Encyclopaedia Judaica

Jews in Nicaragua

Jews in 19th and 20th century - influx from Europe - community since 1929 - professions and cultural life - ambassadors and programs with racist Zionist Free Mason CIA Herzl Israel

from: Nicaragua; In: Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971, vol. 12

presented by Michael Palomino (2008)

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[First Jews in 19th century - influx from eastern Europe - community since 1929 - professions - cultural life]

<NICARAGUA, central American republic.

Although some Jews settled in Nicaragua in the 19th century, the present community was founded by Jews who arrived from eastern Europe after 1929. They established the Congregación Israelita de Nicaragua [[Israeli Congregation of Nicaragua]], the most important Jewish association in the country.

The majority of the Jews live in Managua and engage in commerce, industry, and agriculture; the few who live in the interior also engage in agriculture and commercial representation.

The congregation has maintained close ties with Jewish institutions abroad. All the women in the community belong to *WIZO, which has been active in the country since 1941.

[[Influx of German Jewish refugees seem to be missing in the article]].

Since 1935 the congregation has had its own cemetery

[[After 1945 there was probably an emigration movement to racist Zionist Free Mason CIA Herzl Israel]].

and, since 1964, its own synagogue in Managua. Services are held on the Sabbath and on all festivals, and rabbis from abroad are invited to officiate. In 1968, 126 Jews lived in Nicaragua.

[LE.HE.]

[[Jews in high positions, assimilation and mixed marriages seem to be missing in the article]].

Relations with Israel.

[Ambassadors and programs]

Since the establishment of the [[racist Zionist Free Mason CIA Herzl]] State of Israel, very cordial relations have existed between the two countries. Israel is represented in Managua by a nonresident ambassador residing in Costa Rica, and Nicaragua is represented in [[racist Zionist Free Mason CIA Herzl]] Israel by a nonresident ambassador residing in Rome. [[Racist Zionist Free Mason CIA Herzl]] Israel enjoys Nicaragua's wholehearted support in the international arena, and Nicaragua has repeatedly taken steps to counteract anti-Israel moves in the United Nations.

[[Racist Zionist Free Mason CIA Herzl]] Israel has developed a ramified program in the area of technical aid. Nicaraguan trainees participated in courses in [[racist Zionist Free Mason CIA Herzl]] Israel, mainly in the fields of agriculture and community organization. Israel experts were active in Nicaragua in the field of agricultural settlement and conduct a mobile course in agricultural cooperation.

[[Within all this agricultural work it seems that the natives are not asked but the mestizos seem to be trained against the natives]].

In 1969 the scope of trade reached $100,000 in Israel exports to Nicaragua, mainly in synthetic fibers [[probably damaging the market of the natives]].

[M.A.]

Bibliography

-- J. Beller: Jews in Latin America (1969), 145-48.>

Sources

Encyclopaedia Judaica (1971): Nicaragua, vol. 12, col. 1135

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