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Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Essays
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Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Essays Hardcover - 2012

by Aviva Ben-Ur; Rachel Frankel


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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, 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..

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  • Title Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Essays
  • Author Aviva Ben-Ur; Rachel Frankel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hebrew Union College Press
  • Date 2012-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780878202515 / 087820251X
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 15.75 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Suriname - Ethnic relations, Jews - Suriname - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007023164
  • Dewey Decimal Code 929.508

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Aviva Ben-Ur is Associate Professor in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachussetts Amherst. Rachel Frankel is an architect in New York, where she has had her own practice since 1996.
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