List of Caribbean Jews

Here is a list of some prominent (non Latin-) Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin.

Antigua and Barbuda

• Jamaica Kincaid, writer

Aruba

• Cantor Irving N. Spenadel led the Jewish community of Aruba on July 2002.

Bermuda

• Puisne Judge Hector Barci, elected as highest office in Bermuda.

Cuba

• John Nunes Jamaican Jewish distiller at Santiago founder of what is now Bacardi

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.

French Guiana

• Paulo Jacomo Pinto - also from Brazilian descents, allowed Jews to enter French Guiana by the way of the Dutch West India company.

Guyana

• Janet Jagan, president (1997-99)

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

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

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).

Trinidad and Tobago

• Nathaniel Nathan, chief justice

US 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