List of Caribbean Jews
Here is a list of some prominent Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Antigua and Barbuda
- Jamaica Kincaid, writer
Aruba
- Henny Eman, Prime Minister[1]
- Mike Eman, Prime Minister[1]
Cuba
- Ruth Behar, writer[2]
- José Antonio Bowen, jazz musician and president of Goucher College
- Fabio Grobart, Communist Party co-founder
- Olga Guillot, singer[3]
- José Miller, leader of the Cuban Jewish community[4]
- Meyer Rosenbaum, Rabbi and spiritual leader[5]
- William Levy, actor[6]
Curaçao
- George Maduro[7]
- Daniel De Leon, socialist leader[8]
Dominican Republic
- Oscar Haza, journalist
- Dominican President Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal[9]
- Pedro Henríquez Ureña, academic and writer [9]
French Guiana
Guyana
- Janet Jagan, née Rosenberg, president (1997–99)[10]
Haiti
- Eric André, actor, comedian, and television host
- Gilbert Bigio, businessman billionaire of Syrian descent and Israeli honorary consul in Haiti[11]
- Luis de Torres, one of the first Jews to settle on Haiti, and also Christopher Columbus's interpreter
- Monique Péan, fine jewelry designer
- Sol Alexander Rosenberg, a musician of Russian descent known as Sol
Jamaica
- Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records[12]
- Isaac Mendes Belisario, artist[13]
- Lewis Gordon, philosopher
- Sean Paul, singer[14]
- Frank Silvera, actor, founder of Theatre of Being[15][16]
- Louis Simpson, poet[17][18][19]
Martinique
Puerto Rico
- Alegría Hudes, Quiara – author, playwright. Wrote the book for Broadway's musical In the Heights. Her play, Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007.[20]
- Sandy Alomar, Sr. father was Jewish but an agnostic who allowed his children to be brought up as a Catholic
- Anderson, Axel – actor/director, Anderson made his debut in Puerto Rican television with a sitcom named Qué Pareja a local version of I Love Lucy.
- Blaine, David – magician, Blaine is also an endurance artist and Guinness Book of Records world record-holder.
- Brugman, Mathias – was a leader in Puerto Rico's independence revolution against Spain known as El Grito de Lares (Lares' Cry).
- Kaplan, Julio – Puerto Rican chess player and former world junior champion.
- Katz Montiel, Marco – composer for Zoey's Zoo and trombonist with Charlie Palmieri and Mon Rivera.
- Leavitt, Raphy – composer, director and founder of "La Selecta"
- Lehman, Manny – DJ and producer.
- Levy, Hila – U.S. Air Force, in 2007 she became the first Puerto Rican Rhodes Scholar.
- Meyers, Ari – actress, Best known for her role as Emma Jane McArdle in the Kate & Allie (1984) TV series.
- Ostow, Micol – author of "Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa" and "Mind Your Manners, Dick and Jane".
- Phoenix, Joaquin – actor, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Gladiator in 2000 and in 2005, he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, and won a Golden Globe in the same category in 2006 for his role as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line.
- Rivera, Geraldo – journalist
- Sally Jessy Raphael - syndicated talk show host
- Seijo, Jorge – Puerto Rican radio and television personality
- Starr, Brenda K. – salsa singer, her seventh album, Atrevete a Olvidarme, titled, "Tu Eres" earned her a nomination by the Billboard Latin Music Awards in 2006.
- Snyder, Aaron Cecil – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
- Tassler, Nina – President of CBS Entertainment.[21]
- Ticotin, Rachel – actress, starred in Critical Condition, Where the Day Takes You Falling Down Total Recall and in Con Air, where she earned an ALMA Award for her role as prison guard Sally Bishop.
- Ticotin, Sahaj – vocalist/guitarist from the Rock band Ra.[22]
Suriname
- Edgar Davids, footballer (Jewish mother)
- Jacques Judah Lyons, rabbi
- Pim de la Parra, film maker
Trinidad and Tobago
US Virgin Islands
- Gabriel Milan Governor of the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands)
- Judah Benjamin, US & Confederate politician
- Ralph Moses Paiewonsky Businessman, Politician and Governor
- Camille Pissarro, artist
- David Levy Yulee, US politician
See also
- List of Jews
- List of Jamaicans
References
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- "An Island Called Home". University of Michigan. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
- Amalia Ran; Moshe Morad (21 January 2016). Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas. BRILL. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-90-04-20477-5.
- Jewish Community of Cuba: The Golden Age, 1906-1958
- Levinson, Jay. Jewish Community of Cuba: The Golden Years, 1906-1958, Westview Publishing Company, Nashville, Tennessee, (February 2006).
- Starr, Michael (March 28, 2012). "Nobody doesn't like William Levy". New York Post. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
- Kathleen Brandt-Carey: Knight without fear and beyond reproach. The life of George Maduro 1916-1945. Houten, Spectrum, 2016. ISBN 978-90-00-34962-3
- "May 11: Daniel De Leon". Jewish Currents. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
- Read, Jaime (23 August 2010). "Familias capitaleñas: Los Henríquez". Cápsulas Genealógicas (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Hoy (1/3). Retrieved 3 February 2014.
Este apellido se origina en la península Ibérica, tanto en Portugal como en España, de familias judías sefardíes que marcharon posteriormente hacia el norte, llegando a Holanda, a raíz de la expulsión de judíos luego de la Reconquista. De allí parten hacia las colonias neerlandesas del Caribe, llegando a Curazao. En la República Dominicana, el tronco de esta familia fue Noel Henríquez Altías (n. 25 diciembre de 1813), natural de Curazao
- Rohter, Larry. "A Guyana Favorite: U.S.-Born Grandmother", The New York Times, 14 December 1997.
- Press, ed. (13 February 2004). "Around the Jewish World As Haiti Burns, Its Few Jews Choose Business over Politics". JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency). Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- Berger, Doreen. Blanche Lindo Blackwell.
- Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (eds), Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Belisario and his Worlds, Yale Center for British Art, 2007.
- "Sean Paul". Top40.about.com. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- Rodriguez, Clara (2008). Heroes, Lovers, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood. Oxford University Press. p. 160. ISBN 0-19-533513-9.
- Berry, Torriano; Berry, Venise T. (2007). Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema. 12. Scarecrow Press. p. 310. ISBN 0-8108-5545-3.
- "Louis Simpson Biography – Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition". Enotes.com. Retrieved 2012-09-18.
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- "Hedgebrook". Archived from the original on July 21, 2009.
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