Acknowledgments

Note on Terminology

Introduction: The Revolutionary Potential of Atlantic Jewish History

AVIVA BEN-UR AND WIM KLOOSTER

1. The U.S. and the Rest: Old and New Paradigms of Early American Jewish History

JOHN M. DIXON

2. Atlantic Commerce and Pragmatic Tolerance: Portuguese Jewish Participation in the Spanish Navíos de Registro System in the Seventeenth Century

OREN OKHOVAT

3. To Trade Is to Thrive: The Sephardic Moment in Amsterdam’s Atlantic and Caribbean Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century

YDA SCHREUDER

4. Trading Violence: Four Jewish Soldiers between Atlantic Empires (ca. 1600–1655)

VICTOR TIRIBÁS

5. Imperial Enterprise: The Franks Family Network, Commerce, and British Expansion

TONI PITOCK

6. Declarations of Interdependence: Understanding the Entanglement of Jewish Rights and Liberties in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1740–1830

HOLLY SNYDER

7. Jews and Free People of Color in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Case Study in Experiential and Ethnic Entanglement

STANLEY MIRVIS

8. Jewish Involvement in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Threat of Equality to the Jewish Way of Life

WIM KLOOSTER

9. Sex with Slaves and the Business of Governance: The Case of Barbados

AVIVA BEN-UR

10. Connecting Jewish Community: An Anglophone Journal, Rev. Isaac Leeser, and a Jewish Atlantic World

LAURA NEWMAN ECKSTEIN

Notes

Notes on Contributors

Index