Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination by Sarah Phillips Casteel

Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination

Sarah Phillips Casteel

352 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these h...

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