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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 .
Today, approximately 180,500 Jews live in Argentina, [1] [66] [9] down from 310,000 in the early 1960s. [9] Most of Argentina's Jews live in Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Rosario. [67] Argentina's Jewish population is the largest in Latin America, and the third-largest in the Americas (after that of the United States and Canada). [68]
Considered one of the most important Latin American Jewish sites, Beth Shalom Temple is the epicenter for current Jewish life in Cuba and still conducts weekly Shabbat services. In addition to the descendants of Cuban Jews living in the United States , there is also a significant population which claims descent from non-Cuban Jews and from ...
Brazil has the tenth largest Jewish community in the world, about 107,329 by 2010, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) Census, [1] and has the second largest Jewish population in Latin America, after Argentina. [6] The Jewish Confederation of Brazil (CONIB) estimates that there are more than 120,000 Jews in ...
German Jewish communities in Bogota and Cali also preserve much of their traditions. [11] Smaller communities are found in Cartagena and the island of San Andres. There are approximately 18 official synagogues throughout the country. In Bogotá, the Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and German Jews each run their own religious and cultural institutions.
Jewish refugees in Sosúa work in a factory making handbags for export to the United States in the 1940s. The current population of known Jews in the Dominican Republic is close to 3,000, [14] with the majority living in the capital, Santo Domingo, and others residing in Sosúa. However, while the Jewish community in Sosúa still exists, it has ...
Ecuadorian Jews have achieved prominence in various fields including academics, industry, and science. Benno Weiser (a.k.a. Benjamin Varon), who was an active Ecuadorian journalist, later entered the Israeli diplomatic service, serving in various Latin American countries. [12] His brother, Max Weiser, was the first Israeli consul in Ecuador. [13]