Related Books

Swimming the Christian Atlantic (2 vols)
Language: en
Pages: 584
Authors: Jonathan Schorsch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-30 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Scholarship on the formation of the Atlantic world through contributions from Europe, Africa and the Americas has grown in recent decades. The results offer new
The Sephardic Atlantic
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: Sina Rauschenbach
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-09 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies
Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Yda Schreuder
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-23 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It
Judaism for Christians
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Sina Rauschenbach
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-16 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was one of the best-known rabbis in early modern Europe. In the course of his life he became an important Jewish interlocutor
Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities
Language: en
Pages: 654
Authors: Yosef Kaplan
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-11 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the sixteenth century on, hundreds of Portuguese New Christians began to flow to Venice and Livorno in Italy, and to Amsterdam and Hamburg in northwest Eur