Fascinating. I knew nothing about this history until recently when I discovered that many of my immediate family of that period were part of these communities.
Do you have lists of residents of the settlement in Recife & Suriname?
Take a look at Arnold Wiznitzer's book "The Records of the Earliest Jewish Community in the New World." There are no lists as such but plenty of names in the index. You can read it online at https://archive.org/details/recordsofearlies0000arno.
Wiznitzer was one of the very few historians of the Recife community, he wrote in the 1950s and mainly published his articles in the journal "Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society". So if you don't find what you are looking for in his book, try scouring his articles. You can access them all at jstor.org, just search for his name or that of the journal.
Fascinating. I knew nothing about this history until recently when I discovered that many of my immediate family of that period were part of these communities.
Do you have lists of residents of the settlement in Recife & Suriname?
Thanks, I'm glad you found the article useful.
Take a look at Arnold Wiznitzer's book "The Records of the Earliest Jewish Community in the New World." There are no lists as such but plenty of names in the index. You can read it online at https://archive.org/details/recordsofearlies0000arno.
Wiznitzer was one of the very few historians of the Recife community, he wrote in the 1950s and mainly published his articles in the journal "Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society". So if you don't find what you are looking for in his book, try scouring his articles. You can access them all at jstor.org, just search for his name or that of the journal.
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