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STIGMA SAGA FOR A NEW WORLD Jan 19, 2009
By Valerie Beauchamp
"Val Beauchamp"
STIGMA SAGA FOR A NEW WORLD
"She explains the concept of Stigma by showing that currently, in
the 21st century, the Jews and the Christian Americans are once
again being persecuted".
So writes the character of Sarah in Val Beauchamp's
historical novel, Stigma: Saga for a New World.
Beauchamp employs a story-within-a-story as her character, Sarah,
reviews the book, Stigma. From this perspective, she introduces in
the first chapter the reason the Jews settled in PerNambuco, in the
port city of New Holland, under the control of the Dutch.
The book then expands the reader's view to a macrocosmic
level, presenting the economic, historical, slavery and
religious situation in the New World from the mid 16thcentury
to the present.
We are then given insight into the mechanism
of the WIC, which leads us to an understanding and to the
conclusion of the Stigma of this book."
She narrates the journey of the 23 Dutch/Brazilian Sephardic
Jews from Recife to New Amsterdam in the United States.
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