Año 2 • N0. 4 • 2014

Religious DiveRsity in the Cabo veRDean Community

¿Qué será, será lo que Poririo tendrá? Cuba–RhoDe islanD el aRte tRaspasa las FRonteRas 4 Del Editor 5 Niños Artistas 7 Besos De Gabriela Mistral 8 ¿Qué será, será lo que Poririo tendrá? Miguel Ángel Odio 14 Religious Diversity in the Cabo Verdean Community. Alma Gottlied, PH.D. 20 ¿Quién es? Edición General 21 Canción Nocturna –Pequeña Canción De José Ángel Buesa 23 El Taller de Don Cheto R. Angelody 24 José Ramírez (Luces y Palabras) Edición General 25 Creolo, Mas qui un Lingua Carlos Spinola 27 Las Olas de la Vida Varsobia Gallego 28 Pinceles de la Ciudad Carolina Briones 29 Cuando ella besa – En el fondo De César Sánchez Beras 31 Las locuras del Tío Paco Tomás Peña 32 Cuba-Rhode Island Edición General 35 El Coming Soon… | 3 DEL EDITOR

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14 | Verdeans were Catholic. Yet in recent layer of Jewish identity to these sociologi- decades, some Protestant and indepen- cally unique islands. dent churches have gained inluence on In my current research, I am focusing the islands. Less publicly acknowledged on the contemporary atermath of this is that religious diversity actually dates to conjoined Jewish-Cabo Verdean diaspo- the founding of Cape Verde society, when ra, exploring how this largely unknown the islands were irst discovered and inha- yet historically signiicant dual diaspora bited by European explorers. he islands is now being re-evaluated among con- were empty of human habitation, and the temporary Cabo Verdeans (both on and irst European settlers were disproportio- of the islands). Parallel to the eforts of nately Jewish because of the increasing many Brazilians and other Latin Ameri- anti-Semitism that was slowly starting cans rediscovering their Jewish heritage, to claim Iberia in the last decades of the many Cabo Verdeans are now curious 15th century. to chart and reclaim the submerged yet In 1492, Spain issued an Edict of historically critical Jewish component of Expulsion requiring all Jews either to their island’s identity. leave Spain or convert to Catholicism; four years later, under pressure from In meeting Cabo Verdeans across New Spain, the king of Portugal announced England, I am using an ethnographic his own Edict of Expulsion. housands approach. My research methods includes of Jews opted to leave Iberia--rather than conducting formal interviews, studying be killed, or forced to convert to Catho- the Crioulo language, living for short licism—and they reached many destina- periods with Cabo Verdean families, and tions (including Amsterdam, Istanbul, observing and participating in a range Brazil, Mexico, Curaçao, Rhode Island, of activities with Cabo Verdeans--from and New York). Much less known is that concerts to the CV Independence Day Pa- a smaller but equally adventurous group rade to a combined Cabo Verdean-Jewish of Jews leeing the increasing anti-Semi- Passover Seder held annually in Rox- tism enveloping Iberia decided to join the bury, MA. From this research, I plan to group of Portuguese adventurers trave- produce a book about Cabo Verdeans ling to the newly rediscovered islands of with Jewish ancestry that will document Cabo Verde. contemporary activities in which many On these new maritime routes, Jews Cabo Verdeans are now engaging in New found travel an efective means to avoid England, as well as Lisbon, Praia, and persecution and death. he more pros- elsewhere. As many Cabo Verdeans are perous among them forged remarkably reassessing the frequently overlooked international trading networks, and these Jewish underside to both their family networks persisted in one way or another histories and their national identity, this across the next ive-and-a-half centuries. source of religious diversity in the Cabo hus some Moroccan Jews leeing per- Verdean community is emerging as a secution in the 19th century also found strength in which this island nation can their way to Cabo Verde, adding a second feel pride.

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