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Darhe Jesarim

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congregations. Jews of African descent were not allowed to say prayers for the dead in white synagogues, nor were white Jews allowed to the prayers on their behalf. Darhe Jesarim did not have its own cemetery. Joseph Cohen Nassy, one of the leaders of the synagogue, died in 1793.
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was a Black Jewish synagogue formed in Suriname. It is the earliest known synagogue in the African diaspora. The synagogue was later disbanded and Black and mixed-race Jews were integrated back into Suriname's predominantly white synagogues as second-class members.
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By 1759, enslaved and free Afro-Surinamese Jews (sometimes referred to by scholars as "Eurafrican Jews") had formed their own brotherhood and called it
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In 1817, Darhe Jesarim was disbanded and its members were absorbed back into the city's two white-run synagogues as second-class members.
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and provided a place where Afro-Surinamese Jews could worship without the inequities and distinctions made in
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Jewish autonomy in a slave society: Suriname in the Atlantic world, 1651-1825
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Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family
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Index

Affiliation
Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organisational status
Synagogue
Hebrew
Jews of color
Paramaribo
Neveh Shalom
Tzedek ve-Shalom
African-American Jews
History of the Jews in Suriname
Racism in Jewish communities
"Suriname"
"Synagogues"
Leibman, Laura Arnold
Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family
ISBN
978-0-19-753047-4
Jewish autonomy in a slave society: Suriname in the Atlantic world, 1651-1825
ISBN
978-0-8122-9704-1
OCLC
1151890624
cite book
link
Suriname
Categories
1759 establishments in South America
1817 disestablishments
18th-century synagogues

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