The first time I visited the half-Dutch, half-French island of St. Martin/St. Maarten in 1991, I heard that it once had a Jewish community. St. Maarten is a 36-square-mile island in the eastern Caribbean, located between St. Thomas and St. […]
About Dana Sprott
Dana Cohen Sprott has a BS in Economics from Russell Sage College and an MBA in International Business from George Washington University. She has lived and worked in the Caribbean for three decades and found Jewish communities older than Manhattan and unlikely places of refuge during World War II. Sprott is a published author, lecturer and researcher, who led the international team that pinpointed the location of a lost synagogue and Jewish burial ground on the island of St. Maarten. She divides her time between Florida and St. Maarten.