Qualla: Jewish Cemetery of Coro https://qualla.com/jewish-cemetery-of-coro en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/6/n/2/jewish-cemetery-of-coro-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Jewish Cemetery of Coro https://qualla.com/jewish-cemetery-of-coro Jewish Cemetery of Coro: Introduction https://qualla.com/jewish-cemetery-of-coro/ Photo credit ArwinJ, CC BY-SA 4.0. It started with a child. In 1832, Joseph Curiel and his wife Debora Levy Maduro needed to bury their daughter Hana. They bought a plot of land on the outskirts of Santa Ana de Coro, in the Pantano Abajo neighborhood between what are now Roosevelt Avenue and Zamora Street, and laid her to rest there. They could not have known they were founding the oldest Jewish cemetery in continuous use in the Americas. Nearly two centuries later, the tombs and mausoleums that followed Hana's grave still stand in this quiet corner of Falcon State, monuments to a community that crossed the Caribbean from Curacao and made a home on the Venezuelan mainland.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/6/n/2/jewish-cemetery-of-coro-wp/d6n2-jewish-cemetery-of-coro-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Jewish Cemetery of Coro: The Curacao Connection https://qualla.com/jewish-cemetery-of-coro/ Photo credit ArwinJ, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Jews who built this cemetery did not arrive from Europe directly. They were Sephardic -- descendants of the communities expelled from Spain in 1492, who had spent generations migrating through the Mediterranean, the Netherlands, and the Caribbean before reaching Venezuela. Cu...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/6/n/2/jewish-cemetery-of-coro-wp/d6n2-jewish-cemetery-of-coro-the-curacao-connection.mp3 0:06 2 full Jewish Cemetery of Coro: Marble Against the Tropics https://qualla.com/jewish-cemetery-of-coro/ Photo credit ArwinJ, CC BY-SA 4.0. Walk through the cemetery today and the scale of the tombs surprises you. For a city of Coro's modest size and wealth, the mausoleums are unexpectedly grand -- carved stone and ornamental ironwork standing amid tropical vegetation, testaments to families who invested heavily in h...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/6/n/2/jewish-cemetery-of-coro-wp/d6n2-jewish-cemetery-of-coro-marble-against-the-tropics.mp3 0:06 3 full Jewish Cemetery of Coro: Weathering the Storm https://qualla.com/jewish-cemetery-of-coro/ Photo credit ArwinJ, CC BY-SA 4.0. Time and climate have not been gentle. The cemetery was restored in the 1970s through a joint effort by the Israelite Association of Venezuela and the national government, but the challenges did not end there. In 2005, UNESCO placed Santa Ana de Coro on its World Heritage in Dang...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/6/n/2/jewish-cemetery-of-coro-wp/d6n2-jewish-cemetery-of-coro-weathering-the-storm.mp3 0:06 4 full Jewish Cemetery of Coro: Preservation as Memory https://qualla.com/jewish-cemetery-of-coro/ Photo credit ArwinJ, CC BY-SA 4.0. Efforts to save the cemetery have drawn together unlikely partners. In 2009, the Caracas Center for Sephardic Studies, representing the Israelite Association of Venezuela, signed an agreement with Constructora Sambil -- a construction company owned by Salomon Cohen, from a promin...

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