Portuguese-born physician and Jewish leader who organized Jewish settlement in the Dutch colonies of Cayenne and Suriname, where Jewish colonists also owned enslaved people.
Colonial leader · 1612–1685
Portuguese-born physician and Jewish leader who organized Jewish settlement in the Dutch colonies of Cayenne and Suriname, where Jewish colonists also owned enslaved people.
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