Format:
1 Online-Ressource (320 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780300252033
Content:
An in-depth look at the Portuguese Jews of Jamaica and their connections to broader European and Atlantic trade networks Based on last wills and testaments composed by Jamaican Jews between 1673 and 1815, this book explores the social and familial experiences of one of the most critical yet understudied nodes of the Atlantic Portuguese Jewish Diaspora. Stanley Mirvis examines how Jamaica’s Jews put down roots as traders, planters, pen keepers, physicians, fishermen, and metalworkers, and reveals how their presence shaped the colony as much as settlement in the tropical West Indies transformed the lives of the island’s Jews
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Names, Dates, Spelling, and Method -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Promise of Port Royal (1655–92) -- Chapter 2 The Peril of Port Royal (1670–1740) -- Chapter 3 The Jews of Plantation Jamaica (1740–70) -- Chapter 4 The End of a Long Century (1770–1815) -- Chapter 5 Jewish Communal Life: -- Chapter 6 The Ethnic Identity of Jamaica’s Portuguese Jewish Households -- Chapter 7 The Creole Jewish Families of Jamaica -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300238815
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mirvis, Stanley The Jews of eighteenth-century Jamaica New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020 ISBN 0300238819
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300238815
Language:
English
Keywords:
Jamaika
;
Juden
;
Geschichte 1655-1815
DOI:
10.12987/9780300252033
