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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]
Judaica (clockwise from top): Shabbat candlesticks, handwashing cup, Chumash and Tanakh, Torah pointer, shofar, and etrog box. Crypto-Judaism is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (origin from Greek kryptos – κρυπτός, 'hidden').
Los conversos en la Nueva España. Mexico City: Enep-Acatlan, UNAM 1984. Gojman de Backal, Alicia. "Conversos" in Encyclopedia of Mexico, vol. 1, pp.340-344. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997. Greenleaf, Richard E. The Mexican Inquisition in the Sixteenth Century. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1969. Hordes, Stanley M. (July 1982).
On the Calle de los Judíos (Jewish Street) in the Jewish Quarter at the Tiberias Square there is a bronze statue of Maimonides, the prominent Jewish philosopher, Halakhist, rabbi, and physician from Córdoba.
The history of the Jews in Honduras begins in the colonial period, during the proceedings of the Inquisition with the arrival of sephardic Jews to Honduran soil. [1] As of April 2020, in Honduras there are 390 self identified Jews who have gained the Honduran residence.
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. Their contributions can be found, but are not limited to, the fields of education, commerce and entertainment.
Libro de los juegos, commissioned by Alphonse X of Castile, 13th century. Madrid. In the early 11th century, centralised authority based at Córdoba broke down after the Berber invasion and the ousting of the Umayyads. In its stead arose the independent taifa principalities under the rule of local Arab, Berber, Slavic or Muwallad leaders ...
Jewish population centers have shifted tremendously over time, due in modern times to large scale population movements, and in earlier times due to a combination of population movements, religious conversions and assimilation.