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Luis de Carabajal y Cueva, a Spanish conquistador and converso first set foot in what is now Texas in 1570. The first Jewish-born person to set foot on American soil was Joachim Gans in 1584. Elias Legarde (a.k.a. Legardo) was a Sephardic Jew who arrived at James City, Virginia, on the Abigail in 1621. [ 9 ]
Juan de Oñate, Governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, descendant of Conversos; Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva, adventurer, slave-trader, first Governor of Nuevo León Francisca Nuñez de Carabajal, Marrana, sister of Luis de Carabajal, executed along with family members for practicing Judaism; Luis de Carabajal the younger, author, merchant
Beginning April 1st, 2025, US citizens will have to obtain a visa for Namibia. US citizens will be issued with visas on arrival upon payment of a designated fee. [320] No Nauru: Visa required [321] 30 days Visas are issued with validity of 30 days. [322] Visa can be obtained in the Nauruan Press Office at the United Nations. [citation needed] —
Historians believe that Luis de Torres, who spoke Hebrew among other languages and who accompanied Columbus as his interpreter, was the first "converso" Jew to set foot in Puerto Rico. [4] The Jews who arrived and settled in Puerto Rico were referred to as " Crypto-Jews " or "secret Jews".
Comunidad Bet-El de México - A Conservative Jewish community. Comunidad Israelita de Guadalajara - Representative body of the Jewish community of Guadalajara. Comunidad Maguén David - Founded by descendants of immigrants from Aleppo, Syria. Sociedad de Beneficencia Alliance Monte Sinai - Founded by descendants of immigrants from Damascus, Syria.
By Spring of that year, the colony began receiving its first settlers. About 700 European Jews of Ashkenazi Jewish descent reached the settlement where each family received 33 hectares (82 acres) of land, 10 cows (plus 2 additional cows per child), a mule and a horse, and a US$10,000 loan (about 207,000 dollars at 2025 prices) at 1% interest.
In colonial times, the most prominent Jewish character in Chile was the surgeon Francisco Maldonado da Silva, one of the first directors of the San Juan de Dios Hospital [citation needed]. Maldonado da Silva was an Argentine Jew born in San Miguel de Tucumán into a Sephardic family from Portugal. He was accused to the Tribunal of the ...
Jacob De Cordova (1808-1868), the founder of the Jamaica Gleaner; Cecil Vernon Lindo (1870-1962) Jamaican banker and industrialist; Leander de Cordova (1877-1969), Jamaican-born actor and film director, grandnephew of Jacob de Cordova; Rudolph de Cordova (1860-1941), a Jamaican-born British writer, screenwriter and actor. Lewis Gordon (1962 ...