The Jews of eighteenth-century Jamaica: a testamentary history of a diaspora in transition

"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 do...

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Main Author: Mirvis, Stanley (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New Haven London Yale University Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
Reviews:[Rezension von: Mirvis, Stanley, The Jews of eighteenth-century Jamaica] (2021) (Hoberman, Michael, 1964 -)
Further subjects:B Jews (Jamaica) History 18th century

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