Tuesday 31 May 2011

Jewish communities in West Africa: book review

Forgotten diaspora: Jewish communities in West Africa and the making of the Atlantic World, by Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta

This book is currently on order for SOAS Library. Its focus is on two communities of Sephardic Jews who settled in Portudal and Joal in Senegambia in the early 17th century

Read a review by Dr. Tobias Green (Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham) from the H-Luso-Africa pages of the Humanities and Social Sciences Net online

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