Communities of port Jews and their contacts in the Dutch Atlantic World

Klooster, Wim

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“…64. See, for example, Klooster (1998Klooster ( , 2001Klooster ( , 2003Klooster ( , 2005Klooster ( , 2006Klooster ( , 2009, Schorsch (2004), De Granda (1974) or Karner (1969).…”

Section: Sephardic Trading Network Linking Cape Verde To Amsterdam and Curaçaomentioning

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The Upper Guinea origins of Papiamentu

Jacobs

2009

DIA

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This paper deals with the linguistic and historical relationships between Papiamentu and Upper Guinea Creole as spoken on the Santiago island of Cape Verde and in Guinea-Bissau and Casamance. In the linguistic section, the hypothesis that Papiamentu is a relexified offshoot of an early Upper Guinea Creole variety is lent support by focusing on the structural correspondences of the function words in five grammatical categories (pronouns, question words, prepositions, conjunctions and reciprocity and reflexivity). In addition, salient data from several early (18th and 19th century) Papiamentu texts is presented. The historical section provides a framework that accounts for the linguistic transfer from Upper Guinea to Curaçao in the second half of the 17th century.

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“…64. See, for example, Klooster (1998Klooster ( , 2001Klooster ( , 2003Klooster ( , 2005Klooster ( , 2006Klooster ( , 2009, Schorsch (2004), De Granda (1974) or Karner (1969).…”

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The Upper Guinea origins of Papiamentu

Jacobs

2009

DIA

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“…According to Da Fonseca e Silva (2007), Gonsalves de Mello (1996) treats this family in depth. Francisco Gomes Pina and Paulo de Pina, New Christians in pre-Dutch Pernambuco, are discussed in Klooster (2006). 4 According to Niskier (2006), Ilha do Cheira Dinheiro is an island that is part of the Pina barrio.…”

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“…6 A large proportion of whites in Pernambuco in the sixteenth century were reported to probably be Judaizers, many of them farmers, managers of sugar mills and plantations, and owners of boarding houses. According to historian Judith Elkin, Inquisition records from 1618-19 show that many Brazilian converts (conversos) were openly Judaizing and in touch with the Jews of Amsterdam (2014, 12; see also Klooster 2006).…”

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Recife: The Cradle of Jewish America

Viswanath

2019

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The first New World Jewish settlement was in Recife, then a relatively small city in northeastern Brazil. Portuguese New Christians migrated there in the sixteenth century in search of a freer environment in which to continue practicing the Jewish faith. However, it was not until 1630, when the Dutch conquered the region, that Jews were able to openly observe their religion. With the Portuguese reconquest in 1654, this brief chapter ended. Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe and Germany arrived at the beginning of the twentieth century and flourished for several decades. Assimilation and intermarriage, however, diminished Jewish practices and identity before a revival flourished during the last twenty-five years, which has seen both cultural and religious institutions rebuilt. Still, the long-term viability of this community, far from others in Brazil, is not guaranteed. What follows is an account of the long history of Recife Jewry.

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“…(Edmonds & Gonzalez, 2010;Gómez, 2017;Murrell, 2010;Thornton, 1998;Frey & Wood, 1998). Followers of highly codified if non-Christian religions existed as well; a growing interest in Jewish communities of the Caribbean and Atlantic has revealed the presence of rabbis (Israel, 2001;Klooster, 2006Klooster, , 2015Klooster, , 2018Seeman, 2007), and Sylviane…”

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“…(Edmonds & Gonzalez, ; Gómez, ; Murrell, ; Thornton, ; Frey & Wood, ). Followers of highly codified if non‐Christian religions existed as well; a growing interest in Jewish communities of the Caribbean and Atlantic has revealed the presence of rabbis (Israel, ; Klooster, , , ; Seeman, ), and Sylviane Diouf has accounted for the presence of Islamic religious leaders (Diouf, ). While the majority of these spiritual authorities were not recognized as such by contemporary Christian clergy, historians have highlighted their contributions to the robust religious life of the Caribbean.…”

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Clergy in the early modern Caribbean (ca. 1650–1800)

Brennan

2019

History Compass

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Recent historical studies of religious life in the early modern Atlantic world have increasingly taken into consideration the slave societies of the Caribbean, a region considered by an earlier generation of scholarship to be overwhelmingly irreligious. New methodological approaches to well‐perused documents have yielded significant insights into the everyday religious experiences of Caribbean inhabitants, notably communities that have often been overlooked for their apparent inability to leave archival traces. Such studies have made important contributions to a broader scholarly conversation about categories of difference in the early modern world, particularly in regard to the momentous change in the era that saw race rather than religion emerge as a primary marker of social identity. A significant portion of the primary source material that historians in this dynamic field have consulted was, unsurprisingly, produced by religious officials like Inquisition officers, episcopal authorities, missionaries (both Protestant and Catholic), ministers, and regular clergy, among others. Because they were historical actors who undoubtedly contributed to this shift and because they also produced documentation relating to it, a comprehensive account of the role of clergy in this era is needed. This article surveys this body of scholarship. It interrogates its approach to religious sources and individual religious leaders and assesses what they have revealed about the spiritual and cultural life of the early modern Caribbean.

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Communities of port Jews and their contacts in the Dutch Atlantic World

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The Upper Guinea origins of Papiamentu

The Upper Guinea origins of Papiamentu

Recife: The Cradle of Jewish America

Clergy in the early modern Caribbean (ca. 1650–1800)

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