Chilean Jews are Chileans

Chilean people

Chilean people, or simply Chileans, are the native citizens and long-term immigrants of Chile. Chileans are mainly of Spanish and Amerindian descent, with small but significant traces of 19th and 20th century European immigrant origin...

 residing in the country of Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

 who are of either Jewish

Jews

The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...

 ancestry or observe the Jewish faith

Judaism

Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...

.

An estimated 75,000 Chilean Jews live in the country, the majority live in Santiago

Santiago, Chile

Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...

 and are predominantly found in higher-paying professions and all walks of public life. The Chilean Jewish population decreased in the political turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s, but their identity as Jews in Chile remains. Here is a list of some prominent Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an Jews.

Actors

• Shlomit Baytelman, actress
• Alejandro Cohen, actor
• Daniel Emilfork
  Daniel Emilfork
  Daniel Emilfork-Berenstein was a Chilean stage and film actor.Emilfork was born in Providencia, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa...
  
  , actor

Athletes

• Nicolás Massú
  Nicolás Massú
  Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried , nicknamed Vampiro , is a Chilean tennis player, a former world number nine in singles, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist...
  
  , tennis player, highest world ranking # 9, 2x Olympic champion (singles & doubles)
• Sebastian Rozental
  Sebastián Rozental
  Sebastián Rozental Igualt is a retired Chilean-Israeli professional football player.On the club level, Rozental has played for Universidad Católica , Colo-Colo , and Unión Española in his native Chile, Rangers in Scotland, where he became the first player from South America to play for the...
  
  , soccer, forward (national team)
• Anita Klesky, actress
• Nissim Sharim, actor
• Jael Unger, actress

Other notable Chileans of Jewish descent

• Marjorie Agosín
  Marjorie Agosín
  Marjorie Agosín is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor. She is a prolific author: her published books, including those she has written as well as those she has edited, number over eighty...
  
  , human rights activist, professor, and writer
• Shai Agosin, TV producer and presenter
• Mordo Alvo, physician and member of the scientific academy Instituto de Chile
• José Berdichewsky, Pinochet's Ambassador in Israel
• Eduardo Bitrán, former Minister of Public Works
• Claudio Bunster
  Claudio Bunster
  Claudio Bunster Weitzman is a Chilean scientist.Bunster studied Sciences at the University of Chile , Santiago and received his Ph.D in Physics from Princeton University, U.S. in 1973. He remained at the university, at the Institute for Advanced Study and also at the University of Texas, until 1984...
  
  , scientist (Jewish mother)
• Cristopher Carpentier, chef (converted to Judaism)
• Fernando Cassorla, physician and member of the scientific academy Instituto de Chile
• Jacques Chonchol, Minister of Agriculture in the Allende
  Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....
  
   government
• Ariel Dorfman
  Ariel Dorfman
  Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.-Personal...
  
  , author and scholar
• Roberto Dueñas
  Roberto Dueñas
  Roberto Dueñas Hernandez is a retired Spanish basketball player. He was drafted with the last overall pick of the 1997 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls but never played in the NBA. Dueñas played professionally with FC Barcelona from 1996-2005, during which time he won a Euroleague championship in...
  
  , modeling agent
• Julián Elfenbein
  Julián Elfenbein
  Eduardo Julián Elfenbein Kaufmann better known as Julián Elfenbein is a Chilean journalist, radio broadcaster and television presenter.-Career:...
  
  , journalist, television host
• Efrain Friedman, director of Chilean Atomic Research Committee
• Benjamín Galemiri, playwright
• Rodrigo Guendelman, journalist
• Clarisa Hardy psychologist; former (2006-2007) Minister of Planning
• Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás Hirsch
  Tomás René Hirsch Goldschmidt is a leftist Chilean politician and businessman. He was the Together We Can Do More pact candidate for the 2005 Chilean presidential election, winning 5.4% of the vote.- Biography :...
  
  , politician, businessman
• Jeremías Israel, motoracing driver (Jewish father)
• Mauricio Israel, television host
• Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
  
  , film director (Chilean-born)
• Alberto Van Klaveren, current (2006-) Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations
• José Klein, former owner of Minera Santa Barbara
• Marcelo Kormis, rabbi
• Mario Kreutzberger, better known as Don Francisco, TV host
• Vivi Kreutzberger, television host
• Marcos Libedinsky, former president of the Supreme Court of Justice
• Alejandro Lipschuetz, anthropologist and endocrinologist
• Pablo Lugt, rabbi
• Sergio Melnick, economist, Minister of ODEPLAN under Pinochet
• Lily Pérez, politician
• Daniel Platovsky, businessman, politician, and eldest son of Milan Platovsky (Jewish father)
• Milan Platovsky, businessman who wrote a best-selling autobiography
• Andy Pollack, jazz musician
• Karen Poniachik, journalist; former Minister of Mining and Energy
• Sarika Rodrik, fashion designer
• Efraim Rosenzweig, rabbi
• Daniel Schidlow, Chief of Pediatrics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. (Chilean born)
• Miguel Schweitzer Speisky, Pinochet's Minister of Justice
• Miguel Schweitzer Walters, Pinochet's Minister of External Affairs and ambassador to the UK
• Jorge Schaulsohn, politician
• Gabriel Silber, deputy
• Claudio Spiniak, businessman. In jail since 2004 for being a practitioner of pedophilia
  Pedophilia
  As a medical diagnosis, pedophilia is defined as a psychiatric disorder in adults or late adolescents typically characterized by a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children...
  
   and coprophagia
  Coprophagia
  Coprophagia or coprophagy is the consumption of feces, from the Greek κόπρος copros and φαγεῖν phagein . Many animal species practice coprophagia as a matter of course; other species do not normally consume feces but may do so under unusual conditions...
  
  
• Jacob Stoulman Bortnik, businessman, kidnapped by DINA during the Operacion Condor plan in Argentina
• Shmuel Szteinhendler
  Shmuel Szteinhendler
  Shmuel Szteinhendler, a rabbi in Santiago, Chile, is considered the current Chief Rabbi of Cuba as well as the regional director for Masorti in Latin America...
  
  , rabbi (Regional Director Masorti
  Masorti
  The Masorti Movement is the name given to Conservative Judaism in Israel and other countries outside Canada and U.S. Masorti means "traditional" in Hebrew...
  
   Latin America)
• Víctor Tevah
  Victor Tevah
  Victor Tevah was a Jewish-Greek conductor raised in Chile. In 1961, he acted as director to the Argentine Philharmonic ; from 1966–1979, he was director to the Pau Casals Festival and Orchestra, Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and the Puerto Rico Conservatory; Tevah led Chile's Symphony Orchestra...
  
  , fiddler
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• Marcelo Tokman, Minister of Energy
• Julián Vainstein, rabbi
• José Weinstein, Minister of Culture under Ricardo Lagos
  Ricardo Lagos
  Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union candidate Joaquín Lavín...
  
  
• Jaime Wisnaik, director of department of engineering at the Catholic University of Santiago
• Daniel Zang, rabbi

See also

• List of Latin American Jews
• List of Chileans
• List of Jews