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. The book takes a pan-Caribbean approach, with chapters addressing the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone, and Dutch-speaking Caribbean.Part 1 traces the emergence of a Caribbean-Jewish literary culture in Suriname, St.Thomas, Jamaica, and Cuba from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century.Part 2 brings into focus Sephardic and crypto-Jewish motifs in contemporary Caribbean literature, while Part 3 turns to the question of colonialism and its relationship to Holocaust memory.The volume concludes with the compelling voices of contemporary Caribbean creative writers.