Port Jews

Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950

David Cesarani, David Cesarani

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781135292539
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Storia
• Sous-sujet: Storia mediorientale

The history of Jews in cosmopolitan maritime trading centres is a field of research that is reshaping our understanding of how Jews entered the modern world. These studies show that the utility of Jewish merchants in an era of European expansion was vital to their acculturation and assimilation.

Index

Significant information in notes is indicated in the form 27n3, i.e. note 3 on page 27

Abdul Hamid II, Sultan 140, 141

Abraham, D.E.J. 186

Adana 126

Aldrete, Bernardo José 62

Allatini family, Salonika 128, 132, 150n35, 158

Altona, Jews 80

Amsterdam

Jewish emancipation 4, 35, 38, 45n24

Jewish refugees 2

port Jews 31

Sephardic community 59, 62–3

Anglo-Jewish historiography 88–90

anti-semitism, Hamburg 83–4

Aria, Lewis 89

Armenians 126–7, 147, 154n115

Ashkenazi Jews 2, 5, 112–13

in Hamburg 80

Asia see Far East

Association Internationale Villes et Portes (AIVP), France 26, 27

Atlantic world, Sephardim 59–70

Australia, port cities 18

Austria, and Salonika 146–7, 153n112

Babel, Isaac 175

Baghdadi jews 179, 183–6, 191n1

Balkans, nationalism 138–44, 157

Ballin, Albert 84–5

Banque de Salonique 128, 158, 169n11

baptism, of slaves 65

Barker, Matthew 97

Baron, Salo 1–2, 34, 119

Ben Israel, Menasseh 60–1

Benaroya, Avraham 128, 143, 158

Bene Israel community, India 183

Berlin Congress (1878) 132, 138–9

Berlin Jews 2

Bernard, Israel 41

Berr, Cerf 41

Bialik, Chaim Nachman 189

Birnbaum, Pierre 33

Bleichröder, Gerson 134

Bloom, Herbert 11n3

‘bluecoast’ sites 21

Blümegen, Heinrich Cajetan 50

Bodin, Jean 60

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