Jews of the Dutch Caribbean addresses identity and ethnicity, through a detailed study of a little-known group in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. It asks readers to take a broad perspective on the contexts that play a role in ethnicity including, for example, ecology, history, kinship, commerce and language use in everyday life and, crucially, rituals. It asks readers to take a broad perspective on the contexts that play a role in ethnicity and draws on ethnographic research to analyze ethnic identities and look at how it is shaped and negotiated.
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Benjamin's work is a welcome contribution to a small but growing body of research.....it is generally an excellent study of the community. Benjamin has successfully synthesized a comprehensive historical and ecological analysis of Curacao with an in-depth analysis of the Jewish community.
–Gemma Romain, Ethnic and Racial Studies
The crux of [Benjamin's] research, specifically the detailed analysis of the community and the sensitive and compelling autobiographical voice employed within the narrative makes the work both unique and valuable to ethnographers and historians alike.
–Gemma Romain, Ethnic and Racial Studies
–Gemma Romain, Ethnic and Racial Studies
The crux of [Benjamin's] research, specifically the detailed analysis of the community and the sensitive and compelling autobiographical voice employed within the narrative makes the work both unique and valuable to ethnographers and historians alike.
–Gemma Romain, Ethnic and Racial Studies
About the Author
Alan F Benjamin is a Research Associate with the Population Research Institute of the Pennsylvania State University where his interests include Jewish identity and welfare policy.
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This review is from: Jews of the Dutch Caribbean: (Routledge Harwood Anthropology) (Kindle Edition)
I would like to add this item to my library of information on Curacao, but %92.00 for a Kindle eBook is not only excessive, it's offensive.
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Romeo and Juliet are doomed because they fail to recognize the depth to which their Montague and Capulet identities are who they are, and because until their deaths, their families, the Montagues and Capulets, classify each other as enemies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prototypical traits, particular ethnic identity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Netherlands Antilles, Congregation Shaare Tsedek, United States, Sephardi Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, Yom Kippur, Netherlands Antillean, New World, Portuguese Sephardi, Eastern Europe, Western Sephardi, Dutch Sephardi, Old Guard, Central Bureau of Statistics, Economist Intelligence Unit, Sephardi Jewish, New Guard, Sint Maarten, World War, Board of Directors, Simchat Torah, Eastern Sephardi, Temple Emanu-El, Ceramic Age, Dutch Caribbean New!
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Romeo and Juliet are doomed because they fail to recognize the depth to which their Montague and Capulet identities are who they are, and because until their deaths, their families, the Montagues and Capulets, classify each other as enemies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prototypical traits, particular ethnic identity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Netherlands Antilles, Congregation Shaare Tsedek, United States, Sephardi Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, Yom Kippur, Netherlands Antillean, New World, Portuguese Sephardi, Eastern Europe, Western Sephardi, Dutch Sephardi, Old Guard, Central Bureau of Statistics, Economist Intelligence Unit, Sephardi Jewish, New Guard, Sint Maarten, World War, Board of Directors, Simchat Torah, Eastern Sephardi, Temple Emanu-El, Ceramic Age, Dutch Caribbean New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Dutch Caribbean: Prospects for Democracy (Caribbean Studies) by SeDoc-Dahlberg on 7 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
- Romeo And Juliet (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
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- Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800 by William Pencak in Back Matter
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