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The history of the Jews in Uruguay (Spanish: judeouruguayos) dates back to the colonial empire. The most important influx of Jewish population occurred during the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, mainly during the World War II. With an estimated 16,600 Jews, according to the American Jewish Year Book 2019, Uruguay ...
Core Jewish population refers to those who consider themselves Jews to the exclusion of all else. Connected Jewish population includes the core Jewish population and additionally those who say they are partly Jewish or that have Jewish background from at least one Jewish parent. Enlarged Jewish population includes the Jewish connected ...
Many Jewish people came from Germany in 1939, on a ship called the "Koenigstein". During the years 1933–43, there were a population of 2,700 Jewish immigrants. In 1939, the Jewish population, mostly German and Polish Jews, were expelled by a decree of the Italian influenced government of Alberto Enriquez Gallo. The antisemitism spread in the ...
American Jews: United States and Colonial era: American United States Virgin Islands: United States Virgin Islands: Caribbean Uruguay: Sephardi Jews and Ashkenazi Jews: Uruguay, Latin America: Latin American Uzbekistan: Uzbek Jews (some of whom are Bukharan Jews) Uzbekistan: Asian Vanuatu: Vanuatu: Oceanian Venezuela: Venezuela: Latin American ...
Jewish immigration to Latin America began with seven sailors arriving in Christopher Columbus' crew. The Jewish population of Latin America is today (2018) less than 300,000 — more than half of whom live in Argentina , with large communities also present in Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Uruguay and Venezuela .
This can be compared with estimates of about half that number a mere 60 years earlier, though for comparison estimates of the total population of Europe show it also to have doubled between 1800 and 1900. Jewish population by country (2020)
A 2008 survey by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística of Uruguay gave Catholicism as the main religion, with 45.7% of the population, 9.0% are non-Catholic Christians, 0.6% are Animists or Umbandists (an Afro-Brazilian religion) and 0.4% Jewish. 30.1% reported believing in a god, but not belonging to any religion, while 14% were Atheist or ...
Upon independence in 1962 only Muslims were permitted Algerian citizenship, and 95% of Algeria's 140,000 Jewish population left. Since 1870 (briefly revoked by Vichy France in 1940), most Jews in Algeria had French citizenship, and they mainly went to France, with some going to Israel. By 1969, fewer than 1,000 Jews were still living in Algeria ...