The merchant of Havana : the Jew in the Cuban abolitionist archive / Stephen Silverstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silverstein, Stephen, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis, 1814-1873. Sab.

Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis.

Tapia y Rivera, Alejandro, 1826-1882. Cuarterona.

Tapia y Rivera, Alejandro.

Villaverde, Cirilo, 1812-1894. Cecilia Valdés.

Villaverde, Cirilo.

Antislavery movements--Cuba--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements.

Jewish slave traders--History--19th century.

Jewish slave traders.

Jews in literature.

Jews--Cuba--History--19th century.

Jews.

Antisemitism--Cuba--History--19th century.

Antisemitism.

Ethnic relations.

History.

Cuba--Ethnic relations.

Cuba.

Physical Description:

xi, 205 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, two ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became organized in Cuba, the argument grew that Jews participated in the African slave trade and in New World slavery, and that this participation gave Jews extraordinary influence in the new Cuban economy and culture. Because of the decidedly small Jewish population on the island in this era, this form of anti-Semitism sprang almost exclusively from mythological beliefs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The notional Jew: judaizing the merchant

Racial prescriptions and inscriptions in Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's Sab (1841)

Racial alchemy and Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's La Cuarterona (1867)

The Jewish escape hatch from Cuba impossible: Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes (1882).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826521095

0826521096

OCLC:

921867765