However, these early individuals could not openly worship as they were persecuted by the Spanish Inquisition for practicing Judaism.
After achieving independence, Mexico eventually adopted freedom of religion and began receiving Jewish immigrants, many of them refugees.
The book Estudio histórico de la migración judía a México 1900–1950 has records of almost 18,300 who emigrated to Mexico between 1900 and 1950.
The 2010 Census recorded 67,476 individuals professing Judaism,[1] most of whom live in Mexico City.
[1] The following is a list of notable past and present Mexican Jews (not all with both parents Jewish, nor all practising Judaism), arranged by their main field of activity: Jose Luis Seligson Visual Artist