“Jews’ Savannah,” a plantation town in Suriname that was home to an important early American Jewish community. It was located south of the main port of Paramaribo, along the Suriname River. The settlement started in 1652 and was largely destroyed in 1832 by a slave revolt. Today the town is an archeological site, whose main features are the remains of the synagogue, a healing spring, the Jewish cemetery, and a “creole” cemetery where many people of mixed Jewish and African ancestry are buried.
