Going beyond inter-ethnic polemics, this book describes the ways Jews imagined and treated Blacks during the first three centuries of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism. Jonathan Schorsch uses many previously unexamined sources to reveal the scope of Jewish anti-Blackness in Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Amsterdam and the Caribbean. His study concludes that Jewish attitudes and behavior remained barely distinguishable from general European trends, less intense, although hardly benign.

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Format: Trade Paperback
Author: Schorsch, Jonathan
ISBN: 9780521527231
Condition: New
Dimensions: 8.90 x 1.20
Number Of Pages: 562
Publication Year: 2009

Language: English

Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World

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