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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).
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.
Comité Central de la Comunidad Judía de México (CCCJM) is the main Jewish community organization in Mexico. [1] The organization has a long-standing cooperative relationship with Tribuna Israelita, an outreach group it first formed in 1944. The CCCJM is also a member of the World Jewish Congress. [2]
The Expulsion of the Jews from Navarre was decreed in 1498 by John III of Navarre and Catherine of Navarre under pressure from Ferdinand II of Aragon. [1]Exiled Jews from Castile and Aragon sought refuge in Navarre after 1492 in places such as Tudela, [2] thereby forking the Navarrese jewry into judíos nativos ('native Jews') and judíos nuevamente venidos ('newly arrived Jews'). [3]
There is a synagogue in the city of San Juan del Sur. On December 16, 2007, Nicaraguan Jews welcomed a new Torah after 28 years. On the following day, the Torah was used for the first time in a minyan at a bar mitzvah of a local Nicaraguan Jew. [23] The Jewish population in 2012 was estimated at around 50 people.
Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva – adventurer, slaver and first governor and captain-general of the New Kingdom of León; Michel de Montaigne – French writer; Diego Velázquez – Spanish painter; Juan Lindo – First president of El Salvador and president of Honduras
El Centro de Estudios Judíos “Torat Emet” is a Spanish-language Jewish education and spirituality center for Jews from all over Latin America. [1] Its mission is to provide traditional Sephardic Torah study (also Torá, in Sephardic tradition) [2] [3] [4] using the traditional perspectives of the Spanish and Portuguese communities' customs and rites in Spanish for Latin American audiences ...