Jessica Roitman
Roitman is an historian of early modern and modern Jewish History. Her research focuses on Jews and Jewish communities in the (Dutch) Caribbean. She is interested in issues of race, ethnicity, minoritization, slavery, and colonialism and the intersection of Jewish and Caribbean histories. She wrote The Same but Different? Inter-cultural Trade and the Sephardim, and co-edited (with Gert Oostindie) Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800. More recently, she published Highlights of the Mongui Maduro Museum and Mongui Maduro Library.
She is available to give talks or class visits online for a fee. Languages: English, Dutch.
Recent Publications:
- https://islandstudiesjournal.org/files/ISJ.401.pdf
- https://www.academia.edu/35485254/Repositioning_the_Dutch_in_the_Atlantic_1680_1800
- https://www.academia.edu/34084931/_A_mass_of_mestiezen_castiezen_and_mulatten_Contending_with_color_in_the_Netherlands_Antilles_1750_1850
- https://www.academia.edu/27882050/Economics_Empire_Eschatology_The_Global_Context_of_Jewish_Settlement_in_the_Americas_1650_1670
- https://www.academia.edu/6995344/Portuguese_Jews_Amerindians_and_the_Frontiers_of_Encounter_in_Colonial_Suriname
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV-FTuLWL8h9O9YTKpXo8wg
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