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Over the colonial period, a number came to Mexico despite Mexican Inquisition persecutions in the late 16th and mid 17th centuries. However, most Conversos eventually assimilated into Mexican society with no immigration of practicing Jews allowed into the country until the 19th century. Religious freedom was established in the second half of that century and around that time, Jews began immigrating to Mexico from Europe and later from the crumbling Ottoman Empire and what is now Syria continuing into the first half of the 20th century.1Today, most Jews in Mexico are descendants of this immigration and still divided by ethnic origin, principally Yiddish -speaking Ashkenazim and Ladino -speaking Sephardim . It is an insular community with its own religious, social and cultural institutions, mostly in Guadalajara and Mexico City . However, since the 1880s, there have been efforts to identify descendants of colonial era Conversos both in Mexico and the Southwestern United States, generally to return them to Judaism.2However, this effort is controversial.3
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Ethnic group Jews have lived in Mexico since the times of the Inquisition . Today the community numbers over 50,000, concentrated primarily in Mexico City . Other communities are found in the state of Jalisco , mainly in Guadalajara and surrounding cities, and in Monterrey , Veracruz , Culiacán , and Tijuana .
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The history of the Jews in Mexico can be said to have begun in 1519 with the arrival of Conversos , often called Marranos or “ Crypto-Jews ,” referring to those Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism and that then became subject to the Spanish Inquisition .Over the colonial period (1521-1821), a number came to Mexico especially during the period of the Iberian Union (1580-1640), when Spain and Portugal were ruled by the same monarch.That political circumstance allowed freer movement by Portuguese crypto-Jewish merchants into Spanish America.When the Portuguese regained their independence from Spain in 1640, Portuguese merchants in New Spain were prosecuted by the Mexican Inquisition .When the monopoly of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico was replaced with religious toleration during the nineteenth-century Liberal reform , Jews could openly immigrate to Mexico.They came from Europe and later from the crumbling Ottoman Empire , including Syria , until the first half of the 20th century.Today, most Jews in Mexico are descendants of this immigration and still divided by diasporic origin, principally Yiddish -speaking Ashkenazim and Judaeo-Spanish -speaking Sephardim . It is an insular community with its own religious, social and cultural institutions, mostly in Guadalajara and Mexico City . However, since the 1880s, there have been efforts to identify descendants of colonial era Conversos both in Mexico and the Southwestern United States, generally to return them to Judaism.
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The history of the Jews in Mexico began in 1519 with the arrival of Conversos , often called Marranos or " Crypto-Jews ", referring to those Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism and that then became subject to the Spanish Inquisition . During the period of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (1521–1821), a number of Jews came to Mexico, especially during the period of the Iberian Union (1580–1640), when Spain and Portugal were ruled by the same monarch. That political circumstance allowed freer movement by Portuguese crypto-Jewish merchants into Spanish America. When the Portuguese regained their independence from Spain in 1640, Portuguese merchants in New Spain were prosecuted by the Mexican Inquisition . When the monopoly of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico was replaced with religious toleration during the nineteenth-century Liberal reform , Jews could openly immigrate to Mexico. They came from Europe and later from the crumbling Ottoman Empire , including Syria , until the first half of the 20th century. Today, most Jews in Mexico are descendants of this immigration and still divided by diasporic origin, principally Yiddish -speaking Ashkenazim and Judaeo-Spanish -speaking Sephardim . It is an insular community with its own religious, social and cultural institutions, mostly in Mexico City , Monterrey and Guadalajara . However, since the 1880s, there have been efforts to identify descendants of colonial era Conversos both in Mexico and the Southwestern United States, generally to return them to Judaism.
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The history of the Jews in Mexico began in 1519 with the arrival of Conversos , often called Marranos or " Crypto-Jews ", referring to those Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism and that then became subject to the Spanish Inquisition . During the period of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (1521–1821), a number of Jews came to Mexico, especially during the period of the Iberian Union (1580–1640), when Spain and Portugal were ruled by the same monarch. That political circumstance allowed freer movement by Portuguese crypto-Jewish merchants into Spanish America. When the Portuguese regained their independence from Spain in 1640, Portuguese merchants in New Spain were prosecuted by the Mexican Inquisition . When the monopoly of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico was replaced with religious toleration during the nineteenth-century Liberal reform , Jews could openly immigrate to Mexico. They came from Europe and later from the crumbling Ottoman Empire , including Syria , until the first half of the 20th century.
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“colonial” now appears 11× under Further reading, 92% of the way down the article
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Post immigration period1,730 characters
Jewish settlements of Mexico City1,105 characters
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