| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Names, Dates, Spelling, and Method -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition -- CHAPTER 1: The Promise of Port Royal (1655-92) -- CHAPTER 2: The Peril of Port Royal (1670-1740) -- CHAPTER 3: The Jews of Plantation Jamaica (1740-70) -- CHAPTER 4: The End of a Long Century (1770-1815) -- CHAPTER 5: Jewish Communal Life: The Men, Women, and Children of the Nation -- CHAPTER 6: The Ethnic Identity of Jamaica's Portuguese Jewish Households |
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CHAPTER 7: The Creole Jewish Families of Jamaica -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix: Excerpts from the Wills of Selected Jamaican Jews -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
"Based on the last wills and testaments composed by Jamaican Jews between 1673 and 1815, Stanley Mirvis explores the social and familial experiences of one of the most critical, yet understudied nodes of an Atlantic Portuguese Jewish trade network. Mirvis examines how Jamaica's Jews put down roots as traders, planters, pen keepers, physicians, fisherman, entertainers, and metalworkers, and reveals how their presence helped shape the colony as much as settlement in the tropical West Indies transformed the lives of the island's Jews. Mirvis's micro-historical study illuminates Jewish involvement in planting and their patterns of slave ownership. He demonstrates how Jews struggled to find a place within the highly racialized hierarchy of Jamaican society, the Jamaican Jewish path to creole identity, the continuity of converso identity among Portuguese Jews, and the relationship between metropole and colony in the Portuguese Jewish Atlantic"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jews -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century
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HISTORY -- Jewish.
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Jews
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Jamaica
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300252033 |
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030025203X |
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