# Montevideo <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Montevideo (Spanish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Montevideo Department, Uruguay</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>34°54′S 56°11′W</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Montevideo, capital and largest city of Uruguay, lies on the northern bank of the Río de la Plata across the estuary from Buenos Aires. It became the principal center of Jewish life in Uruguay, its community built largely by East European (Ashkenazi) immigrants arriving from the early twentieth century, alongside Sephardic and Central European newcomers, especially refugees in the 1930s–1940s. Montevideo remains home to the great majority of Uruguay's Jewish population and is a frequent Latin American destination for descendants of East European Jewish families. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Montevideo; Jewish Virtual Library — Uruguay; YIVO Encyclopedia — Uruguay.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Serafina Friedman (b.1927)]] | Born 1927 | | [[Esther Rotkier Lerer (b.1937)]] | Born 06/14/1937 | | [[Maria Iszakovics (b.1898)]] | Died 08/12/1950 | | [[Pinchas Sinnreich (b.1954)]] | Born 02/06/1954 | | [[Cypa Fajga Friedman (b.1905)]] | Died 08/12/1960 | | [[Mendel Friedman (b.1897)]] | Died 12/29/1965 | | [[María Lerer (b.1905)]] | Died 11/17/1971 | | [[Jacobo Friedman (b.1922)]] | Died 01/18/1979 | | [[Samuel Rotkier (b.1905)]] | Died 05/29/1989 | | [[Lina Turner (b.1923)]] | Died 12/24/2006 | | [[Ana Friedman]] | Born |