Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Two Sephardic Communities on Senegal's Petite Côte
- 2 Jewish Identity in Senegambia
- 3 Religious Interaction
- 4 The Blade Weapons Trade in Seventeenth-Century West Africa
- 5 The Luso-African Ivories as Historical Source for the Weapons Trade and for the Jewish Presence in Guinea of Cape Verde
- 6 The Later Years
- Conclusion
- Appendix I The Jewish Traders of Porto d'Ale and Joal, Their Relatives, and Some of Their New Christian Partners in Senegambia and in the United Provinces and Portugal: A Comprehensive List (ca. 1606–ca. 1635)
- Appendix II A Chronological Outline of the Institutional Proceedings against the Jews of Porto d'Ale and Joal (1611–1643)
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Two Sephardic Communities on Senegal's Petite Côte
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Two Sephardic Communities on Senegal's Petite Côte
- 2 Jewish Identity in Senegambia
- 3 Religious Interaction
- 4 The Blade Weapons Trade in Seventeenth-Century West Africa
- 5 The Luso-African Ivories as Historical Source for the Weapons Trade and for the Jewish Presence in Guinea of Cape Verde
- 6 The Later Years
- Conclusion
- Appendix I The Jewish Traders of Porto d'Ale and Joal, Their Relatives, and Some of Their New Christian Partners in Senegambia and in the United Provinces and Portugal: A Comprehensive List (ca. 1606–ca. 1635)
- Appendix II A Chronological Outline of the Institutional Proceedings against the Jews of Porto d'Ale and Joal (1611–1643)
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
En este puerto dali ay una aldea de cien vecinos portuguesses y negros. A este puerto vinieron de Flandes gente que professa la ley de Moyssen y acen all[i] y guardan sus ritos y cerimonias como los de Judea y los portuguesses quiriendo matar los y echar los de alli corieron mucho riesgo porque acudio el Rey y les dijo que su tiera era feria donde podia auitar todo genero de jente y que nadie se descompassiese en ella que les mandaria cortar las cabeças; que la guera si la querian la hiciessen en la mar y no en su tiera que ya dicho que era feria.
In this puerto dali there is a community with 100 families [“100 vizinhos”; in Portuguese, literally “neighbours,” which may correspond to persons and/or families] of Portuguese and blacks. To this port came people from Flanders who profess the law of Moses and here they do and maintain their rituals and ceremonies like the ones of Judea [i.e., the land of the Jews]. And the Portuguese seeking to kill them and expel them from that place ran a serious risk. Because the king took the side of the [Jews] and he told the [Portuguese] that his land was a market where all kinds of people had a right to live. And that no one would cause disorder in his land; otherwise, he would order that their heads be cut off. […]
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- The Forgotten DiasporaJewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World, pp. 20 - 51Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011