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Public menorah in Punta del Este. As of 2009, 20,000-25,000 Jews live in Uruguay, with 95% residing in Montevideo. [36] Throughout the country, there are prominent organized communities in Punta del Este and Paysandú. [37] As of 2003, there were 20 synagogues, but only six of them held weekly Shabbat services, and one functioned every day.
The Memorial to the Holocaust of the Jewish People (Spanish: Memorial del Holocausto del Pueblo Judío) is an outdoor memorial dedicated to victims of the Holocaust.. The memorial is located at the junction of Rambla Presidente Wilson and Artigas Boulevard, [1] in the Montevidean neighbourhood of Punta Carretas, on the shores of the River Plate, in Uruguay.
Krause, Corinne A. Los judíos en México. Una historia con énfasis especial en el periodo de 1857 a 1930. Traducción, presentación y notas de Ariela Katz de Gugenheim. México, Universidad Iberoamericana, 1987. Lafaye, Jacques. Cruzadas y Utopias: El judeocristianismo en las sociedades Ibéricas. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica 1984.
The Jewish Archive of Chile (Spanish Archivo Judío de Chile) is a Chilean non-governmental and non-profit organization that preserves a collection of written and audiovisual material from the history of the Jews in Chile.
The history of the Jews in the Dominican Republic goes back to the late 1400s, with the arrival of Sephardic Jews exiled from Spain and the Mediterranean area in 1492 and 1497. [1]
Among the many successful businesses which they have established are Supermercados Pueblo (Pueblo Supermarkets) founded by George and Harold Toppel, [25] Almacenes Kress (clothing store), founded by Jorge Artime, [26] Doral Bank, Pitusa and Me Salve, founded by Israel Kopel. [3] [27] They have also made an impact in Puerto Rico's music industry.
"New Christians", or Marranos, fled the Iberian peninsula to escape persecution and seek religious freedom during the 16th and 17th centuries.It is estimated that some reached northern areas of Colombia, which at the time was known as New Granada.
Economic development. Broad measures of economic progress; Direct democracy; Gender equality; Human enhancement; Indigenous rights; Intersectionality; Liberation theology