{"product_id":"merchant-of-havana-stephen-silverstein-9780826521095","title":"Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive","description":"\u003cb\u003eLAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish Studies Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Silverstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826521096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826521095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.80w x 0.80d","brand":"Stephen Silverstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48216513675519,"sku":"9780826521095","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5deaef17-a600-417a-929f-eca35505b7c7.jpg?v=1771991505","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/merchant-of-havana-stephen-silverstein-9780826521095","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}