Portuguese Jews in the Atlantic of the Early Modern Period

Event Start Date: March 13, 2018 12:00 PM
Event End Date: March 13, 2018 1:00 PM

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Presented by: Hilit Surowitz-Israel
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Judaica Suite, 12:00 p.m.

A graduate of the University of Florida and currently professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Surowitz-Israel returns to her alma mater to study records in the holdings of the Latin American and Caribbean, Florida, and Judaica collections. Her research focuses on the early modern Atlantic and scrutinizes the institutions and regulatory practices of Portuguese Jewish communities in the Caribbean and beyond. It also examines the formation of diaspora consciousness among Portuguese Jews, and the entanglement of race and religion in colonial America. Her research as a fellow in the program “Jews in the Americas” contributes to her forthcoming monograph “May God Enlarge Japheth”: Portuguese Jews in the Early Modern Atlantic World.

This event is part of the Jews in the Americas Speaker Series.