Isaac Touro
(1738-1783)
American rabbi
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Isaac Touro (1738 – 8 December 1783) was a Dutch-born American rabbi. He was a Jewish leader in colonial America. Born in Amsterdam, in 1758 he left for Jamaica. In 1760, he arrived in Newport, Rhode Island to serve as hazzan and spiritual leader of Jeshuath Israel, a Portuguese Sephardic congregation. Soon after his arrival the congregation built the Touro Synagogue, which is the oldest synagogue in the United States.
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8 December 1783 (aged 45)
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