Abstract
Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651–1825, by Aviva Ben-Ur
Highlights
What happened, from a Jewish perspective, at the intersection of the African and Jewish diasporas in the Atlantic World during slavery? Taking Suriname as her case, that is what Aviva Ben-Ur describes and analyzes in this book
From a Jewish perspective, at the intersection of the African and Jewish diasporas in the Atlantic World during slavery? Taking Suriname as her case, that is what Aviva Ben-Ur describes and analyzes in this book. She convincingly shows how White Jewishness creolized by adopting African elements and how Blacks became creolized Jews
Suriname Jews were different from other Jewish communities in the Americas by being much more involved in plantation agriculture than in commerce. They had so much autonomy that they have sometimes been called a state within the colonial state
Summary
From a Jewish perspective, at the intersection of the African and Jewish diasporas in the Atlantic World during slavery? Taking Suriname as her case, that is what Aviva Ben-Ur describes and analyzes in this book. From a Jewish perspective, at the intersection of the African and Jewish diasporas in the Atlantic World during slavery? She convincingly shows how White Jewishness creolized by adopting African elements and how Blacks became creolized Jews.
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