Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean literary imagination

Caribbean writers have frequently turned to Jewish Caribbean experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the arrival of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s to teh flight of European Jewish refugees to Trinidad and elsewhere in the 1930s.

Examining this migration through postwar Caribbean fiction and poetry, Sarah Phillips Casteel conducts a study of representations of Jewishness in Caribbean literature.