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More than 24,000 Jews lived in Cuba in 1924, and still more immigrated to the country in the 1930s. Following the 1959 communist revolution, 94% of the country's Jews emigrated, most of them to the United States. [1] In 2007 an estimated 1,500 known Jewish Cubans remained in the country, overwhelmingly located in Havana. [2]
In 1919, Cuba supported the idea of independence of the Jewish people and condemned the extermination of Jews by the Third Reich in 1942. [2] On 29 November 1947, Cuba was the only country in the Americas to vote against the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine which led to the founding of Israel. [3]
It was called the Jewish Society of Eastern Cuba (Spanish: Sociedad Union Israelita de Oriente de Cuba) and was composed mainly of Sephardic Jews from Turkey. In 1939, the congregation built its first synagogue, called the Synagogue of Santiago de Cuba (Spanish: Sinagoga de Santiago de Cuba). Ashkenazi Jews arrived from Poland during World War ...
In 1959, at the dawn of communist rule, there were roughly 15,000 Jews living in Havana. Some 94% of the Jews joined the emigration of other middle-class and upper class Cubans, settling in the United States and other countries. By 2007, there were 1500 Jews in Cuba, with 1100 of them in Havana.
In 2007 Centro Hebreo Sefaradi Synagogue was described as “…the only remaining institutional legacy of the Sephardic presence in Cuba.” [citation needed] As of 2010, the synagogue had eighty families constituting 320 members. The majority of congregants were 60 or older.
The loud of mouth are feared in their city, and the one who is reckless in speech is hated. [3] This was followed by "A wise magistrate educates his people, and the rule of an intelligent person is well ordered. As the people’s judge is, so are his officials; as the ruler of the city is, so are all its inhabitants.
There were 15,000 Jews in Cuba in 1959, but many Jewish businessmen and professionals left Cuba for the United States after the Cuban revolution, fearing class persecution under the Communists. In the early 1990s, Operation Cigar was launched, and in the period of five years, more than 400 Cuban Jews secretly immigrated to Israel.
Map of Cuba Havana, Capital of Cuba Santiago de Cuba Camagüey Holguín Santa Clara Guantánamo. This is a list of cities in Cuba with at least 20,000 inhabitants, listed in descending order. Population data refers to city proper and not to the whole municipality, because they include large rural areas with several villages.