Sermons Delivered by the Rev. M. H. Myers at the Synagogue, St. Thomas, West Indies.

By the mid-19th century, the number of Jewish inhabitants on the West Indian island of St. Thomas (now the United States Virgin Islands) was 800 - more than half the islands inhabitants. However the structure of the comunity changed as the economy lagged due to steamships ending the era of sailing ships. The Jewish community further declined when an epidemic of cholera followed a disastrous hurricane. For more regarding the settlement of Jews in St. Thomas, see M. A. Cohen, Sephardim in the Americas, in: American Jewish Archives Vol. XLIV (1992) pp. 153-5 and 190-1 and M. Arbell, The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean (2002) pp. 268-87.