"This impressive volume shows that the history of minorities - specifically that of a diaspora - can open up completely new perspectives on the 'great' questions and developments of general history." - Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft ..". this magnificent and much-needed volume ... is remarkably free, factual or interpretive." - American Jewish History "The age-old tension between value-free history and history with a moral is implicit throughout this fine volume." - The Jerusalem Report "A substantial contribution to the scholarship on Indian Native-American]-European relations ......
"This impressive volume shows that the history of minorities - specifically that of a diaspora - can open up completely new perspectives on the 'great...
Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social, and religious development of the New World. They played an important role in the discovery, colonization, and eventually exploitation of the resources of the New World. Alone among the European peoples who came to the Americas in the colonial period, Jews were dispersed throughout the hemisphere; indeed, they were the only cohesive European ethnic or religious group that lived under both Catholic and Protestant regimes, which makes their study...
Jews and Judaism played a significant role in the history of the expansion of Europe to the west as well as in the history of the economic, social...
