Jamaica, West Indies Collection
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Country
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US
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Language of name of institution
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eng
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Contact information: postal address
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15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
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Contact information: phone number
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001 2122948301
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Contact information: email
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RCMiller@cjh.org (archive and library services)
Inquiries@cjh.org (research inquiries)
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Reference number
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I-82
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (official language of the state)
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Jamaica, West Indies Collection
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Language of title
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eng
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Creator / accumulator
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American Jewish Historical Society
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Date(s)
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1674/1960
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Language(s)
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eng
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Extent
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5 folders
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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This collection contains five documents related to the Jewish community in Jamaica from the 17th to the 20th centuries. They are the following:
folder 1: a scrapbook of newspaper clippings from "The History of Jamaica" by George F. Judah, published in several issues of the Daily Telegraph in 1900;
folder 2: indenture granting William Davidson, Abraham Israel, and Abraham Cohen permission to act as deputy agents for the royal mines in Jamaica, March 5, 1674;
folder 3: letter by Governor Edward Trelawney concerning a tax upon the Jews, April 16, 1739;
folder 4: transcription of the biography of Joshua Hezekiah DeCordova and elegies for Emanuel Baruh Lousada of Kingston, October 1797;
folder 5: souvenir booklet "The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Synagogue Shaare Shalom, Kingston, Jamaica", 1960.
Digital copies of these materials are available online:
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Folder 1: Scrapbook containing the History of Jamaica by F. Judah, 1900
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Folder 2: Indenture granting William Davidson, Abraham Israel, and Abraham Cohen permission to work the royal mines in Jamaica, March 5, 1674.
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Folder 3: Letter by Governor Edward Trelawney concerning a tax upon the Jews, April 16, 1739
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Folder 4: Transcription of biography of Joshua Hezekiah DeCordova and elegies for Emanuel Baruh Lousada of Kingston, October 1797
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Folder 5: Souvenir booklet "The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Synagogue Shaare Shalom, Kingston, Jamaica", 1960
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Administrative / Biographical history
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The American Jewish Archives (AJA) resulted from the initiative of the historian Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995). In 1947, Marcus persuaded the President of the Hebrew Union College (HUC), Nelson Glueck (1900-71), to authorise the establishment of the AJA in the original library building of HUC in Cincinnati, Ohio. Glueck appointed Jacob Rader Marcus as director, Rabbi Bertram W. Korn (1918-79) as associate director, and Selma Stern-Teubler (1890-1981) as archivist. The AJA was founded with the aim of collecting, preserving, and making available for research materials on the history of Jews and Jewish communities in the Western Hemisphere, in particular in America. Therefore, over its history, the AJA has sought to obtain records of congregations and Jewish organisations, genealogical materials, papers of rabbis, and key figures in American Jewish history, among other Jewish-related materials. Since 1948, the AJA has published a semi-annual journal, The American Jewish Archives Journal, which is one of the major referred periodicals on American Jewish history.
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Source:
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Center for Jewish History webpage
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Robinson, Ira. 1994. “The Invention of American Jewish History.” American Jewish History 81 (3/4): 309–20.
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Access, restrictions
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The collection is open to all researchers, except items that may be restricted due to their fragility, or privacy. The collection was digitized in its entirety. Digital copies are available online.
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2022
