Stanley Mirvis is an assistant professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, and the Harold Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies, at Arizona State University.
“Jewish society in colonial Jamaica, with all the political,
ethnic, social, and cultural problems that troubled it, comes to
vivid life in Mirvis’s study, which is one of the best ever written
about the Jews in the colonial period.”—Yosef Kaplan, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
“A skilled, engaging and readable study, leaping boldly beyond its
seemingly thin documentary basis of last wills and testaments.
While attending innovatively to domestic life, Mirvis admirably
situates this largest colonial English Jewish community amid its
transatlantic context: the Portuguese Jewish diaspora, the city of
Bayonne, which supplied much of its population, cross-empire
commerce, Enlightenment influences, tropical Caribbean exigencies,
and the slave system.”—Jonathan Schorsch, Universität Potsdam
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