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OverviewIn 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 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.. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aviva Ben-Ur , Rachel FrankelPublisher: Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. Imprint: Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 2.605kg ISBN: 9780878202249ISBN 10: 0878202242 Pages: 680 Publication Date: 06 April 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAviva 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 historic sites of the former settlement of Jodensavanne in Suriname, South America since 1994. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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