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The history of the Jews in Suriname starts at least in the 17th century, when in 1639, the English government allowed Spanish and Portuguese Jews from the Netherlands , Portugal and Italy to settle the region, coming to the old capital Torarica .1In the year 1652, a new group that migrated under the leadership of Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham came to Suriname and settled in the Jodensavanne area. A third group came 1664, after their expulsion from Brazil and then French Guiana , led by David Cohen Nassy .2In 1799, the British occupied Suriname. Although returned to the Dutch in 1802, the British reoccupied it in May 1804 and did not return it to Holland until 1816.3Suriname was one of the most important centers of the Jewish population in the Western Hemisphere, and Jews there were planters and slaveholders.4Currently, the Jewish population is estimated at around 2,700 out of the total Suriname population of 560,000. There is a synagogue in Paramaribo , the Neveh Shalom Synagogue .5The Jewish Daily Forward . Encyclopedia of Latin America: Amerindians through The Age of Globalization (Prehistory to the Present) .6
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The history of the Jews in Suriname starts at least in the 17th century, when in 1639, the English government allowed Spanish and Portuguese Jews from the Netherlands , Portugal and Italy to settle the region, coming to the old capital Torarica . In 1652, a new group that migrated under the leadership of Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham came to Suriname and settled in the Jodensavanne area. A third group came 1664, after their expulsion from Recife and then French Guiana , led by David Cohen Nassy .According to the Encyclopedia of Latin America , "Suriname was one of the most important centers of the Jewish population in the Western Hemisphere, and Jews there were planters and slaveholders." Neveh Shalom Synagogue (right) The plantation economy of the Jodensavanne —an area of savannah that was settled and planted with sugarcane —relied on slave labour .The community declined in the wake of the French Cassard expedition in 1712 and the levies he instituted, competition from beet sugar , and a revolt by Maroons .Settlers relocated to the capital of Paramaribo .They returned to the synagogue in the Jodensavanne to celebrate the holidays until 10 September 1832, when a fire destroyed the village and synagogue.The savanna area was subsequently overtaken with jungle regrowth. The Jewish Daily Forward . Encyclopedia of Latin America: Amerindians through The Age of Globalization (Prehistory to the Present) .
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The history of the Jews in Suriname starts in 1639, as the English government allowed Spanish and Portuguese Jews from the Netherlands , Portugal and Italy to settle the region, coming to the old capital Torarica .
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The history of the Jews in Suriname starts in 1639, as the English government allowed Spanish and Portuguese Jews from the Netherlands , Portugal and Italy to settle the region, coming to the old capital Torarica .
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