But in spite of this, the Dutch government in 1651 liberated the Jews of Curacao from all taxes for twelve years and offered them full religious liberty. This brought about Jewish immigration to ...

On the Caribbean island of Curacao, Dutch Jews may have accounted for the resale of at least 15,000 slaves landed by Dutch transatlantic traders, according to Seymour Drescher, a historian at the ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...

Many, however, were most fascinated with the sand floors of the synagogue, which symbolize both the 40 years that biblical Jews spent wandering ... Snoa's website. Klein Curacao Day Trip with ...