Region: Pérou (Amazonie)
Intersection register · custodian, not owner
Iquitos, an isolated city in the Peruvian Amazon accessible only by air or river, saw the settlement of Moroccan Sephardic Jews during the rubber boom (1880–1912). Cut off from the formal Jewish world for generations, their descendants, the "Iquiteños" or "Bené Moshe," maintained syncretic Jewish practices and identity; several hundred of them have undergone giur and immigrated to Israel since the 1990s.
Great Book being written
This Great Book does not yet have published chapters. The chapters — each bearing its register, its epistemic status and its sources — will be added as editorial enrichment and assisted generation progress.
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Iquitos give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day
Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
- Jewish Virtual Library ↗
Communities of this place
🔗 Cite / link this page
Copy any of these formats to cite this page or link to it.
Link
https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/lieux/iquitosHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/lieux/iquitos">Iquitos — Zakhor</a>Citation
Iquitos — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/lieux/iquitos