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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 .
B'nai B'rith Latin America was founded in the early 20th Century as a regional division of B'nai B'rith International, a Jewish social service organization. [1] It has been active in Latin America throughout the 20th Century and to the present day.
AJS Review, published on behalf of the Association for Jewish Studies, publishes scholarly articles and book reviews covering the field of Jewish Studies.From biblical and rabbinic textual and historical studies to modern history, social sciences, the arts, and literature, the journal welcomes articles of interest to both academic and lay audiences around the world.
For instance The Latin American Jewish Congress estimated that in 2007, only between 12,000 and 13,000 Jews still resided in Venezuela. [11] By November 2010, more than 50% of Jewish Venezuelans had left the country since Chavez came to power, with some of those remaining behind complaining of "official antisemitism". [ 19 ]
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 ...
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]
In 1943 the number of known Jews in the Dominican Republic peaked at 1000. At the conclusion of WWII, The Jewish population in Sosúa gradually declined as residents relocated, mostly to the United States. [6] As a portion of the Jewish population left, Dominican residents began to move in Sosúa. Throughout the majority of the 20th century ...