Creole Jews
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Creole Jews
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Author : Wieke Vink
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Creole Jews written by Wieke Vink and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with History categories.
This study presents a refined analysis of Surinames-Jewish identifications. The story of the Surinamese Jews is one of a colonial Jewish community that became ever more interwoven with the local environment of Suriname.
Relexification In Creole And Non Creole Languages
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Author : Julia Horvath
language : en
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Release Date : 1997
Relexification In Creole And Non Creole Languages written by Julia Horvath and has been published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Creole dialects categories.
The Jews In The Caribbean
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Author : Jane S. Gerber
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-28
The Jews In The Caribbean written by Jane S. Gerber and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-28 with Social Science categories.
The Jewish diaspora of the Caribbean constantly redefined itself under changing circumstances. This volume looks at many aspects of this complex past and suggests different ways to understand it: as a Jewish diaspora dispersed under different European colonial empires; as a Jewish body joined together by a set of shared Jewish traditions and historical memories; and as one component in a web of relationships that characterized the Atlantic world.
Once We Were Slaves
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Author : Laura Arnold Leibman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-12
Once We Were Slaves written by Laura Arnold Leibman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-12 with History categories.
An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The Jews Of Eighteenth Century Jamaica
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Author : Stanley Mirvis
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-18
The Jews Of Eighteenth Century Jamaica written by Stanley Mirvis and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-18 with Jews categories.
An in-depth look at the Portuguese Jews of Jamaica and their connections to broader European and Atlantic trade networks Based on last wills and testaments composed by Jamaican Jews between 1673 and 1815, this book explores the social and familial experiences of one of the most critical yet understudied nodes of the Atlantic Portuguese Jewish Diaspora. Stanley Mirvis examines how Jamaica's Jews put down roots as traders, planters, pen keepers, physicians, fishermen, and metalworkers, and reveals how their presence shaped the colony as much as settlement in the tropical West Indies transformed the lives of the island's Jews.
Religious Changes And Cultural Transformations In The Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities
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Author : Yosef Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-02-11
Religious Changes And Cultural Transformations In The Early Modern Western Sephardic Communities written by Yosef Kaplan and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-11 with Religion categories.
From the sixteenth century on, hundreds of Portuguese New Christians began to flow to Venice and Livorno in Italy, and to Amsterdam and Hamburg in northwest Europe. In those cities and later in London, Bordeaux, and Bayonne as well, Iberian conversos established their own Jewish communities, openly adhering to Judaism. Despite the features these communities shared with other confessional groups in exile, what set them apart was very significant. In contrast to other European confessional communities, whose religious affiliation was uninterrupted, the Western Sephardic Jews came to Judaism after a separation of generations from the religion of their ancestors. In this edited volume, several experts in the field detail the religious and cultural changes that occurred in the Early Modern Western Sephardic communities. "Highly recommended for all academic and Jewish libraries." - David B Levy, Touro College, NYC, in: Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews 1.2 (2019)
Jewish Autonomy In A Slave Society
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Author : Aviva Ben-Ur
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-06-05
Jewish Autonomy In A Slave Society written by Aviva Ben-Ur and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-05 with History categories.
A fascinating portrait of Jewish life in Suriname from the 17th to 19th centuries Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname, a Dutch colony on the South American mainland just north of Brazil. Suriname was home to the most privileged Jewish community in the Americas where Jews, most of Iberian origin, enjoyed religious liberty, were judged by their own tribunal, could enter any trade, owned plantations and slaves, and even had a say in colonial governance. Aviva Ben-Ur sets the story of Suriname's Jews in the larger context of Atlantic slavery and colonialism and argues that, like other frontier settlements, they achieved and maintained their autonomy through continual negotiation with the colonial government. Drawing on sources in Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Spanish, Ben-Ur shows how, from their first permanent settlement in the 1660s to the abolition of their communal autonomy in 1825, Suriname Jews enjoyed virtually the same standing as the ruling white Protestants, with whom they interacted regularly. She also examines the nature of Jewish interactions with enslaved and free people of African descent in the colony. Jews admitted both groups into their community, and Ben-Ur illuminates the ways in which these converts and their descendants experienced Jewishness and autonomy. Lastly, she compares the Jewish settlement with other frontier communities in Suriname, most notably those of Indians and Maroons, to measure the success of their negotiations with the government for communal autonomy. The Jewish experience in Suriname was marked by unparalleled autonomy that nevertheless developed in one of the largest slave colonies in the New World.
Caribbean Jewish Crossings
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Author : Sarah Phillips Casteel
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2019-10-28
Caribbean Jewish Crossings written by Sarah Phillips Casteel and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Caribbean Jewish Crossings is the first essay collection to consider the Caribbean's relationship to Jewishness through a literary lens. Although Caribbean novelists and poets regularly incorporate Jewish motifs in their work, scholars have neglected this strain in studies of Caribbean literature. The book takes a pan-Caribbean approach, with chapters addressing the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone, and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. Part 1 traces the emergence of a Caribbean-Jewish literary culture in Suriname, St. Thomas, Jamaica, and Cuba from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century. Part 2 brings into focus Sephardic and crypto-Jewish motifs in contemporary Caribbean literature, while Part 3 turns to the question of colonialism and its relationship to Holocaust memory. The volume concludes with the compelling voices of contemporary Caribbean creative writers.
Jews In The Americas 1776 1826
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Author : Michael Hoberman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-06
Jews In The Americas 1776 1826 written by Michael Hoberman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-06 with History categories.
The period between 1776-1826 signalled a major change in how Jewish identity was understood both by Jews and non-Jews throughout the Americas. Jews in the Americas, 1776-1826 brings this world of change to life by uniting important out-of-print primary sources on early American Jewish life with rare archival materials that can currently be found only in special collections in Europe, England, the United States, and the Caribbean.
The Sephardic Atlantic
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Author : Sina Rauschenbach
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-09
The Sephardic Atlantic written by Sina Rauschenbach and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with Social Science categories.
This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is a collection of substantive, sophisticated and variegated essays, combining case studies with theoretical reflections, organized into three sections: race and blood, metropoles and colonies, and history and memory. Twelve chapters treat converso slave traders, race and early Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa, Sephardim and people of color in nineteenth-century Curaçao, Portuguese converso/Sephardic imperialist behavior, Caspar Barlaeus’ attitude toward Jews in the Sephardic Atlantic, Jewish-Creole historiography in eighteenth-century Suriname, Savannah’s eighteenth-century Sephardic community in an Altantic setting, Freemasonry and Sephardim in the British Empire, the figure of Columbus in popular literature about the Caribbean, key works of Caribbean postcolonial literature on Sephardim, the holocaust, slavery and race, Canadian Jewish identity in the reception history of Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue and Moroccan-Jewish memories of a sixteenth-century Portuguese military defeat.