TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wassner, Dalia
T1  - The Port Jew and Nuestra América
BT  - Narratives of Collective Responsibility and Belonging
JF  - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V.
N2  - Jacob Brandon Maduro’s Memoirs and Related Observations (Havana, 1953) speak to the lasting yet malleable legacy of Jewish Caribbean/Atlantic mercantile communities that defined early modern settlement in the Americas. A close reading of the Memoirs, alongside relevant archival records and community narratives, lends new perspectives to scholarship on Port Jewries and the Atlantic Diaspora. Specifically concerned with Jacob’s adoption of such leading intellectual and political tropes as the Monroe doctrine, José Martí’s Nuestra America, and a Zionism that evolved from an ideology to a reality, the Memoirs reveal a narrative at once defined by the tremendous upheavals of the first half of the 20th century, and an enduring sense of Jewish diasporic peoplehood defined through a Port Jew paradigm whereby the preservation of Jewish ethnicity is understood as synonymous with the championing of modernity.
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-585580
SN  - 978-3-86956-552-1
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
IS  - 28
SP  - 84
EP  - 99
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -