New Works Wednesdays with Aviva Ben-Ur

New Works Wednesdays with Aviva Ben-Ur

Aviva Ben-Ur, Professor in Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the author of Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History discusses her new book “Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825.”

Wednesday, 2 December at 12:00PM EST

Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suri-name, a Dutch colony on the South American mainland just north of Brazil. Suriname was home to the most privileged Jewish community in the Americas where Jews, most of Iberian origin, enjoyed religious liberty, were judged by their own tribunal, could enter any trade, owned planta-tions and slaves, and even had a say in colonial governance.

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