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The
history of the Jews in Cape Verde
deals with the
Jews
and Jewish communities in
Cape Verde
.
Origins
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Historians agree that the Jewish population of Cape Verde has its roots in the upheavals of the
Spanish
and
Portuguese Inquisitions
with the persecutions of
Spanish and Portuguese Jews
who were often forced to either submit to
apostasy
or had to flee from their homelands, or both.
[1]
A second influx of Jews arrived in Cape Verde in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from
Morocco
and
Gibraltar
.
[2]
During the early colonial era,
Portuguese Cape Verde
had a population of so-called
lancados
(meaning "thrown-out ones") consisting of exiled
Crypto-Jews
and
New Christians
.
Occupations
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Jews were allowed to engage in trade craftsmanship as long as they did not compete with the Portuguese trading monopolies.
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Present
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An American-based organization “Cape Verde Jewish Heritage Project”
[3]
has been set up to restore the Jewish cemeteries and create an archive about Jewish ancestry of Cape Verde, and according to its president Carol Castiel its "goal is to honor the memory and explore the contributions of the many
Sephardic
Jewish families who immigrated to Cape Verde from
Morocco
and
Gibraltar
in the mid-19th century."
[3]
This project was the subject of articles in
The Forward
:
Honoring Cape Verde’s Jewish History
(2009);
[4]
the
Washington Jewish Week
:
Preserving a Jewish niche Group seeks to honor the ghosts of Cape Verde
(2009);
[5]
and reported in the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
:
Cape Verdean municipalities advance Jewish preservation
(2010)
[6]
about agreements to maintain Jewish cemeteries on
Ribeira Grande
(Santo Antao),
Praia
and
Boa Vista
, as well as meetings with notables for this cause such as at the Cape Verdean American Business Association in 2010.
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See also
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