Atlantic Diasporas

Featuring chapters by Jonathan Israel, Natalie Zemon Davis, Aviva Ben-Ur, Holly Snyder, and other prominent Jewish historians, this collection opens new avenues of inquiry into the Jewish diaspora and integrates Jewish trade and settlements into the broader narrative of Atlantic exploration.

Richard L. Kagan is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University and the translator and editor, with Abigail Dyer, of Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics, also published by Johns Hopkins. Philip D. Morgan is the Harry C. Black Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University and author of the award-winning book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry.

These authors provide a window onto a diverse and fascinating world that challenges a host of popular notions. Renaissance Quarterly 2009 This volume includes pieces by such scholars as Jonathan Israel and Daviken Studnick-Gizbert, who have made outstanding contributions to our knowledge of the international activities, and the social and mental worlds, of the Marrano mercantile community. New York Review of Books 2010 This volume offers an excellent rebuttal to those who think that either Jews or the Atlantic stand apart from nation and empire. -- David Hancock Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2010 A major contribution... Sophisticated analyses of culture and excellent archival research, integrating both with the burgeoning field of Atlantic Studies. -- David Graizbord American Jewish History 2008 Atlantic Diasporas will inform even experts in a diversity of fields. -- Jonathan Schorsch New West Indian Guide 2010