Atlantic Diasporas
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Review
Atlantic Diasporas is a recent effort at interdisciplinary collaboration between two customarily distinct fields, Atlantic history and the study of Port Jewry. The newness of this enterprise is reflected in the fact that the complete list of all previous attempts could be enumerated in a single paragraph of the preface.
The authors tapped for submissions included both veterans of Sephardic Atlantic studies like Jonathan Israel and younger researchers such as Francesca Trivellato and Ronnie Perelis. Their articles cover a broad range of topics including New Christians and Jews; monarchic empires and trading “nations”; The Americas and Europe – and the penultimate chapter makes a stimulating argument for bringing Africa’s Petite Côte into our treatments of the Jewish Atlantic world. Extensive footnoting provides a rich array of cross-references that round out a very worthwhile read.
The authors tapped for submissions included both veterans of Sephardic Atlantic studies like Jonathan Israel and younger researchers such as Francesca Trivellato and Ronnie Perelis. Their articles cover a broad range of topics including New Christians and Jews; monarchic empires and trading “nations”; The Americas and Europe – and the penultimate chapter makes a stimulating argument for bringing Africa’s Petite Côte into our treatments of the Jewish Atlantic world. Extensive footnoting provides a rich array of cross-references that round out a very worthwhile read.
Contents
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Jews and Crypto-Jews in Atlantic World Systems, 1500-1800
Jonathan Israel Jewish History in an Age of Atlanticism Adam Sutcliffe The Founders of the Jewish Settlements in Dutch America Wim Klooster Jews and the Making of British Transatlantic Commercial Culture Holly Snyder Portuguese and other Maritime Trading Diasporas in the Atlantic Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert Sephardic Merchants in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond Francesca Trivellato |
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Jews and New Christians in Dutch Brazil
Bruno Feitler Slavery, Conversion, and Upward Mobility in Surinam Aviva Ben-Ur Catholics, Jews, and Muslims in Early 17th c. Guiné Peter Mark and José da Sliva Horta Lost Tribes, Crypto-Jews, and Self-Fashioning Ronnie Perelis Epilogue Natalie Zemon Davis Notes Index |
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