Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Essays

by Aviva Ben-Ur and Rachel Frankel

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087820251X
• ISBN13: 9780878202515
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.9"