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

Published by Berghahn Books 2001

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

Edited by: Paolo Bernardini and Norman Fiering

Volume 2 in the series European Expansion & Global Interaction

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782389767

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Paolo Bernardini was a Fellow of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and of the Royal Historical Society. Currently he is Resident Director of the Padova Program, Boston University.

Norman Fiering is the author of two books that were awarded the Merle Curti Prize for Intellectual History by the Organization of American Historians and of numerous articles. Since 1983, he has been Director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Paolo Bernardini was a Fellow of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and of the Royal Historical Society. Currently he is Resident Director of the Padova Program, Boston University.

Reviews

“This impressive volume shows that the history of minorities – specifically that of a diaspora – can open up completely new perspectives on the 'great' questions and developments of general history.” • Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft

“… this magnificent and much-needed volume … is remarkably free, factual or interpretive.” • American Jewish History

“The age-old tension between value-free history and history with a moral is implicit throughout this fine volume.” • The Jerusalem Report

“A substantial contribution to the scholarship on Indian [Native-American]-European relations … Specialists will find new nuggets to challenge existing interpretations, while readers new to the topic will find useful introductions and more detailed case studies that give some idea of the current issues under scholarly debate. All readers will experience the benefits of looking at one topic comparatively across vast amounts of space and time.” • Itinerario

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Preface Norman Fiering Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
A Milder Colonization: Jewish Expansion to the New World, and the New World in the Jewish Consciousness of the Early Modern Era Paolo Bernardini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. The Old Newworld: Ideas and Representations of America in European and Jewish Consciousness and Intellectual History
1. Biblical History and the Americas: The Legend of Solomon’s Ophir, 1492–1591 James Romm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Knowledge of Newly Discovered Lands among Jewish Communities of Europe (from 1492 to the Thirty Years’ War) Noah J. Efron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3. Jewish Scientists and the Origin of Modern Navigation Patricia Seed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
4. The Hope of the Netherlands: Menasseh ben Israel and the Dutch Idea of America Benjamin Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
5. Israel in America: The Wanderings of the Lost Ten Tribes from Mikveigh Yisrael to Timothy McVeigh David S. Katz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
II. Identity at Stake: Concealing, Preserving, and Reshaping Judaism Among the Conversos and Marranos of Spanish America
6. New Christian, Marrano, Jew Robert Rowland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
7. Marrano Religiosity in Hispanic America in the Seventeenth Century Nathan Wachtel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
8. Crypto-Jews and the Mexican Holy Office in the Seventeenth Century Solange Alberro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
9. The Participation of New Christians and Crypto-Jews in the Conquest, Colonization, and Trade of Spanish America, 1521–1660 Eva Alexandra Uchmany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
10. Crypto-Jews and New Christians in Colonial Peru and Chile Günter Böhm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
III. The Luso-Brazilian Experience: Jews In Portuguese Latin America
11. Marranos and the Inquisition: On the Gold Route in Minas Gerais, Brazil Anita Novinsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
12. Outcasts from the Kingdom: The Inquisition and the Banishment of New Christians to Brazil Geraldo Pieroni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
IV. From Toleration to Expulsion: Identity,Trade, and Struggle for Survival in France and Caribbean French America
13. The Portuguese Jewish Nation of Saint-Esprit-lès-Bayonne: The American Dimension Gérard Nahon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
14. Atlantic Trade and Sephardim Merchants in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of Bordeaux Silvia Marzagalli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
15. Jewish Settlements in the French Colonies in the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Cayenne) and the “Black Code” Mordechai Arbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
16. New Christians/”New Whites”: Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760–1789 John D. Garrigus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
V. Blossoming in Anotherworld: The Jews and the Jewish Communities in Dutch America
17. The Jews of Dutch America Jonathan I. Israel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
18. The Jews in Suriname and Curaçao Wim Klooster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
19. An Atlantic Perspective on the Jewish Struggle for Rights and Opportunities in Brazil, New Netherland, and New York James Homer Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
20. Antecedents and Remnants of Jodensavanne: The Synagogues and Cemeteries of the First Permanent Plantation Settlement of New World Jews Rachel Frankel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	394
VI. “The Brokers of Theworld”: American Jews, New Christians, and International Trade
21. Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic Slave Trade Seymour Drescher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
22. New Christians and Jews in the Sugar Trade, 1550–1750: Two Centuries of Development of the Atlantic Economy James C. Boyajian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471
23. New Christians as Sugar Cultivators and Traders in the Portuguese Atlantic, 1450–1800 Ernst Pijning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
24. The Jewish Moment and the Two Expansion Systems in the Atlantic, 1580–1650 Pieter Emmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	501
VII. The Jews In Colonial British America
25. The Jews in British America Jonathan D. Sarna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	532
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
Place Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	554
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	561

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 592
Keywords: Jewish Studies; History: Medieval/Early Modern; Colonial History; Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published: March 1, 2001
ISBN: 9781782389767