The Merchant of Havana

The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Central & South American, Caribbean & West Indian, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
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Author: Stephen Silverstein ISBN: 9780826521118
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press Publication: September 27, 2016
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press Language: English
Author: Stephen Silverstein
ISBN: 9780826521118
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication: September 27, 2016
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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