Author: COHEN, Robert. Title: Jews in another environment. Surinam in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Description: Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1991. Cloth, with dust-jacket. XV,350 pp.'The most important Jewish center in the western hemisphere during the 18th 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'
Keywords: America Suriname
Price: EUR 104.50 = appr. US$ 113.58 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 7351