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Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th–17th Centuries

Author : Henryk Szlajfer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004686441

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Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th–17th Centuries by Henryk Szlajfer Pdf

Amsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian “great Jewish merchants.” However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the world group sui generis, were equally crucial. Their religious identities were fluid, but at the same time they and the “new Jews” from Amsterdam formed a part of economic modernity epitomized by the rebellious Netherlands and the developing Atlantic economy. At the height of their influence they played a pivotal, albeit controversial, role in the rising slave trade. The disappearance of New Christians in Latin America had to be contextualised with inquisitorial persecutions and growing competition in mind.

Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries

Author : Henryk Szlajfer
Publisher : Studies in Critical Social Sci
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004686312

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Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries by Henryk Szlajfer Pdf

In Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries: A Survey, Henryk Szlajfer describes the ways New Christians and Jews contributed to the rise of the Atlantic economy by developing non-corporate world-wide trade networks, their involvement in the New World sugar plantations, and the role they played until mid-17th century in the slave trade. He argues that persecutions of New Christians by the Inquisition were a critical variable in explaining the destruction of this unique example of early modern entrepreneurship.

Religion and Trade

Author : Francesca Trivellato,Leor Halevi,Cátia Antunes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199379194

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Religion and Trade by Francesca Trivellato,Leor Halevi,Cátia Antunes Pdf

This title focuses on trade across religious boundaries around the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the second millennium, when transportation technology was fragile and religion often a primary marker of identity. It examines a wide range of commercial exchanges from first encounters between strangers who worshipped different gods and originated in different continents to everyday transactions between merchants who lived in the same city yet belonged to diverse confessional groups.

Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century

Author : Yda Schreuder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319970615

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Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century by Yda Schreuder Pdf

This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the “Portuguese Nation,” conducting trade from the Iberian Peninsula and Brazil. Examining the “Myth of the Dutch,” the “Sephardic Moment,” and the impact of the British Navigation Acts, Yda Schreuder focuses attention on Barbados and Jamaica and demonstrates how Amsterdam remained Europe’s primary sugar refining center through most of the seventeenth century and how Sephardic merchants played a significant role in sustaining the sugar trade.

The Portuguese Jews of Hamburg

Author : Hugo Martins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004685796

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The Portuguese Jews of Hamburg by Hugo Martins Pdf

The political and economic rise of this small but influential community of New Christian bankers and merchants is analysed against the backdrop of its institutional dynamics, in an overall perspective never before conceived. The political, religious, economic, legal, charitable and disciplinary history of the community is thus explored through the analysis of the richly detailed protocol books, written between 1652 and 1682. This is the intimate and fascinating journey of their everyday lives, hopes and challenges, as brought to us by their leaders.

Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and ‘New Jews’

Author : Claude B. Stuczynski,Bruno Feitler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004364974

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Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and ‘New Jews’ by Claude B. Stuczynski,Bruno Feitler Pdf

Portuguese Jews, New Christians and ‘New Jews’ provides state-of-the-art and new insights on Portuguese Sephardic History as a tribute to Roberto Bachmann.

Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World

Author : Barry L. Stiefel
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611173215

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Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World by Barry L. Stiefel Pdf

Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World is a blend of cultural and architectural history that examines Jewish heritage as it expanded among the continents and islands linked by the Atlantic Ocean between the mid fifteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Barry L. Stiefel achieves a powerful synthesis of material culture research and traditional historical research in his examination of the early modern Jewish diaspora in the New World. Through this illustrated work, Stiefel examines forty-six synagogues built in Europe, South America, the Caribbean Islands, colonial and antebellum North America, and Gibraltar to discover what liturgies, construction methods, and architectural styles were transported from the Old World to the New World. Some are famous—Touro in Newport, Rhode Island; Bevis Marks in London; and Mikve Israel in Curaçao—while others had short-lived congregations whose buildings were lost. The two great traditions of Judaism—Sephardic and Ashkenazic—found homes in the Atlantic World. Examining buildings and congregations that survive, Stiefel offers valuable insights on their connections and commonalities. If both the congregations and buildings are gone, the author re-creates them by using modern heritage preservation tools that have enriched our understanding of the past, tools from such diverse sources as architectural studies, archaeology, computer modeling and rendering, and geographic information systems—all of which, when combined, can bring an even richer understanding of the past than incomplete, uncertain traditional historical resources. Buildings figure as key indicators in Stiefel’s analysis of Jewish life and social experience, but the author’s immersion in the faith and practice of Judaism invigorates every aspect of his work.

The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800

Author : Paolo Bernardini,Norman Fiering
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1571814302

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The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 by Paolo Bernardini,Norman Fiering Pdf

Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study particularly fruitful from a comparative perspective. As distinguished from other religious or ethnic minorities, the Jewish struggle was not only against an overpowering and fierce nature but also against the political regimes that ruled over the various colonies of the Americas and often looked unfavorably upon the establishment and tleration of Jewish communities in their own territory. Jews managed to survive and occasionally to flourish against all odds, and their history in the Americas is one of the more fascinating chapters in the early modern history of European expansion.

The Forgotten Diaspora

Author : Peter Mark,José da Silva Horta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107667464

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The Forgotten Diaspora by Peter Mark,José da Silva Horta Pdf

This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent to them by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. In Senegal, the Jews were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Côte communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial activities. These merchants participated marginally in the slave trade but fully in the arms trade, illegally supplying West African markets with swords. This blade weapons trade depended on artisans and merchants based in Morocco, Lisbon, and northern Europe and affected warfare in the Sahel and along the Upper Guinea Coast. After members of these communities moved to the United Provinces around 1620, they had a profound influence on relations between black and white Jews in Amsterdam. The study not only discovers previously unknown Jewish communities but by doing so offers a reinterpretation of the dynamics and processes of identity construction throughout the Atlantic world.

"The Tragic Couple"

Author : James Bernauer,Robert Aleksander Maryks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004260375

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"The Tragic Couple" by James Bernauer,Robert Aleksander Maryks Pdf

The Tragic Couple is the first book length examination of the historical encounters between Jesuits and Jews from the modern period through the twentieth century where a special focus is placed on events leading to the Holocaust.

Black and Slave

Author : David M. Goldenberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110522471

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Black and Slave by David M. Goldenberg Pdf

The series Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) publishes monographs and collected volumes which explore the reception history of the Bible in a wide variety of academic and cultural contexts. Closely linked to the multi-volume project Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), this book series is a publication platform for works which cover the broad field of reception history of the Bible in various religious traditions, historical periods, and cultural fields. Volumes in this series aim to present the material of reception processes or to develop methodological discussions in more detail, enabling authors and readers to more deeply engage and understand the dynamics of biblical reception in a wide variety of academic fields. Further information on „The Bible and Its Reception“.

The Jewish Contribution to Civilization

Author : Jeremy Cohen,Richard I. Cohen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800345409

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The Jewish Contribution to Civilization by Jeremy Cohen,Richard I. Cohen Pdf

This book investigates the idea of a distinct ‘Jewish contribution to civilization’ as it has been understood from the seventeenth century to the present. Offering a broad spectrum of academic opinion, it explores the role that the concept has played in Jewish self-definition and how it has influenced the history of the Jews and of others. It also considers the centrality of the concept in modern Jewish culture and for modern Jewish studies.

Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic

Author : Ronnie Perelis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253024091

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Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic by Ronnie Perelis Pdf

Identity, family, and community unite three autobiographical texts by New World crypto-Jews, or descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity in 17th-century Iberia and Spanish America. Ronnie Perelis presents the fascinating stories of three men who were caught within the matrix of inquisitorial persecution, expanding global trade, and the network of crypto-Jewish activity. Each text, reflects the unique experiences of the author and illuminates their shared, deeply rooted attachment to Iberian culture, their Atlantic peregrinations, and their hunger for spiritual enlightenment. Through these writings, Perelis focuses on the social history of transatlantic travel, the economies of trade that linked Europe to the Americas, and the physical and spiritual journeys that injected broader religious and cultural concerns into this complex historical moment.

Jews and the Civil War

Author : Jonathan D. Sarna,Adam Mendelsohn
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814771136

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Jews and the Civil War by Jonathan D. Sarna,Adam Mendelsohn Pdf

"An erotic scandal chronicle so popular it became a byword... Expertly tailored for contemporary readers. It combines scurrilous attacks on the social and political celebritites of the day, disguised just enough to exercise titillating speculatuion, with luscious erotic tales." —Belles Lettres This story concerns the return of to earth of the goddess of Justice, Astrea, to gather information about private and public behavior on the island of Atalantis. Manley drew on her experience as well as on an obsessive observation of her milieu to produce this fast paced narrative of political and erotic intrigue.

The Politics of Jewish Commerce

Author : Jonathan Karp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139472340

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The Politics of Jewish Commerce by Jonathan Karp Pdf

This study demonstrates the centrality of economic rationales to debates on Jews' status in Italy, Britain, France and Germany during the course of two centuries. It delineates the common themes that informed these debates - the ideal republic and the 'ancient constitution', the conflict between virtue and commerce, and the notion of useful and productive labor. It thus provides an overview of the political-economic dimensions of Jewish emancipation literature of this period. This overview is viewed against the backdrop of broader controversies within European society over the effects of commerce on inherited political values and institutions. By focusing on economic attitudes toward Jews, the book also illuminates European intellectual approaches toward economic modernity. By elucidating these general debates, it renders more contemporary Jewish economic self-conceptions - and the enormous impetus that Jewish reformist movements placed on the Jews' economic and occupational transformation - fully explicable.