Caribbean Jewish Crossings is the first essay collection to consider the Caribbean's relationship to Jewishness through a literary lens. Although Caribbean novelists and poets regularly incorporate Jewish motifs in their work, scholars have neglected this strain in studies of Caribbean literature.

ForewordIntroduction: Crossing Disciplines, Cultures, Geographies1. The Portuguese Jewish Nation: An Enlightenment Essay on the Colony of Suriname2. Henrik Hertz and Racial Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Danish Caribbean3. Jamaican Jewish Tricksters: Philip Cohen Labatt's Literary Crossings4. Translating Cuba: Language, Race, and Homeland in Cuban-Yiddish Poetry of the 1930s5. David Dabydeen's Hogarth: Blacks, Jews, and Postcolonial Ekphrasis6. Jubanidad and the Literary Transmission of Cuban Crypto-Judaism7. Diaspora and Hybridity: Jewish American Women Write the Caribbean8. Splattering the Object: Césaire, Nazi Racism, and the Colonial9. From Shtetl to Settler and Back: André Schwarz-Bart's Morning Star10. Raphaël Confiant and Jewishness: The Fraught Landscapes of French, Martinican, and Franco-Martinican Intellectualisms11. Caryl Phillips's Post-Holocaust/Decolonized Interstices and the Levinasian Subjective in Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood12. Ema13. Meeting with Judith14. Jewish-Cuban Poems15. On The Nature of Blood and the Ghost of Anne FrankAfterword: Little Family Quarrels