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“Archival Practices: The Creation Of A Portuguese Jewish Identity", Aviva Ben-Ur
“Archival Practices: The Creation Of A Portuguese Jewish Identity", Aviva Ben-Ur
Aviva Ben-Ur
This article discusses the relationship of Caribbean Jews to their communal archives, focusing on the Dutch colonies of Curaçao and Suriname, homes to the largest Jewish communities in the eighteenth-century Americas.
"Adultery Here And There: Crossing Sexual Boundaries In The Dutch Jewish Atlantic",, Aviva Ben-Ur, Jessica Vance Roitman
"Adultery Here And There: Crossing Sexual Boundaries In The Dutch Jewish Atlantic",, Aviva Ben-Ur, Jessica Vance Roitman
Aviva Ben-Ur
This article uses real and imagined cases of adultery to explore the social status and experiences of individuals and groups often overlooked in the historiography of the Dutch Atlantic world: women, Jews, and enslaved and free peoples of African ancestry. The adulterous act, the trials that ensued, and the offspring sometimes produced from these liaisons, touch on some key discussions about the Atlantic world now current in scholarly circles: the transmission of rumors, the roles enslaved and manumitted peoples played in shaping white-dominated societies, the development and inter-communal use of Caribbean Creole languages, racialized sexual double standards, notions of public …
“Peripheral Inclusion: Communal Belonging In Suriname’S Sephardic Community, Aviva Ben-Ur
“Peripheral Inclusion: Communal Belonging In Suriname’S Sephardic Community, Aviva Ben-Ur
Aviva Ben-Ur
This chapter considers the presence of Eurafricans in the Jewries of early modern Suriname and Curaçao, arguing that these individuals, who formed a separate, organized entity in Suriname by the 1790s, were in various forms members of the Jewish community, although only in terms of "peripheral inclusion."
“Still Life: Sephardi, Ashkenazi And West African Art And Form In Suriname’S Jewish Cemeteries”, Aviva Ben-Ur
“Still Life: Sephardi, Ashkenazi And West African Art And Form In Suriname’S Jewish Cemeteries”, Aviva Ben-Ur
Aviva Ben-Ur
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