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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] Alejandro Lipschuetz, anthropologist and endocrinologist [8]
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.
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 ...
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).
There are three synagogues and one Sephardic Jewish Educational Center. One is the Centro Israelita de República Dominicana in Santo Domingo, another is a Chabad outreach center also in Santo Domingo, and another is in the country's first established community in Sosúa. [15]
University students have a Jewish students association, EJES (Estudiantes Judíos de El Salvador), and a Zionist group, FUSLA (Federación de Universitarios Sionistas de Latinoamérica), both of which are active throughout the year. For adults, the community offers different educational classes in Hebrew and other topics of interest.
Los judíos de Lima y las provincias del Perú (PDF) (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Lima: Unión Israelita del Perú. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-20. Cano Callañaupa, Brian; Donayre Catacora, Evelyn Melisa (2021). Los judíos en el Cusco: cultura, religión y aspectos judaizantes (1620-1650) (Thesis) (in Spanish).
The history of the Jews in Bolivia goes back to the colonial period of Bolivia in the 16th century. [1] In the 19th century, Jewish merchants (both Sephardim and Ashkenazim) came to Bolivia, most of them taking local women as wives and founding families that merged into the mainstream Catholic society.