The Forgotten Diaspora

The Forgotten Diaspora
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781107667464
ISBN-13 : 1107667461
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forgotten Diaspora by : Peter Mark

This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent to them by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. In Senegal, the Jews were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Côte communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial activities. These merchants participated marginally in the slave trade but fully in the arms trade, illegally supplying West African markets with swords. This blade weapons trade depended on artisans and merchants based in Morocco, Lisbon, and northern Europe and affected warfare in the Sahel and along the Upper Guinea Coast. After members of these communities moved to the United Provinces around 1620, they had a profound influence on relations between black and white Jews in Amsterdam. The study not only discovers previously unknown Jewish communities but by doing so offers a reinterpretation of the dynamics and processes of identity construction throughout the Atlantic world.

The Forgotten Diaspora

The Forgotten Diaspora
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 266
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781496226846
ISBN-13 : 1496226844
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forgotten Diaspora by : Travis Jeffres

The Forgotten Diaspora explores how Native Mexicans involved in the conquest of the Greater Southwest deployed a covert agency that enabled them to reconstruct Indigenous communities and retain key components of their identities though technically allied with and subordinate to Spaniards.

Haunting the Korean Diaspora

Haunting the Korean Diaspora
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9780816652747
ISBN-13 : 0816652740
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Haunting the Korean Diaspora by : Grace M. Cho

Since the Korean Wara the forgotten wara more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical violence between the United States and Korea and the unexamined reverberations of sexual relationships between Korean women and American soldiers.

The Forgotten Diaspora

The Forgotten Diaspora
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 279
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781139496032
ISBN-13 : 1139496034
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forgotten Diaspora by : Peter Mark

This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam and were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Côte communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial activities. These merchants participated marginally in the slave trade but fully in the arms trade, illegally supplying West African markets with swords. This arms trade depended on artisans and merchants based in Morocco, Lisbon, and northern Europe and affected warfare in the Sahel and along the Upper Guinea Coast. The study discovers previously unknown Jewish communities and by doing so offers a reinterpretation of the dynamics and processes of identity construction throughout the Atlantic world.

A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora

A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 84
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ISBN-10 : 0990685667
ISBN-13 : 9780990685661
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora by : Jenna Le

49 million years ago, the ancestors of modern whales left their terrestrial habitat to embrace the unknown perils of an ocean-based existence. In this new poetry collection, Jenna Le reflects with wit and lyricism on the ways that whales and other fauna, fish, and fowl are defined by their predecessors' immigrant narratives, slyly prodding readers to think about what these animal kingdom anecdotes might have to teach us about the complexities of life for human immigrant families and their descendants. In doing so, she speaks in multiple voices, expressing myriad perspectives, including but not limited to her personal perspective as a second-generation Asian-American descended from Vietnam War refugee parents. She also brings her unusual life experiences as a physician to bear on her storytelling, resulting in a book of verse steeped in the aromas not only of sea salt and ambergris, but also of blood and sweat and antiseptic, love and life and death.

Home Lands

Home Lands
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 0805065911
ISBN-13 : 9780805065916
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Home Lands by : Larry Tye

The author describes the remarkable similarities among the Jewish diaspora throughout the world -- from those living in Germany a generation after the Holocaust, to those in Argentina, Ireland, and the Ukraine.

The Invention of the Land of Israel

The Invention of the Land of Israel
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781844679461
ISBN-13 : 1844679462
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Invention of the Land of Israel by : Shlomo Sand

What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.

Becoming Diaspora Jews

Becoming Diaspora Jews
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9780300243512
ISBN-13 : 0300243510
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Becoming Diaspora Jews by : Karel van der Toorn

Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity

Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames

Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames
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Publisher : UPNE
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 1584653051
ISBN-13 : 9781584653059
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames by : Jael Miriam Silliman

A riveting family portrait of four generations of Jewish women from Calcutta.

The Acadian Diaspora

The Acadian Diaspora
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Publisher : OUP USA
Total Pages : 273
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780199739776
ISBN-13 : 0199739773
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Acadian Diaspora by : Christopher Hodson

The Acadian Diaspora tells the extraordinary story of thousands of Acadians expelled from Nova Scotia and scattered throughout the Atlantic world beginning in 1755. Following them to the Caribbean, the South Atlantic, and western Europe, historian Christopher Hodson illuminates a long-forgotten world of imperial experimentation and human brutality.