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The Merchant of Havana
2016,2021
Overview
LAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish
Studies Association As Cuba industrialized in the
nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order
occurred. In this period of change, two seemingly disparate, yet
nevertheless intertwined, ideological forces appeared:
anti-Semitism and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became
organized in Cuba, the argument grew that Jews participated in the
African slave trade and in New World slavery, and that this
participation gave Jews extraordinary influence in the new Cuban
economy and culture. What was remarkable about this anti-Semitism
was the decidedly small Jewish population on the island in this
era. This form of anti-Semitism, Silverstein reveals, sprang almost
exclusively from mythological beliefs.
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Subject
/ Antisemitism -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century
/ Antislavery movements -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century
/ Cuba
/ Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis, 1814-1873. Sab
/ HISTORY
/ Jewish slave traders -- History -- 19th century
/ Jews
/ Jews - Cuba - History - 19th century
/ RELIGION
/ Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
ISBN
0826521096, 9780826521095, 0826521118, 9780826521118
