Both sides of my family have French Huguenot surnames. The family have Spanish, Portuguese and French/German genetics. We're from St Lucia. But, my great great grandfather was from Venezuela (Spanish Guyana) Maracaibo. Apparently he said he was Jewish. My grandfathers also spoke Ladino, like most people in the Caribbean of that generation.
Thanks. Columbus may have had more than two Jewish crew members. They manned the astrolabe, used charting skills to document land claims and safe sailing and person(s) for translating languages they expected to incur. The Sephardic Jews crew adopting Christianized names may be in the teens. /// There is a relatively new book called “Caribbean Jewish Crossings” that is an essay collection that considers the Caribbean's relationship to Jewishness through a literary lens. The section on the early Portuguese settlements bears on your lecture. // Our St. Thomas “Sandfloor” Synagogue, Beracha Veshalom Vegmiluth Hasadim (Blessing and Peace and Acts of Piety), does have deep roots in the Hebrew Diaspora from 1796. I give tours and we are very active. It was built on a hill literally built by Jews that is higher than existing churches. A big difference during the last 80 years of the Age of Sail. // Another book about this topic is new, as well. It covers in great photographic detail all of the Caribbean Synagogues. It is called “Jewish Treasures of The Caribbean.” Shalom
12:10 You accidentally misspoke. It was St. Thomas, St. Croix & St. John, not St. Thomas & St. Vincent. 26:23 The Touro Synagogue and Congregation Jeshuat Israel in Newport is really the oldest in the US but not with continuous services. St. Thomas synagogue makes that claim because Touro was occupied by British during the US Revolutionary War.
Didn't quite understand or hear clear what kind of religion intermingled the old African ways with the Pentecostal and advantise... Did Leslie say the court religion or the courage religion??
This is my family history lesson very interesting. My family are jews who left South America to barbados
Both sides of my family have French Huguenot surnames. The family have Spanish, Portuguese and French/German genetics. We're from St Lucia. But, my great great grandfather was from Venezuela (Spanish Guyana) Maracaibo. Apparently he said he was Jewish. My grandfathers also spoke Ladino, like most people in the Caribbean of that generation.
Thanks. Columbus may have had more than two Jewish crew members. They manned the astrolabe, used charting skills to document land claims and safe sailing and person(s) for translating languages they expected to incur. The Sephardic Jews crew adopting Christianized names may be in the teens.
/// There is a relatively new book called “Caribbean Jewish Crossings” that is an essay collection that considers the Caribbean's relationship to Jewishness through a literary lens. The section on the early Portuguese settlements bears on your lecture.
// Our St. Thomas “Sandfloor” Synagogue, Beracha Veshalom Vegmiluth Hasadim (Blessing and Peace and Acts of Piety), does have deep roots in the Hebrew Diaspora from 1796. I give tours and we are very active. It was built on a hill literally built by Jews that is higher than existing churches. A big difference during the last 80 years of the Age of Sail. // Another book about this topic is new, as well. It covers in great photographic detail all of the Caribbean Synagogues. It is called “Jewish Treasures of The Caribbean.” Shalom
This was brilliant!
Puerto Rico and Cuba has the biggest Jewish community in the caribean and you didn't even mention them
12:10 You accidentally misspoke. It was St. Thomas, St. Croix & St. John, not St. Thomas & St. Vincent. 26:23 The Touro Synagogue and Congregation Jeshuat Israel in Newport is really the oldest in the US but not with continuous services. St. Thomas synagogue makes that claim because Touro was occupied by British during the US Revolutionary War.
Didn't quite understand or hear clear what kind of religion intermingled the old African ways with the Pentecostal and advantise... Did Leslie say the court religion or the courage religion??
Can you tell me at what time this statement is in the presentation?
thank you
My great grandmother kept tradition with eating. I took my dna 23 and me jewish
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Correction,Trujillo was not very dark!
Correction,Tainos called DR Haiti,conquistadors named it La Hispaniola
Correction,santeria and vodoo is more witchcraft than religion