Previous page | New search |
The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Two Early Seventeenth-Century Sephardic Communities on Senegal's Petite Côte |
Authors: | Mark, Peter Horta, José da Silva |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | History in Africa |
Volume: | 31 |
Pages: | 231-256 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Senegal |
Subjects: | communities Jews history ethnic groups Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration Bibliography/Research |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4128526 |
Abstract: | A corpus of manuscript sources from Lisbon archives occasion a fundamental rethinking of the history of Portuguese New Christians and Jews in Senegambia. These sources demonstrate the presence of practising Jews who publicly affirmed their Jewish identity on Senegal's Petite Côte from 1606 to 1612. These sources radically reform the knowledge of the early Jewish presence in West Africa. At the moment that an important Jewish community was being established in Amsterdam (Holland), two communities of Portuguese Jews, closely affiliated with their counterparts in Holland, were growing in Senegal. The Jewish communities of the Petite Côte played a vital role in enabling Holland to challenge the Portuguese trading monopoly there. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |