Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822(English, Hardcover, Marcus Alan P.)

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Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822(English, Hardcover, Marcus Alan P.) is written by Marcus Alan P. and published by University of New Mexico Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 082636716X (ISBN 10) and 9780826367167 (ISBN 13).

The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da NaCAo (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of the early modern period. Portuguese Jews not only founded the first congregations and synagogues in Brazil (Recife and Olinda , but when they left Brazil they played an imperative role in establishing the first Jewish communities in Suriname, throughout the Caribbean, and in North America. Drawing on nearly twenty thousand digitized dossiers of the Portuguese Inquisition, this volume offers a comprehensive, critical overview informed by both relatively inaccessible secondary sources and a significant body of primary sources.