Les Juifs de Montevideo

Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, received in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries waves of Jewish immigration, both Ashkenazi from Eastern Europe and Sephardic from the Mediterranean basin and the Near East, attracted by the country's secular and liberal tradition. The community organized itself into several societies and congregations reflecting the diversity of its origins, and developed active educational, cultural and Zionist institutions. Active in trade, crafts and the professions, it integrated into a society renowned for its openness. The second half of the twentieth century saw a certain demographic decline through emigration, notably to Israel, but the community remains structured.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
• Jewish Virtual Library ↗