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Schmidt served in Hitler's Wehrmacht, while managing to hide his Jewish roots from the Nazi regime. [107] Árpád Göncz, a former president of Hungary from 1990 to 2000, had a Jewish maternal grandfather. [108] Although most head of states with Jewish ancestry come from Europe and Latin America, some are from other regions of the World.
Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans. University of New Mexico Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8263-4401-4; Jeffrey Lesser, Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question. University of California Press, 1995; Ruggiero, Kristin The Jewish Diaspora In Latin America and the Caribbean: Fragments of Memory, Sussex Academic Press, 2005, ISBN 1 ...
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 .
Yet she will live and govern Latin America's second-largest economy from the Palacio Nacional, three blocks from Mexico's first synagogue and a neighborhood where Jewish immigrants first found ...
Delvalle was born in Panama City. [1] His brother Raúl is a former member of the National Assembly (1984–1989). His uncle Max Delvalle was the first Jewish president in Latin America (both were members of Kol Shearit Israel Synagogue). [2]
She received one electoral vote for vice president (from a faithless elector that had pledged his vote for Republicans Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew), thus becoming the first Jew to receive an electoral vote for either president or vice president. [125] Arlen Specter ran for the Republican nomination in 1996, but dropped out before the Iowa ...
As president, Perón took an ... Today Argentina has a population of more than 200,000 Jewish citizens, the largest in Latin America, the third-largest in the ...
The First World War led many Jewish merchants and financiers to take their fortunes out of Europe, with some moving to the United States and Latin American countries (mainly the Southern Cone) and others to Russia. In the case of Honduras, the arrival of European Jews began in full swing in 1920.