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Chinese and Portuguese-Jewish Surinamese Foodways

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CHINESE migration began with indenture in 1853 and continued into the present; Chinese-Surinamese run a very large share of the retail trade and the restaurant sector, and TJAUW MIN, mie and the Chinese-Surinamese restaurant plate are ordinary Surinamese food. ⚠ AND SURINAME HELD ONE OF THE OLDEST JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE AMERICAS: Sephardic Jews, many of Portuguese descent and arriving via Brazil and Cayenne from the 1650s, were granted unusual religious liberties and founded JODENSAVANNE on the Suriname river with its own synagogue — a plantation-owning Jewish community, which is a fact this system records alongside rather than instead of the enslaved labour that worked those plantations. Their documented food legacy is thin and is chiefly claimed for pom.

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Languages: Hakka, Cantonese, Portuguese

What is recorded

  • Sephardic Jews, many of Portuguese descent and arriving via Brazil and Cayenne from the 1650s, established one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Americas and founded Jodensavanne on the Suriname river under unusual grants of religious liberty. It was a plantation-owning community, and that is recorded alongside rather than instead of the enslaved labour that worked those estates. Chinese indenture began in 1853. documented
  • Sephardic Jews, many of Portuguese descent, arrive via Brazil and Cayenne and found Jodensavanne under unusual grants of religious liberty. documented

Related foodways

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  • related to Chinese documented
  • related to Sephardi Foodways documented

    One of the oldest Jewish communities in the Americas, at Jodensavanne from the 1650s. ⚠ A plantation-owning community, recorded as such.

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