Jewish Community In Bolivia
The history of the Jews in Bolivia stretches from the colonial period of Bolivia in the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. In the 19th century, Jewish merchants (both Sephardim Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), pt, Judeus sefa ... and Ashkenazim) came to Bolivia, most of them taking local women as wives and founding families that merged into the mainstream Catholic society. This was often the case in the eastern regions of Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni Department, Beni and Pando Department, Pando, where these merchants came either from Brazil or Argentina. In the colonial period, marranos from Spain settled in the country. Some worked in the silver mines in Potosí Department, Potosi and others were among the pioneers that helped found Santa Cruz de la Sierra in 1557. A few c ...
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