History of the Jews in the Dominican Republic

Inside a Santo Domingo synagogue

The history of the Jews in the Dominican Republic goes back to the late 1400s, with the arrival of Sephardic Jews exiled from Spain and the Mediterranean area in 1492 and 1497.[1] This was followed by new waves of migrants dating from the 1700s[2] and again in the period before and during World War II,[3][4][5] reaching a peak in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as Jewish refugees fled the conditions in Europe brought on by WWII.[6]

  1. ^ "The Exile of the Jews due to the Spanish Inquisition". Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  2. ^ "Jews migration in the 1700s". Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  3. ^ "Jews migration to the Dominican Republic to seek refuge from the Holocaust". Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  4. ^ "A partial, brief summary of Jews in the Dominican Republic". Archived from the original on 2013-06-26. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  5. ^ "Dominican Republic-Jews". Archived from the original on 2013-10-01. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  6. ^ Symanski, R. "The Jewish Colony of Sosúa". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 63.

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