Caribbean Jews' Commercial 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)
Caribbean Jews' Commercial records (Small Collections)
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
American Jewish Archives
Date(s)
1692/1790
Language(s)
eng
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
The Small Collections of the American Jewish Archives comprise a series of typescript copies of commercial records related to Caribbean Jews, such as the following:
SC-12932: Jews of Jamaica petition, 1692: petition of Jews residing in Jamaica to the Queen of England asking to be admitted as denizens in consideration of their misfortunes through the earthquake, including a memorandum concerning the liberties of trade enjoyed by the Jews and a list of Jewish plantations and houses in Barbados and Jamaica (5 pages).
SC-4129: Mordecai Gomez authorisation, 1718: authorisation for Mordecai Gomez's brother, Jacob, to act as his agent in Barbados (1 page).
SC-4131: Mordecai Gomez and Rodrigo Pacheco petition, Curaçao, July 21, 1720 (2 pages).
SC-4132: Mordecai Gomez and Rodrigo Pacheco petition, Curaçao, August 6, 1720 (3 pages).
SC-9423: Saul Pardo insurance certificate, November 17, 1790: insurance certificate issued to Saul Pardo by Dirk Luden for shipment of goods from Curaçao to Amsterdam, including a typescript translation by George A. Kohut (6 pages).
SC-13552: Caribbean Jewry commercial documents, 1708-1790: typescript copies (167 pages).
SC-12932: Jews of Jamaica petition, 1692: petition of Jews residing in Jamaica to the Queen of England asking to be admitted as denizens in consideration of their misfortunes through the earthquake, including a memorandum concerning the liberties of trade enjoyed by the Jews and a list of Jewish plantations and houses in Barbados and Jamaica (5 pages).
SC-4129: Mordecai Gomez authorisation, 1718: authorisation for Mordecai Gomez's brother, Jacob, to act as his agent in Barbados (1 page).
SC-4131: Mordecai Gomez and Rodrigo Pacheco petition, Curaçao, July 21, 1720 (2 pages).
SC-4132: Mordecai Gomez and Rodrigo Pacheco petition, Curaçao, August 6, 1720 (3 pages).
SC-9423: Saul Pardo insurance certificate, November 17, 1790: insurance certificate issued to Saul Pardo by Dirk Luden for shipment of goods from Curaçao to Amsterdam, including a typescript translation by George A. Kohut (6 pages).
SC-13552: Caribbean Jewry commercial documents, 1708-1790: typescript copies (167 pages).
Archival history
These small collections were integrated into the American Jewish Archives at different moments and from various provenances. SC-12932 was received from the former Public Records Office, London (National Archives, Kew) in November 1964. The copies comprised in SC-4131 and SC-4132 came from the New York State Library, Albany, New York. SC-9423 was delivered by Walter Hart Blumenthal (Philadelphia, Pa.) on October 19, 1955. SC-13552 was received from Barbados Registration Office, Bridgetown, Barbados, in 1953.
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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Carla Vieira, 2023
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