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Savannah's Old Jewish Burial Grounds
Author | : Marion Abrahams Levy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Jewish cemeteries |
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Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends ...: Under the code duello. Landmarks and memorials. Historic churchyards and burial-grounds. Myths and legends of the Indians. Tales of the revolutionary camp-fires. Georgia miscellanies. Historic county seats, chief towns, and noted localities
Author | : Lucian Lamar Knight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1282 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Georgia |
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The Old Burying Ground
Author | : Elizabeth Carpenter Piechocinski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Cemeteries |
ISBN | : 9781891495090 |
The Old Jewish Cemeteries at Charleston, S.C.
Author | : Barnett Abraham Elzas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Cemeteries |
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Remnant Stones
Author | : Aviva Ben-Ur |
Publisher | : Hebrew Union College Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2012-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0878203729 |
In the 1660s, Jews of Iberian ancestry, many of them fleeing Inquisitorial persecution, established an agrarian settlement in the midst of the Surinamese tropics. The heart of this community-Jodensavanne, or Jews' Savannah-became an autonomous village with its own Jewish institutions, including a majestic synagogue consecrated in 1685. Situated along the Suriname River, some fifty kilometers south of the capital city of Paramaribo, Jodensavanne was by the mid-eighteenth century surrounded by dozens of Jewish plantations sprawling north- and southward and dominating the stretch of the river. These Sephardi-owned plots, mostly devoted to the cultivation and processing of sugar, carried out primarily by enslaved Africans, collectively formed the largest Jewish agricultural community in the world at the time and the only Jewish settlement in the Americas granted virtual self-rule. Sephardi settlement paved the way for the influx of hundreds of Ashkenazi Jews, who began to emigrate in the late seventeenth century from western and central Europe. Generally banned from Jodensavanne, these newcomers settled in Paramaribo, where they established their own cemeteries and historic synagogue. Meanwhile, slave rebellions, Maroon attacks, the general collapse of Suriname's economy, soil depletion, absentee land ownership, and a ravaging fire all contributed to the demise of the old Savannah settlement beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century..
Savannah's Laurel Grove Cemetery
Author | : John Walker Guss |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738516295 |
When we come to our final resting place, we may be remembered by an elaborate mausoleum, a block of stone, a wooden post, or perhaps nothing at all. Such is the manner in which those resting under the trees of Laurel Grove Cemetery are memorialized. Established in 1850 out of the property of Springfield, one of Savannah's earliest plantations, Laurel Grove Cemetery is one of the most mysterious and intriguing cemeteries in all of the city. Through her gates lie individuals who have made their mark locally and worldwide. In this beautiful sanctuary rest such notable individuals as Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of America; Florence Martus, who became more popularly known as the Waving Girl; James Pierpont, author of "Jingle Bells," the popular Christmas carol; and more than 600 Confederate soldiers.