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1 online resource (320 pages) |
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Caribbean Series |
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Caribbean Series
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| Contents |
CREOLE JEWS; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of fi gures and tables; Glossary; I Introducing Jewishness, creolization and the colonial domain; Memories of bygone days; Connecting Judaism, creolization and colonialism; Browsing through history: On periodization and archival research; Outline; Some notes on terminology; PART ONE Forging a community; II A colonial Jewish community in the making Patterns of migration and places of settlement; Port of origin: Amsterdam; Dynamics and dimensions of a small-scale Jewish community; The birth of a Jewish community in Suriname |
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GrowthColonial adventures, poor migrants and the Amsterdam connection; Decline; Places of settlement; Jodensavanne: Heart of the Portuguese Jewish planters' community; The multi-ethnic environment of Paramaribo; III Making a living in the colony Social context, economic activities and cultural life; Economic activities; The fate of the Jewish planters' class; Reorientation: Making a living in an urban colonial environment; A community losing ground: Economic hardship and declining finta revenues; Socio -cultural life in the colony; Societies and lodges |
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Informal interactions and cross-cultural contactsIV Colonial confi gurations and diasporic connections Patterns of rule, civil status and religious authority; Authority and citizenship; Political structures in Suriname's plantocracy; Controlling the community: The Jewish privileges; Negotiating civil rights (1816-1825); After 182 5: Between marginalization and political domination; The limi ts of tolerance; Diasporic connections; The Chief Commission of Israelite Affairs; Negotiating the Askamoth; Dutch rabbis in Suriname; How a community was forged |
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PART TWO Cultivating differences, localizing boundariesV Echoes of the otherLocating Jews and imagining Jewish difference in Suriname; Perspectives on Jewish whiteness, dominance and colonial 'otherness'; The 'white man': A Maroon's perspective; Echoes of the 'other': The image of the cruel Jewish planter; The Surinamese Jew as colonial 'other'? A painting by P.J. Benoit (1839); 'White but Jewish': Locating Jews in Suriname's colour system; Shem's legacy: An undefi ned status in the age of colonial expansion; Confronting Jewish difference: The case of the civil guard |
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From 'white' to 'native': Jews and the censusVI Spaces of death, mirror of the living The cemetery as a site of creolizat; Spaces of death, mirror of the living; A tour of Suriname's Jewish cemeteries; Cassipora and Jodensavanne cemeteries; Jewish cemeteries and creole grave markers in Paramaribo; Critical events at Surinamese Jewish cemeteries; The burial of th e coloured Jew Joseph de David Cohen Nassy; 'Bad' Jews at the Be th Haim? The burial of Isaq Simons (1825); Creating a precedent: Mr Pinto and Mrs Pinto-Fernandes (1891); Dario Saavedra (1911): Allegro and andante |
| Summary |
This study presents a refined analysis of Surinames-Jewish identifications. The story of the Surinamese Jews is one of a colonial Jewish community that became ever more interwoven with the local environment of Suriname |
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Inappropriate ceremonies? The burial of Coenraad Samuels (1913) |
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Print version record |
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Jews -- Suriname -- History
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Creoles -- Suriname -- History
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REFERENCE -- Genealogy & Heraldry.
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Creoles
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Jews
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Suriname -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85130812
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Suriname
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004253704 |
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900425370X |
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