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Castilian-Jewish Chronology
Castilian-Jewish Chronology
Date: 1/4/2012 7:53:55 PM ( 12 y ) ... viewed 1281 times
Castilian-Jewish Chronology
http://sefarad.rediris.es/english/cronologia_english.htm
The Jews Who Sailed With Columbus
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/columbus.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/columbus.html
See also: History of the Jews in Latin America
There have been Jews in Mexico since Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztecs, accompanied by several Conversos. Later, Jews arrived there to escape the Inquisition.[1] Some of these Spanish Jews were forced to convert to Catholicism (Converso Jews), but many maintained their Jewish religious practices in secret (for which many were killed in what is known as the Mexican Inquisition). This is often referred to as Anusim. However some Conversos and their progeny maintained the conversions to Christianity, and to continue to classify them as Jews one has to accept the racial definition of Jewishness.[2]
Due to the power of the Catholic Church in Mexico, few Jews migrated there during the Spanish Colonial Period. In the 1860s, a large number of German Jews settled in Mexico as a result of invitations from Maximilian I of Mexico. Beginning in the 1880s many Ashkenazic Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia and Romania came to Mexico. Another large wave of immigration occurred as the Ottoman Empire collapsed, leading many Sephardic Jews from Turkey, Morocco, and parts of France to flee. Finally, a wave of immigrants fled the increasing Nazi persecutions in Europe during World War II.
Today, there are around 40,000 Jews in Mexico; it is one of just a handful of countries whose Jewish population is projected to grow in the future.[3] There are several sectors in the Jewish community in Mexico, the biggest of which are the Ashkenazi community. The Mizrahi community is mainly Syrian immigrants who attend the Maguén David and Monte Sinai congregations. Mexican Jews refer to the Mizrahim as "judíos árabes" or "Arab Jews". The Sephardic community is primarily made up of descendents of Turkish immigrants, and also very old generations that descend from Spain.
While most Jews in Mexico are concentrated in Mexico City, there are substantial Jewish communities in Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Tijuana. Recently, a small group of Mexican Jewish families has immigrated to Cancún. There is a small group of implanted American Jews who have relocated to the retirement lake towns of Chapala and Ajijic in the state of Jalisco; they meet once a month for religious services and occasionally interact with their Mexican Jewish counterparts in close by Guadalajara.
In 1938 The Central Committee for the Jewish Community of Mexico ('Comité central de la comunidad judía de México') emerged as the umbrella organization for the varying ethnic and religious Jewish communities in Mexico; its analysis and opinion agency is called the Tribuna Israelita.
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Jews in mexico since conquest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Mexico
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