The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 / / ed. by Norman Fiering, Paolo Bernardini.

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• MitwirkendeR: Alberro, Solange,; Arbell, Mordechai,; Bernardini, Paolo,; Boyajian, James C.,; Böhm, Günter,; Drescher, Seymour,; Efron, Noah J.,; Emmer, Pieter,; Fiering, Norman,; Frankel, Rachel,; Garrigus, John D.,; Israel, Jonathan I.,; Katz, David S.,; Klooster, Wim,; Marzagalli, Silvia,; Nahon, Gérard,; Novinsky, Anita,; Pieroni, Geraldo,; Pijning, Ernst,; Romm, James,; Rowland, Robert,; Sarna, Jonathan D.,; Schmidt, Benjamin,; Seed, Patricia,; Uchmany, Eva Alexandra,; Wachtel, Nathan,; Williams, James Homer,
• HerausgeberIn: Bernardini, Paolo,; Fiering, Norman,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: European Expansion & Global Interaction ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (592 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Maps -- A Milder Colonization: Jewish Expansion to the New World, and the New World in the Jewish Consciousness of the Early Modern Era -- 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 -- 2. Knowledge of Newly Discovered Lands among Jewish Communities of Europe (from 1492 to the Thirty Years’ War) -- 3. Jewish Scientists and the Origin of Modern Navigation -- 4. The Hope of the Netherlands: Menasseh ben Israel and the Dutch Idea of America -- 5. Israel in America: The Wanderings of the Lost Ten Tribes from Mikveigh Yisrael to Timothy McVeigh -- II. Identity at Stake: Concealing, Preserving, and Reshaping Judaism Among the Conversos and Marranos of Spanish America -- 6. New Christian, Marrano, Jew -- 7. Marrano Religiosity in Hispanic America in the Seventeenth Century -- 8. Crypto-Jews and the Mexican Holy Office in the Seventeenth Century -- 9. The Participation of New Christians and Crypto-Jews in the Conquest, Colonization, and Trade of Spanish America, 1521–1660 -- 10. Crypto-Jews and New Christians in Colonial Peru and Chile -- III. The Luso-Brazilian Experience: Jews In Portuguese Latin America -- 11. Marranos and the Inquisition: On the Gold Route in Minas Gerais, Brazil -- 12. Outcasts from the Kingdom: The Inquisition and the Banishment of New Christians to Brazil -- 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 -- 14. Atlantic Trade and Sephardim Merchants in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of Bordeaux -- 15. Jewish Settlements in the French Colonies in the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Cayenne) and the “Black Code” -- 16. New Christians/”New Whites”: Sephardic Jews, Free People of Color, and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, 1760–1789 -- V. Blossoming in Anotherworld: The Jews and the Jewish Communities in Dutch America -- 17. The Jews of Dutch America -- 18. The Jews in Suriname and Curaçao -- 19. An Atlantic Perspective on the Jewish Struggle for Rights and Opportunities in Brazil, New Netherland, and New York -- 20. Antecedents and Remnants of Jodensavanne: The Synagogues and Cemeteries of the First Permanent Plantation Settlement of New World Jews -- VI. “The Brokers of Theworld”: American Jews, New Christians, and International Trade -- 21. Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic Slave Trade -- 22. New Christians and Jews in the Sugar Trade, 1550–1750: Two Centuries of Development of the Atlantic Economy -- 23. New Christians as Sugar Cultivators and Traders in the Portuguese Atlantic, 1450–1800 -- 24. The Jewish Moment and the Two Expansion Systems in the Atlantic, 1580–1650 -- VII. The Jews In Colonial British America -- 25. The Jews in British America -- Notes on Contributors -- Name Index -- Place Index -- Subject Index