History of the Jews in Cape Verde

Historians agree that the Jewish population of Cape Verde has its roots in the upheavals of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions with the persecutions of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who were often forced to either submit to apostasy or had to flee from their homelands, or both.

[1] A second influx of Jews arrived in Cape Verde in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from Morocco and Gibraltar.

[2] During the early colonial era, Portuguese Cape Verde had a population of so-called lançados (meaning "thrown-out ones") consisting of exiled Crypto-Jews and New Christians.

[1] An American-based organization "Cape Verde Jewish Heritage Project"[3] has been set up to restore the Jewish cemeteries and create an archive about Jewish ancestry of Cape Verde, and according to its president Carol Castiel its "goal is to honor the memory and explore the contributions of the many Sephardic Jewish families who immigrated to Cape Verde from Morocco and Gibraltar in the mid-19th century.

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