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Genre/Form: | Literature History Juvenile works Juvenile literature |
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Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eva Deutsch Costabel |
ISBN: | 0689313519 9780689313516 |
OCLC Number: | 16900621 |
Description: | 32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 24 cm |
Contents: | The Inquisition -- Jews in Brazil -- Jews arrive in New Amsterdam -- Captain de la Motthe -- Governor Stuyvesant's request -- Freedom and equality -- Daily life -- Occupations -- Spiritual life -- The Jewish cemetery -- The British take over. |
Responsibility: | written and illustrated by Eva Deutsch Costabel. |
Abstract:
Traces the events leading to the arrival of the first group of Jews in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1654 and describes how they adapted and eventually prospered under Dutch, and later British, rule.
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