Barbados Vital Records (Small Collections)
Item
Country
US
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
eng
Contact information: postal address
3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
Contact information: phone number
001 513 487 3000
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
Reference number
SC-
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state)
Barbados Vital Records (Small Collections)
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
American Jewish Archives
Date(s)
1650/1855
Language(s)
eng
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Small Collections of the American Jewish Archives comprise three series of typescript copies of vital records related to Barbados Jews. They are the following:
SC-13555: Barbados Jewry vital records from Barbados Registration Office (75 pages).
SC-13554: Barbados burial records and census, 1650-1855: includes the death register of Barbados Jewry deposited in the Central Registry at Bridgetown, and an abstract of the 1715 census compiled by Jacob Rader Marcus in July 1952 (14 pages).
SC-717: Barbados census in 1715, including Jewish residents (7 pages).
SC-13555: Barbados Jewry vital records from Barbados Registration Office (75 pages).
SC-13554: Barbados burial records and census, 1650-1855: includes the death register of Barbados Jewry deposited in the Central Registry at Bridgetown, and an abstract of the 1715 census compiled by Jacob Rader Marcus in July 1952 (14 pages).
SC-717: Barbados census in 1715, including Jewish residents (7 pages).
Archival history
A part of these records results from an expedition to the Caribbean and South America undertaken in June-July 1952 by a group led by the director of the American Jewish Archives, Jacob Rader Marcus. During this voyage, the group visited Barbados' Registrar's Office and made an acquaintance with Eustace Maxwell Shilstone, an attorney and member of the Jewish community, who gave the materials comprised in SC-13554. On September 18, 1953, Barbados' Registrar H. Williams provided the items that compose the collection SC-13555. The copies collected in SC-717 were received from Malcolm Stern in June 1957, copied from originals held by Shilstone.
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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Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2023
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| Title | Alternate label | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Inhabitants' lists (Barbados) | Existence and location of copies |
| Title | Alternate label | Class |
|---|---|---|
| The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives | Collections (official language of the state) | |
| The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives | Collections (official language of the state) |