Jews And Muslims In British Colonial America
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Jews And Muslims In British Colonial America
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Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2012-02-15
Jews And Muslims In British Colonial America written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-15 with History categories.
Americans have learned in elementary school that their country was founded by a group of brave, white, largely British Christians. Modern reinterpretations recognize the contributions of African and indigenous Americans, but the basic premise has persisted. This groundbreaking study fundamentally challenges the traditional national storyline by postulating that many of the initial colonists were actually of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry. Supporting references include historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA test results, genealogies, and settler lists that provide for the first time the Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and Jewish origins of more than 5,000 surnames, the majority widely assumed to be British. By documenting the widespread presence of Jews and Muslims in prominent economic, political, financial and social positions in all of the original colonies, this innovative work offers a fresh perspective on the early American experience.
The Jews In Colonial America
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Author : Oscar Reiss
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-24
The Jews In Colonial America written by Oscar Reiss and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-24 with History categories.
The first synagogue in colonial America was built in New York City in 1730 on land that was purchased for £100 plus a loaf of sugar and one pound of Bohea tea. The purchase of this land was especially noteworthy because until this time, the Jews had only been permitted to buy land for use as a cemetery. However, by the time the Revolutionary War began, the Jewish religious center had become fairly large. Early in their stay in New Amsterdam and New York, many Jews considered themselves to be transients. Therefore, they were not interested in voting, holding office or equal rights. However, as the 18th century came to a close, Jews were able to accumulate large estates, and they recognized that they needed citizenship. After a brief overview of the Jews' migrations around Europe, the West Indies and the North and South American continents, this book describes the hardships faced by the Jewish people, beginning with New Amsterdam and New York and continuing with discussions of their experiences in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New England, and in the South. Subsequent chapters discuss anti-Semitism, slavery and the Jews' transformation from immigrant status to American citizen.
The Early Jews And Muslims Of England And Wales
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Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-04-22
The Early Jews And Muslims Of England And Wales written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-22 with History categories.
This book proposes that Jews were present in England in substantial numbers from the Roman Conquest forward. Indeed, there has never been a time during which a large Jewish-descended, and later Muslim-descended, population has been absent from England. Contrary to popular history, the Jewish population was not expelled from England in 1290, but rather adopted the public face of Christianity, while continuing to practice Judaism in secret. Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Muslims held the highest offices in the land, including service as archbishops, dukes, earls, kings and queens. Among those proposed to be of Jewish ancestry are the Tudor kings and queens, Queen Elizabeth I, William the Conqueror, and Thomas Cromwell. Documentaton in support of this revisionist history includes DNA studies, genealogies, church records, place names and the Domesday Book.
Colonialism And The Jews
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Author : Ethan B. Katz
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-30
Colonialism And The Jews written by Ethan B. Katz and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-30 with History categories.
The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews engaged with empire in modern times. Taken together, these essays reveal the interpretive power of the "Imperial Turn" and present a rethinking of the history of Jews in colonial societies in light of postcolonial critiques and destabilized categories of analysis. A provocative discussion forum about Zionism as colonialism is also included.
The Early Jews And Muslims Of England And Wales
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Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-04-29
The Early Jews And Muslims Of England And Wales written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-29 with History categories.
This book proposes that Jews were present in England in substantial numbers from the Roman Conquest forward. Indeed, there has never been a time during which a large Jewish-descended, and later Muslim-descended, population has been absent from England. Contrary to popular history, the Jewish population was not expelled from England in 1290, but rather adopted the public face of Christianity, while continuing to practice Judaism in secret. Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Muslims held the highest offices in the land, including service as archbishops, dukes, earls, kings and queens. Among those proposed to be of Jewish ancestry are the Tudor kings and queens, Queen Elizabeth I, William the Conqueror, and Thomas Cromwell. Documentaton in support of this revisionist history includes DNA studies, genealogies, church records, place names and the Domesday Book.
The Colonial And Early National Period 1654 1840
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Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-04
The Colonial And Early National Period 1654 1840 written by Jeffrey S. Gurock and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Religion categories.
The first volume contains articles on a variety of areas including Jewish involvement in the War of Independence and in the American Revolution, the New York Jewish Community of the time and a look at the Dutch and English Jews of the period.
When Scotland Was Jewish
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Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-05-07
When Scotland Was Jewish written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-07 with History categories.
The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non–Celtic influence on Scotland’s history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland’s history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland’s identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors’ wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
Jewish Merchants In Colonial America
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Author : Miriam Kottler Freund
language : en
Publisher: Behrman House Publishing
Release Date : 1939
Jewish Merchants In Colonial America written by Miriam Kottler Freund and has been published by Behrman House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Jewish merchants categories.
Miriam K. Freund wrote this book as partial fulfillment of the requirements for her Doctor of Philosophy Degree at NYU in 1939. Despite the passing of time, it remains a standard reference on the subject and of vital interest to those who would delve more deeply into the shaping of American history, both secular and Jewish. There is no doubt that Jewish merchants played an important role in the commercial structure of the Colonies and in the opening of the West. In this book, Dr. Freund has captured the times and places with unusual diligence and enthusiasm.
American Heretics
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Author : Peter Gottschalk
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2013-11-12
American Heretics written by Peter Gottschalk and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Religion categories.
In the middle of the nineteenth century a group of political activists in New York City joined together to challenge a religious group they believed were hostile to the American values of liberty and freedom. Called the Know Nothings, they started riots during elections, tarred and feathered their political enemies, and barred men from employment based on their religion. The group that caused this uproar?: Irish and German Catholics—then known as the most villainous religious group in America, and widely believed to be loyal only to the Pope. It would take another hundred years before Catholics threw off these xenophobic accusations and joined the American mainstream. The idea that the United States is a stronghold of religious freedom is central to our identity as a nation—and utterly at odds with the historical record. In American Heretics, historian Peter Gottschalk traces the arc of American religious discrimination and shows that, far from the dominant protestant religions being kept in check by the separation between church and state, religious groups from Quakers to Judaism have been subjected to similar patterns of persecution. Today, many of these same religious groups that were once regarded as anti-thetical to American values are embraced as evidence of our strong religious heritage—giving hope to today's Muslims, Sikhs, and other religious groups now under fire.
Jews And The American Slave Trade
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Author : Saul Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-29
Jews And The American Slave Trade written by Saul Friedman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with History categories.
The Nation of Islam's Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews has been called one of the most serious anti-Semitic manuscripts published in years. This work of so-called scholars received great celebrity from individuals like Louis Farrakhan, Leonard Jeffries, and Khalid Abdul Muhammed who used the document to claim that Jews dominated both transatlantic and antebellum South slave trades. As Saul Friedman definitively documents in Jews and the American Slave Trade, historical evidence suggests that Jews played a minimal role in the transatlantic, South American, Caribbean, and antebellum slave trades.Jews and the American Slave Trade dissects the questionable historical technique employed in Secret Relationship, offers a detailed response to Farrakhan's charges, and analyzes the impetus behind these charges. He begins with in-depth discussion of the attitudes of ancient peoples, Africans, Arabs, and Jews toward slavery and explores the Jewish role hi colonial European economic life from the Age of Discovery tp Napoleon. His state-by-state analyses describe in detail the institution of slavery in North America from colonial New England to Louisiana. Friedman elucidates the role of American Jews toward the great nineteenth-century moral debate, the positions they took, and explains what shattered the alliance between these two vulnerable minority groups in America.Rooted in incontrovertible historical evidence, provocative without being incendiary, Jews and the American Slave Trade demonstrates that the anti-slavery tradition rooted in the Old Testament translated into powerful prohibitions with respect to any involvement in the slave trade. This brilliant exploration will be of interest to scholars of modern Jewish history, African-American studies, American Jewish history, U.S. history, and minority studies.