Aviva Ben-Ur specializes in Atlantic Jewish history and slavery studies. Her publications include Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825 (forthcoming); Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries and Synagogues of Suriname: Essays (2012) and Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Epitaphs (2009), both co-authored with Rachel Frankel; and Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History (2009).
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Two Lectures on the Early Modern Jews of Suriname, South America
November 6, 2018
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The Concordia University Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies and The Canadian Institute for Jewish Research present:
Two Lectures on the Early Modern Jews of Suriname, South America
by Aviva Ben-Ur, Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Both lectures will take place on Tuesday, November 6
5:00 PM: Lecture I at the CIJR Seminar Room, 1396 St. Catherine, West, suite 218.
“Jodensavanne: a Jewish Village in a Slave Society”
8:00 PM: Lecture II in the Atrium, Concordia’s SB Building, 1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Côte-des Neiges).
“Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: The Eurafrican Jews of Suriname”
