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Here is a list of some prominent Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Antigua and Barbuda[edit]
- Jamaica Kincaid (1949-), writer, converted to Judaism[1]
Aruba[edit]
- Henny Eman (1948-), Prime Minister[2]
- Mike Eman (1961-), Prime Minister[2]
Cuba[edit]
- Ruth Behar (1956-), writer[3]
- José Antonio Bowen (1962-), jazz musician and president of Goucher College
- Fabio Grobart (1905-1994), Communist Party co-founder
- Olga Guillot (1922-2010), singer[4]
- José Miller (1925-2006), leader of the Cuban Jewish community[5]
- Meyer Rosenbaum (1910-?), Rabbi and spiritual leader[6]
- William Levy (1980-), actor in American film & tv, quarter Jewish[7]
Curaçao[edit]
- Rebecca Cohen Henriquez (1864-1935), philanthropist
- George Maduro (1916-1940), [8]
- Daniel De Leon (1852-1940), socialist leader[9]
Dominican Republic[edit]
- Oscar Haza(1954-), journalist
- Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal (1859–1935), Dominican President[10]
- Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1884–1946), academic and writer [10]
French Guiana[edit]
Gregg L. Friedman MD, Physician
Guyana[edit]
- Janet Jagan (1920-2009), née Rosenberg, president (1997–99)[11]
Haiti[edit]
- Eric André (1983-), actor, comedian, and television host, dual American citizen star of The Eric Andre Show & Bad Trip
- Gilbert Bigio (1935-), businessman billionaire of Syrian descent and Israeli honorary consul in Haiti[12]
- Luis de Torres (-1493), one of the first Jews to settle on Haiti, and also Christopher Columbus's interpreter
- Monique Péan (1981-), fine jewelry designer
- Sol (1988-), hip hop musician
Jamaica[edit]
- Ivan Barrow (1911-1979), cricketer who played 11 Tests for the West Indies.[13]
- Chris Blackwell (1937-), founder of Island Records[14]
- Jacob De Cordova (1808–1868), the founder of the Jamaica Gleaner
- Leander de Cordova (1877–1969), Jamaican-born actor and film director, grandnephew of Jacob de Cordova
- Rudolph de Cordova (1860–1941), a Jamaican-born British writer, screenwriter and actor.
- Lewis Gordon (1962-), philosopher
- Isaac Mendes Belisario (1795-1849), artist[15]
- Sean Paul (1973-), singer, quarter Jewish[16]
- Frank Silvera (1914-1970), actor in American film & tv Killer's Kiss & Hombre, founder of Theatre of Being, half Jewish[17][18]
- Louis Simpson (1923-2012), poet, half Jewish[19][20][21]
- Yehoshua Sofer (1958-), Jamaican-born Isreali hip hop & rap artist, also a martial artist & trainer.
Martinique[edit]
Puerto Rico[edit]
- Quiara Alegría Hudes (1977-), 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.[22]
- Sandy Alomar, Sr. (1943-), Baseball player, father was Jewish but an agnostic who allowed his children to be brought up as a Catholic
- Axel Anderson (1929-2012), German-born actor/director, Anderson made his debut in Puerto Rican television with a sitcom named Qué Pareja a local version of I Love Lucy.
- David Blaine (1978-), magician, Blaine is also an endurance artist and Guinness Book of Records world record-holder, American born, half Jewish.
- Mathias Brugman (1811-1866), was a leader in Puerto Rico's independence revolution against Spain known as El Grito de Lares (Lares' Cry), half Jewish
- Julio Kaplan (1950-), Argentina-born chess player and former world junior champion.
- Raphy Leavitt (1948-2015), composer, director and founder of "La Selecta"
- Ari Meyers (1969-), actress, Best known for her role as Emma Jane McArdle in the Kate & Allie (1984) TV series, born but not raised in Puerto Rico
- [[Joaquin Phoenix] (1974-), actor, won Best Actor Oscar for [[Joker (2019 film)|Joker), 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.
- Geraldo Rivera (1943-), journalist, half Jewish New York City born
- Jorge Seijo (1942-) Puerto Rican radio and television personality
- A. Cecil Snyder (1907-1959) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, continual US born
Suriname[edit]
- Edgar Davids (1973-), footballer (Jewish grandmother)
- Jacques Judah Lyons (1814-1877), rabbi, later immigrated to the United States of America
- Pim de la Parra (1940-), film maker
Trinidad and Tobago[edit]
US Virgin Islands[edit]
- Gabriel Milan (1631–1689), Governor of the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands)
- Judah Benjamin (1811-1844), US & Confederate politician
- Ralph Moses Paiewonsky (1907-1991), Businessman, Politician and Governor
- Camille Pissarro (1807-1903), artist
- David Levy Yulee (1810-1866), US politician
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Halper, D. "Black Jews: A Minority Within a Minority". United Jewish Communities. Archived from the original on February 28, 2009. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
- ^ a b Runyan, Joshua. "Aruban P.M. Welcomes Future Rabbis to Caribbean". Chabad. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Melvyn Barnett (2010). "A history of Jewish first-class cricketers" – Maccabi Australia. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ 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 4 May 2014. 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.
- ^ "Louis Simpson Criticism (Vol. 149)". Enotes.com. Retrieved 2012-09-18.
- ^ "Louis Simpson a Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet dies at 89". New York Times. Retrieved 2012-09-18.
- ^ "Hedgebrook". Archived from the original on July 21, 2009.