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Mordo Alvo, physician and member of the scientific academy Instituto de Chile [12] Claudio Bunster , scientist (Jewish mother) [ 13 ] Fernando Cassorla , physician and member of the scientific academy Instituto de Chile [ 12 ]
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 ...
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)
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.
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 Confederación de Asociaciones Judías de Colombia, located in Bogotá, is the central organization that coordinates Jews and Jewish institutions in Colombia. In the new millennium, after years of study, a group of Colombians with Jewish ancestry formally converted to Judaism in order to be accepted as Jews according to the rabbinical ...
The Viceroy Jorge de Villalonga, because of complaints from the Catholic clergy of Inquisition and from Spain Crown, decided to eliminate Tucacas. Pedro Jose de Olivarriaga was nominated commissioner against the so-called Jewish "contraband trade." With special army units and 40 ships he attacked and captured the town in 1720.