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Author : B. H. Levy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Savannah's Old Jewish Community Cemeteries written by B. H. Levy and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. H. Levy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Savannah's Old Jewish Community Cemeteries written by B. H. Levy and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aviva Ben-Ur
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 0878203729
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Remnant Stones written by Aviva Ben-Ur and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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..
Author : Ryan K. Smith
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142143928X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Death and Rebirth in a Southern City written by Ryan K. Smith and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of Richmond's burial landscape over the past 300 years reveals in illuminating detail how racism and the color line have consistently shaped death, burial, and remembrance in this storied Southern capital. Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds show the sweep of Southern history on an epic scale, from the earliest English encounters with the Powhatan at the falls of the James River through slavery, the Civil War, and the long reckoning that followed. And while the region's deathways and burial practices have developed in surprising directions over these centuries, one element has remained stubbornly the same: the color line. But something different is happening now. The latest phase of this history points to a quiet revolution taking place in Virginia and beyond. Where white leaders long bolstered their heritage and authority with a disregard for the graves of the disenfranchised, today activist groups have stepped forward to reorganize and reclaim the commemorative landscape for the remains of people of color and religious minorities. In Death and Rebirth in a Southern City, Ryan K. Smith explores more than a dozen of Richmond's most historically and culturally significant cemeteries. He traces the disparities between those grounds which have been well-maintained, preserving the legacies of privileged whites, and those that have been worn away, dug up, and built over, erasing the memories of African Americans and indigenous tribes. Drawing on extensive oral histories and archival research, Smith unearths the heritage of these marginalized communities and explains what the city must do to conserve these gravesites and bring racial equity to these arenas for public memory. He also shows how the ongoing recovery efforts point to a redefinition of Confederate memory and the possibility of a rebirthed community in the symbolic center of the South. The book encompasses, among others, St. John's colonial churchyard; African burial grounds in Shockoe Bottom and on Shockoe Hill; Hebrew Cemetery; Hollywood Cemetery, with its 18,000 Confederate dead; Richmond National Cemetery; and Evergreen Cemetery, home to tens of thousands of black burials from the Jim Crow era. Smith's rich analysis of the surviving grounds documents many of these sites for the first time and is enhanced by an accompanying website, www.richmondcemeteries.org. A brilliant example of public history, Death and Rebirth in a Southern City reveals how cemeteries can frame changes in politics and society across time.
Author : Martin A. Cohen
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817311769
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sephardim in the Americas written by Martin A. Cohen and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multidisciplinary essays examinig the historical and cultural history of the Sephardic experience in the Americas, from pre-expulsion Spain to the modern era, as recounted by some of the most outstanding interpreters of the field.
Author : Sina Rauschenbach
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319991965
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sephardic Atlantic written by Sina Rauschenbach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is a collection of substantive, sophisticated and variegated essays, combining case studies with theoretical reflections, organized into three sections: race and blood, metropoles and colonies, and history and memory. Twelve chapters treat converso slave traders, race and early Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa, Sephardim and people of color in nineteenth-century Curaçao, Portuguese converso/Sephardic imperialist behavior, Caspar Barlaeus’ attitude toward Jews in the Sephardic Atlantic, Jewish-Creole historiography in eighteenth-century Suriname, Savannah’s eighteenth-century Sephardic community in an Altantic setting, Freemasonry and Sephardim in the British Empire, the figure of Columbus in popular literature about the Caribbean, key works of Caribbean postcolonial literature on Sephardim, the holocaust, slavery and race, Canadian Jewish identity in the reception history of Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue and Moroccan-Jewish memories of a sixteenth-century Portuguese military defeat.
Author : Eli N. Evans
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617035036
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lonely Days Were Sundays written by Eli N. Evans and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (In) a multi-layered book of great warmth and feeling, (Evans) reminds us anew of the Jewish southern inheritance, its ancient intensities and rhythms and heartbeats. This is a very southern book, and also an immensely American one (Willie Morris). The Jews of the South have found their poet laureate.--Abba Eban.
Author : Alice Perkins Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Jewish Cemeteries of Newark written by Alice Perkins Gould and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barnett Abraham Elzas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Jewish Cemeteries at Charleston, S.C. written by Barnett Abraham Elzas and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily Taitz
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827607520
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book The JPS Guide to Jewish Women written by Emily Taitz and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an indispensable resource about the role of Jewish women from post-biblical times to the twentieth century. Unique in its approach, it is structured so that each chapter, which is divided into three parts, covers a specific period and geographical area. The first section of the book contains an overview, explaining how historical events affected Jews in general and Jewish women in particular. This is followed by a section of biographical entries of women of the period whose lives are set in their economic, familial, and cultural backgrounds. The third and last part of each chapter, "The World of Jewish Women," is organized by topic and covers women's activities and interests and how Jewish laws concerning women developed and changed. This comprehensive work is an easy-to-use sourcebook, synopsizing rich and diverse resources. By examining history and analyzing the dynamics of Jewish law and custom, it illuminates the circumstances of Jewish women's lives and traces the changes that have occurred throughout the centuries. It casts a new and clear light on Jewish women as individuals and sets women firmly within the context of their own cultural and historical periods. The book contains illustrations, boxed text, extensive endnotes, and indices that list each woman by name. It is ideal for women's groups and study groups as well as students and scholars.
