Papers by Jonathan Schorsch
Jahrbuch des Selma Stern Zentrums für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, 2023
Despite their small numbers, the western Sephardim make up one of the more fascinating Jewish gro... more Despite their small numbers, the western Sephardim make up one of the more fascinating Jewish groups. e title of this essay asks whether their sca ered communities across the Atlantic coasts of western Europe and the eastern coasts of the Americas formed an empire, a question that could be taken as being somewhat facetious. A er all, their commercial domination and political savvy notwithstanding, their numbers were minuscule, they controlled no recognized territory, had no military and no unified government. Nonetheless, at the end of my essay, a er reviewing their history all too quickly, I will take up this question of a western Sephardic empire again.
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Ritual Dynamics in Jewish and Christian Contexts: Between Bible and Liturgy, 2019
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Sephardim and Ashkenazim: Jewish-Jewish Encounters in History and Literature, 2021
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The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives, 2019
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Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardi Communities, 2019
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This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimu... more 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. Chapters treat converso slave traders, race and early Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa, Sephardim and people of color in 19th-century Curaçao, Portuguese converso/Sephardic imperialist behavior, Caspar Barlaeus’ attitude towards Sephardic Jews, David Nassy’s famous Essai historique sur la Colonie de Suriname (1788), Savannah’s 18th-century the Sephardic community of Savannah, Freemasonry and Sephardim in Jamaica, the figure of Columbus in recent literature about the Caribbean, Sephardim, the holocaust, slavery and race in recent Caribbean literature, the reception history of Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue and Canadian Jewish identity and Moroccan-Jewish memories of a 16th-century Portuguese military defeat.
Ebook: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-99196-2
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The Food Movement, Culture and Religion: A Tale of Pigs, Christians, Jews and Politics, 2018
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Ebook: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-99196-2
Ebook: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-99196-2