List of Caribbean Jews
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Here is a list of some prominent (non Latin-) Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin.
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[edit] Antigua and Barbuda
- Jamaica Kincaid, writer
[edit] Aruba
- Cantor Irving N. Spenadel led the Jewish community of Aruba on July 2002.
- Hugo Ou, chinaman.
[edit] Bermuda
- Puisne Judge Hector Barci, elected as highest office in Bermuda.
[edit] Cuba
- John Nunes Jamaican Jewish distiller at Santiago founder of what is now Bacardi
[edit] Curaçao
- Mordechai Ricardo
- George Maduro
- Abram Mendes de Chumaceiro
- Daniel De Leon, socialist leader
- Carlos Zarur, mother from Curaçao
- Rafael Martinez Cohen
- Moises Martinez
- Nick Ligthart, owner of the first banana plantation on the island; notorious for importing Ukrainian immigrant workers. Ashkenazi origin.
[edit] French Guiana
- Paulo Jacomo Pinto - also from Brazilian descents, allowed Jews to enter French Guiana by the way of the Dutch West India company.
[edit] Guyana
- Janet Jagan, president (1997-99)
- Nikolo Kottarelli, luxury hotel tycoon
[edit] Haiti
- Luis de Torres, one of the first Jews to settle on Haiti, and also Christopher Columbus's interpreter.
- Gilbert Bigio, Haitian businessman and Israeli honorary consul in Haiti
- Storm Portner, one of the first sugar cane producers in Haiti.
[edit] Jamaica
- Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records (Jewish mother)
- Isaac Mendes Belisario, artist
- Lewis Gordon, philosopher
- Joshua Haim & Jacob Raphael DeCordova, founders of the Jamaica Gleaner
- Sean Paul, singer (Sephardic grandfather)
- Frank Silvera, actor, founder of Theatre of Being (Jewish father)
- Louis Simpson, poet
[edit] Martinique
- David Gradis, one of the first Jews to start a trading business in Martinique.
- Jason Adleberg, another one of the first Jews to start a trading business in Martinique. (Sephardic Origin).
[edit] Trinidad and Tobago
- Nathaniel Nathan, chief justice
[edit] US Virgin Islands
- Judah Benjamin, US & Confederate politician
- Ralph Moses Paiewonsky Businessman, Politician and Governor
- Camille Pissarro, artist
- David Levy Yulee, US politician
