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The 2010 Census recorded 67,476 individuals professing Judaism, [1] most of whom live in Mexico City. [1] The following is a list of notable past and present Mexican Jews (not all with both parents Jewish, nor all practising Judaism), arranged by their main field of activity: Jose Luis Seligson Visual Artist
In 1992, a study of Jewish communities in Mexico was published by UNAM in collaboration with the Tribuna Israelita and the Comite Central Israelita de Mexico, called Imágenes de un Encuentro: La Presencia Judía en México Durante La Primera Mitad del Siglo XX (Images of an Encounter: The Jewish Presence in Mexico during the First Half of the ...
An ethnonym is the name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (where the name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms or endonyms (self-designation; where the name is created and used by the ethnic group itself).
Comité Central de la Comunidad Judía de México (CCCJM) is the main Jewish community organization in Mexico. [1] The organization has a long-standing cooperative relationship with Tribuna Israelita, an outreach group it first formed in 1944. The CCCJM is also a member of the World Jewish Congress. [2]
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.
The Congregacion Israelita de Nicaragua was the central Jewish organization until 1979. The community maintained a synagogue and social center in Managua, as well as a B'nai B'rith lodge and a Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) chapter. It has been estimated that the number of Jews in Nicaragua reached a peak of 250 in 1972. [3]
Western Sephardic Jews יהדות ספרד ופורטוגל Judeus da nação portuguesa Judíos sefardíes occidentales; Languages; Judaeo-Portuguese, Judaeo-Spanish, Sephardi Hebrew (liturgical), later English, Dutch, Low German, Judaeo-Papiamento (in Curaçao)
Chile is home to the 4th largest Jewish community in South America. Chile has an estimated 15,900 Jews, according to the American Jewish Yearbook 2021, [5] [2] [3] representing 0.1% of the total Chilean population. The total amount of Chileans with Jewish ancestry, however, is roughly 28,000 (defined as people having at least one Jewish parent ...