page_title: History of the Jews in Argentina
section_title: Historic Jewish colonies in Argentina
hierarchical_section_title: History of the Jews in Argentina / Historic Jewish colonies in Argentina
caption_attribution_description: The school of the Jewish colony of Moisés Ville in Argentina
context_page_description: The history of the Jews in Argentina goes back to the early sixteenth century, following the Jewish expulsion from Spain. Sephardi Jews fleeing persecution immigrated with explorers and colonists to settle in what is now Argentina. In addition, many of the Portuguese traders in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata were Jewish. An organized Jewish community, however, did not develop until after Argentina gained independence from Spain in 1816. By mid-century, Jews from France and other parts of Western Europe, fleeing the social and economic disruptions of revolutions, began to settle in Argentina.
  Reflecting the composition of the later immigration waves, the current Jewish population is 80% Ashkenazi; while Sephardi and Mizrahi are a minority. Argentina has the largest Jewish population of any country in Latin America, although numerous Jews left during the 1970s and 1980s to escape the repression of the military junta, emigrating to Israel, West Europe, and North America.
  The Jewish population in Argentina is the largest in Latin America, the third largest in the Americas, and the world's seventh largest outside Israel.
context_section_description: Buenos Aires Province
  Carlos Casares
  Colonia Lapin
  Mauricio Hirsch
  Delfin Huergo
  Moctezuma
  Rivera
  Smith
  Entre Ríos Province
  Colonia Avigdor
  Basavilbaso (Lucienville)
  Bovril
  Carmel
  Clara
  Cohen
  General Campos
  Ingeniero Sajaroff
  La Clarita
  Pedernal
  Pueblo Arrua
  San Gregorio (Colonia Sonnenfeld)
  San Salvador
  Santa Isabel
  Ubajay
  Villa Dominguez
  Villaguay
  Wulfshon
  Santa Fe Province
  Capivara
  Ceres
  Las Palmeras
  Palacios
  Moisés Ville
  Virginia
  La Pampa Province
  Bernasconi
  General Acha
  Rolon
  Santiago del Estero Province
  Colonia Dora
caption: A Jewish school in Moisés Ville, Santa Fe.
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