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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755704750 Title: Remnant stones : the Jewish cemeteries and synagogues of Suriname : essays Author: Aviva Ben-Ur; Rachel Frankel Publisher: Cincinnati : Detroit, Mich. : Hebrew Union College Press ; Distributed by Wayne State University Press, 2012. ISBN/ISSN: 9780878202515 087820251X OCLC:755704750

  
  

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Remnant stones : the Jewish cemeteries and synagogues of Suriname : essays

Author:	Aviva Ben-Ur; Rachel Frankel
Publisher:	Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press ; Detroit, Mich. : Distributed by Wayne State University Press, 2012.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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 kilometers 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 by enslaved Africans, collectively formed the largest Jewish agricultural community in the world at the time and the only Jewish settlement in the Americas granted virtual self-rule. Sephardi settlement paved the way for the influx of hundreds of Ashkenazi Jews, who began to emigrate in the late seventeenth century from western and central Europe. Generally banned from Jodensavanne, these newcomers settled in Paramaribo, where they established their own cemeteries and historic synagogue. Meanwhile, slave rebellions, Maroon attacks, the general collapse of Suriname's economy, soil depletion, absentee land ownership, and a ravaging fire all contributed to the demise of the old Savannah settlement beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century. This second volume offers a historical and cultural overview of Suriname's Jewish community, with special emphasis on its synagogues and the Jewish and Creole cemeteries. It complements the first volume, 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"--  Read more...
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Subjects	Jews -- Suriname -- History. Jewish cemeteries -- Suriname. Jewish epitaphs -- Suriname. View all subjects
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