This is one of the newer contributions to the "port Jewry thesis," which seeks to reframe scholarly treatments of Jewish paths to modernity in light of the experiences of Western European and Atlantic commercial elites. First articulated by Lois Dubin and David Sorkin in the late 1990s, it has spawned a growing literature that challenges the "Ashkenazification" of Jewish Emancipation historiography. Instead of focusing on the landlocked centers of 19th century Berlin and Paris, it looks to Sephardim and their far-reaching maritime trade networks a century and more beforehand.
As the discourse has matured, its proponents have begun to debate the outer limits of their scope of inquiry. That conversation was launched in two academic summits in 2001 and 2003, and the articles in Jews and Port Cities make up the formal written results of the second of these. Hence, while Atlantic Sephardim retain central billing, the book covers Ashkenazi port cities as well, and it extends over four centuries from the early modern period to our contemporary moment.
As the discourse has matured, its proponents have begun to debate the outer limits of their scope of inquiry. That conversation was launched in two academic summits in 2001 and 2003, and the articles in Jews and Port Cities make up the formal written results of the second of these. Hence, while Atlantic Sephardim retain central billing, the book covers Ashkenazi port cities as well, and it extends over four centuries from the early modern period to our contemporary moment.
Contents
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Introduction
David Cesarani Reflections on the Study of Port Jews Lois C. Dubin The Port Jews of Livorno and their Global Networks of Trade Francesca Trivellato Port Jews in Copenhagen Thorsten Wagner Networks and Communication in the Sephardi Diaspora Evelyne Oliel-Grausz Decline of the Sephardi Community in Late 17th c. Hamburg Klaus Weber Identity, Space, and Intercultural Contact in the Urban Entrepôt Adam Sutcliffe Curaçao’s Sephardim in the Making of a Caribbean Creole Linda M. Rupert The Port Jews of 19th c. Charleston Gemma Romain The Jews of Bristol and Liverpool, 1750-1850 David Cesarani |
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The 'Jewish Nation' of Livorno
Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti The Port Jews of Corfu and the 'Blood Libel' of 1891 Sakis Gekas The Port Jews of Libau, 1880-1914 Nicholas J. Evans The Glassgow Waterfront c. 1880-1914 William Kenefick Port Jews in Cape Town: Victorian & Edwardian Years Milton Shain, Richard Mendelsohn, and Vivian Bickford-Smith Anglo-America, Port Jews and the Invisible Transmigrant Tony Kushner Hamburg Jewry during the Nazi Period, 1933-45 Rainer Liedtke Singapore, Manila, and Harbin: Asian 'Port Jewish' Identity Jonathan Goldstein Conclusion Gemma Romain Abstracts, Notes, and Index |
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