| 500 Years in the Jewish Caribbean: The Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the West Indies Contributor(s): Ezratty, Harry A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0942929497 ISBN-13: 9780942929492 Publisher: Read Street Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.60 lbs) 230 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long before the Jewish settlements in North America, Sephardic Jews came to the Caribbean, first as crew members on Columbus's ships. By the 1600s, they had commercialized the sugar, rum and tobacco industries and won civil liberties that became the standards aspired to by colonial North American Jewry.This is their story, island by island, in Volume I of the author's trilogy, "The Jews in the New World." |