This essay explores how Jewish understandings of sexual purity changed in the Americas, where Catholic and Protestant understandings of sex, reproduction, and embodiment were at the heart of European colonialism. It begins in colonial New Spain and ends in the nineteenth-century United States, exploring both normative and transgressive forms of Jewish sexuality. Showing how understandings of Jewish purity developed—and expanded—in early America sheds new light on the history of colonialism and sex, showing how multiple systems of purity competed and overlapped across the Atlantic world. It also helpfully reorients American Jewish history away from “waves of migration” toward sites of power: the newly created courts, Jewish communal institutions, and domestic spaces where bodies and relationships were regulated.

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美洲的犹太人与性行为，1519-1880 年

这篇文章探讨了犹太人对性纯洁的理解如何在美洲发生变化，在那里天主教和新教对性、生殖和体现的理解是欧洲殖民主义的核心。它始于殖民地新西班牙，结束于 19 世纪的美国，探索犹太性行为的规范和越界形式。展示对犹太纯洁的理解如何在早期美国发展和扩展，为殖民主义和性的历史提供了新的视角，展示了多种纯洁系统如何在大西洋世界相互竞争和重叠。它还有助于将美国犹太历史从“移民浪潮”转向权力场所：新设立的法院、犹太社区机构以及身体和关系受到监管的家庭空间。