3.5
informative reflective medium-paced

The Jews in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica has a great primary source section. Stanley Mirvis has many of the wills he used for his analysis at the end of the book. Each chapter of The Jews in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica covers a section of Mirvis analysis; Port Royal and live there, Plantation Jews, End of the 1700s, Jewish Communal Life, Ethnic Identity of Jamaican Jews Households, and Creole Jews of Jamaica. Readers can get a timeline of Jamaican Jews history in Jamaica. Mirivis goes through religious toleration, the social outlook of a tolerated minority, trading persecution, and race perceptions, I personally really enjoyed The Jews in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica. It could read pretty dry because Mirvis developed this from his PhD dissertation. Mirvis worked well with the limited resources that were available for research. Somethings we will never truly know because of a lack of sources. If you want to learn about the Atlantic Jewish Diaspora, Jamaica Jews, Jamaican history, or Jewish involvement in slavery and the slave trade The Jews in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is a great book.