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Title The Sephardic Atlantic : colonial histories and postcolonial perspectives / edited by Sina Rauschenbach, Jonathan Schorsch
Published Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Contents 1. Postcolonial Approaches to the Early Modern Sephardic Atlantic -- 2. New Christian Slave-Traders: A Literature Review and Research Agenda -- 3. A Racial Approach to the History of Early Afro-Portuguese Relationships? The Case of Senegambia and Cabo Verde in the Late 16th and Early 17th Century -- 4. Mediating Multiculturalism: Jews, Blacks, and Curaao, 1825-1970 -- 5. Galut and Empire: On the Way to Final Redemption -- 6. Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch Expansion, and the Sephardic Community in the Atlantic World: A Note on the Intellectual History of Amsterdam in the 17th Century -- 7. The Empire Writes Back: David Nassy and Jewish Creole Historiography in Colonial Surinam -- 8. Jewish Savannah in Atlantic Perspective: A Reconsideration of North Americas First Intentional Jewish Community -- 9. Becoming Imperial Citizens: Jews and Freemasonry in the British Caribbean (Early 19th Century) -- 10. Christopher Columbus and Jamaican Jews: History into Memory -- 11. Triangulating Memory: Sephardism in Caribbean Literature -- 12. Esther Brandeau / Jacques La Fargue: An Eighteenth-Century Multicrosser in the Canadian Cultural Archive -- 13. Judeo-Moroccan Traditions and the Age of European Expansionism in North Africa
Summary This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is a collection of substantive, sophisticated and variegated essays, combining case studies with theoretical reflections, organized into three sections: race and blood, metropoles and colonies, and history and memory. Twelve chapters treat converso slave traders, race and early Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa, Sephardim and people of color in nineteenth-century Curaao, Portuguese converso/Sephardic imperialist behavior, Caspar Barlaeus attitude toward Jews in the Sephardic Atlantic, Jewish-Creole historiography in eighteenth-century Suriname, Savannahs eighteenth-century Sephardic community in an Altantic setting, Freemasonry and Sephardim in the British Empire, the figure of Columbus in popular literature about the Caribbean, key works of Caribbean postcolonial literature on Sephardim, the holocaust, slavery and race, Canadian Jewish identity in the reception history of Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue and Moroccan-Jewish memories of a sixteenth-century Portuguese military defeat
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Subject Sephardim -- History
Jews -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
Jews -- Migrations -- History
Jewish diaspora.
Postcolonialism.
postcolonialism.
Jewish diaspora
Jews
Jews -- Migrations
Postcolonialism
Sephardim
Atlantic Ocean Region
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Rauschenbach, Sina, editor
Schorsch, Jonathan, 1963- editor.
ISBN 9783319991962
3319991965