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

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• 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, Canad...

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