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1960 · 735h5502 — New York: Columbia University Press. Good. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. "Historiography has quite neglected the romantic and fascinating history of the underground and free-professing Jews in colonial Brazil who formed the earliest Jewish community in America and became the "Jewish Pilgrim Fathers" of New York as well as of Jamaica Barbados and other Jewish communities in the Caribbean area. The present work is an effort to fill this gap." - Preface. Wiznitzer was president of the Brazilian Jewish Institute of Historical Research and a frequent contributor to learned journals. pp. x 227. Footnotes. Index. List of works cited. Personalia. Black and white reproductions of historic documents. Frontispiece illustration of Isaac Aboab Da Fonseca 1605-93 the first rabbi in the New World. Moderate wear to original navy blue cloth brightly lettered in gilt upon backstrip. Binding sound. Prior owner's bookplate and small bookseller tag inside front board. Photo/bio of author affixed to recto of front free endpaper. Blind stamp prior owner name and date upon title page. Foxing in vicinity of endpapers and lightly to edges. Includes new replica dust jacket in glossy new archival-grade protection. A sound example of this important work.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Brazil - Jews - History Marranos - Brazil . Columbia University Press hardcover