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The Jews of Latin America (rev) Holmes & Meier, 1998. ISBN 0-8419-1369-2; Ariel Segal Frielich Jews of the Amazon: Self-Exile in Earthly Paradise, The Jewish Publication Society, 1999, ISBN 0-8276-0669-9; Jeffrey Lesser & Raanan Rein. Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans. University of New Mexico Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8263-4401-4
Jewish immigration to Latin America began with seven sailors arriving in Christopher Columbus' crew. The Jewish population of Latin America is today (2018) less than 300,000 — more than half of whom live in Argentina , with large communities also present in Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Uruguay and Venezuela .
The Jewish people who did immigrate to countries within South America, and in particular Paraguay, were of a lower socio-economic status. [8] Sephardi Jews chose to migrate to Latin America in higher numbers than Ashkenazi Jews, whose community preferred to immigrate to the United States and Canada. The Jews who migrated to Paraguay and other ...
The Latin American Research Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on Latin America and the Caribbean. It was established in 1965 by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) [ 1 ] and is published by LASA's publishing arm, the Latin America Research Commons.
The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political, social, economic, intellectual, and religious history of the Americas. It is published on behalf of the Academy of American Franciscan History by Cambridge University Press and the editor-in-chief is Ben Vinson III ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Union of Jewish congregations of Latin America and the Caribbean ... This page was last edited on 4 January 2024, ...
Pages in category "History of the Jews in South America" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
B'nai B'rith in Mexico was active since the early 20th Century and encouraged Jews in Eastern Europe to immigrate to Mexico. During the 1920s, it employed the scholar, Anita Brenner, as a correspondent to assist their efforts to protect immigrant Jewish girls from white slavery following reports of local abductions. [8]