Title: Underground World of Secret Jews and Africans: Two Tales of Sex,Magic,and Survival in Colonia Cartagena and Mexico City
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Publication Date: 2021
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1558769536
ISBN 13: 9781558769533
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Spanish colonial society was divided into a caste system based on race and religion. Slaves comprised the lowest caste, leading some to seek power through African magic. Meanwhile, children of Jewish fathers and African women tried to gain social status by embracing Judaism but in the process they risked retribution from the Spanish Inquisition, whose tribunals zealously prosecuted the perceived threat to the colonies from multicultural witchcraft and from alleged secret Jews. These two tales illustrate the perils tied to religious identity and practice in the colonies. One, set in 17th-century Cartagena des �ndias, features a biracial surgeon famed for his magic powers. To bargain for his freedom, he denounced his wealthier for secretly practicing Judaism. The colleague was arrested, confessed under torture, and died in prison from his wounds. The second story involves Esperanza Rodr�guez, a biracial Mexican woman tried by the Inquisition in the 1640s for secretly practicing Judaism. In Seville, Rodr�guez had been a slave of a New Christian (converted Jewish) woman, who introduced her to Judaism before freeing her. Rodr�guez accepted Judaism in order to close the social gap that separated her from her former owner. But she was eventually tortured into confessing her religion, and she died in prison.

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Jonathan Schorsch holds a chair in Jewish Religious and and Intellectual History at the University of Potsdam, having taught previously at Columbia University. Among his books are "Hidden Lives of Jews and Africans : Underground Societies in the Iberian Atlantic World" and "Jews and B'lacks in Early Modern World"

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