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Amsterdam to the Americas: The Making of a Sephardic Atlantic

1492 was a fateful year: the expulsion of Jews from Spain coincided with Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World. Soon after, people of Jewish descent began settling in Spain’s American colonies. Some practised Judaism in secret. Their later connections with Amsterdam—where a new Jewish community emerged in the 1590s—enabled a return to open Jewish life. Iberian New Christians also used Amsterdam as a springboard to Dutch Brazil, where the first Jewish congregations in the Americas were founded in the 1630s. There, New Christians lived again as Jews until the Portuguese reconquest of 1654. As Dutch Brazil fell, Jewish settlers dispersed to the Caribbean, the Guianas, and the eastern seaboard of North America, where they engaged in trade and tropical agriculture. Wim Klooster is Professor and Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Endowed Chair in History and International Relations at Clark University. He has written widely on Dutch colonialism, smuggling, Jewish history, and the age of revolutions. His books include The Dutch Moment and Revolutions in the Atlantic World, and he is editor of The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions and coeditor of Jewish Entanglement in the Atlantic World. Join our free mailing list to hear about future talks on Sephardic Jewish genealogy. https://www.sephardic.world/sephardic... Please support the work of the Sephardic Genealogical Society in producing Sephardic World talks. A small monthly donation makes a huge difference.   / sephardi   The Sephardic Genealogical Society has a number of fascinating projects that need sponsorship. https://www.sephardic.world/