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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. After achieving independence, 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 whose ancestors had settled in Eastern Europe, mainly 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 recorded 67,476 individuals professing Judaism,[1] most of whom 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: Jose Luis Seligson Visual Artist

Academia

Architecture

Arts

Classical music

Photography

Visual arts

Business

Entertainment

Film and television

Music

Journalism

Literature

Science

Biology

Engineering

Mathematics

Medicine

Physics

Politics

Religion

Sports

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Panorama de las religiones en México 2010" (PDF) (in Spanish). INEGI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Adina Cimet – English – Lexicon – NN Theatre". teatrnn.pl.
  3. ^ "Critical Approaches to Jewish-Mexican Literature Review | Sephardic Horizons". www.sephardichorizons.org.
  4. ^ Cimet, Adina (1995). "Jews as a Minority in Mexico". Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Latino-Américaines et Caraïbes. 20 (39/40): 215–225. doi:10.1080/08263663.1995.10816726. JSTOR 41799921.
  5. ^ "Adina Cimet | Autor en Diario Judío México |". 14 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Julio Frenk and the University of Miami: Family History". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  7. ^ "Mexican Cartoon Character at Center of Dispute : NPR". npr.org. Retrieved 3 August 2010. I come from a Jewish family. My parents came from Poland to Mexico.
  8. ^ "Infancia y juventud – Arturo Warman" [Children and Youth – Arturo Warman]. catedrawarman.org (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  9. ^ Opera Japonica/Daniel Catán Archived 2006-10-02 at the Wayback Machine "I was born of Jewish parents in Mexico City."
  10. ^ "Max Lifchitz".
  11. ^ "Jewish Violinists". www.jinfo.org.
  12. ^ Ugalde Gómez Nadia. Arnold Belkin; la imágen como metáfora. México, 1999.
  13. ^ "Aldo Castillo Gallery". Archived from the original on June 23, 2006. Pedro Friedeberg was born in Florence, Italy in 1936 to German-Jewish parents
  14. ^ Wendl, Karel (1998). "The Route of Friendship: A Cultural/Artistic Event of the Games of the XIX Olympiad in Mexico City - 1968" (PDF). OLYMPIKA: The International Journal of Olympic Studies. VII: 113–134. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2010 – via www.la84foundation.org.
  15. ^ "José Sacal, escultor". Diario Judío: Diario de la Vida Judía en México y el Mundo (in European Spanish). 2013-08-16. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  16. ^ "Agradece Eilat al escultor judío mexicano José Sacal por obra donada". Enlace Judío (in Mexican Spanish). 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  17. ^ Bloom, Nate (2007-02-22). "Jewish Standard Hollywood's big night". Jewish Standard. Archived from the original on 2008-04-11. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
  18. ^ 100 year of Jewish immigration Archived 2005-12-10 at the Wayback Machine "The exhibit has photos of many members of the community who have become well known for their artistic or cultural contributions. Wolf Ruvinskis was a famous wrestler in the 1950s.... Jacobo Zabludovsky is a household name, having been a prominent news anchor for decades both in television and radio."
  19. ^ Jacobs, Gerald (July 23, 2009). "Interview: Chloe Aridjis". The Jewish Chronicle.
  20. ^ Kerstin Jones. "Anita Brenner". ic.arizona.edu. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  21. ^ a b Invenciones multitudinarias: escritoras judíomexicanas contemporáneas Archived 2006-04-26 at the Wayback Machine "Guadalupe Cortina’s study of Mexican Jewish women writers features general introductions to four writers and textural analyses of their work. The writers are Margo Glantz, Ethel Krauze, Sara Levi Calderón, and, more briefly discussed than the previous three, Sara Sefchovich. "
  22. ^ Where Words Like Monarchs Fly Archived 2005-11-20 at the Wayback Machine "Myriam Moscona is the daughter of Sephardic parents who came to Mexico from Bulgaria."
  23. ^ ".:: Welcome To The Jewish Ledger ::". jewishledger.com. Archived from the original on 31 May 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  24. ^ Interview: Ilan Stavans "born in Mexico in 1961 to an Eastern European Jewish family"
  25. ^ Agencias (10 September 2014). "Dr. Samuel Gitler Z"L, Multigalardonado matemático miembro del Colegio Nacional". Diario Judío (in Spanish).
  26. ^ "Jewish Physicists". www.jinfo.org.
  27. ^ "Instituto de Ciencias Físicas". www.fis.unam.mx.
  28. ^ "Marcos Moshinsky :: Background". Archived from the original on March 21, 2006. Moshinsky belongs to a family of Jewish emigrants from the Ukraine ... He has lived in Mexico, where he received his entire elementary and higher education and has spent almost all his professional life, from the age of three
  29. ^ Hordes, Stanley M. To the ends of the earth: A history of the crypto-Jews in New Mexico
  30. ^ Farias, George. The Farias chronicles: a history and genealogy of a Portuguese/Spanish family.

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