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List of Caribbean Jews

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Here is a list of some prominent Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin.

Antigua and Barbuda

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Jamaica Kincaid (1949-), writer, converted to Judaism^[1]

Aruba

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Henny Eman (1948-), Prime Minister^[2]
Mike Eman (1961-), Prime Minister^[2]

Cuba

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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 (1910-1997), Rabbi and spiritual leader^[6]
William Levy (1980-), actor in American film & TV, quarter Jewish^[7]

Curaçao

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Rebecca Cohen Henriquez (1864-1935), philanthropist
George Maduro (1916-1940),^[8]
Daniel De Leon (1852-1940), socialist leader^[9]

Dominican Republic

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Oscar Haza(1954-), journalist
Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal (1859-1935), Dominican President^[10]
Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1884-1946), academic and writer ^[10]

Guyana

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Janet Jagan (1920-2009), née Rosenberg, president (1997–99)^[11]

Haiti

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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

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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
Cecil Vernon Lindo (1870-1962) Jamaican banker and industrialist
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 &TVKiller'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 Israeli hip hop and rap artist, also a martial artist & trainer.

Martinique

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Puerto Rico

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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), 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 CashinWalk 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

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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

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US Virgin Islands

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Gabriel Milan (1631-1689), Governor of the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands)
Judah Benjamin (1811-1844), US and Confederate politician
Ralph Moses Paiewonsky (1907-1991), businessman, politician and governor
Camille Pissarro (1807-1903), artist
David Levy Yulee (1810-1866), US politician

References

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^ 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) (1/3). Santo Domingo: Hoy. 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 978-0-19-533513-2.

^ Berry, Torriano; Berry, Venise T. (2007). Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema. Vol. 12. Scarecrow Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-8108-5545-8.

^ "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.

^ Rothstein, Mervyn (18 September 2012). "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.

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