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Preface
Norman Fiering
Introduction: A Milder Colonization: Jewish
Expansion to the New World, and the New World in the Jewish
Consciousness of the Early Modern Era
Paolo Bernardini
PART I: THE OLD NEWWORLD: IDEAS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF AMERICA IN EUROPEAN AND JEWISH CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Chapter 1. Biblical History and the Americas:
The Legend of Solomon’s Ophir, 1492–1591
James Romm
Chapter 2. Knowledge of Newly Discovered Lands
among Jewish Communities of Europe (from 1492 to the Thirty Years’
War)
Noah J. Efron
Chapter 3. Jewish Scientists and the Origin of
Modern Navigation
Patricia Seed
Chapter 4. The Hope of the Netherlands:
Menasseh ben Israel and the Dutch Idea of America
Benjamin Schmidt
Chapter 5. Israel in America: The Wanderings of
the Lost Ten Tribes from Mikveigh Yisrael to Timothy McVeigh
David S. Katz
PART II: IDENTITY AT STAKE: CONCEALING, PRESERVING, AND RESHAPING JUDAISM AMONG THE CONVERSOS AND MARRANOS OF SPANISH AMERICA
Chapter 6. New Christian, Marrano, Jew
Robert Rowland
Chapter 7. Marrano Religiosity in Hispanic
America in the Seventeenth Century
Nathan Wachtel
Chapter 8. Crypto-Jews and the Mexican Holy
Office in the Seventeenth Century
Solange Alberro
Chapter 9. The Participation of New Christians
and Crypto-Jews in the Conquest, Colonization, and Trade of Spanish
America, 1521–1660
Eva Alexandra Uchmany
Chapter 10. Crypto-Jews and New Christians in
Colonial Peru and Chile
Günter Böhm
PART III: THE LUSO-BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCE: JEWS IN PORTUGUESE LATIN AMERICA
Chapter 11. Marranos and the Inquisition: On
the Gold Route in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Anita Novinsky
Chapter 12. Outcasts from the Kingdom: The
Inquisition and the Banishment of New Christians to Brazil
Geraldo Pieroni
PART IV: FROM TOLERATION TO EXPULSION: IDENTITY,TRADE, AND STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IN FRANCE AND CARIBBEAN FRENCH AMERICA
Chapter 13. The Portuguese Jewish Nation of
Saint-Esprit-lès-Bayonne: The American Dimension
Gérard Nahon
Chapter 14. Atlantic Trade and Sephardim
Merchants in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of Bordeaux
Silvia Marzagalli
Chapter 15. Jewish Settlements in the French
Colonies in the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Cayenne)
and the “Black Code"
Mordechai Arbell
Chapter 16. New Christians/”New Whites”:
Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French
Saint-Domingue, 1760–1789
John D. Garrigus
PART V: BLOSSOMING IN ANOTHERWORLD: THE JEWS AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN DUTCH AMERICA
Chapter 17. The Jews of Dutch America
Jonathan I. Israel
Chapter 18. The Jews in Suriname and
Curaçao
Wim Klooster
Chapter 19. An Atlantic Perspective on the
Jewish Struggle for Rights and Opportunities in Brazil, New
Netherland, and New York
James Homer Williams
Chapter 20. Antecedents and Remnants of
Jodensavanne: The Synagogues and Cemeteries of the First Permanent
Plantation Settlement of New World Jews
Rachel Frankel
PART VI: “THE BROKERS OF THEWORLD”: AMERICAN JEWS, NEW CHRISTIANS, AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Chapter 21. Jews and New Christians in the
Atlantic Slave Trade
Seymour Drescher
Chapter 22. New Christians and Jews in the
Sugar Trade, 1550–1750: Two Centuries of Development of the
Atlantic Economy
James C. Boyajian
Chapter 23. New Christians as Sugar Cultivators
and Traders in the Portuguese Atlantic, 1450–1800
Ernst Pijning
Chapter 24. The Jewish Moment and the Two
Expansion Systems in the Atlantic, 1580–1650
Pieter Emmer
PART VII: THE JEWS IN COLONIAL BRITISH AMERICA
Chapter 25. The Jews in British America
Jonathan D. Sarna
Notes on Contributors
Name Index
Place Index
Subject Index
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.
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