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Loading... The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianasby Mordechai Arbell
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Mr. Arbel describes with such meticulous attention to time,terrain and the true characters of the people involved in this migration that I more than understand this part of my heritage as an American Jew. The sense of the importance of the events from the why they happended as also the importance of the men and women who shaped and influenced the course of this for me unknown part of who I am as a human being. This very understandable account of the migration of Jews looking for what had been missing for them truly up to that point and that may have been that part of the world to call ones own. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Occasionally one comes across a book, which is unexpected, delights and inspires. Surinam, known as the 'Jewish Savannah', where a vibrant Jewish community was granted full and equal rights two hundred years before the Jews of other communities in the region. St Eustatius, where the economically successful Jewish community was plundered during the British occupation in 1781. Curacao, named the 'Mother of Jewish communities in the New World', where a prosperous Jewish community comprised nearly half of Curacao's non-slave population and was the center of Jewish life in the region. For all their economic and local political power, the Jews were little more than pawns in the 200-year struggle for control of the Caribbean by Holland, Great Britain, France and Spain. Eventually growing tired of this chess game, the Jews of the Caribbean drifted into assimilation or immigrated to the United States, where life was more secure. An ideal resource and captivating read for those traveling to the region or people with an interest in Jewish history, this is an exceptional book that brings the Jewish communities of the Caribbean to life, with intensity, and with a heartbeat so strong as to secure their proper and rightful place in recorded Jewish history. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)972.9004924History and Geography North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda West Indies (Antilles) and Bermuda; Caribbean West Indies (Antilles) and Bermuda; CaribbeanLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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