door Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota | feb 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
In the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, there was a theological debate on slavery and slave trading. Is slavery and slave trading morally legitimate? At the heart of the debate were the Voetians and the Cocceains. The Voetians argued that the Biblical verse: “Thou...
door Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota | feb 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
In an early article, Alvin Thompson argues that the major prejudices that Europeans in the Americas held against blacks/Africans originated prior to 1600, so that when the transatlantic slave trade expanded, ‘there was already a solid body of prejudicial literature in...
door Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota | feb 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
In the month of January 2018, I was invited by the board of Centro de Estudos Judaicos do Alto Tâmega (CEJAT) to present at the second symposium on Judaism. They requested that I speak about the Jewish customs of the Portuguese Jews throughout the diaspora. Initially,...
