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Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 PDF Author: Alan P. Marcus
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826367194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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Book Description
The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da Nação (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of the early modern period. Portuguese Jews not only founded the first congregations and synagogues in Brazil (Recife and Olinda), but when they left Brazil they played an imperative role in establishing the first Jewish communities in Suriname, throughout the Caribbean, and in North America. Drawing on nearly twenty thousand digitized dossiers of the Portuguese Inquisition, this volume offers a comprehensive, critical overview informed by both relatively inaccessible secondary sources and a significant body of primary sources.