Talk:List of Venezuelan Jews
Appearance
This article should be called List of Venezuelan Jews -- someone should move it. --WassermannNYC 08:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- Nevermind; I figured out how to move pages, so it's done. --WassermannNYC 04:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Venezualan Jews
[edit]Politicians
[edit]- Ivonne Attas, actress very famous in the 70s, and former mayor of the Baruta Municipality, in Caracas)
- Shully Rosenthal, member of the Chacao Municipality Council for Primero Justicia
- Ruth de Krivoy, former president of Banco Central de Venezuela (Central Bank)
- Lolita Aniyar de Castro, ex member of parliament for Democratic Action and former governor of the state of Zulia
- Paulina Gamus de Almosny, ex member of parliament for Democratic Action
- Sofía Imber, journalist and former director of the Museum of Modern Art
- Teodoro Petkoff Malec, journalist, founder of Movement toward Socialism (MAS) and founder and editor of the newspaper Tal Cual
- Ricardo Hausmann, former Minister of CORDIPLAN (ministry of planning) and well-known economist
- Senta Essenfeld de Breuer, former Minister for the Family
- Esther de Margulis, former president of FOGADE
- Ruth Lerner de Almea, former Minister of Education and ex-ambassador to the UNESCO
- Moisés Naím, former Minister of Trade and Commerce and current editor of the magazine Foreign Policy
- Henrique Capriles Radonsky, current Mayor (2000-2008)
(Primero Justicia) of the Baruta Municipality, in Caracas.
Writers
[edit]- Alicia Freilich, author
- Isaac Chocrón, novelist
- Samuel Akinín Levy, author of several poems and novels
Celebrities
[edit]- Gabriela Benhamú, model
- Rosalinda Serfaty Rosenstock, actress
- Menachem Belilty, comedian
- Amador Bendayán, Comedian Actor and Show Host (11 November 1920 - 1989)
- Jonathan Jakubowicz, movie director (Secuestro express, the best-selling Venezuelan movie of all times; Distance)
Sport Stars
[edit]- Maurice Ruah, tennis player
- Danny Chocrón, open water swimming world champion
Elia K.Schneider the most awarded woman film director of Venezuela
Singers & Musicians
[edit]- Ilan Chester (born Ilan Czentochowski), singer and composer
- Karina, pop-ballade singer
- Caro Belilty, pop rock singer and song writer
Physicians
[edit]- Sara Bendahan, the first woman in Venezuela to become a doctor
- Lía Imber de Coronil, the first woman in Venezuela that became a doctor
- Baruj Benacerraf, Nobel Prize of Medicine (Venezuelan-born)
- Martín Mayer, founder of Instituto de Medicina Tropical
Business Entrepreneurs
[edit]- Salomón Cohen Levy, founder of Grupo Sambil
- Ivan Lansberg Henriquez, noted businessman (Insurance), University Professor and humanist (deceased Sept 20, 2006).
Other
[edit]- Klara Ostfeld, author of several cook books
- Juana Sujo (born Juana Sujokovich), playwright, drama teacher and actress
- Offer Zaks, Israeli-born modern dancer (bio in Spanish)
- Moisés Kaufman, playwright and media director
- Elia Schneider, movie director (Huelepega)(Punto y Raya) (Des-autorizados) (article in Spanish)
- Samuel Belilty, journalist