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The first Jews who arrived in South America were Sephardic Jews who, after being expelled from Brazil by the Portuguese, settled in the northeast Dutch colony. Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue was the first synagogue in the Americas, established in Recife in 1636 and a community of about 1450 Sephardic Jews lived there.
Brazil has the 9th largest Jewish community in the world, about 107,329 by 2010, according to the IBGE census. [8] The Jewish Confederation of Brazil (CONIB) estimates that there are more than 120,000 Jews in Brazil. [9] Brazilian Jews play an active role in politics, sports, academia, trade and industry, and are well integrated in all spheres ...
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.
The exterior of the museum, in 2006. In 1630, Moses Cohen Henriques led a Jewish contingent to Itamracá, an island off Brazil.From there they settled in Recife. [3] After his retirement circa 1636 from privateering for the Dutch and perhaps pirating, Cohen Henriques assisted his brother, Abraham Cohen, in establishing the Kahal Zur Israel synagogue. [3]
The Jewish community of Manaus dates from about 1890, when Jews were fleeing poverty and uncertain life in Morocco and when Brazil was experiencing a rubber boom. The smuggling of seeds for rubber trees out of Brazil to England in 1876 and the successful planting of seedlings in Indonesia and Ceylon eventually helped cause the bubble to burst.
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Connected Jewish population includes the core Jewish population and additionally those who say they are partly Jewish or that have Jewish background from at least one Jewish parent. Enlarged Jewish population includes the Jewish connected population and those who say they have Jewish background but not a Jewish parent, and all non-Jews living ...