Note: "The story of the Jewish people in Europe in the twentieth century as seen through the events and documents of Rabbi Dr. William and Irene Weinberg. - Part one of a trilogy--Publisher's website

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Note: Literaturangaben

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Note: Literaturverz. S. [375] - 421 , Introduction , Curaçao as a transit center to the Spanish Main and the French West Indies , Paramaribo as Dutch and Atlantic nodal point,1540-1795 , Anglo-Dutch trade in the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, 1621-1733 , SECTION II. EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS ; The French Atlantic and the Dutch, late 17th-late 18th century , Anglo-Dutch economic relations in the Atlantic world, 1688-1783 , A network-based merchant empire : Dutch trade in the Hispanic Atlantic (1680-1740) , A public and private Dutch West India interest , SECTION III. INTELLECTUAL AND INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS ; Adultery here and there : crossing sexual boundaries in the Dutch Jewish Atlantic , The scholarly Atlantic : circuits of knowledge between Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Americas in the eighteenth century , The Dutch "Atlantic" and the dubious case of Frans Post , SECTION IV. SHIFTING ENCOUNTERS ; The eighteenth-century Danish, Dutch and Swedish free ports in the northeastern Caribbean : continuity and change , Dutch Atlantic decline during the "Age of Revolutions" , SECTION V. PERSPECTIVES ON THE DUTCH ATLANTIC ; The rise and decline of the Dutch Atlantic, 1600-1800 , Conclusion : Dutch moment in Atlantic historiography

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Note: Literaturverz. S. 140 - 152

Note: Literaturverz. S. [317] - 335

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Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-154)

Note: Literaturangaben

Note: Literaturverz. S. [233] - 245

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Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , Literaturangaben

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 237-254 , Morality, meaning, and the ritual search for the sacred , Morality, meaning, and the ritual search for the sacred , Heavenly assembly , What's in a bowl? Babylonian magic spells and the origins of Kol Nidre , Sermons and history: the "Marrano" connection to Kol Nidre , Magic of the moment: Kol Nidre in progressive Judaism , Music of Kol Nidre , Kol Nidre: a halakhic history and analysis , Choice, commitment, cancellation: vows and oaths in Jewish law , Kol Nidre: translation and commentary , Kol Nidre from Union prayer book to Gates of repentance , Memories of the past, guidelines for the future , What if cleverness is foolishness and righteousness an illusion? , Words of wisdom or legalese? , Two Torah scrolls and Kol Nidre: the earthly court below , At least credit me with being compassionate , Filling the void , Words mean everything, words mean nothing: both are true , "Woe is me that I have sworn": the power to annul God's vows , Tyranny of perfection , Disruption, disorientation, and restarting: the Kol Nidre road to return , Lifting the curtain: the theatrical Kol Nidre , "It's rather hard to understand": approaching God through sound, not translation , Sound and pageantry: willingness, aspiration, and discernment , Is Kol Nidre typical? , All bets are off , Room with no back, only forward , Imagining nothing , Vote of no confidence , Over-promise, under-deliver ... and then forgive , Courting inversion: Kol Nidre as legal drama , Kol Nidre mirror to our soul , Release beyond words: Kol Nidre even on a violin , Night vision: a gift of sacred uncertainty , Ritualizing Kol Nidre: the power of three , All vows? No! Then, which vows? , How is Kol Nidre like a Dodgers game? , We are the image of God that God leaves behind for history to know , Oath, or My family story , Heavenly assembly , What's in a bowl? Babylonian magic spells and the origins of Kol Nidre , Sermons and history: the "Marrano" connection to Kol Nidre , Magic of the moment: Kol Nidre in progressive Judaism , Music of Kol Nidre , Kol Nidre: a halakhic history and analysis , Choice, commitment, cancellation: vows and oaths in Jewish law , Kol Nidre: translation and commentary , Kol Nidre from Union prayer book to Gates of repentance , Memories of the past, guidelines for the future , What if cleverness is foolishness and righteousness an illusion? , Words of wisdom or legalese? , Two Torah scrolls and Kol Nidre: the earthly court below , At least credit me with being compassionate , Filling the void , Words mean everything, words mean nothing: both are true , "Woe is me that I have sworn": the power to annul God's vows , Tyranny of perfection , Disruption, disorientation, and restarting: the Kol Nidre road to return , Lifting the curtain: the theatrical Kol Nidre , "It's rather hard to understand": approaching God through sound, not translation , Sound and pageantry: willingness, aspiration, and discernment , Is Kol Nidre typical? , All bets are off , Room with no back, only forward , Imagining nothing , Vote of no confidence , Over-promise, under-deliver ... and then forgive , Courting inversion: Kol Nidre as legal drama , Kol Nidre mirror to our soul , Release beyond words: Kol Nidre even on a violin , Night vision: a gift of sacred uncertainty , Ritualizing Kol Nidre: the power of three , All vows? No! Then, which vows? , How is Kol Nidre like a Dodgers game? , We are the image of God that God leaves behind for history to know , Oath, or My family story

Note: Literaturangaben , Introduction : the human tradition in the Atlantic world , Catarina Álvares Paraguaçu (1510s-1582) : Indian visionary in Brazil and France , John Billington and his family (c. 1582-1630) : doomed 'knave' of Plymouth Plantation , Samuel Cohen (c. 1600-1642) : Jewish translator in Brazil, Curaçao, and Angola , William Lamport (c. 1611-1659): Mexico's Irish would-be king , Jacob Leisler (1640-1691) : German-born governor of New York , Hendrick or 'Tiyanoga' (1680-1755) : Iroquois emissary to England , Sir William Johnson (1715-1774) : English emissary to the Iroquois , Henry 'Harry' Washington (1750s-1790s) : a founding father's slave , Julien Raimond (1744-1801) : planter, revolutionary and free man of color in Saint-Domingue , Anne Pépin (1747-1837) : entrepreneur, landlady, and mixed-race signare in Senegal , João da Silva Feijó (1760-1824) : Brazilian scientist in the Portuguese overseas empire , Juan Antonio Olavarrieta (1765-1822) : Basque cleric and libertine rebel in Mexico , Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840) : feminist slaveowner in Barbados , Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785-1879) : Napoleon's American sister-in-law , James MacQueen (1778-1870) : agent of imperial change in the Caribbean and Africa , William Bullock (1773-1849) : British Museum curator and showman visits Mexico

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