Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries: A Survey

by Henryk Szlajfer

Amsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian "great Jewish merchants." However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the world group sui generis, were equally crucial. Their religious identities were fluid, but at the same time they and the "new Jews" from Amsterdam formed a part of economic modernity epitomized by the rebellious Netherlands and the developing Atlantic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004686312
• ISBN13: 9789004686311
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 356 Pages