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The Jewish Archive of Chile (Spanish Archivo Judío de Chile) is a Chilean non-governmental and non-profit organization that preserves a collection of written and audiovisual material from the history of the Jews in Chile.
Public menorah in Punta del Este. As of 2009, 20,000-25,000 Jews live in Uruguay, with 95% residing in Montevideo. [36] Throughout the country, there are prominent organized communities in Punta del Este and Paysandú. [37] As of 2003, there were 20 synagogues, but only six of them held weekly Shabbat services, and one functioned every day.
The Memorial to the Holocaust of the Jewish People (Spanish: Memorial del Holocausto del Pueblo Judío) is an outdoor memorial dedicated to victims of the Holocaust.. The memorial is located at the junction of Rambla Presidente Wilson and Artigas Boulevard, [1] in the Montevidean neighbourhood of Punta Carretas, on the shores of the River Plate, in Uruguay.
The history of the Jews in the Dominican Republic goes back to the late 1400s, with the arrival of Sephardic Jews exiled from Spain and the Mediterranean area in 1492 and 1497. [1]
Jewish immigrants in Mexico City eventually built businesses such as haberdashery on Madero Street that was a center of European fashion and La Esmeralda jewelry store (now the Museo del Estanquillo) with a reputation similar to Tiffany's on the corner of Isabel la Católica and Madero. The Jewish owner of El Salon Rojo, one of the capital's ...
Ni soi judio, ni vengo de judaizantes" (I write this history dispassionately and without craft, as concerning things that do not touch me. I am not a Jew, nor am I of Jewish descent.) Castro's book was published under the title, Historia de los Judios en España, desde los Tiempos de su Establecimiento hasta Principios del Presente Siglo ...
Economic development. Broad measures of economic progress; Direct democracy; Gender equality; Human enhancement; Indigenous rights; Intersectionality; Liberation theology
"New Christians", or Marranos, fled the Iberian peninsula to escape persecution and seek religious freedom during the 16th and 17th centuries.It is estimated that some reached northern areas of Colombia, which at the time was known as New Granada.