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Faculty/Student Colloquium

Thursday, February 14, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT
Crowe Hall, Room 1132, 1860 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

"My Fingers for War: A Prayer for Jewish Militiamen in Colonial Suriname"

Eli Rosenblatt
Affiliated Scholar, Northwestern University


Sometime in the middle of the 18th century, a rabbi in Suriname hand wrote a Hebrew supplicatory prayer for the Jewish militia in Suriname, which at that time pursued Maroons, rebel slaves of African descent, bent on the destruction of white-owned plantations and an end to the slave system. This prayer and other Surinamese Jewish sources will be reviewed for what they can tell us about Jewish culture, antisemitism, and racism in the early Jewish Atlantic.

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

Contact

Nancy Gelman   (847) 491-2612

jewish-studies@northwestern.edu

Interest

  • Academic (general)

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