January 12, 1979 • Page Image 37
…it r r Friday, January 12, 1919 37 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS The History of Bolivian Jewry Is Explored Bolivian Jews living in La Paz and in the towns of Cochabamba, Oruro, Sucre and Potosi. Jews came principally -as "ag- riculturists" to develop the fertile, tropical low- lands. There were var- ious Jewish agricultural settlements attempted in Bolivia, on the free homesteads offered by the Bolivian government. The Sociedad Colonizad- ora d...…