Lima

Small Andean community - 1870s Alsatian founders, 1930s German refugees, and a notable Amazonian-convert history (Iquitos, 19th c. - documented).

Modern locality anchor

Lima

Peru · City · 12.1°S 77.0°W

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Where is Lima?

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 Lima?

1870–1938

1870s founding (Sociedad de Beneficencia Israelita)

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

1938–1945

Refugee era

1945–present

Contemporary small community

Today

Small organized community.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did Lima sound like?

Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit)

AFTER · IN FULL COLOR

What survives today?

In Lima

Small organized community.

Sinagoga 1870
synagogue · public landmark

SOURCES & REVIEW

Vital Statistics: Jewish Population of the World (2024 country figures)
Jewish Virtual Library · 2024 · open source
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. (place entry)
Macmillan Reference USA · 2007

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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