List of Caribbean Jews
Encyclopedia
Here is a list of some prominent (non Latin-) Caribbean
Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Aruba
- Cantor Irving N. Spenadel led the Jewish community of Aruba on July 2002.
- Hugo Ou, chinaman.
Curaçao
- Mordechai Ricardo
- George MaduroGeorge MaduroGeorge John Lionel Maduro was a Dutch student who served as an officer in the 1940 Battle of the Netherlands and distinguished himself in repelling the German attack on The Hague.The miniature city of Madurodam is named after him, as well as the Maduroplein area in Scheveningen, in The...
- Abram Mendes de Chumaceiro
- Daniel De LeonDaniel De LeonDaniel DeLeon was an American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. He is regarded as the forefather of the idea of revolutionary industrial unionism and was the leading figure in the Socialist Labor Party of America from 1890 until the time of...
, 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.
Haiti
- Luis de TorresLuis de TorresLuis de Torres , perhaps born as יוסף בן הלוי העברי, Yosef Ben Ha Levy Haivri, was Christopher Columbus's interpreter on his first voyage and the first person of Jewish origin to settle in America....
, one of the first Jews to settle on Haiti, and also Christopher ColumbusChristopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...
's interpreter. - Gilbert Bigio, Haitian businessman and Israeli honorary consul in Haiti
- Storm Portner, one of the first sugar cane producers in Haiti.
Jamaica
- Chris BlackwellChris BlackwellChristopher Percy Gordon "Chris" Blackwell is a British record producer and businessman, who was the founder of Island Records, acknowledged as the most successful and groundbreaking independent record company in history. Blackwell has been a music industry mogul for over fifty years...
, founder of Island RecordsIsland RecordsIsland Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...
(Jewish mother) - Isaac Mendes Belisario, artist
- Lewis GordonLewis GordonLewis Ricardo Gordon is an American philosopher who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, philosophy of human and life sciences, phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics,...
, philosopher - Joshua Haim & Jacob Raphael DeCordova, founders of the Jamaica Gleaner
- Sean PaulSean PaulSean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques , who performs under stage name Sean Paul, is a Jamaican pop rap and reggae singer.-1973–1996: Early life:...
, singer (Sephardic grandfather) - Frank SilveraFrank SilveraFrank Alvin Silvera was an American actor and theatrical director.-Career:Silvera was born in Kingston, Jamaica to a Spanish Jewish father and Jamaican mother. His family later emigrated to the United States, settling in Boston where Silvera attended English High School and Northeastern Law School...
, actor, founder of Theatre of Being (Jewish father) - Louis SimpsonLouis SimpsonLouis Aston Marantz Simpson is an American poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road.-Life:...
, 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).
US Virgin Islands
- Judah Benjamin, US & Confederate politician
- Ralph Moses PaiewonskyRalph Moses PaiewonskyRalph Moses Paiewonsky was a businessman and politician who served as the ninth civilian governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1961-1969....
Businessman, Politician and Governor - Camille PissarroCamille PissarroCamille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas . His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms...
, artist - David Levy YuleeDavid Levy YuleeDavid Levy Yulee, born David Levy was an American politician and attorney from Florida, a territorial delegate to Congress, the first Jewish member of the United States Senate, and a member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War...
, US politician