The Jewish Community of El Salvador

 

La Libertad, El Salvador
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You may wonder. A research blog on the Jewish Community of El Salvador? Indeed.

The following pages and archives feature excerpts and photographs from the 60-family community based in San Salvador. I also include a significant amount of interviews from those who used to call El Salvador home but now, due to the Salvadoran Civil War or other family concerns, live in locales such as Israel, the United States, Europe, and other Latin American countries.

Each week a different individual is featured and one must scroll down in order to read the story from the beginning (the latest entries are found at the top of each page). To search for a family name, simply enter your query at the top left of the blog and the archives will perhaps surprise you.

I began working on this blog in August 2005 and I welcome you to start at the beginning, in the middle, or maybe just today's entry. As always, I encourage dialogue and welcome your comments, suggestions, constructive criticism, feedback, wisdom, and concern. This is an interactive format where community members or those simply interested can discuss the realities facing every day life as a Jew in El Salvador.

No matter where you begin reading, you will be amazed by the stories of these phenomenal individuals who together make this tiny Central American nation their home.