Suriname community records

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Country: US
Name of institution (official language of the state): The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
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: https://www.americanjewisharchives.org/
Contact information: email: Contact form
Reference number: SC-12160
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Type of reference number: Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state): Suriname community records
Language of title: eng
Creator / accumulator: American Jewish Archives
Date(s): 1754/1920
Language(s): dut; por
Extent: 15 microfilm reels
Type of material: Textual Material
Scope and content: This small collection is only available in microfilm format. It comprises records regarding the Surinam Jewish community. It includes records related to Portuguese Jews, such as Isaac Nassy, Jacob de Barrios, Abraham de Mesquita, and Isaac de Barrios. The American Jewish Archives preserve other collections in microfilm format with materials on the Surinam Jewish community, namely: MF-176 to MF-198 (22 microfilms) and MF-527 to MF-527t (21 microfilms).
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.
Access points: locations: Surinam
Access points: persons, families: Barrios, Isaac de; Barrios, Jacob de; Mesquita, Abraham; Nassy, Isaac
Access points: subject terms: Sephardim in the Caribbean; Jewish daily life and religious practices; Trade and commerce; 18th century; 19th century
Access points: document types: Jewish community records
Access, restrictions: Available in microfilm format (MF-67 to MF-67n)
Links to finding aids: American Jewish Archives online catalogue
Author of the description: Carla Vieira, 2022

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