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- The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
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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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Conclusion
- pp. 105-110
- Works Cited
- pp. 185-198
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826521118
Related ISBN(s)
9780826521095
MARC Record
OCLC
961003936
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2016-12-06
Language
English
Open Access
No