The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World by Peter Mark, José Da Silva Horta

The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World

Peter Mark, José Da Silva Horta

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This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Cote. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent to them by the newly est...

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