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Annual Rothschild Lecture to Feature Dr. Laura Arnold Leibman on Rethinking Jews and Race A Multiracial Jewish Family in Early America
Sarah Rodrigues Brandon and Isaac Lopez Brandon began their lives poor, Christian, and enslaved in Barbados, yet thirty years later they had become some of the wealthiest Jews in New York. Join Leibman as she traces the siblings’ extraordinary journey around the Atlantic world, using artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten people of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived. Read more >> RSVP here >>
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