The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas

by Mordechai Arbell

Occasionally one comes across a book, which is unexpected, delights and inspires. Surinam, known as the 'Jewish Savannah', where a vibrant Jewish community was granted full and equal rights two hundred years before the Jews of other communities in the region. St Eustatius, where the economically successful Jewish community was plundered during the British occupation in 1781. Curacao, named the 'Mother of Jewish communities in the New World', where...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9652292796
• ISBN13: 9789652292797
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Gefen Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.