Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

American Jewish HistoryVol. 92 Nbr. 1, March 2004

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Jews of the Dutch Caribbean: Exploring Ethnic Identity in Curacao - Book Review

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Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. By Judah M. Cohen. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2004. xxvi + 298 pp.

Jews of the Dutch Caribbean: Exploring Ethnic Identity in Curacao. By Alan F. Benjamin. New York: Routledge, 2002. xii + 200 pp.

Following an important trend in the field of Jewish cultural studies, the monographs under review portray the experience of Jews in "peripheral" places. The works explore the question of how Caribbean Jewish communities founded by Sephardim before 1800 have defined their identities, crafting in the process unique ...

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