South American countries have been receiving the bulk of Jewish immigration from Europe since the closing of the doors to the United States, it is revealed in statistics made public to-day by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of America (Hias).
In the course of the last three years, the Argentine has received a total of 26,187 Jewish immigrants, most of whom came from Poland. Some 50,000 Jewish immigrants, excluding those who came to the United States of America, settled in other South and Central European countries such as Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Cuba. Jewish immigration, the report says, has been encouraged in Argentine, Brazil and Chile, so much so that during the past year, while general immigration to these countries has decreased, the number of Jewish settlers has increased.
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