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URL:https://www.hpct-cae.org/events/zoom-travel-to-barbados/
SUMMARY:Zoom Travel to Barbados
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 GRAMS 25-26\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\
 n\n\n\n\nVirtual Tours of the Jewish World\nJewish Barbados\nwith Neal Rec
 htman\nThursday\, September 18\n8:30 PM\nThe restored Nidhe Israel synagog
 ue in Bridgetown is the oldest in the Western hemisphere. A contingent of
  285 Sephardic Jews fleeing the Portuguese Inquisition in Brazil arrived i
 n Barbados in 1654 under the protection of Oliver Cromwell\, the Protestan
 t leader of England at the time. Some of the wealthiest people in the wor
 ld at the time — sugar tycoons — are buried in the adjacent cemeteries
 \, along with Jewish pirates and the most traveled rabbi in history up unt
 il the invention of railroads\, a Sephardic Ha-Ham named Rafael Hayyim Isa
 ac Carigal. This community thrived for 200 years but then vanished in the 
 19th century when the sugar cane economy collapsed. In the 1930’s a gro
 up of Ashkenazi Jews fleeing the Nazi Inquisition arrived (if it’s not o
 ne Inquisition\, it’s another)\, and their descendants are the core of o
 ur current community of 50 souls.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nD
 onate to our Adult Education Fund\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\
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