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The merchant of Havana : the Jew in the Cuban abolitionist archive / / Stephen Silverstein



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Autore: Silverstein Stephen <1978-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The merchant of Havana : the Jew in the Cuban abolitionist archive / / Stephen Silverstein Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Nashville, Tennessee : , : Vanderbilt University Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 306.36209729109034
Soggetto topico: Antislavery movements - Cuba - History - 19th century
Jewish slave traders - History - 19th century
Jews in literature
Jews - Cuba - History - 19th century
Antisemitism - Cuba - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: Cuba Ethnic relations
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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)
Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
Titolo autorizzato: The merchant of Havana  Visualizza cluster
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910136590703321
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