Sephardic family life in the eighteenth-century British West Indies

Title: Sephardic family life in the eighteenth-century British West Indies
Identifier: d_2009_2013:2ba8e90ff105:11932
identifier: 12598
Creator: Mirvis, Stanley,
Contributor: Jane S. Gerber
Date: 2013
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Caribbean studies | Judaic studies | Caribbean | Eighteenth Century | Family History | Rejudaization | Sephardic Studies | West Indies
Abstract: Spanish-Portuguese Jews of eighteenth-century Jamaica and Barbados sustained an Iberian rooted Converso heritage through their patterns of family life. While in other parts of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic Sephardic society and culture was in a state of decay, it flourished in the West Indies. Spanish-Portuguese Jews settled in the British West Indies as extended families, actively promoted traditional marriage patterns through near exclusive endogamy, addressed the place of their children of color through distinctively Sephardic concerns, and asserted a sense of Iberian patriarchy in opposition to communal interference in child rearing. In exploring the private and familial lives of Spanish-Portuguese Jews, this dissertation reveals the long-term social-historical consequences of the rejudaization process.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.
Program: History