Author: B. H. LevyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Savannah's Old Jewish Community Cemeteries
Savannah's Old Jewish Burial Ground
Author: Marion Abrahams LevySavannah's Old Jewish Burial Grounds
Author: Marion Abrahams LevyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Savannah's Old Jewish Community Cemetery
Author: B. H. LevySavannah's Old Jewish Community Cemeteries
Author: B. H. LevyGeorgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends ...: Under the code duello. Landmarks and memorials. Historic churchyards and burial-grounds. Myths and legends of the Indians. Tales of the revolutionary camp-fires. Georgia miscellanies. Historic county seats, chief towns, and noted localities
Author: Lucian Lamar KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
The Old Burying Ground
Author: Elizabeth Carpenter PiechocinskiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781891495090
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Remnant Stones
Author: Aviva Ben-UrPublisher: Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN: 0878203729
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
In the 1660s, Jews of Iberian ancestry, many of them fleeing Inquisitorial persecution, established an agrarian settlement in the midst of the Surinamese tropics. The heart of this community-Jodensavanne, or Jews' Savannah-became an autonomous village with its own Jewish institutions, including a majestic synagogue consecrated in 1685. Situated along the Suriname River, some fifty kilometers south of the capital city of Paramaribo, Jodensavanne was by the mid-eighteenth century surrounded by dozens of Jewish plantations sprawling north- and southward and dominating the stretch of the river. These Sephardi-owned plots, mostly devoted to the cultivation and processing of sugar, carried out primarily by enslaved Africans, collectively formed the largest Jewish agricultural community in the world at the time and the only Jewish settlement in the Americas granted virtual self-rule. Sephardi settlement paved the way for the influx of hundreds of Ashkenazi Jews, who began to emigrate in the late seventeenth century from western and central Europe. Generally banned from Jodensavanne, these newcomers settled in Paramaribo, where they established their own cemeteries and historic synagogue. Meanwhile, slave rebellions, Maroon attacks, the general collapse of Suriname's economy, soil depletion, absentee land ownership, and a ravaging fire all contributed to the demise of the old Savannah settlement beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century..
Savannah Duels and Duellists, 1733-1877
Author: Thomas GamblePublisher:
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Category : Dueling
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Savannah in the Old South
Author: Walter J. FraserPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820327761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
An engaging narrative tells the story of Savannah, Georgia, from the hopeful arrival of its first permanent English settlers in 1733 to the uncertainties faced by its Civil War survivors in 1865. Reprint.