Jamaica, West Indies Collection
Item
Country
US
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
eng
Contact information: postal address
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
Contact information: phone number
001 2122948301
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
RCMiller@cjh.org (archive and library services)
Inquiries@cjh.org (research inquiries)
Inquiries@cjh.org (research inquiries)
Reference number
I-82
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state)
Jamaica, West Indies Collection
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
American Jewish Historical Society
Date(s)
1674/1960
Language(s)
eng
Extent
5 folders
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
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:
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:
Administrative / Biographical history
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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Access, restrictions
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
Carla Vieira, 2022
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