Some of this page is for the whole island of Hispaniola, which is shared with Haiti.
Sephardic Jews of the Dominican Republic
There are reports of links between Cabo Verde and Hispaniola.
Family Tree DNA have a “Sefarad Hispaniola” project. The surnames in this project are: Abarbanel, Abravanel, Abreu, Acevedo, Acosta, Batista, Calderon, Capriles, Casseres, Castro, Cava, Coen, Cohen, Correia, Crasto, DaCosta-Gomes, Enriquez, Gomes, Gomez, Guzman, Henriques, Henriquez, Hernandez, Levy, Levy-Maduro, Lopes, Lopez, Lopez-Penha, Maduro, Marchena, Martinez, Mendes, Meza, Morillo, Motta, Naar, Pacheco, Pardo, Pereira, Pereyra, Ricardo, Rodrigues, Rodriguez, Rubio, Serrano, Sosa, Souza.
Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota has a blog and a website. He is trying to restore the Jewish cemetery, which is excellent. The earliest tombstone in the cemetery (right) is Jacob Pardo of Amsterdam who died on 6 December 1826. I don’t know when Jews were first allowed to openly practice their religion on Hispaniola.
In 1625 French pirates had established a base on the small island of Tortuga, just off the coast of Hispaniola. They seized the neighbouring western third of Hispaniola from Spain in 1659, calling it Saint-Domingue. The Spanish tacitly recognised the French occupation.
http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Sefarad_DR
I believe Beth Midrash Sefardí Nidhe Israel is no longer functioning.
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