- The Jewish Community of Costa Rica - Kosher Market
The Jewish community of Costa Rica, while modest in size, has had a significant impact on the nation’s political, cultural, and economic landscape From its roots as a small immigrant population to its role as a thriving and integral part of Costa Rican society, the Jewish presence in this Central American nation continues to grow and flourish
- History of the Jews in Costa Rica - Wikipedia
The history of the Jews in Costa Rica dates back to the Spanish conquest with the arrival of many Sephardic converts known as Marranos who escaped from the Spanish Inquisition and settled mainly in the city of Cartago and its surroundings [1] They hid their Jewish past by all means, making even their descendants have no idea of it
- The Jewish Community in Costa Rica:
While one wave of Sephardic Jews lived in Costa Rica as Marranos in the 16th and 17th centuries and another as merchants in the 19th, the present Jewish community dates from before World War II and is primarily of Eastern European origin, nearly half from two villages in Poland
- Costa Rica Virtual Jewish History Tour
Anti-Semitism intensified after the April 1948 political revolution and culminated in the federal investigation of Jewish legal status and immigration permits, despite the Constitution of 1949, which guarenteed freedom of speech, assembly, and protection of citizens and residents of Costa Rica
- The Arrival of Jews to Costa Rica: A Rich Cultural Heritage
Historic studies agree that the first Polish Jews arrived in Costa Rica in 1929 And they kept arriving, little by little, in the following years, as Vilma Faingezicht, director of the museum of the Jewish Community of Costa Rica, explains
- Costa Rica - Jews were here
In recent years, a fourth wave of Jewish immigration has boosted the local population, largely composed of the growing number of expatriate American retirees who are moving to Costa Rica as well as a number of Israeli transplants settling here and starting businesses
- Community in Costa Rica - World Jewish Congress
In more recent years, the Jewish immigrant population has largely comprised expatriate American retirees and Israelis, which has helped bolster the overall Costa Rican Jewish population and diversify the expression of Jewish religious and cultural life in the country
- Costa RIcan Jewry: An Economic and Political Outline (Dialogue #29)
The evolution of the Jewish community in Costa Rica, primarily composed of Polish immigrants from the 1930s and 1940s, is examined within the socio-economic and political context of the nation
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