America's first Jewish community was established by Iberian Jews from a Spanish/Portuguese context & North African Jews from within Italian contexts which had migrated to Brazil, constructing the first synagogue in all of the Americas. The entirety of the community was kicked out of Latin America during a Roman Catholic pogrom, and found a home in what was then Dutch settlements in North America. America's first Ashkenazic Jewish community arrived in the early 1800s, through Castle Garden and later on through Ellis Isle. They left due to the era of Revolutions and Pogroms throughout Europe in general between the Napoleonic era and the middle 1800s. Obviously the majority of American Jews have arrived a latter date, particularly the more recent diaspora which is a direct result of the Holocaust, as well as modern Jewish immigrants from modern Nations.
America's first Jewish community was established by Iberian Jews from a Spanish/Portuguese context & North African Jews from within Italian contexts which had migrated to Brazil, constructing the first synagogue in all of the Americas.
The entirety of the community was kicked out of Latin America during a Roman Catholic pogrom, and found a home in what was then Dutch settlements in North America.
America's first Ashkenazic Jewish community arrived in the early 1800s, through Castle Garden and later on through Ellis Isle. They left due to the era of Revolutions and Pogroms throughout Europe in general between the Napoleonic era and the middle 1800s.
Obviously the majority of American Jews have arrived a latter date, particularly the more recent diaspora which is a direct result of the Holocaust, as well as modern Jewish immigrants from modern Nations.