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History of the Jews in Chile

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The location of Chile in South America. (Chile is highlighted in dark green. Chilean Antarctic Territory – claim, in light green)
Chilean Jews
Judíos de Chile
יהודים בצ'ילה
אידן אין טשילע‎ (Yiddish)
Total population
18,300 (census)[1]
150,000[2] to 175,000 (descendants) [3]
Regions with significant populations
Santiago, Valparaíso
Languages
Chilean Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino
Religion
Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Peruvian Jews
Ena von Baer during Hanukkah in La Moneda Palace, Santiago.

The history of the Jews in Chile dates back to the arrival of Europeans to the country.[4] Over time, Chile has received several contingents of Jewish immigrants. Currently, the Jewish community in Chile comes mainly from the migrations occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries, mostly of Ashkenazi background.

Chile is home to the third-largest Jewish community in South America. Chile has an estimated 18,300 Jews, according to the American Jewish Yearbook 2019,[5][2][3] representing 0.1% of the total Chilean population. The total amount of Chileans with Jewish ancestry, however, is roughly 175,000 (defined as people having at least one Jewish parent or grandparent, and any spouse of such person).[5]

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Migration history

Spanish colonization and settlement

The first Jews arrived in Chile with the Spanish conquistadors. They were Jewish converts to Catholicism because at the time of the Inquisition, they had to hide their Jewish origin. Most of that immigration occurred in the early years of the conquest. They fled religious persecution in Spain since the Inquisition had not been installed yet in the Americas.[4] Diego García de Cáceres, faithful friend and executor of the founder of Santiago, Pedro de Valdivia, was one of them.

In colonial times, the most prominent Jewish character in Chile was the surgeon Francisco Maldonado da Silva, one of the first directors of the San Juan de Dios Hospital[citation needed]. Maldonado da Silva was an Argentine Jew born in San Miguel de Tucumán into a Sephardic family from Portugal. He was accused to the Tribunal of the Inquisition by her sisters, devout Christians, from attempting to convert them to Judaism. Maldonado declared openly Jew, and was sentenced to be burned alive in 1639. Entire Crypto-Jewish families, who had publicly converted to Catholicism but privately remained Jews, arrived. Like in the rest of Latin America, the original Jewish settlers did not retain their identity over the generations and were eventually assimilated into the broader majority of the Chilean Catholic society.[6] As such, the Jewish community of Chile today only really begins with the Jewish immigrations of the 19th century.

Jewish immigration in the 19th century

From 1840, decades after the abolition of the Inquisition in Chile, began the Jewish immigration to the country. The first Jews who arrived in Valparaíso were from Europe, especially from Germany and France. One of them, Manuel de Lima y Sola, was a man who became one of the founding members of the Fire Department of Valparaíso in 1851 and one of the founders of the Chilean freemasonry to create the first Masonic lodge, the "Unión Fraternal" two years later.

Jewish emigration in the 20th century

Many Jews left Chile in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1961, the Jewish population was about 30,000,[7] but by 1997 the population had dwindled to 15,000.[8]

The 2012 Chilean census showed 16,294 Jews living in the country, marking an 8.8% increase from the decade before.[8]

Community institutions

Orthodox Judaism reaches approximately ten percent of Chile's Jewish community.[9]

The Chabad movement was first established in Chile in 1981 and has since constructed synagogues, schools and recreational centers.[10]

Notable Chilean Jews

See also

References

  1. ^ Congreso Judío Latinoamericano. "Comunidades judías: Chile" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Los judíos residentes en Chile". Agencia EFE. 23 December 2010. Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ^ a b H. Harvey (2012): Las relaciones entre Chile e Israel, 1973–1990. La conexión oculta. RIL Editores, 317 pages: pp. 193. ISBN 978-956-284-812-1.
  4. ^ a b Memoria Chilena – La comunidad judía en Chile
  5. ^ a b American Jewish year book 2019 : the annual record of the North American Jewish communities since 1899. Dashefsky, Arnold., Sheskin, Ira M., 1950–. Cham: Springer. 2020. p. 330. ISBN 978-3-030-40371-3. OCLC 1164581561.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^ Elkin, Judith Laikin, 1928– (2014). The Jews of Latin America (3rd ed.). Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner. pp. 1–25. ISBN 978-1-58826-896-9. OCLC 858914473.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "American Jewish Yearbook 1961" (PDF). AJC Archives. AJC. p. 383. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  8. ^ a b "The Jewish Community of Santiago". The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot.
  9. ^ Caro, Isaac. "Orthodoxies, dissidence and new identities in Argentine and Chilean Judaism." Cuadernos Judaicos 25 (2008).
  10. ^ Waldman, Gilda. "The literary construction of Jewish identity in Chile: a cartography of recent memories." In Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism, pp. 231–252. Brill, 2008.

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