2004
Volume 49, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1781-7838
  • E-ISSN: 1783-1792

Abstract

Abstract

The Dutch East India Company (VOC) relied on the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam to ensure that the or Jews in Cochin were suitable to be their social and economic partners. The Portuguese Jews were interested in this partnership as well. Yet there was another group of Jews in Cochin. These were the or Jews. The relationships between the trading company and three distinct Jewish groups raise fundamental issues in terms of religious, social, and economic interactions. This article uses the (‘News’) written by Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva, the main member of the Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish delegation to Cochin, to show that there was an ideological basis for the social differentiation made between or Jews and or Jews. This categorization allowed Pereyra de Paiva to produce a text that both his co-religionists in Amsterdam and the Jews who had welcomed him would see in a positive light.

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