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The first Jews known to have reached the island of Hispaniola were Spanish. When the island was divided by the French and the Spanish, most Jews settled on the Spanish side which would later become the Dominican Republic. Eventually, Sephardim from other countries also arrived. In the 19th century Jews from Curaçao settled in Hispaniola, although they did not form a strong community. Most of them hid their Jewish identities or were unaffiliated with Jewish tradition by that time. Among their descendants were Dominican President Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal〔() Biography of Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal (in Spanish)〕 and his issue Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Max Henríquez Ureña, and Camila Henríquez Ureña. The Dominican Republic was one of the very few countries willing to accept mass Jewish immigration during World War II. At the Évian Conference, it offered to accept up to 100,000 Jewish refugees.〔 () Holocaust Encyclopedia Website 〕 The DORSA (Dominican Republic Settlement Association) was formed with the assistance of the JDC, and helped settle Jews in Sosúa, on the northern coast. About 700 European Jews of Ashkenazi Jewish descent reached the settlement where each family received of land, 10 cows (plus 2 additional cows per children), a mule and a horse, and a US$10,000 loan (about at prices) at 1% interest.〔https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sosua.html〕 Other refugees settled in the capital, Santo Domingo. In 1943 the number of known Jews in the Dominican Republic peaked at 1000. The Sosúa’s Jewish community experienced a deep decline in the 1980s due to emigration during the touristic boom of Sosúa when most Jews sold their land to developers at exorbitant prices. The oldest Jewish grave is dated to 1826. == History == The Sephardic Jews that were exiled from Spain and the Mediterranean area in 1492 and 1497,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Exile of the Jews due to the Spanish Inquisition )〕 coupled with other migrations dating from the 1700s〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jews migration in the 1700's )〕 and during the second world war 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jews migration to the Dominican Republic to seek refuge from the Holocaust )〕 contribute to Dominican ancestry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A partial, brief summary of Jews in the Dominican Republic )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dominican Republic-Jews )〕 Some of the Sephardic Jews still presently reside in Sosúa while others are dispersed throughout the country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Municipal Map of the Dominican Republic showing the Historical Ancestry )〕 The amount of known Jews (or those with genetic proof of Jewish ancestry and/or practiced Jewish customs/religion throughout generations) are close to 3,000; the exact number of Dominicans with Jewish lineages aren't known, however, because of intermarriage between the Jews and Dominicans over a period of more than five centuries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Jews in the Dominican Republic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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