Beracha Ve Shalom At Joden Savanna - Suriname.
Collection Number: 8492m
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
Library
Title:
Beracha ve Shalom at Joden Savanna -
Suriname collection.
Collection Number:
8492m
Quantity:
1 folder
Forms of Material:
Photographs, printed material, publications
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Photographs and printed material relating to the synagogue.
Language:
Collection material in English
Photographs and printed material relating to the synagogue, published in Paramaribo, Surinam.
Subjects:
Jews -- Surinam.
Cite As:
Beracha ve Shalom at Joden Savanna - Suriname collection, #8492m, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Container
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Description
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Folder 1 |
Documents
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Description of the “Restoration of Jewish Savannah”
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Article from “De West Van Woensdag” (9 Maart 1966) titled “Restauratie van Joden Savanna, Hof van Justitie en Huis van Bewaring”
(“Restoration of the Jewish Savanah…”)
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Paper in Hebrew which appears to be about the synagogue
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“Plan to reconstruct the Synagogue Beracha ve Shalom at Joden Savanna – Suriname” booklet
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Contents:
1. Illustration of the elevation by direction 2. Breakdown of each section of the synagogue, focus on the outside 3. Breakdown of the synagogue’s interior 4. Plan of the synagogue, cemetery marked 5. Location of the synagogue in relation to the Suriname River 6. Estimate of the Reconstruction of the synagogue “Beracha ve Shalon” at Joden Savanna 7. Photos – 1U copy 2 “remainder, North-elevation”; 1Y copy 2 “remainder, West-elevation”; 1Z copy 2 “detail of a tomb-stone”; four photos showing the details of a tombstone with Hebrew writing, two winged children, a skull and crossbones, and other imagery |
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Folder 1 |
Photographs
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Photo #: 1A |
“Gezicht op de Joden Savanne“ – Naar een teekening uit den atlas behoorende bij het werk van M. D. Teenstra „De Landbouw
in de kolonie Suriname“, 1835 (– “View of the Jewish Savannah,“ taken from the work of M. D. Teenstra, “Agriculture in the
colony of Suriname“); shows two houses on a hill, one figure seated on a log
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Photo #: 1B |
“Paramaribo“, Augusta Currel; illustration of the capital of Suriname, flat boats with two figures each, houses on hills in
the distance
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Photo #: 1C |
“De Joden-Savanne“ (“The Jewish-Savannah“); “Synagogue“ written in the corner, illustrartion with two boats, small houses
and figures on the shore
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Photo #: 1D |
unlabeled; uneven field with stakes driven into the ground leading to a house in the distance, trees (including palm trees)
breach the horizon
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Photo #: 1E |
unlabeled; three boats, each with figures, one with two sails, the others with oars; several hills with houses, some on stilts.
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Photo #: 1F |
unlabeled; two figures gazing at another figure gesturing toward a child; an overhang of wood and some foliage is nestled
among rocky slopes, trees behind.
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Photo #: 1G |
“View of the Settlement called the Jews‘ Savannah“; two figures conversing in shadow, one seated, one reclining; behind are
boats on a river and houses on a hill
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Photo #: 1H |
Three figures, two reclining and one holding spears;, beside a tree; a house to their left; other houses and a review before
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Photo #: 1I |
“Begraafplaats, Joden-Savanne-Suriname“ “( “Cemetary, Jewish-Savannah-Suriname“); a map of the cemetary marking graves; several
graves have their iconography illustrated
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Photo #: 1J |
“Post Gelderland en Joden Savannah“ (“Gelderland [Province] in the Jewish Savannah“); appears to be a more detailed version
of 1B
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Photo #: 1K |
“Joden Savannah“ – Gezigt op de Sunagoge en Kerkhof Van de Zude van het Militair Cordonpad Gezien (“Jewish-Savannah“- Sight
of the synogague and graveyard...); appears to be a more detailed version of 1D
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Photo #: 1L |
from Voorbetere foto‘s, Boschman‘s foto studio, Waaldijkstraat 8, Tel. 3718, no title; holy Ark of the synagogue with covered
Torah scrolls, candles, and a chandalier; synogague has a sand floor
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Photo #: 1M |
from Voorbetere foto‘s, Boschman‘s foto studio, Waaldijkstraat 8, Tel. 3718, no title; same photo as 1L except with a man
in the lower right (white shirt, black tie, yamaka)
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Photo #: 1N |
from Voorbetere foto‘s, Boschman‘s foto studio, Waaldijkstraat 8, Tel. 3718, no title; wider view of the synagogue (benches,
at least four chandaliers) , man (white shirt, yamaka) standing in the center
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Photo #: 1O |
from Voorbetere foto‘s, Boschman‘s foto studio, Waaldijkstraat 8, Tel. 3718, no title; close-up of chandalier in the synagogue
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Photo #: 1P |
from Voorbetere foto‘s, Boschman‘s foto studio, Waaldijkstraat 8, Tel. 3718, no title; close-up of standing candle-holder
in the synogague
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Photo #: 1Q |
from Voorbetere foto‘s, Boschman‘s foto studio, Waaldijkstraat 8, Tel. 3718, no title; similar to 1L but with Ark closed
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Photo #: 1R |
from Voorbetere foto‘s, Boschman‘s foto studio, Waaldijkstraat 8, Tel. 3718, no title; close up of chandalier in the synogague
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Photo #: 1S |
P.J. Benoit: Voyage à Surinam, Bruxelles; No. 43: Village habité par des Juifs sur la rivière de Surinam (Lithographie van
Lauters) (P.J. Benoit: Trip to Surinam, Brussels; No. 43: village inhabited by the Jewish people on the Surinam river); small
houses on hills, figures on the path, river in the distance
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Photo #: 1T |
PP3: J26.PN4; Suriname. (other writing cannot be made out completely); plants growing over smooth surface
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Photo #: 1U |
Remainder, North-elevation. Bureau Voor Architectuur en Stedebouw Van Oerle en Schrama, Paramaribo – Suriname (Office of Architecture
and Urban Planning...Paramaribo – Suriname); ruined building, steps overgrown with grass
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Photo #: 1V |
Bureau Voor Architectuur en Stedebouw Van Oerle en Schrama, Paramaribo – Suriname (Office of Architecture and Urban Planning...Paramaribo
– Suriname); ruined building, wall with holes and overgrown with grass
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Photo #: 1W |
Bureau Voor Architectuur en Stedebouw Van Oerle en Schrama, Paramaribo – Suriname (Office of Architecture and Urban Planning...Paramaribo
– Suriname); ruined building, wall collapsed with grass growing through the bricks
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Photo #: 1X |
Bureau Voor Architectuur en Stedebouw Van Oerle en Schrama, Paramaribo – Suriname (Office of Architecture and Urban Planning...Paramaribo
– Suriname); ruined building, steps overgrown with grass
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Photo #: 1Y |
Remainder, West-elevation. Bureau Voor Architectuur en Stedebouw Van Oerle en Schrama, Paramaribo – Suriname (Office of Architecture
and Urban Planning...Paramaribo – Suriname); ruined building, close up of steps overgrown with grass
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Photo #: 1Z |
Detail of a tomb-stone. Bureau Voor Architectuur en Stedebouw Van Oerle en Schrama, Paramaribo – Suriname (Office of Architecture
and Urban Planning...Paramaribo – Suriname [stamp faded, but it appears to be the same as the other photos); carving of hand
holding axe and cutting off tree, encircled with engraving of leaves
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