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“In this rich and resonant study, Joanna Newman recounts the little-known story of this Jewish exodus to the British West Indies.”—Times Higher Education In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler’s Europe. Nearly the New World tells the extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of the war. At the same time, it gives an unsparing account of the xenophobia and bureaucratic infighting that nearly prevented their rescue—and that helped to seal the fate of countless other European Jews for whom escape was never an option. From the introduction: This book is called Nearly the New World because for most refugees who found sanctuary, it was nearly, but not quite, the New World that they had hoped for. The British West Indies were a way station, a temporary destination that allowed them entry when the United States, much of South and Central America, the United Kingdom and Palestine had all become closed. For a small number, it became their home. This is the first comprehensive study of modern Jewish emigration to the British West Indies. It reveals how the histories of the Caribbean, of refugees, and of the Holocaust connect through the potential and actual involvement of the British West Indies as a refuge during the 1930s and the Second World War.

Jews --- History --- 1930s. --- Jewish immigration. --- barbados. --- european jews. --- hitler. --- holocaust. --- immigrant stories. --- jamaica. --- jewish history. --- jewish refugees. --- memoirs. --- nazi germany. --- nazis. --- persecution. --- religious freedom. --- trinidad. --- west indies. --- ww ii history. --- xenophobia.

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How far can Jewish life in the South during Reconstruction (1863-1877) be described as German in a period of American Jewry traditionally referred to as 'German Jewish' in historiography? To what extent were Jewish immigrants in the South acculturated to Southern identity and customs? Anton Hieke discusses the experience of Jewish immigrants in the Reconstruction South as exemplified by Georgia and the Carolinas. The book critically explores the shifting identities of German Jewish immigrants, their impact on congregational life, and of their identity as 'Southerners'. The author draws from demographic data of six thousand individuals representing the complete identifiable Jewish minority in Georgia, South and North Carolina from 1860 to 1880. Reconstruction, it is concluded, has to be seen as a formative period for the region's Jewish congregations and Reform Judaism. The study challenges existing views that are claiming German Jews were setting the standard for Jewish life in this period and were perceived as distinct from Jews of another background. Rather Hieke arrives at a conclusion that takes into consideration the migratory movement between North and South.

Jews --- Judaism --- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- History --- Identity --- History. --- Identity. --- Carpetbag rule (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- Reconstruction (1865-1877) --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Religion --- Postwar reconstruction --- Religions --- Semites --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Carolina. --- Georgia. --- Integration. --- Jewish Immigration. --- USA.