Jewish Entanglements in the Atlantic World

Aviva Ben-Ur is Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society. Wim Klooster is Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Endowed Chair in History and International Relations at Clark University. He is the author of Revolutions in the Atlantic World and The Dutch Moment.

Introduction: The Revolutionary Potential of Atlantic Jewish History"

1. The U.S. and the Rest: Old and New Paradigms of Early American Jewish History

2. Atlantic Commerce and Pragmatic Tolerance: Portuguese Jewish Participation in the Spanish Navíos de Registro System in the Seventeenth Century

3. To Trade is to Thrive: The Sephardic Moment in Amsterdam's Atlanticand Caribbean Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century

4. Trading Violence: Four Jewish Soldiers BetweenAtlantic Empires (ca. 1600-1655)

5. Imperial Enterprise: The Franks Family Network, Commerce, and British Expansion

6. Declarations of Interdependence: Understanding the Entanglement of Jewish Rights and Liberties in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1740–1830

7. Jews and Free People of Color in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Case Study in Experiential and Ethnic Entanglement

8. Jewish Involvement in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Threat of Equality to the Jewish Way of Life

9. Sex with Slaves and the Business of Governance: The Case of Barbados

10. Connecting Jewish Community: An Anglophone Journal, Rev. Isaac Leeser, and a Jewish Atlantic World