Jonathan Schorsch
Department of Religion
Columbia University
617 Kent Hall, MC 3949
1140 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
js1167@columbia.edu
(212)
854-0048
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:
Jews, Judaism, Blacks and
Christianity in the Early Modern Iberian World. Boston (?): Brill,
forthcoming.
Jews and Blacks in the Early
Modern World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
“Cristãos-novos, judaísmo,
negros e cristianismo nos primórdios do mundo atlântico moderno: uma visão
segundo fontes inquisitoriais,” in Diálogos e diferenças no advento do mundo
transatlântico: missionários, indios, negros e judeus, ed. Lúcia Costigan
(Minas Gerais, Brazil: PUC-Minas, forthcoming).
“Blacks, Jews and the Racial
Imagination in the Writings of Sephardim in the Long Seventeenth Century,” Jewish
History (Haifa University) 17,3 (Winter 2003), special issue on Jews and
Race.
Book Review. Esther Benbassa
and Aron Rodrigue. Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community,
14th-20th Centuries. Berkeley; University of California Press, 2000 (orig.
1993). In Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 36,2 (Winter 2002).
“Transformations in the
Manumission of Slaves by Jews from East to West: Pressures from the Atlantic
Slave System.” In From Slavery to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World.
Ed. Jack P. Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute and Randy J. Sparks. Columbia, SC:
University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming.
Book Review. The Jews and
the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800. Edited by Paolo Bernardini
and Norman Fiering. European Expansion & Global Interaction, Vol. 2. New
York: Berghahn Books, 2001. American Jewish History 89, no. 3 (September
2001): 305-307.
“Portmanteau Jews: Sephardim
and Race in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” Jewish Culture and History
4, no. 2 (Southampton University; Winter 2001): 59-74. Special issue on Port
Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres, 1550-1950.
“American Jewish Historians,
Colonial Jews and Blacks, and the Limits of Wissenschaft: A Critical
Review,” Jewish Social Studies 6, no. 2 (Winter 2000): 102-132.
Book Review. Eli Faber. Jews,
Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight. New York/London:
New York University Press, 1998. In New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe
West-Indische Gids 74, nos. 3 & 4 (2000): 323-326.
OTHER RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
“A Passover in Majorca.” In European
Judaism (London, June 2002) --
reportage based on a personal trip; history of the local conversos or chuetas.
Book Review. André Aciman. False
Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2000. In Tikkun magazine (May/June 2001).
“Israeli Cable Radio Faces Only
West.” In News and Views, an electronic journal of Ivri-Nasawi (New
Association of Sephardi/Mizrahi Artists and Writers International), Oct. 16,
2000.
“Making Judaism Cool.” In
Tikkun magazine (March/April 2000) -- review essay of new “radical” Jewish
music and culture.
ONGOING RESEARCH:
* an essay on the unusual and
colorful life and career Rabbi Abraham Gabay Yzidro
* an essay on a previously
untreated Jewish source about the children sent to Sao Tome in 1497
* a review essay on the work of
the late Elias Lipiner
* a review essay on the spate
of recent Sephardic autobiographies