Jews in another environment. Surinam in the second half of the eighteenth century.

COHEN, Robert.

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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'.

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• Title: Jews in another environment. Surinam in the second half of the eighteenth century.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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