Bogota

Colombia's capital community - Sephardic-origin memories (Barranquilla crypto-Jewish claims, tradition) and a modern organized kehilla.

Modern locality anchor

Bogota

Colombia · City · 4.7°N 74.1°W

This anchor orients the sourced locality record. It is not a reconstructed historical position or border; the single map below provides geographic context.

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Where is Bogota?

Land geometry: Natural Earth 1:50m via world-atlas. Pins mark modern localities or representative regional anchors stored on Atlas place records, not historical borders and not reconstructed positions. · Sources & methods

THE COMMUNITY TIMELINE · EVERY NODE DATED

What happened to the Jewish community of Bogota?

This section addresses destruction and loss. It is one chapter, not the whole story — continue to what survives and what was created after

1930–1945

Modern founding (1930s-40s)

1945–present

Contemporary community

Today

Small organized community.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did Bogota sound like?

Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit)

AFTER · IN FULL COLOR

What survives today?

In Bogota

Small organized community.

Sinagoga Ashkenazi de Bogota
synagogue · public landmark

SOURCES & REVIEW

Vital Statistics: Jewish Population of the World (2024 country figures)
Jewish Virtual Library · 2024 · open source

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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