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Swan Street, Visual Memory and the Archive
More broadly, I would want to explore how the Bridgetown synagogue and Jewish museum function as sites of heritage tourism and what kinds of narratives of the past they make available or obscure.Why, for example, does the museum emphasize the Sephardic Jewish past over the more recent story of Central European Ashkenazi emigration that re-established a Jewish presence in Barbados in the early twentieth century after the Sephardic community died out?While visiting the Jewish cemetery adjacent to the Bridgetown synagogue several years ago, I was excited to discover a tombstone bearing the name of the Jewish protagonist of Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé's 1986 novel I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Benjamin Cohen d'Azevedo.3 The novel centers on the historical figure of a slave woman, Tituba, who was one of the first to be accused in the Salem Witch Trials.[...]I would also want to consider how in this context, the photograph signals the problem of written and unwritten histories.
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