Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World

By Jonathan Schorsch

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521820219
• ISBN13: 9780521820219
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"