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The history of the Jews in the Dominican Republic goes back to the 1400s. The Sephardic Jews that were exiled from Spain and the Mediterranean area in 1492 and 1497,[1] coupled with other migrations dating from the 1700s[2] and during World War II[3] contributed to Dominican ancestry.[4][5]
The number of known Jews (or those with proof of Jewish ancestry and/or who practiced Jewish customs/religion throughout generations) are close to 8,000; the exact number of Dominicans with Jewish lineages aren't known, however, because of intermarriage between the Jewish Dominicans and other Dominicans over a period of more than five centuries.
- ^ "The Exile of the Jews due to the Spanish Inquisition". Retrieved 2013-05-15.
- ^ "Jews migration in the 1700s". Retrieved 2013-05-15.
- ^ "Jews migration to the Dominican Republic to seek refuge from the Holocaust". Retrieved 2013-05-15.
- ^ "A partial, brief summary of Jews in the Dominican Republic". Archived from the original on 2013-06-26. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
- ^ "Dominican Republic-Jews". Archived from the original on 2013-10-01. Retrieved 2013-05-15.