A Trip to the Dutch Wild Coast## ***A 1658 SEPHARDIC EXPEDITION***## ***WITH JONATHAN SCHORSCH***## ***SEPHARDIC WORLD – SUNDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2022***Jeosua Nunez Netto and Joseph Pereira, two Portuguese-born Jews, left a fascinating account of their trip from Amsterdam to Pomeroom (on South America’s Caribbean coast) in 1658. Their goal was to establish a Jewish colony on the Essequibo River. The authors appear to waver between commercialism and salvation, Portuguese and Dutch identity. The account captures an important moment in Sephardic history after the loss of Dutch Brazil.***Jonathan Schorsch*** holds the Chair in Jewish Religious and Intellectual History at the University of Potsdam (Germany). Among his books are Swimming the Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth-Century Iberian World (Brill, 2008) and Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2004). With his colleague Sina Rauschenbach, he co-edited The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives (Palgrave, 2018).This meeting is on Sunday 6 November 2022 at 11am in LA, 2pm NYC, 7pm London, 8pm Paris/Amsterdam and 9pm Jerusalem. Patrons can join us on Zoom. The link is shared at our Patreon page at: [https://www.patreon.com/sephardi](https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fsephardi%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1f_2apCqPqIFtVUvv_OYvOz1ohReJCPHdDLnOvkKbdT4Hm7loVrnaX-1U&h=AT3GXq8rEFV1dv3MDtehC0zZRq_XABzCq1OGQulsF3J_QYtaX9ZwLAGhdxZ3twFETvB9N0V3SXwrLAyESef5CA798wN0OHtYiuGFFJ_p8KMqh_ejxeIY0dCo_TdKIqaQWcrkk3AbgHGsbAnj6Q&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3w0ekbPr2XSG1e7q48KsPqX9hki_wVcb6yRMIeCN-ZUlANBPLWGR6xWi61im4z3smnCns-plB19IvsGO9lVj3nebs9pjqlXaiawbf4FjmBWh88nxkZAuGBLXvDlsFKiUdx2QWTiixLaVC1osXZ_ry_FzwDQKJ8OK6cNtNVnhEB2DxDeM7fIRbvsVQYrDiFy1kstC_PT9WpNRqWWfmT7pU)Over the last two and a half years Sephardic World has become the leading forum for learning about Sephardic history and genealogy. We have no commercial sponsorship or public funding. There is no charge to attend our meetings or to view our content. If you are not a patron and can afford it, please consider supporting our work.*Best wishes**Ton and David**Sephardic World**Image: Map of Guiana by William Blaeuw, Amsterdam, no date, probably between 1656 and 1667.*