Jews in Another Environment

Surinam in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-90-04-09373-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 789 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies

The most important Jewish center in the western hemisphere during the eighteenth century was "the great colony" - Surinam. There, Jews formed perhaps the most privileged Jewish community in the world. They were often plantation and slave owners, as well as a sizeable proportion of the white population. They had their own village, with extensive autonomous rights.
This book is a study of the impact of environment on Jewish life in a colonial society. It analyzes the impact of environment upon migratory patterns, health and mortality, economic structures, intellectual life, and communal dynamics.
Following the methods of social history, this book uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the impact of environment upon the modification of traditional values and modes of behavior.
This is the first full-length monograph on Surinamese Jewry to appear in two hundred years. The first one, the Historical Essay of David Nassy, treated Jewish history as part of the colonial experience. This book treats the colonial experience as part of Jewish history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Cohen † was Senior Lecturer in Modern Jewish History at the University of Haifa, Israel. Publications: editor of The Jewish Nation in Surinam: Historical Essays (1982), and many articles on Dutch Jewish history, historical demography and Sephardi history.