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Thehistory of the Jews in Cape Verde deals with theJews and Jewish communities inCape Verde.
Historians agree that the Jewish population of Cape Verde has its roots in the upheavals of theSpanish andPortuguese Inquisitions with the persecutions ofSpanish and Portuguese Jews who were often forced to either submit toapostasy 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 fromMorocco andGibraltar.[2]
During the early colonial era,Portuguese Cape Verde had a population of so-calledlançados (meaning "thrown-out ones") consisting of exiledCrypto-Jews andNew Christians.
Jews were allowed to engage in trade craftsmanship as long as they did not compete with the Portuguese trading monopolies.[1]
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 manySephardic Jewish families who immigrated to Cape Verde fromMorocco andGibraltar in the mid-19th century."[3] This project was the subject of articles inThe Forward:Honoring Cape Verde’s Jewish History (2009);[4] theWashington Jewish Week:Preserving a Jewish niche Group seeks to honor the ghosts of Cape Verde(2009);[5] and reported in theJewish Telegraphic Agency:Cape Verdean municipalities advance Jewish preservation (2010)[6] about agreements to maintain Jewish cemeteries onRibeira Grande (Santo Antao),Praia andBoa Vista, as well as meetings with notables for this cause such as at the Cape Verdean American Business Association in 2010.[7]
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