Les Juifs de la Guadeloupe

Sephardic families, some of whom came from Dutch Brazil after the Portuguese reconquest, settled in Guadeloupe in the seventeenth century and participated in the sugar economy and colonial trade. The Jewish presence there was, however, undermined by the restrictive legislation of the French monarchy, notably the Code Noir, which ordered the expulsion of Jews from the colonies. The community declined sharply and left only an intermittent presence. In the contemporary era, a Jewish life has been able to reappear, sustained notably by Jews coming from metropolitan France and North Africa.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
• Jewish Virtual Library ↗