The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive ISBN-13: 9780826521095
The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive ISBN-13: 9780826521095 | 9780826521095, Book, Silverstein, Stephen, Vanderbilt University Press | ISBN-10: 0826521096
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ISBN-13: 9780826521095
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Silverstein, Stephen
Details: 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.
Release Date: 27-09-2016
Package Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
Languages: English
Number Of Pages: 224
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