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The Jews of eighteenth-century Jamaica : a testamentary history of a diaspora in transition /

Based on the last wills and testaments composed by Jamaican Jews between 1673 and 1815, Stanley Mirvis explores the social and familial experiences of one of the most critical, yet understudied nodes of an Atlantic Portuguese Jewish trade network. Mirvis examines how Jamaica's Jews put down roo...

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Main Author:	Mirvis, Stanley (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Jews > Jamaica > History > 18th century.

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