Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780521820219
Subjects: Black studies; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Jewish studies; Judaism; Slavery; Judaism - General; Religion - Judaism; Religion; Europe; Slavery (Jewish law); Anthropology - Cultural; Jews; Attitudes; Slavery and Judaism
First sentence: Regardless of whether European Christian discourse inherited certain statements about Ham or Blacks, accurately or not, from Jewish discourse at the onset of the early modern period, Jewish discourse also continued to cite, defend, and dispute these statements.