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The Jews in Surinam are the only group of white colonists to have settled there long before Emancipation and to have maintained their identity as a separate group. There were probably Jews in Surinam even before Lord Parham first came to settle there.163 In 1652 a number of Jews entered the country with Parham and in 1666 a new group under David (Cohen) Nassy arrived.
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van Lier, R.A.J. (1971). The Jewish Community. In: Frontier Society. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0647-2_5
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