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David Cohen Nassy

David Cohen Nassy (born 1612) started Jewish communities in the Caribbean. He had several nicknames: Cristovão de Távora (his Christian name) and José Nunes da Fonseca (his tradename).

He fled to Amsterdam (Dutch Republic) because of the Inquisition in Portugal. He married Ribca (Maria) Drago and they had 12 children. David lived in Amsterdam and was authorized in 1662 by Abraham Cohen to go to Cayenne (now the capital of French Guiana). In 1664 he went to Cayenne with a great number of Jews, but was refused to set up volksplantingen in Cayenne. David and his Jews travelled to Surinam and they settled at Jodensavanne on the Surinam river.

David de Ishak Cohen Nassy, born in Suriname in 1747, had a wife called Esther.

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