Ƙwararrun Yahudawa ba za su iya garkuwa tsibirin a lokacin Idin Ƙetarewa da kuma Hanukkah kamar Kiristoci a lokacin Easter da Kirsimati ba , amma Yahudawa suna son hutu a Caribbean kamar kowa - kuma sun kasance wani ɓangare na tarihin Caribbean tun lokacin da suka fara bincike na Turai da kuma sulhu. Ƙungiyoyin Yahudawa na Sephardic da suka dawo fiye da ƙarni uku har yanzu ana iya samuwa a cikin Caribbean, wanda kuma shi ne gidan mafi tsohuwar majami'a a Amirka.
Tarihin Yahudawa na Caribbean
Inquisition ya kori Yahudawa daga Spain da Portugal a karni na 15, kuma al'ummomin da suka fito daga baya sun ga mutane da yawa suna neman mafaka a kasashen da suka fi dacewa, kamar Holland. Yawan Yahudawa Holland sun zauna a ƙasashen Holland na Caribbean, musamman Curacao . Willemstad, babban birnin Curacao, yana gida ne ga Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue, wanda aka gina a shekarar 1674 da kuma babban batu a cikin gari na birnin. Ginin yanzu yana daga 1730, Curacao har yanzu yana da ƙungiyar Yahudawa masu aiki da al'adun gargajiya na Yahudawa da kuma hurumi na tarihi.
St. Eustatius , ƙananan tsibirin Holland, har yanzu yana da yawan Yahudawa: yawan rushewar tsohuwar majami'ar Honen Dalim (kimanin 1739) wani shahararrun masarufi ne. Alexander Hamilton, wanda aka haife shi a tsibirin kuma daga bisani daga cikin ubannin da aka kafa a Amurka, yana da dangantaka mai ƙarfi ga al'ummar Yahudiya ta tsibirin, suna yin jita-jita cewa shi Bayahude ne.
A wasu wurare a cikin Caribbean, 'yan kasuwa na Yahudawa sun ƙarfafa su daga Birtaniya don su zauna a mazauna kamar Barbados , Jamaica , Suriname, da kuma mallakar mallakar tsibirin Leeward. Suriname ya zama abin ƙyama ga Yahudawa da mutanen Portugal suka fitar da su a kasar Brazil, suka rabu da su domin Birtaniya sun ba su cikakken zama 'yan ƙasa a cikin daular a matsayin mazauna.
Barbados har yanzu yana cikin gidan kabari na tarihi na Yahudawa - wanda ake tsammani ya zama mafi tsufa a cikin kogin - da kuma ginin ginin na karni na 17 wanda ya kasance a cikin majami'ar tsibirin kuma yau a ɗakin karatu. Majami'ar Nidhei ta Jama'ar Jamaica a Jamaica tana tsammanin ita ce majami'ar da ta fi tsohuwar majami'a ta Tsakiya ta Yamma, ta tsarkake a shekara ta 1654.
Yahudawa sun zauna a Faransa da Martinique da kuma St. Thomas da St. Croix , a yanzu suna cikin Amurka amma a farkon lokacin Denmark ta zauna. Akwai majalisa a majami'a (kusan 1833) a babban birnin St. Thomas na Charlotte Amalie. Masu ziyara za su lura da sandun sandan yanzu: wannan ba girmamawa ba ne ga tsibirin tsibirin, amma a matsayin mai rikewa daga Inquisition, lokacin da Yahudawa sun hadu a ɓoye kuma an yi amfani da yashi don murkushe sauti.
Har ila yau, akwai majami'un uku a Havana, Kyuba , wadda ta kasance gida ga Yahudawa 15,000 (mafi yawan sun gudu lokacin mulkin rikon kwarya na Castro na karni a 1950). Mutane da yawa har yanzu suna zaune a babban birnin kasar Cuban. Ga wasu abubuwan tarihi masu ban sha'awa: Francisco Hilario Henríquez y Carvajal, Yahudu, a takaice ya zama shugaban Jamhuriyar Dominica, yayin da Freddy Prinz da Geraldo Riviera sun kasance daga cikin manyan Yahudawa da yawa daga Puerto Rico don sun taso.
Masu hijira na farko na Yahudawa sun kasance suna da hannu cikin samar da mafi yawancin Caribbean da ruhohi, jita-jita, suna ba da ilimin noma don aiki a cikin New World. John Nunes, wani Bayahude ne daga Jamaica, yana daga cikin mawallafin Bacardi a Cuban, yayin da Storm Portner ya kasance daya daga cikin masu samar da sukari na farko a Haiti.
Duk da yake yawancin Yahudawa a yawancin tsibirin Caribbean sun ki yarda daga matakan tarihi, al'ummomin Yahudawa sun karu a yankunan Amurka na Puerto Rico da St. Thomas a cikin tsibirin Virgin Islands - ciki harda da yawa daga cikin dashi daga yankin.
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