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Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16thâ17th Centuries
A Survey
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 269
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Amsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian âgreat Jewish merchants.â However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the world group sui generis, were equally crucial. Their religious identities were fluid, but at the same time they and the ânew Jewsâ from Amsterdam formed a part of economic modernity epitomized by the rebellious Netherlands and the developing Atlantic economy. At the height of their influence they played a pivotal, albeit controversial, role in the rising slave trade. The disappearance of New Christians in Latin America had to be contextualised with inquisitorial persecutions and growing competition in mind.
Henryk Szlajfer is Professor Emeritus at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw University. He has published on Latin American economic history, including Economic Nationalism and Globalization: Lessons from Latin America and Central Europe (Brill, 2012). He also co-edited Western Europe, Eastern Europe and World Development 13thâ18th Centuries: Collection of Essays of Marian MaÅowist (Brill, 2010).
"In einer Zeit, in der in der akademischen Welt neben âAntizionismusâ solche Begriffe wie die dekoloniale kritische Theorie eine immer wichtigere Rolle auf dem Campus spielen ist das Buch Szlajfers, wie bereits eingangs erwähnt, also ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Weltgeschichtsforschung, der Ibero-Romanistik und Lateinamerikaforschung und auch zur Judaistik. Gerade auch Leserinnen und Leser, die sich mit dem Katholizismus befassen oder die sich der katholischen Kirche nach wie vor verbunden fühlen, sollten dieses Werk ebenso eingehend studieren, zeigt es doch die Spätfolgen der Urkatastrophe des sephardischen Judentums und der Vertreibung der Juden aus Spanien 1492 auf."
â Arno Tausch, Bloemfontein und Innsbruck in ZWG-01-2023.
Tune in here to a recent episode of the Spanish radio show Radio Sefarad, where Professor Pablo Dreizik (Buenos Aires University) discussed and reviewed the book.
â Arno Tausch, Bloemfontein und Innsbruck in ZWG-01-2023.
Tune in here to a recent episode of the Spanish radio show Radio Sefarad, where Professor Pablo Dreizik (Buenos Aires University) discussed and reviewed the book.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Maps
1âTerminology as Differentiation
2ââThe Portugueseâ
3âSombartâs Fantasies: Jews, the Netherlands, and the Colonisation of the New World
4âMore about the New Christians
5âThe Iberian Atlantic: an Overview
6âBack to Long-Distance Trade: Networks
7âBrazilian Sugar and the New Christians: Networks and Production
8âBrazilian Sugar and the New Christians: Trade
9âThe First Slaves: Context
10âPortuguese asientos, Time of the New Christians
11âIn Spanish America: from Buenos Aires to the Stake
Conclusion: Tempo dos Flamengos â the Amsterdam Jews in the Nieuw-Holland
References
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Maps
1âTerminology as Differentiation
2ââThe Portugueseâ
3âSombartâs Fantasies: Jews, the Netherlands, and the Colonisation of the New World
4âMore about the New Christians
5âThe Iberian Atlantic: an Overview
6âBack to Long-Distance Trade: Networks
7âBrazilian Sugar and the New Christians: Networks and Production
8âBrazilian Sugar and the New Christians: Trade
9âThe First Slaves: Context
10âPortuguese asientos, Time of the New Christians
11âIn Spanish America: from Buenos Aires to the Stake
Conclusion: Tempo dos Flamengos â the Amsterdam Jews in the Nieuw-Holland
References
Index
All those interested in the role that New Christians and Jews played in fostering the network-based Atlantic economy until the mid-17th century. The thorny issue of their involvement in the slave trade is critically examined. The disappearance of New Christians is contextualised with inquisitorial persecutions in mind.