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During this decade, the Unión Israelita del Perú—the Ashkenazi congregation of Peru established in 1923—hired Abraham Moshe Brener, a Polish Rabbi, to perform Jewish rituals in the country. [ d ] Brener arrived in Lima in 1934 and oversaw the rituals of all Jewish denominations up until around 1950, when the Sephardic congregation ...
It has declined in usage in some countries but has remained a well-used name all over the world. [1] In 2022, it was the 31st most popular name given to girls in Canada. [3] The popularity of the name in the 1990s and early years of the 21st century has given the name an everywoman image for women in their twenties.
In 1988, Zuber arrived in Peru and aided the converts in matters such as how to properly observe kashrut and Shabbat. As a result of the Lima community's continuing reluctance, it was eventually decided that the B'nai Moshe could not reach their full potential in Peru, and decided that they make aliyah (emigration) to Israel once converted.
Hibernia (ancient name and Latin variant): apparently assimilated to Latin hibernus ("wintry") from earlier Ivernia (given in Ptolemy's Geographia as Ἰουερνία), from the above Celtic name. Ireland is known as Èirinn in Scottish Gaelic, from the dative case of Old Irish Ériu.
Jewish presence in Bolivia started at the beginning of the Spanish colonial period. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, [3] was founded in 1557 by Ñuflo de Chávez who was accompanied by a small group of pioneers, including several crypto-Jews from Ascuncion and Buenos Aires. The city became known as a safe haven for Jews during the Inquisition in the ...
Apart from these original surnames, the surnames of Jewish people of the present have typically reflected family history and their ethnic group within the Jewish people. Sephardic communities began to take on surnames in the Middle Ages (specifically c.10th and 11th centuries), and these surnames reflect the languages spoken by the Sephardic ...
Amazonian Jews (Portuguese: judeus da Amazônia; Spanish: judíos de la Amazonia; Hebrew: יהודי האמזונס, romanized: yehudei haAmazonas; Ladino: ג׳ודיוס די אמאזוניה, djudios de Amazonia) are the Jews of the Amazon basin, mainly descendants of Moroccan Jews who migrated to northern Brazil and Peru in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Jewish from the indicated country of origin or must have references showing they are Jewish from the indicated country of origin and are notable. The following is a list of some prominent Latin American Jews, arranged by country of origin: