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Ethnic group Uruguayan Jews Judíos de Uruguay יהדות אורוגוואי Synagogue of the Sephardic Community Total population 12,000 (census) - 20,000 (estimate) Regions with significant populations Predominantly in Montevideo Punta del Este Paysandú Languages Uruguayan Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino Religion Judaism Part of a series on Jews and Judaism Etymology Who is a Jew ...
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).
The book Estudio histórico de la migración judía a México 1900–1950 has records of almost 18,300 who emigrated to Mexico between 1900 and 1950. Most (7,023) were Ashkenazi Jews whose ancestors had settled in Eastern Europe, mainly Poland.
The municipality of Yauco has a street with the word "Judio" (Jewish) in it. It is the “Calle Cuesta de los Judios” which in the English language means "Jewish Slope Street" [24] Puerto Rican Jews have made many contributions to the Puerto Rican way of life.
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)
Meanwhile, the Ashkenazi Unión Israelita del Perú was founded at the Chirimoyo neighbourhood on June 11, 1923, which was officially registered on November 16, 1929. [14] The Organización Sionista del Perú, a Zionist organisation that sought to reunite all of Peruvian Jewry, was established in 1925. [16]
Despite the existence of an Anti-Zionist component of the far-right Free Costa Rica Movement active between the 60s and 90s, no major anti-Semitic controversy was notable until the 2002 Costa Rican general election in which Vice-Presidential nominee Luis Fishman Zonzinski assured that after being fired by Abel Pacheco de la Espriella's campaign ...
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 ...