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Question Answered step-by-step Please use the provided answer to elaborate more on the following… Please use the provided answer to elaborate more on the following questions. What is the standard narrative history of Jewish Savannah? When the author applies the lens of a trans-imperial Atlantic approach, how does the narrative history get written differently from the standard Jewish history?  What new archival evidence has been discovered that changes our understanding of Savannah’s Jewish community?   “The Jewish community in Savannah is almost as old as the Georgia colony itself! Jewish settlers arrived in Savannah aboard the ship William and Sarah in 1733. The Savannah Jewish Archives represent some of the oldest Jewish history in the South, with material dating back to the 1750s. The archives were transferred from the Georgia Historical Society to the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at the Breman Museum in July of 2015. The traditional analysis of the Jews of colonial Savannah, who first arrived in 1733 and constituted the first intentional Jewish community of North America. These Jews, most of whom descended from forced converts to Catholicism, have generally been appraised as free people indigenous to Portugal and Spain, as refugees from religious persecution, as largely ignorant of the British colony, and as either wealthy or relative newcomers to impoverishment, who embraced an opportunity to create a new experience for themselves as public Jews. Based on the application of a transimperial Atlantic History approach, coupled with recently unearthed archival evidence, this chapter argues that Savannah’s Jews were quintessentially Atlantic Jews, to whom Portuguese Jewish heritage, slavery, poverty, and mobility were central. This enhanced understanding of Savannah’s Jews is achieved through a consideration of other more sizeable Atlantic Jewish communities that left behind a much richer archival legacy.Congregation Mickve Israel in Savannah, Georgia, is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States, as it was organized in 1735 by mostly Sephardic Jewish immigrants of Spanish-Portuguese extraction from London who arrived in the new colony in 1733. They consecrated their current synagogue, located on Monterey Square in historic Savannah, in 1878. It is a rare example of a Gothic-style synagogue. The synagogue building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.Savannah, boasting the nation’s largest National Historic Landmark District, sits atop many “best of” travel lists thanks to its colonial-era cobblestoned streets, distinctly southern charm and atmospheric magic. And while temperatures in this subtropical city along the tidal Savannah River can swelter into the humid 90s in the summer months, the rest of the year, visitors can stroll its streets comfortably. Jennifer Rich, executive director of Mickve Israel, moved to Savannah more than 15 years ago from Denver with her husband and their two daughters. Prior to the move, she hadn’t appreciated the extent to which the city’s history is entwined with the story of its Jewish community.”  Arts & Humanities Religious Studies JWST 355 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)