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 capit
Neveh Shalom Synagogue (right)
18th Century Ritual bath (now dry) at the Tzedek ve-Shalom Synagogue in Paramaribo, Suriname. As part of the conversion process, people would immerse in this bath. Photo by Laura Arnold Leibman, 2008.
Portrait of a married couple in Suriname (Johannes Ellis and Maria Louisa de Hart)
Surinamese Civil War
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The Surinamese Civil War, also known as Surinamese Interior War, was a civil war fought in eastern Suriname between 1986 and 1992. The conflict primarily involved the Jungle Commando, a rebel group co
Monument in Albina, Suriname to the victims of the Moiwana massacre during the Surinamese civil war