02638nam 2200577 450 991013659070332120200520144314.0(CKB)3710000000894336(MiAaPQ)EBC4833716(OCoLC)961003936(MdBmJHUP)muse51596(Au-PeEL)EBL4833716(CaPaEBR)ebr11368784(CaONFJC)MIL962692(EXLCZ)99371000000089433620170418h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe merchant of Havana the Jew in the Cuban abolitionist archive /Stephen SilversteinNashville, Tennessee :Vanderbilt University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (206 pages) illustrations0-8265-2109-6 0-8265-2111-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.The notional Jew: judaizing the merchant -- Racial prescriptions and inscriptions in Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's Sab (1841) -- Racial alchemy and Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's La Cuarterona (1867) -- The Jewish escape hatch from Cuba impossible: Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes (1882)"As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, two 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. Because of the decidedly small Jewish population on the island in this era, this form of anti-Semitism sprang almost exclusively from mythological beliefs"--Provided by publisher.Antislavery movementsCubaHistory19th centuryJewish slave tradersHistory19th centuryJews in literatureJewsCubaHistory19th centuryAntisemitismCubaHistory19th centuryCubaEthnic relationsElectronic books.Antislavery movementsHistoryJewish slave tradersHistoryJews in literature.JewsHistoryAntisemitismHistory306.36209729109034Silverstein Stephen1978-896742MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910136590703321The merchant of Havana2003499UNINA