Migrating Merchants. Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Hamburg and Portugal by Jorun Poettering

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“…The critical role played by commerce in forming and consolidating the Western Sephardic Diaspora explains why understanding the "Nação as an economic community" (Graizbord 2013, p. 135) has been privileged in scholarship (see, among others, Israel 2002;Klooster 2006;Studnicki-Gizbert 2007;Roitman 2011;Strum 2013;Poettering 2019; and the collective works of Bernardini and Fiering 2001;Kagan and Morgan 2009). From the concept of "port Jew", coined by Lois C. Dubin (1999) and interpreted by David Sorkin as a social type that included Sephardic and Italian Jews settled in Atlantic port cities on the edge of border-crossing and cross-cultural trading networks (Sorkin 1999), 5 to Jonathan Israel's view on intertwined and overlapping diasporas boosted by the rise of the Early Modern maritime empires (Israel 2002), economic approaches have been at the center of the Western Sephardic Diaspora debate, to such an extent that the latter has been defined as a "trading diaspora" (Israel 2009;Trivellato 2004Trivellato , 2009b.…”

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The Nação Rules: A Comparative Analysis of the Bylaws of Western Sephardic Congregations in the Early Modern Atlantic

Vieira

2023

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Religious persecution, segregation, and commercial networks triggered the diaspora of Iberian New Christians and Sephardic Jews throughout the Atlantic in the Early Modern period. Despite the geographical dispersion, the diverse host environments, and the complex religious experiences, the so-called Western Sephardic Diaspora was founded on the principles of unity and preservation, which were cemented by the notion of belonging to the Nação. Thus, as a cross-border community connected by common geographical origins, collective cultural identity, and a shared New Christian background, the concept of Nação was structural for the definition and evolution of the diasporic experience of Portuguese and Spanish exiles and their descendants from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. This article overviews the most recent findings and perspectives on the concept of the Nação as a unifying element of the Western Sephardic Diaspora. Then, it problematizes the interpretation of this concept in different Sephardic communities established in Atlantic port cities. This problem is approached by analyzing these communities’ internal bylaws (ascamot) under the lens of two critical questions: (1) the concept of Nação as defining the borders of belonging to the community and (2) the unity and preservation of the Nação as essential drifts of the organization and management of the community. This analysis emphasizes the tension between the dynamism and particularities of each community and the conservatism of the idea of Nação, promoted by small social and economic elites that exercised increasing control over the communities and their interaction with the surrounding environments.

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The Nação Rules: A Comparative Analysis of the Bylaws of Western Sephardic Congregations in the Early Modern Atlantic

Vieira

2023

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“…(p. 122) From early on, the port city of Hamburg was one of the economic nodal points in the colonial networks described by Dussel. With no military fleet of its own, the city-state's merchants first invested in Portuguese colonial expeditions (Poettering, 2019), then participated in the colonial enterprises of the Netherlands, Denmark and Great Britain, and later began to establish overseas trading outposts to deal with raw materials and enslaved Africans (Jokinen, 2010;Möhle, 1999). During the eighteenth century, Hamburg became one of Europe's prime locations for sugar refining and for the processing of cotton (Todzi, 2018).…”

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Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity

Prinzleve

2022

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This article illustrates the predicaments of self-acclaimed global cities that come under pressure to decolonise heritage practices. Examining the politics of public memory in post-imperial Hamburg through the inner-city redevelopment project Hamburg HafenCity, it shows how commemorative landscapes are co-produced by market rationalities. Through document analysis and interviews with city planners, artists and campaigners, the article explores urban toponymies and heritage sites as relational and contested configurations of post-colonial memory and culture. It finds that the HafenCity’s colonial heritage premediates the area’s contemporary symbolic programme which celebrates European expansion, cosmopolitanism and Hamburg’s maritime tradition. The article engages with the multiple modes of encounter and performative responses that (neo-)colonial memory landscapes elicit. It redraws the affective geographies of (un-)belonging in a post-imperial city and charts decolonial propositions of civil society actors.

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Migrating Merchants. Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Hamburg and Portugal by Jorun Poettering

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The Nação Rules: A Comparative Analysis of the Bylaws of Western Sephardic Congregations in the Early Modern Atlantic

The Nação Rules: A Comparative Analysis of the Bylaws of Western Sephardic Congregations in the Early Modern Atlantic

Silent memorylands: City branding and the coloniality of cultural memory in the Hamburg HafenCity

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