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Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Epitaphs
Ben-Ur, Aviva, Frankel, Rachel
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Description for Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Epitaphs
Hardcover. Presents transcriptions, English translations, and annotations of more than 1,600 gravestones from Suriname's oldest Jewish burial grounds. This title examines three Sephardi cemeteries, whose monuments date from 1666 to 1904. It is based on years of on-site fieldwork in Suriname and research in archives in the United States and the Netherlands. Num Pages: 277 pages, 200 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSS; AMGD; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 51. Weight in Grams: 2585.
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, including a majestic synagogue consecrated in 1685. Situated along the Suriname River, some fifty kilometres south of the capital city of Paramaribo, Jodensavanne was by the mid-eighteenth century surrounded by dozens of Jewish plantations sprawling north- and southward and dominating the stretch of the river. These Sephardi-owned plots, mostly devoted to the cultivation and processing of sugar, carried out primarily ... Read more
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, including a majestic synagogue consecrated in 1685. Situated along the Suriname River, some fifty kilometres south of the capital city of Paramaribo, Jodensavanne was by the mid-eighteenth century surrounded by dozens of Jewish plantations sprawling north- and southward and dominating the stretch of the river. These Sephardi-owned plots, mostly devoted to the cultivation and processing of sugar, carried out primarily ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hebrew Union College Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
680
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780878202249
SKU
V9780878202249
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About Ben-Ur, Aviva, Frankel, Rachel
Aviva Ben-Ur is associate professor in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History and numerous articles. Rachel Frankel is an architect in New York, where she has had her own practice since 1996. She has been researching, documenting, and preserving the ... Read more
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