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The Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century with the arrival of the anusim (variously called conversos, Crypto-Jews, Secret Jews or marranos) who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage. An open Jewish community did not flourish in the colony because Judaism was prohibited by the Spanish Inquisition. However, many migrated to mountainous parts of the island, far from the central power of San Juan, and continued to self-identify as Jews and practice Crypto-Judaism.
It would be hundreds of years before an open Jewish community was established on the island. Very few American Jews settled in Puerto Rico after it was ceded by Spain to the United States under the terms of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War.
The first large group of Jews to settle in Puerto Rico were refugees fleeing German-occupied Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. The second influx came in the 1950s, when thousands of Cuban Jews (most of Eastern-European descent) fled after Fidel Castro came to power. The majority immigrated to Miami, Florida, but a sizable portion chose to establish and integrate themselves on the neighboring island because of Puerto Rico's cultural, linguistic, racial, and historic similarities to Cuba.
Puerto Rican Jews have made many contributions in multiple fields, including business, commerce, education, and entertainment. Puerto Rico has the largest and richest Jewish community in the Caribbean, with over 3,000 Jewish inhabitants. It is also the only Caribbean island in which all three major Jewish denominations-Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform-are represented.

[@cielarko6210]

My family came from Toledo, Spain and settled in the mountain towns of Utuado and Jayuya. They were nominally Catholics celebrating baptisms and weddings in the Church and they ate pork but kept a few traditions like kissing the bread and not throwing it in the trash, good education, naming grandchildren after grandparents (never naming children after a parent), the name Esther was very common, pointing directly at stars was a taboo. I discovered that I was Jewish at age 13 when my grandparents told me that it was time for me to know that we were Jews from Jerusalem.

[@David-re4ij]

I'm in awe of your story. I have hundreds of matches on ancestry that are Puerto Rican with surnames like Vazquez, Colón, Ramos, Delgado, Leon, Flores, Sosa, Mendoza, etc. that says we are 5-8th cousins

[@cielarko6210]

@@David-re4ij Do you have the necessary documentation to make Aliyah? A ketubah, Jewish death certificate from a grandparent? I certainly didn't. But my story gets better I went to Israel to the Sephardi town of Tzfat and there they gave me a ghiur bchumrah. So there are two ways a person is Jewish: 1) matrilineally 2) by conversion. Conversion to Judaism requires, among other things reciting a bracha (a blessing) before immersion in a mikvheh. But a Jew is forbidden to pronounce the name of G-d in vain. So because I was in a "safek" (a halachic doubt) I couldn't participate in a minyan (just in case I wasn't born Jewish) but I also couldn't convert normally saying the full blessing (just in case I was born Jewish) before immersion in a mikveh. The solution? A donor! I had to wait for a convert. The convert said one blessing both for himself and for me. I answered "amen" and then we both immersed in the mikveh. That's how I got a proper ghiur by the Beit Din of Israel. I live now in Israel. And if you're Jewish you have to come back home because the ingathering of the exiles is a real thing and you don't have to be a saint to partake in it. Just come as you are.

[@David-re4ij]

@@cielarko6210 wow i was not expecting this. That's inspiring. I have Sephardic Jewish ancestry from Cataluña, and all four of my grandparents are jewish, so I am very qualified for this but it's not something I want to do

[@cielarko6210]

@@David-re4ij have you ever visited Israel? If not, you should come on birthright Israel.

[@cielarko6210]

@@David-re4ij ¿Hablas español? ¿Vives en Puerto Rico? Habla con rabino Zarchi Mendel de Chabad. O con D. Mendelbaum del JCC. Ellos te pueden ayudar a poner todo en orden. Al menos haz algo pequeño con ellos y asegúrate de que te entierren en un cementerio judío en Puerto Rico en caso de accidente.

[@emmasanchezsoto2474]

Thank you great information, I learned Hebrew by listening to songs. Hava Nagila!!!

[@onewotldgovernmentonlywhen9044]

I’am Jewish Puerto Rican as well.

[@ericlopez180]

I have Jewish in My DNA but somehow I'm a bad businessman

[@rubenocasio9188]

So you guys don't believe in Jesus under the Catholic rule in a Spanish Latin country as Puerto Rico??

[@SixHundredandThirteen]

@@ericlopez180 I'ma Dominican jew

[@Hisloyalservantslistenlove613c]

@@rubenocasio9188 Jesus is Jewish

[@rubenocasio9188]

@@Hisloyalservantslistenlove613c I hear you my guy What I'm saying He's from the bloodline of slaves that were delivered through Moses called Hebrews Who were promised their own land which is called Israel..through the bloodline of Abraham and Jacob.. Checkit out Israel is a Nation that was promise to the Hebrews and became a Nation of the 12 tribes and all tribes are considered Jews So Christ Nationality is a Israelite Jewish citizen with Hebrew blood If you didn't know the nation of Israel were captives of other nations even after there establishment..is why there's a big debate of what is a real Jew!

[@haydeeperez2223]

Gracias por la imformaciom me gusta mucho saber sobre mi Isla. PR.

[@somospewriquenos]

Marranos change to Marrero one of the biggest families tru the island of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico and south USA. Right now I live in San German

[@mariamarrero6319]

I have my dad's last name which is Marrero and I was born in Puerto Rico

[@maritzasantos8653]

🇵🇷❤️SHALOM 🇮🇱HERMANO DIOS LO CONTINUÉ BENDICIENDO GRANDEMENTE AMÉN GRACIAS Y BENDICIÓN

[@randee4550]

Been looking for info on this

[@JoseMendez-ly3ff]

Even the Puerto Rican vernacular sounds like Hebrew, especially their double R.Also many of our last names.

[@emmasanchezsoto2474]

RUIZ THEY LIVE IN MOUNTINOUS AREA, FACIAL FEATURES, WHITE LONG NOSE, DON'T EAT PORK. DECENTES STILL HERE. GRANDAUGHTERS LIGHT SKIN AND LESRN TO SING KADOSH. BEAUTIFUL INNER SPIRITUAL TO WORSHIP ONLY ONE God Adoni.

[@samuelbenitez4687]

I AM A JEW WHO'S PARENTS SETTLED IN PUERTO RICO BUT MOSTLY OF MEXICAN DECENT, COLOMBIAN.

[@rubenocasio9188]

Damn you're all messed up!!

[@aleant9227]

I’m trying to find out more information as well. Found out my grandmothers maiden name was Goldberg. But don’t have much information. I want to track this somehow.

[@taniavega2447]

I did a DNA test and found out i am of Jewish descent.

[@NeoNitty]

Respectfully...history calls them jews but they’re converts, from Germany and of Eastern European descent, as stated. The actual Ju, from the lineage of Jacob, arrived on the island through the slave ships, from West Africa. Not to mention, the aboriginal people already occupying the island,before Spanish conquest...were their brothers, too. I love my people, although we’re truly a speckled bird.

[@tagbarzeev3571]

Neo your wrong and where is the peer reviewed resources to prove what you state.

[@benny43374]

Thats Right !!!! IUIC bringing out the truth to the 4 corners of the earth . Check out IUIC EVENTS SHOUT OUT TUESDAY for true biblical and Isrealite history . Everything has been whited out thru history .

[@Follower_of_Yahusha]

@@tagbarzeev3571 there’s plenty of information. European Jews are converts. Not by blood at all

[@tagbarzeev3571]

Post diaspora of 70 a d. jews in Rome married southern Italian women who had converted to Judaism. ( read Halacha conversion to Judaism) they slowly more to Germany which they called Ashkenaz just as the Jews of Spain used Sefard for Spain. Wouldn't it be interesting if there were two brothers one moved to Spain Sefard and one to Germany Ashkenaz .The Jews of Ashkenaz spoke Yiddish which is Middle high German with loan words from Hebrew Aramaic and Slavic and Sefard jews spoke ladino many Ashkenazi Jews ended up in Poland and the Pale of Settlement the inquisition sent sephardic jews to the Ottoman empire, North Africa some children were sent to Sao tome many died there One group of sephardic went Brazil but were forced to leave and some ended up in New Amsterdam when New Amsterdam became New York. My wife is sephardic her grandparents came from Kastoria,Greece and my grandparents came from the Pale of Settlement and spoke Yiddish and yes we were scattered to the four corners of the earth.

[@tagbarzeev3571]

If you referring to Sephardic Jews they were not black and here is a list of Sephardic Jews Don Issac Abravanel b.1437 d.1508 Maimonides Judah Touro Judah P Benjaim Hayam Solomon Hank Azaria Neil Sedaka and Don Isaac Abravanel has direct decendent living today in Brazil his name is Silvio Santos and he has a family....SMH

[@SixHundredandThirteen]

I'm a Dominican jew 300 families left on the island and 40 families left in my province

[@josearce3233]

sorry but the grito de lares was done by the united State of America is was not spain why are you telling our story wrong get your fact before you go talking about our history we know the history

[@MuneMun-fm3qz]

Thats true whats he said in

[@quranreader7616]

yes nice

[@emmasanchezsoto2474]

Ruiz?

[@Nwrx]

Crab weed planted ...like the cats crawl vine ,it suffices the tree it grqsp

[@celtiberian07]

My dad was a cuban jew my wife is puerto Rican dont think she has any jewish roots Belgium, spanish, african , native ,but dont think she has any jewish roots

[@samuelrivera4362]

Is there Jewish influence among Puerto Ricans? The ignorance among both white and African-American citizens about who the so-called "Puerto Ricans" are should not be surprising, when even the islanders themselves DO NOT know who they are and what ethnic influences created them. The reality is that there are families of Jewish/Marrano or Sephardic origin, things that even my Rivera, Mattos, Rodrigues and Delgado Families ignore

[@ManuelPinner]

I Knewn It! This is Why Meny of Us Puerto Ricans have Names with Jewish Origin, Like My Name, Manuel, here is others Names like Jose, John, Israel, Cruz many conversals were named with the last name Cruz, I Support Israel,🇺🇲🇮🇱🇵🇷

[@Nwrx]

Just cuz u contribute dint mean u belong

[@er5650]

Seriously

[@user-yr9qs2wn5l]

My DNA says I am 2% Jewish now I know

[@dragontiger6923]

Miami Born , HOW ????? I’ve fought SIDE BY SIDE with Puerto Rican’s ! HOW .... When they invaded DR WE fought ! When they invaded PR .. What the f happened .... YOU HELD THE WORLD WITH THE BRONX ..... HOW !!!!

[@rubenocasio9188]

@Jd Bn crazy Puerto Ricans Dominican Bronx????!lol

[@BENITOABDULAXISPROPHECY]

benito lozada diaz,soy muslim

[@carloslopez1582]

A lot of Jewish bloodlines in the Caribbean. Fidel Castro was of Jewish ancestry. ( were the chosen people ) 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇱.

[@carloslopez1582]

@Plus Ultra Google research it.

[@carloslopez1582]

@Plus Ultra thanks for the info.

[@rubenocasio9188]

Chosen communist!!!!

[@merccadoosis8847]

@𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐳 You are correct re the name Castro as it does appear in sephardim website which features the complete roster of _Judios_ that were persecuted by the Inquisition. However, the Bible does not restrict "Chosen" to just Jews. All 12 Israelite tribes were included among them. In the New Testament all who accept Jesus as Messiah are now included as well. Ephesians Ch 2,3 and Galatians 3. Oh by the way, the shatkona (commonly known as the Star of David) is NOT Hebrew. It is pagan and was created by the same people who created the swastika. Please use the Menorah as that is Hebrew as shown in Exodus (25:31-40).

[@JR-ez3zd]

It was prohibited by The Roman Catholic Church!!! Not by Christians!

[@lizam1062]

Los católicos somos cristianos, los primeros cristianos

[@JohnEarlStar]

They don't even want Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico

[@danielalvarez4096]

God bless Israel ✡️🇮🇱🇵🇷