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Argentina has the largest Jewish population in Latin America and south of the Tropic of Cancer, [23] with about 300,000 people. The community numbered about 400,000 after World War II, but the appeal of Israel , and economic and cultural pressures at home led many to leave for Israel, Europe or the United States; recent instability in Israel ...
Today, approximately 180,500 Jews live in Argentina, [1] [66] [9] down from 310,000 in the early 1960s. [9] Most of Argentina's Jews live in Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Rosario. [67] Argentina's Jewish population is the largest in Latin America, and the third-largest in the Americas (after that of the United States and Canada). [68]
Argentina hosts the largest communities of both Jews (180,000-300,000) [18] [19] [20] and Muslims (500,000-600,000) [21] [22] [23] in Latin America. Brazil is the country with more practitioners in the world of Allan Kardec 's Spiritism .
Argentina's Jewish population is, by far, the largest in all of Latin America and is the fifth largest in the world. Buenos Aires itself is said to have over 100,000 practicing Jews, making it one of the largest Jewish urban centers in the world (see also History of the Jews in Argentina).
In 1902 Argentina passed a Residency Law limiting the number of Jewish immigrants, [6] and newspapers like La Nacion incorporated anti-Semitic rhetoric into their stories. [7] Similarly, in German Argentine communities propaganda against non-German Jews circulated in their newspapers, and visits by Jews, like Albert Einstein, were rejected. [ 8 ]
Argentina has Latin America's largest Jewish population. A 1994 attack on a Jewish community center killed 85 people in what remains the deadliest such incident in the South American nation's history.
Jewish individuals and families emigrated from Europe to Argentina before and after World War II, in an attempt to escape the Holocaust and later postwar antisemitism. Between 250,000 and 300,000 Jews now live in Argentina, the vast majority of whom reside in the cities of Buenos Aires, Rosario, Córdoba, Mendoza, La Plata and San Miguel de ...
The history of the Jews in Latin America began with seven sailors arriving in Christopher Columbus's crew. Since then, the Jewish population of Latin America has risen to more than 500,000 — most of whom live in Argentina, with large communities also present in Brazil. The following is a list of some prominent Argentine Jews: