One of the most famous rabbis in Curaçao. Born in Hamburg to Moses Jesurun, the leader of that city’s Sephardic community.
Hakham Raphael Jesurun was the second resident of the Rabbi’s house at 26-28 Kuiperstraat, in Curaçao. The gravestone of Hakham Jesurun (1748) was engraved with a depiction of an angel approaching the distinctive portal of the Snoa: two Doric columns with a verse from Psalms 118:20 above the lintel: “This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter into it” (Arbell 140; Emmanuel 296-7).
