New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America Paperback - 2011
by Michael Hoberman
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The New England Puritans' fascination with the legacy of the Jewish religion has been well documented, but their interactions with actual Jews have escaped sustained historical attention. New Israel/New England tells the story of the Sephardic merchants who traded and sojourned in Boston and Newport between the mid-seventeenth century and the era of the American Revolution. It also explores the complex and often contradictory meanings that the Puritans attached to Judaism and the fraught attitudes that they bore toward the Jews as a people.
More often than not, Michael Hoberman shows, Puritans thought and wrote about Jews in order to resolve their own theological and cultural dilemmas. A number of prominent New Englanders, including Roger Williams, Increase Mather, Samuel Sewall, Benjamin Colman, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and Ezra Stiles, wrote extensively about post-biblical Jews, in some cases drawing on their own personal acquaintance with Jewish contemporaries.
Among the intriguing episodes that Hoberman investigates is the recruitment and conversion of Harvard's first permanent instructor of Hebrew, the Jewish-born Judah Monis. Later chapters describe the ecumenical friendship between Newport minister Ezra Stiles and Haim Carigal, an itinerant rabbi from Palestine, as well as the life and career of Moses Michael Hays, the prominent freemason who was Boston's first permanently established Jewish businessman, a founder of its insurance industry, an early sponsor of the Bank of Massachusetts, and a personal friend of Paul Revere.
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- Title New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America
- Author Michael Hoberman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Ed
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Massachusetts Press
- Date 2011-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781558499201 / 1558499202
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.38 x 0.69 in (22.76 x 16.21 x 1.75 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: New England
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Library of Congress subjects United States - History - Colonial period,, Puritans - New England - History - 17th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011032775
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.2
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 04/01/2012, Page 39
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