tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post5928746172428398941..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: Yo Ho Ho, and I doubt he's a pirate.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-3722246195886176202010-09-07T11:41:59.407-04:002010-09-07T11:41:59.407-04:00It sounds like he meant oldest Jewish cemetery. I ...It sounds like he meant oldest Jewish cemetery. I think we've established that he's not a historian.<br /><br />In the original post I conceived in my head I had some lines about privateering as a form of warfare at the time, and thus there is at least some moral ambiguity as to whether or not it was appropriate to treat Jewish pirates with a regular burial, but for some reason I left it out.<br /><br />There is a book called Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge - the author even has a web site http://www.jewishpiratesofthecaribbean.com/<br /><br />I'm guessing this book is the "jewish historians" and the source for the assertion that the "Jewish pirates" did it out of revenge against the Spanish. The book seems fairly responsible for a popular work, but it does seem to sensationalize, calling Samuel Palache "Rabbi," seemingly because the Amsterdam Mahamad once addressed him with an R, which is kind of like nothing. My goodness, the Chasam Sofer must have thought Mendelssohn was mamash a tzadik because he referred to him as Ramad.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-25493942000956072632010-09-07T10:34:13.846-04:002010-09-07T10:34:13.846-04:00oldest jewish cemetary? new york's first is fr...oldest jewish cemetary? new york's first is from 1656 (no longer extant) and newport's from the 1670s. perhaps he meant the oldest jewish gravestone, or is this really the oldest cemetary?<br /><br />it seems you've shown that absent any evidence to the cotnrary, these were not jewish pirates.<br /><br />but now that you've brought it up, is there any discussion of jewish piracy in rabbinic literature? (although there were certainly jewish pirates, i think they were more active in financing privateers, which reminds of the jewish kop viagra joke)Lion of Zionhttp://agmk.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-15481688094287001902010-09-06T10:58:40.671-04:002010-09-06T10:58:40.671-04:00Yes, Dan, that's what prompted the FJJ to publ...Yes, Dan, that's what prompted the FJJ to publish this articleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-21160845231045882842010-09-05T17:13:12.650-04:002010-09-05T17:13:12.650-04:00Jamaica has extremely cool Jewish connections. Ac...Jamaica has extremely cool Jewish connections. According to an online clipping that I have from the Canadian Jewish News, 8/27/98, Dr. Anthony MacFarlane, a descendant of the Mendes da Costa family who often went back to the island to lead the High Holy Day services, noted that many Jamaicans are descendants of the out-of-wedlock offspring of Spanish-Portuguese Marranos. Dr. MacFarlane went so far as to claim that Jamaica could be considered a Jewish island "even in its values and thinking."<br /><br />Your readers may also be aware of a much more recent Jewish burial in Jamaica, that of the ger tzedek Yoseph Robinson, who had been murdered in Brooklyn: http://www.aish.com/jw/s/101744148.html.Dan Kleinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-35402009017229188732010-09-05T16:57:37.142-04:002010-09-05T16:57:37.142-04:00The hourglass was also a common motif on pirate fl...The hourglass was also a common motif on pirate flags of the era (or a skeleton holding an hourglass). The "classic" Jolly Roger, skull and crossbones, was actually rather rare.<br /><br />http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/pirates.html<br /><br />Scroll down for links to actual examples.Nachumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292162031685942549noreply@blogger.com