Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 - by Alan P Marcus
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Highlights
- The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da Nação (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of the early modern period.
- Author(s): Alan P Marcus
- 344 Pages
- History, Latin America
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The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da Nação (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of the early modern period. Portuguese Jews not only founded the first congregations and synagogues in Brazil (Recife and Olinda), but when they left Brazil they played an imperative role in establishing the first Jewish communities in Suriname, throughout the Caribbean, and in North America.
Portuguese Jews and New Christians and their descendants were deeply involved in the colonial enterprise in Brazil. They were among the New World's first sugarcane-industry experts, skilled laborers, merchants, rabbis, calligraphists, playwrights, poets, writers, pharmacists, medical doctors, real estate brokers, and geographers--a fact that remains largely unknown in most public and academic spheres. Drawing on nearly twenty thousand digitized dossiers of the Portuguese Inquisition, this volume offers a comprehensive, critical overview informed by both relatively inaccessible secondary sources and a significant body of primary sources.Review Quotes
"This masterful use of Inquisition records and other sources reveals the roles of Portuguese Jews in colonial Brazil and, more broadly, in networks that spanned the Atlantic from Brazil to Amsterdam, Africa, the Caribbean, New York, and other places."--Andrew Sluyter, author of Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.66 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 344
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Latin America
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Theme: South America
Format: Hardcover
Author: Alan P Marcus
Language: English
Street Date: November 15, 2024
TCIN: 92531687
UPC: 9780826367167
Item Number (DPCI): 247-39-0278
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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