Mexico has had a Jewish population since the early
Colonial Era. However, these early individuals could not openly worship as they were persecuted by the
Spanish Inquisition for practicing
Judaism. After achieving independence, Mexico eventually adopted
freedom of religion and began receiving Jewish immigrants, many of them refugees. The book Estudio histórico de la migración judía a México 1900-1950 has records of almost 18,300 who emigrated to Mexico between 1900 and 1950. Most (7,023) were
Ashkenazi Jews whose ancestors had settled in Eastern Europe, mainly
Poland. A further 2,640 Jews arrived from either
Spain or the
Ottoman Empire and 1,619 came from
Cuba and the
United States.
The 2010 Census recorded 67,476 individuals professing Judaism,[1] most of whom live in
Mexico City.[1]
The following is a list of notable past and present Mexican Jews (not all with both parents Jewish, nor all practising Judaism), arranged by their main field of activity:
Jose Luis Seligson Visual Artist
Gabriela Brimmer, writer and activist for persons with disabilities
Jorge Castañeda Gutman, politician and academic who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs; also known for losing a Supreme Court ruling that would have allowed him to run as an Independent in the 2006 Presidential race
^100 year of Jewish immigrationArchived 2005-12-10 at the
Wayback Machine "The exhibit has photos of many members of the community who have become well known for their artistic or cultural contributions.
Wolf Ruvinskis was a famous wrestler in the 1950s.... Jacobo Zabludovsky is a household name, having been a prominent news anchor for decades both in television and radio."
^Kerstin Jones.
"Anita Brenner". ic.arizona.edu. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
^
abInvenciones multitudinarias: escritoras judíomexicanas contemporáneasArchived 2006-04-26 at the
Wayback Machine "Guadalupe Cortina’s study of Mexican Jewish women writers features general introductions to four writers and textural analyses of their work. The writers are Margo Glantz, Ethel Krauze, Sara Levi Calderón, and, more briefly discussed than the previous three, Sara Sefchovich. "
^"Marcos Moshinsky :: Background". Archived from
the original on March 21, 2006. Moshinsky belongs to a family of Jewish emigrants from the Ukraine ... He has lived in Mexico, where he received his entire elementary and higher education and has spent almost all his professional life, from the age of three
^Hordes, Stanley M. To the ends of the earth: A history of the crypto-Jews in New Mexico
^Farias, George. The Farias chronicles: a history and genealogy of a Portuguese/Spanish family.
Mexico has had a Jewish population since the early
Colonial Era. However, these early individuals could not openly worship as they were persecuted by the
Spanish Inquisition for practicing
Judaism. After achieving independence, Mexico eventually adopted
freedom of religion and began receiving Jewish immigrants, many of them refugees. The book Estudio histórico de la migración judía a México 1900-1950 has records of almost 18,300 who emigrated to Mexico between 1900 and 1950. Most (7,023) were
Ashkenazi Jews whose ancestors had settled in Eastern Europe, mainly
Poland. A further 2,640 Jews arrived from either
Spain or the
Ottoman Empire and 1,619 came from
Cuba and the
United States.
The 2010 Census recorded 67,476 individuals professing Judaism,[1] most of whom live in
Mexico City.[1]
The following is a list of notable past and present Mexican Jews (not all with both parents Jewish, nor all practising Judaism), arranged by their main field of activity:
Jose Luis Seligson Visual Artist
Gabriela Brimmer, writer and activist for persons with disabilities
Jorge Castañeda Gutman, politician and academic who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs; also known for losing a Supreme Court ruling that would have allowed him to run as an Independent in the 2006 Presidential race
^100 year of Jewish immigrationArchived 2005-12-10 at the
Wayback Machine "The exhibit has photos of many members of the community who have become well known for their artistic or cultural contributions.
Wolf Ruvinskis was a famous wrestler in the 1950s.... Jacobo Zabludovsky is a household name, having been a prominent news anchor for decades both in television and radio."
^Kerstin Jones.
"Anita Brenner". ic.arizona.edu. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
^
abInvenciones multitudinarias: escritoras judíomexicanas contemporáneasArchived 2006-04-26 at the
Wayback Machine "Guadalupe Cortina’s study of Mexican Jewish women writers features general introductions to four writers and textural analyses of their work. The writers are Margo Glantz, Ethel Krauze, Sara Levi Calderón, and, more briefly discussed than the previous three, Sara Sefchovich. "
^"Marcos Moshinsky :: Background". Archived from
the original on March 21, 2006. Moshinsky belongs to a family of Jewish emigrants from the Ukraine ... He has lived in Mexico, where he received his entire elementary and higher education and has spent almost all his professional life, from the age of three
^Hordes, Stanley M. To the ends of the earth: A history of the crypto-Jews in New Mexico
^Farias, George. The Farias chronicles: a history and genealogy of a Portuguese/Spanish family.