Portland Public Library

The Jews in the Caribbean, edited by Jane S. Gerber

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

mapsillustrations

index present

non fiction

The Jews in the Caribbean

bibliography

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edited by Jane S. Gerber

The Littman library of Jewish civilization

The formation of the Portuguese Jewish diaspora / Miriam Bodian -- Curaçao, Amsterdam, and the rise of the Sephardi trade system in the Caribbean, 1630-1700 / Jonathan Israel -- To live and to trade: the status of Sephardi mercantile communities in the Atlantic world during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Noah L. Gelfand -- Amsterdam and the Portuguese nação of the Caribbean in the eighteenth century / Gérard Nahon -- "A flock of wolves instead of sheep": the Dutch West India Company, conflict resolution, and the Jewish community of Curaçao in the eighteenth century / Jessica Roitman -- Religious authority: a perspective from the Americas / Hilit Surowitz-Israel -- Jonkonnu and Jew: the art of Isaac Mendes Belisario (1794-1849) / Jackie Ranston -- Testimonial terrain: the cemeteries of New World Sephardim / Rachel Frankel -- Counting the "sacred lights of Israel": synagogue construction and architecture in the British Caribbean / Barry L. Stiefel -- The cultural heritage of Eurafrican Sephardi Jews in Suriname / Aviva Ben-Ur -- Shifting identities: religion, race, and creolization among the Sephardi Jews of Barbados, 1654-1900 / Karl Watson -- Sexuality and sentiment: concubinage and the Sephardi family in late eighteenth-century Jamaica / Stanley Mirvis -- The "Confession made by Cyrus" reconsidered: Maroons and Jews during Jamaica's First Maroon War (1728-1738/9) / james Robertson -- Jewish politicians in post-slavery Jamaica: electoral politics in the parish of St. Dorothy, 1849-1860 / Swithin Wilmot -- The borders of early American Jewish history / Eli Faber -- Port Jews and plantation Jews: Carolina-Caribbean connections / Dale Rosengarten -- The strange adventures of Benjamin Franks: an Ashkenazi pioneer in the Americas / Matt Goldish -- Daniel Israel López-Laguna's Espejo fiel de vidas and the ghosts of Marrano autobiography / Ronnie Perelis -- "My heart is grieved": Grace Cardoze-a life revealed through letters / Josette Capriles-Goldish -- Refugees from Nazism in the British Caribbean / Joanna Newman -- Inscribing ourselves with history: the production of heritage in today's Caribbean Jewish diaspora / Judah M. Cohen