Jews Across the Americas : : A Sourcebook, 1492–Present / / ed. by Laura Arnold Leibman, Adriana M. Brodsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• HerausgeberIn: Arnold Leibman, Laura,; Brodsky, Adriana M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 248 b/w illustrations

An overview of the history of American Jewry using primary sources from Latin America, theCaribbean, Canada, and the United StatesJews Across the Americas is a groundbreaking sourcebook capturing the historical diversity and culturalbreadth of American Jews across Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States. Featuringprimary documents as well as scholarly interpretations, Jews Across the Americas builds upon newdevelopments in Jewish Studies, engaging with transnationalism, race, sexuality, and gender, andhighlighting the lived experiences of those often left out of Jewish history.Jews Across the Americas features an impressively broad and far-reaching range of historical sources,including artifacts and objects that have not previously been featured as integral to Jewish history in theWestern hemisphere. Entries teach readers how to understand everything from wills andadvertisements to sermons, and how to interpret photographs, domestic architecture, and comics.Whether it’s a recipe from Brazil that blends Moroccan and Amazonian foodways, or a text about thefirst non-binary Jew to cross the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, each entry broadens ourunderstanding of Jewish American history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Part I Early Colonial Era (1492–1762) -- Introduction -- 1 Edict of Expulsion. Spain, 1492 -- 2 Confession of Sodomy and Judaizing. Brazil, 1593 -- 3 Jewish Calendar by Luis de Carvajal the Younger. New Spain, 1590s -- 4 Mencía de Luna: A Woman in Front of the Lima Inquisition. Peru, 1630s -- 5 Merchant House of a Convicted Judaizer. Peru, 1639 -- 6 The Lost Tribes and Indigenous Judaism. New Spain, 1644–1652 -- 7 A Jewish Proselytizer in the New World. New Spain, 1649 -- 8 Criminal Case against María de Zárate for Judaizing, New Spain, 1656 -- 9 Aboab da Fonseca and the Dutch Rescue of Recife. Brazil, 1656 -- 10 The Purchase of Slaves and a Sefer Torah, Cayenne, 1658, 1663 -- 11 Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition in New Mexico. New Spain, 1662 -- 12 Biblical Scenes on Gravestones. Curaçao, 1717, 1726 -- 13 Poems of Love and Longing. New York, c. 1720 -- 14 Marriage Contracts. Suriname, 1720, 1729 -- 15 Nidhe Israel Synagogue Complex and Mikveh Barbados, 1654–1806 -- 16 A Gender-Bending Jewish Runaway. New France, 1738 -- 17 Petition Solicited by the Jamaican Assembly. Jamaica, 1750 -- 18 Sermon by Samuel Mendes de Sola. Curaçao, 1750 -- 19 The Charity Petition of Hannah Louzada. New Jersey, 1761 -- 20 Hanukkiah. St. Eustatius, 1761 -- Part II Age of Revolutions and Emancipation (1763–1835) -- Introduction -- 21 Limpieza de Sangre and Casta Paintings. New Spain, Eighteenth Century -- 22 The Binding of Isaac. Suriname, 1763 -- 23 Wills, Families, and Race. Jamaica, 1765 -- 24 Sefer Berit Yitzhak. Suriname and Curaçao, 1767–1768 -- 25 Touro Synagogue. Rhode Island, 1763 -- 26 Merchant Letters from the Gratz Family. Pennsylvania, 1769 -- 27 Portraits of Rabbi Karigal and Ezra Stiles. Rhode Island, 1771, 1783 -- 28 Hetty Hays Complains of a Lack of Proper Kosher Supervision. New York, 1774 -- 29 Desperate Desire in the Dutch Caribbean. Curaçao, 1775 -- 30 Rebecca Gomez Advertises Chocolate. New York, 1780 -- 31 Abigail Minis’s Last Will and Testament. Georgia, 1789 -- 32 Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa: An Icon of African Judaism. England and nigeria, 1789 -- 33 Petition by the Jews of Color. Suriname, 1793 -- 34 Portraits of Sarah Moses Levy and Chapman Levy. South Carolina, c. 1798 -- 35 Prayer for Jewish Militiamen. Suriname, c. 1805–1806 -- 36 Jews and Epidemics. New York, 1805–1832 -- 37 Alexander de Lavaux’s Map of Suriname. Suriname, 1806 -- 38 The Rebellion of Rebecca Valverde Gomes. Barbados, 1812 -- 39 Multiracial Portraits. England, c. 1815–1820 -- 40 Mordecai Manuel Noah on “Africans” New York, 1821 -- 41 Society of Reformed Israelites. South Carolina, 1824 -- 42 Petition for Civil Rights. Lower Canada, 1831 -- Part III The Era of Mass Migrations and Nationalism (1836–1912) -- Introduction -- 43 Belisario’s Sketches of Character. Jamaica, 1837–1838 -- 44 Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim. South Carolina, 1839–1841 -- 46 Conversion and Repentance in the Diary of Cora Wilburn. Venezuela, 1846 -- 47 A Jewish Statesman and the Peculiar Institution. Mississippi, 1849–1933 -- 48 Coro Mikveh. Venezuela, c. 1853–1860 -- 49 Circumcision Deposition. Louisiana, 1859 -- 50 Rebecca Gratz’s Sunday School Speech. Pennsylvania, 1862 -- 51 General Grant’s Order No. 11 Mississippi, 1862 -- 52 Diary of Emma Mordecai. North Carolina, 1864–1865 -- 53 Antisemitism and Slavery in Cuba. Cuba, 1866 -- 54 Jewish Sacred Music. New York, 1869/1875 -- 55 Abraham Goldenberg’s Letter Home. Chile, 1870 -- 56 Jews and Native Americans. Nebraska, c. 1875 -- 57 Women and Religion in Jewish Newspapers. New York, 1877 -- 58 Praying for British Royalty and Republican Government. Quebec, 1877 -- 59 The Eldridge Street Synagogue’s Mikveh. New York, c. 1887 -- 60 Documenting Tenements. New York, 1890–1895 -- 61 Salem Fields Cemetery. New York, 1890–1945 -- 62 “The Kitchen” California, c. 1890s/1947 -- 63 Alliance Israélite Universelle School Curricula. Argentina, 1898 -- 64 Jews and Tuberculosis. Colorado, 1904–1930s -- 65 The Pogrom against the Blacks in Atlanta. Georgia, 1906/1974 -- 66 Types of Immigration. Mexico, 1908 -- 67 The Philomath Club. California, 1909 -- 68 The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas. Argentina, 1910 -- Part IV The World at War (1913–1945) -- Introduction -- 69 Jewish Prostitution. Argentina, 1895 and 1920s -- 70 A Judeo-Spanish Love Letter. New York, 1913 -- 71 Gravestones. Mexico, 1914–1940 -- 72 American Judaism and World War I. United States, 1918 -- 73 Koshmar—The Nightmare of the Tragic Week. Argentina, 1919 -- 74 Adelia’s Wedding. Brazil, c. 1920/1967 -- 75 Portraits of Multiracial and Gender-Bending Jews. Suriname, 1920s–1930s -- 76 Black Congregations of Harlem. New York, 1924–1930 -- 77 The Sephardim— Our “Latin” Brothers. Mexico, 1925 -- 78 La Luz Magazine Cover: The Rise of Hitler. Argentina, 1933 -- 79 “Are Tref Butcher Shops Really Tref?” Quebec, 1934 -- 80 Kristobal Kolon: The Yiddish Columbus. Mexico, 1938 -- 81 A Comedic Yiddish Song on Unemployment. Argentina, 1930s -- 82 Miriam’s Letter. Dominican Republic, 1941 -- 83 Inter-American Jewish Conference. Maryland, 1941 -- 84 Punching Hitler in World War II Comic Books. New York, 1941–1944 -- 85 Fighting for Mexican Visas during World War II. Mexico, 1942 -- 86 Hadassah and the “Arab Issue” in Palestine. United States, 1942 -- 87 Ladino Songs. California, 1942–1979 -- 88 Frieda Schiff Warburg’s Jewish Museum. New York, 1944 -- 89 A Rabbi Counsels a Gay Jewish GI. New York, 1944 -- 90 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemoration Meeting. Quebec, 1945 -- 91 Hasidic Architecture New York, California, Quebec, Brazil, 1940–2005 -- Part V Jews in the Postwar Americas (1946–Present) -- Introduction -- 92 Border Crossing Cards. Mexico/California, 1947 -- 93 “From Birobidzhan Shall Go Forth the Torah” Brazil, 1951 -- 94 Hanukkiah. New York, 1958 -- 95 The Eichmann Affair in the Shadow of the Cold War. Argentina, 1960 -- 96 The Selma March. Alabama, 1965 -- 97 Jewish Disappeared. Chile, 1978 -- 98 Indian Jewish Experiences and the Creation of Congregation BINA, Ontario, 1979–2010 -- 99 Tradition and Modernity among Iranian Jewish Women. California, 1979–2015 -- 100 Jewish Argentine Memory and Justice in the Aftermath of the 1994 AMIA Bombing. Argentina, 1994–2022 -- 101 Crypto-Jewish Poetry. New Mexico, 1996 -- 102 Kosher McDonald’s Sign. Argentina, 1998 -- 103 “They Left” Cuba, 2002 -- 104 Jewish Gender Transitions. New York, 2009, 2015 -- 105 Moroccan-Amazonian Recipes. Brazil, 2014 -- 106 Eichmann’s Capture as a Graphic Novel. Argentina, 2015 -- 107 Soviet Jewish War Memory in New York. New York, 2015 -- 108 Queer Mikveh. Massachusetts, 2016–2019 -- 109 Protest and the End of Community Consensus. Brazil, 2017 -- 110 How to Eat a Taco. Israel, 2019 -- 111 Executive Order Combating Antisemitism. Washington, DC, 2019 -- 112 A Challenging Editorial. New York, 2019 -- 113 Indigenous and Jewish: The Photography of Kali Spitzer. British Columbia, 2016, 2019 -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Index