"This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is a collection of substantive, sophisticated and variegated essays, combining case studies with theoretical reflections, organized into three sections: race and blood, metropoles and colonies, and history and memory. Twelve chapters treat converso slave traders, race and early Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa, Sephardim and people of color in nineteenth-century Curaçao, Portuguese converso/Sephardic imperialist behavior, Caspar Barlaeus' attitude toward Jews in the Sephardic Atlantic, Jewish-Creole historiography in eighteenth-century Suriname, Savannah's eighteenth-century Sephardic community in an Altantic setting, Freemasonry and Sephardim in the British Empire, the figure of Columbus in popular literature about the Caribbean, key works of Caribbean postcolonial literature on Sephardim, the holocaust, slavery and race, Canadian Jewish identity in the reception history of Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue and Moroccan-Jewish memories of a sixteenth-century Portuguese military defeat."--Back cover.
Postcolonial approaches to the early modern Sephardic Atlantic / Sina Rauschenbach and Jonathan Schorsch -- Part I Race and blood -- New Christian slave traders: a literature review and research agenda / Jonathan Schorsch -- A "racial' approach to the history of early Afro-Portugese relationships? The case of Senegambia and Cabo Verde in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / José da Silva Horta and Peter Mark -- Mediating Multiculturalism: Jews, Blacks, and Curac̦ao, 1825-1970 / Jessica V. Roitman -- Part II Metropoles and colonies -- Galut and empire: on the way to final redemption / José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim -- Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch expansionism, and the Sephardic community in the Atlantic world: a note on the intellectual history of Amsterdam in the seventeenth century / Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger -- The empire writes back: David Nassy and Jewish creole historiography in colonial Suriname / Sina Rauschenbach -- Jewish Savannah in Atlantic perspective: a reconsideration of North America's first intentional Jewish community / Aviva Ben-Ur -- Becoming imperial citizens: Jews and Freemasonry in the British Caribbean (early nineteenth century) / Jan C. Jansen -- Part III History and memory -- Christopher Columbus and Jamaican Jews: history into memory / Ana Sobral -- Triangulating memory: Sephardim in Caribbean literature / Sarah Phillips Casteel -- Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue: an eighteenth-century multicrosser in the Canadian cultural archive / Heather Hermant -- Judeo-Moroccan traditions and the age of European expansionism in North Africa.