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  • Sephardic Jews in America

    A Diasporic History

    by Aviva Ben-Ur ...
    A significant number of Sephardic Jews, tracing their remote origins to Spain and Portugal, immigrated to the United States from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans from 1880 through the 1920s, joined by a smaller number of Mizrahi Jews arriving from Arab lands. Most Sephardim settled in New York, establishing the leading Judeo-Spanish community outside the Ottoman Empire. With their distinct ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society

    Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825

    by Aviva Ben-Ur ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    A fascinating portrait of Jewish life in Suriname from the 17th to 19th centuriesJewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname, a Dutch colony on the South American mainland just north of Brazil. Suriname was home to the most privileged Jewish community in the Americas where Jews, most of Iberian origin, enjoyed religious liberty, were judged ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society

    Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825

    by Aviva Ben-Ur ...
    Series series The Early Modern Americas
    A fascinating portrait of Jewish life in Suriname from the 17th to 19th centuriesJewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname, a Dutch colony on the South American mainland just north of Brazil. Suriname was home to the most privileged Jewish community in the Americas where Jews, most of Iberian origin, enjoyed religious liberty, were judged ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World

    Edited by Aviva Ben-Ur, Wim Klooster ...
    Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World represents the first collective attempt to reframe the study of colonial and early American Jewry within the context of Atlantic History. From roughly 1500 to 1830, the Atlantic World was a tightly intertwined swathe of global powers that included Europe, Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean. How, when, and where do Jews figure in this ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Not So Black and White

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  • The Jews in America

    by Max I. Dimont ...
    "A wondrous tale of American Judaism" from the Colonial Era to the twentieth century, by the acclaimed author of Jews, God, and History ( Kirkus Reviews ).Beginning with the Sephardim who first reached the shores of America in the 1600s, this fascinating book by historian Max Dimont traces the journey of the Jews in the United States. It follows the various wav... ... Read more

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  • Racism

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  • Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition

    The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

    by Cedric J. Robinson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Damien Sojoyner ...
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  • Racisms

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  • Jews on the Frontier

    Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

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    National Jewish Book Award Winner: An "enlightening" history of how Jews forged their own religious culture as they ventured into the American wilderness ( Choice) .Finalist, 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, presented by the Jewish Book CouncilJews on the Frontier offers a religious history that begins in an unexpected place: on the road. Shari Rabin recounts the journey of Jewish ... Read more

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