Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521820219)

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.

Author: Jonathan Schorsch
ISBN-10: 0521820219
ISBN-13: 9780521820219
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2004
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.60d