List of Mexican Jews

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Mexico has had a Jewish population since the early Colonial Era. However, these early individuals could not openly worship as they were persecuted by the Spanish Inquisition for practicing Judaism. Independent Mexico eventually adopted freedom of religion and began receiving Jewish immigrants, many of them refugees. The book Estudio histórico de la migración judía a México 1900-1950 has records of almost 18,300 who emigrated to Mexico between 1900 and 1950. Most (7,023) were Ashkenazi Jews who originated from Eastern Europe, mainly from Poland. A further 2,640 Jews arrived from either Spain or the Ottoman Empire and 1,619 came from Cuba and the United States.

The 2010 Census counted 67,476 individuals professing Judaism,[1] most of which live in Mexico City.[1]

The following is a list of notable past and present Mexican Jews (not all with both parents Jewish, nor all practising Judaism), arranged by their main field of activity:


Academia

Architecture

Arts

Classical music

Photography

Visual arts

Business

Entertainment

Film and television

Music

Journalism

Literature

Science

Biology

Medicine

Physics

Politics

Religion

  • Jacob Avigdor, Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Jewish community, author, Holocaust survivor
  • Yosef Dayan, Rabbi and the author of several books in Hebrew, Spanish and Italian
  • Moisés Kaiman, Rabbi from Monterrey

Sports

See also

References

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  16. Where Words Like Monarchs Fly "Myriam Moscona is the daughter of Sephardic parents who came to Mexico from Bulgaria."
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