02681nam 2200589 450 991081854850332120230808195935.00-8265-0384-5(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 relationsAntislavery movementsHistoryJewish slave tradersHistoryJews in literature.JewsHistoryAntisemitismHistory306.36209729109034HIS041010LIT004100bisacshSilverstein Stephen1978-1596958MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818548503321The merchant of Havana3918513UNINA