The Spanish Jewish community, consisting of only a handful of Jews a quarter of a century ago, has grown to more than 6,000 today, according to Samuel Toledano, head of the department of international Jewish organizations of the Council of Jewish Communities of Spain. He described the situation of Spanish Jewry today in a report to the American section of the World Jewish Congress here.
Mr. Toledano said the rise in the community’s size came about because of the influx of Nazi victims 20 years ago, and a more recent influx of Moroccan Jews, who now constitute 70 percent of the community.
While he stressed that the Jewish community in Spain had few internal problems, he mentioned that the Spanish Jews had noticed an increase in the quantity of hate literature being distributed in the country. The community, he said, hoped to put a stop to the distribution of the anti-Semitic literature by legal means.
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