Darhe Jesarim

Darhe Jesarim was a former Jewish congregation and synagogue formed in Sivaplein, in the district of Paramaribo, Suriname.

The synagogue was disbanded in 1817 and Afro-Surinamese and mixed-race Jews were integrated, as second-class members, into Suriname's predominantly white congregations.

[1] By 1759, enslaved and free Afro-Surinamese Jews (sometimes referred to by scholars as "Eurafrican Jews") had formed their own brotherhood and called it Darhe Jesarim ("Path of the Righteous" in Hebrew).

[2] Darhe Jesarim both educated Jews of color and provided a place where Afro-Surinamese Jews could worship without the inequities and distinctions made in Paramaribo's white-run Neveh Shalom and Tzedek ve-Shalom congregations.

Joseph Cohen Nassy, one of the leaders of the synagogue, died in 1793.