...Laura Leibman The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive . By Stephen Silverstein . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2016 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 205 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018...

... of the same family; indeed, the splitting of family groups along the lines of religious conviction. The martyrdom of the Carvajals makes a mockery of the clichés of frontier evangelical Catholicism: the crypto-Jews, by rejecting the dominant religious cant, went to the stake resolutely, in unwitting emulation...

... as a social and economic weapon. Nevertheless, Beinart’s two articles provide a wealth of new data on converso life in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spain. These are complemented by a study of Portugese conversos in the sixteenth century by I. S. Révah. Those articles which attempt to place Jews...

...T. Lynn Smith Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Jews in colonial Brazil . By Wiznitzer Arnold . New York , 1960 . Columbia University Press . Bibliography. Appendix. Index . Pp. x , 227 . $7.00 . ...

...Samuel Proctor Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews. Colonial Times Through 1800 . By Rosenbloom Joseph R. . Lexington , 1960 . University of Kentucky Press . Pp. xii , 175 . $10.00 . ...

...Stephen Sadow Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines? Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora . By Rein Raanan . Boston : Brill , 2010 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 286 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 In the introduction to Argentine...

...Holly Snyder Creole Jews: Negotiating Community in Colonial Suriname . By Vink Wieke . Leiden : KITLV Press (The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) , 2010 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xiv , 306 pp. Paper...

...Haim Avni Argentina, Israel, and the Jews: Perón, The Eichmann Capture, and After . By Rein Raanan . Translated by Grenzeback Martha . Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture . College Park : University Press of Maryland , 2003 . Tables. Bibliography. Index . xxi...

... three hundred thousand Jews were especially noteworthy in this regard. 6 In particular, Perón sought to attract Jewish support for his “New Argentina” in order to improve his tarnished international reputation as a Nazi-fascist sympathizer and as part of his larger effort to create an image of what...

...Judith Laikin Elkin Jews of the Amazon: Self-Exile in Earthly Paradise . By Segal Ariel . Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society , 1999 . Photographs. Maps. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxiii , 341 pp. Cloth , $29.95 . Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press...

...Frederic Cople Jaher The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450–1800 . Edited by Bernardini Paolo and Fiering Norman . European Expansion and Global Interaction , vol. 2 . Oxford : Berghahn Books , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Indexes...

...Sandra F. Mcgee Deutsch The Jews of Latin America . Rev. ed. By Elkin Judith Laikin . New York : Holmes and Meier , 1998 . Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvii , 339 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Paper , $19.50 . Copyright 2000 by Duke...

...Haim Avni Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa . By Wells Allen . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxxi , 447 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement...

...Seymour B. Liebman Ashkenazim did not arrive in the Netherlands Antilles in numbers until 1926. For three centuries prior thereto, Jews from Curaçao had spread north to the entire Caribbean and the United States, and south and west to South and Central America. Many towns in Venezuela...

...Judith Laikin Elkin Spain and the Jews: The Sephardi Experience, 1492 and After . Edited by Kedourie Elie . New York : Thames and Hudson , 1992 . Plates. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Index . 248 pp. Cloth . $40.00 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 For one...

...Gerson Cohen Jews and the Inquisition of Mexico: The Great Auto da Fé of 1649 . By de Bocanegra Mathias S. J. Translated by Liebman Seymour B. . Lawrence, Kansas , 1974 . Coronado Press . Index . Pp. 266 . Cloth . $15.00 . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976...

... of the Jewish community and of its leading lights, but, unfortunately, the connections between the experiences of ordinary Jews and Argentine society remain vague. Weisbrot is well aware of acculturation, which he characterizes, excessively in my opinion, as “rapid and conspicuously successful” (p. 175...

...Eugene Sofer Jews of the Latin American Republics . By Elkin Judith Laikin . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1980 . Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 298 . Cloth. $17.00 . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Jews...

... the Jewish merchants. Many of these Sephardics had come to the two islands via Brazil, Holland, Curaçao, or England. (The author’s case that some came from Spanish America, and still had relatives and business partners there, is poorly demonstrated.) In general, these Jews eschewed plantation ownership...

... quotation from documents enhances the story considerably. One might wish, however, that there had been a more elaborate presentation of the scientific work of the Spanish Jews; no mention, for example, is made of the Jewish authorship of the famed Alfonsine Tables, and little of the importance of the Jews...