Jews in the Caribbean Paperback
Jews in the Caribbean Paperback The Portuguese Jewish diaspora was born out of a double tragedy: the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and the forced conversion/expulsion of the Jews from…
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Jews in the Caribbean Paperback
The Portuguese Jewish diaspora was born out of a double tragedy: the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and the forced conversion/expulsion of the Jews from Portugal in 1497. Subsequently many left the Iberian peninsula; some found refuge in the Caribbean, but succeeded in maintaining strong connections with Portuguese Jews in western Europe, the Ottoman empire, and the Far East, while they also forged ties with the surrounding peoples and cultures. The potent combination of expulsion, Inquisition, and crypto-Judaism left people neither wholly Jewish nor wholly Christian in their identity.
Its interdisciplinary approach allows a wealth of new information to be brought together to create a comprehensive picture. This book looks at many different aspects of this complex past. Part I sets the context, and also considers the relationship of Caribbean Jewry to European trading systems;
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