Jewish entanglements in the Atlantic world / edited by Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster.

Other author Klooster, Wim, editor.
Other author Ben-Ur, Aviva, editor.
Format Book
PublicationIthaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Copyright Date©2023
Descriptionix, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : The Revolutionary Potential of Atlantic Jewish History / Aviva Ben-Ur and Wim Klooster -- From the Fischel Paradigm to the Port Jew : The Challenges and Prospects of Restructuring Early American Jewish History / John Dixon -- Imperial Enterprise : The Franks Family Trading Network and British Expansion / Toni Pitock -- Declarations of Inter-Dependence : Understanding the Entanglement of Jewish Rights and Liberties in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1740-1830 / Holly Snyder -- Inter-Imperial Encounters : Portuguese Jews, the Spanish Crown, and Atlantic Trade Networks in the Seventeenth Century / Oren Okhovat -- To Trade is to Thrive : The Sephardic Moment in Amsterdam's Atlantic and Caribbean Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century / Yda Schreuder -- Colonial Metamorphosis : Jews as Soldiers and Subjects in the Atlantic Empires / Victor Tiribás -- Jews and Free People of Color in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica : A Case Study in Experiential and Ethnic Entanglement / Stanley Mirvis -- Sex with Slaves and the Business of Governance : The Case of Barbados / Aviva Ben-Ur -- Jewish Involvement in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions : The Threat of Equality to the Jewish Way of Life / Wim Klooster -- Connecting Jewish Community : The Occident, and American Jewish Advocate, Rev. Isaac Leeser, and a Jewish Atlantic World / Laura Newman Eckstein.
Abstract "These writings represent the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry within an Atlantic history paradigm. By departing from a national approach, this volume foregrounds the connectivity between Jews and other population groups in the realms of empires, trade, and slavery"--Provided by publisher" Provided by publisher.
General note"This book began its life as a workshop at Clark University in 2019, sponsored by the David and Edith Chaifetz Fund for Jewish Studies. The papers presented there became book chapters, which were supplemented by commissioned chapters"--CIP galley acknowledgments page.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Jewish entanglements in the Atlantic world Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023 9781501773167
LCCN 2023023904
ISBN9781501773150
ISBN9781501773143 hardcover
ISBN1501773143 hardcover
ISBN1501773151 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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