In the 1660s, Jews of Iberian ancestry, many of them fleeing Inquisitorial persecution, established an agrarian settlement in the midst of the Surinamese tropics. The heart of this community--Jodensavanne, or Jews' Savannah--became an autonomous village with its own Jewish institutions. Remnant Stones: Essays offers a historical and cultural overview of this community, with special emphasis on its synagogues and the Jewish and Creole cemeteries. It complements Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Epitaphs , ...
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In the 1660s, Jews of Iberian ancestry, many of them fleeing Inquisitorial persecution, established an agrarian settlement in the midst of the Surinamese tropics. The heart of this community--Jodensavanne, or Jews' Savannah--became an autonomous village with its own Jewish institutions. Remnant Stones: Essays offers a historical and cultural overview of this community, with special emphasis on its synagogues and the Jewish and Creole cemeteries. It complements Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Epitaphs , which presents transcriptions, English translations, annotations, and selected photographs of nearly 1,700 gravestones, accompanied by scaled plans of the cemeteries.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Collectible Fine First Edition Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket. NOT a library copy NOT a Remainder 166 pp. B/W illus. Photos Maps. Hebrew Gravestones. Levite Blessing on Tombs Dutch English Colonial struggle Sephardic and Ashkenazi tombstones and Levite Blessings of the Mashiach. Geneology Important study of the early hebrew presence in the "New World" and the struggle between agricultural and mercantile Suriname. Hebrew New Amsterdam. Pristine condition See our Three Geese In Book scans.
