A historical and cultural overview of Suriname's Jewish community, with special emphasis on the former Dutch colony's synagogues and Jewish and Creole cemeteries.
Presents transcriptions, English translations, and annotations of more than 1, 600 gravestones from Suriname's oldest Jewish burial grounds. This title examines three Sephardi cemeteries, whose monuments date from 1666 to 1904. It is based on years of on-site fieldwork in Suriname and research in archives in the United States and the Netherlands.
