List of Latin American Jews
Encyclopedia
Jewish immigration to Latin America
began with seven sailors arriving in Christopher Columbus
' crew. Since then, the Jewish population of Latin America
has risen to more than 500,000 — more than half of whom live in Argentina
, with large communities also present in Brazil
, Chile
and Mexico
.
The following is a list of some prominent Latin American Jews, arranged by country of origin:
science men, bussines,
sefardi
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and Mother gradma Ramona Ferrera jew last name.
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History of the Jews in Latin America
The history of the Jews in Latin America dates, according to some interpretations, back to Christopher Columbus and his first cross-Atlantic voyage on August 3, 1492, when he left Spain and eventually discovered the New World...
began with seven sailors arriving in Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
Christopher 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...
' crew. Since then, the Jewish population of Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
has risen to more than 500,000 — more than half of whom live in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, with large communities also present in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, 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...
and Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
.
The following is a list of some prominent Latin American Jews, arranged by country of origin:
Argentina
- Ernesto AcherErnesto AcherErnesto Acher, born on October 9, 1939, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral conductor. He was a member of Les Luthiers between 1971 and 1986, where he worked as songwriter, actor, instrument designer, choir master, singer and played over thirty different...
, musician-humorist, former member of the group Les LuthiersLes LuthiersLes Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other Spanish-speaking countries such as Paraguay, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela. They were formed in 1967 by Gerardo Masana, during the height of a period of very... - Marcos AguinisMarcos AguinisMarcos Aguinis is an Argentine psychiatrist, writer and columnist.- Background :Marcos Aguinis was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1935 the son of a Romanian Jewish immigrant...
, journalist / writer - José AlperovichJosé AlperovichJosé Jorge Alperovich is an Argentine politician, currently the governor of Tucumán Province.Alperovich was born in Banda del Río Salí to Israeli parents, in 1955. He enrolled at the University of Tucumán, and graduated as an accountant...
, governor of the Tucumán ProvinceTucumán ProvinceTucumán is the most densely populated, and the smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the capital is San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighboring provinces are, clockwise from the north: Salta, Santiago del Estero and... - Héctor BabencoHector BabencoHéctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.He has worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States....
, film director (Argentinian-born) - Daniel BarenboimDaniel BarenboimDaniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....
, conductor and pianist - Tania BíderHaydée Tamara Bunke BiderHaydée Tamara Bunke Bider , better known as Tania or Tania the Guerrilla, was an Argentine-born East German communist revolutionary and spy who played a prominent role in the Cuban government after the Cuban Revolution and in various Latin American revolutionary movements...
revolutionary fighter - Marcelo BirmajerMarcelo BirmajerMarcelo Birmajer is an Argentine Jewish author. The grandson of Romanian, Polish, Lithuanian and Syrian immigrants. Best known for writing the script for the 2004 film El abrazo partido. Birmajer's work usually revolves around the Porteño neighbourhood of Once and its colorful inhabitants...
, writer - Laszlo BiroLászló BíróLászló József Bíró was the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen.Bíró was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1899. He presented the first production of the ball pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931...
, inventor of the ballpoint penBiroBíró is a Hungarian surname meaning "judge", and may refer to:* A brand of ballpoint pen. In British English the word "biro" is often used as a generic term for any ballpoint pen.* László Bíró, the inventor of the ballpoint pen.... - Jácobo BolbochánJacobo BolbochánJacobo Bolbochán was an Argentine chess master.He played many times in the Argentine Chess Championships. He won twice , both ahead of Isaias Pleci. In 1933, he took 2nd, behind Luis Piazzini. In 1935, he took 2nd, behind Roberto Grau. In 1936, he took 3rd, behind Carlos Guimard and Grau...
, chess player - Julio BolbochánJulio BolbochanJulio Bolbochán was the Argentine chess champion in 1946 and 1948.Born in Buenos Aires, he represented Argentina in seven Chess Olympiads from 1950 to 1970....
, chess player - Mauricio BorenszteinMauricio BorenszteinMauricio Borensztein , known by the stage name Tato Bores, was an Argentine film, theatre and television comedian, who specialized in political humor...
(better known as Tato Bores), comedian - Daniel BurmanDaniel BurmanDaniel Burman is a film director, screenplay writer, and producer.According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for Mabuse, a cinema magazine, Daniel Burman is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c...
(1973 – ) filmmaker - Israel Adrián CaetanoIsrael Adrián CaetanoIsrael Adrián Caetano is an Uruguayan-Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.-Biography:He's often credited as Adrián Caetano. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina and at times obtains funding for his films in Europe. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.At age of sixteen his...
, film director - Andres Cantor, Sports Commentator
- Sergio ChejfecSergio ChejfecSergio Chejfec is an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. From 1990-2005 he lived in Venezuela, where he published Nueva sociedad, a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. He currently lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing in Spanish...
, writer - Mario DavidovskyMario DavidovskyMario Davidovsky is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today...
, composer - Alicia Dujovne OrtizAlicia Dujovne OrtizAlicia Dujovne Ortiz is an Argentine journalist and author.Dujovne Ortiz was born in Buenos Aires. She earned a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Buenos Aires and contributed to numerous Argentine periodicals. Forced into exile by the military dictatorship in 1978, she...
, writer - Giora FeidmanGiora FeidmanGiora Feidman is an Argentinian-born Israeli clarinetist who specializes in klezmer music.-Biography:Giora Feidman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his Bessarabian Jewish parents immigrated to escape persecution. Feidman comes from a family of klezmer musicians...
, klezmer musician - Movsas FeiginsMovsas FeiginsMovsas Feigins or Movša Feigins was a Latvian chess master.-Biography:Movsas Feigins was born in Dvinsk, . He won at Riga 1930, and was Latvian Champion in 1932 . In 1932, he tied for 3rd–5th at Riga. The event was won by Vladimirs Petrovs...
, chess player - Rubén FelgaerRubén FelgaerRubén Felgaer is an Argentine chess Grandmaster.Felgaer was twice Panamerican Junior Champion, in 2000 and 2001.He was Argentine Champion in 2001, and took 2nd in 2000, 3rd in 2003, 2nd in 2004, and 2nd in 2006 ....
, chess player - Daniel Filmus Ex-Argentine Education Minister
- Paulino FrydmanPaulino FrydmanPaulino Frydman was a Polish chess master.-Biography:...
, chess player - Juan GelmanJuan GelmanJuan Gelman is an Argentine poet. He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956. He won the Cervantes Prize in 2007, the most important in Spanish literature...
, poet - Alberto GerchunoffAlberto GerchunoffAlberto Gerchunoff , was an Argentine writer born in the Russian Empire, in the city of Proskuriv, now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. His family emigrated in 1889 to the agricultural colony of Moises Ville. His father, Rab Gershon ben Abraham Gerchunoff was murdered by a gaucho on February 12, 1891...
, writer - Max Glücksmann, pioneer of Argentine music and film industries
- Osvaldo GolijovOsvaldo GolijovOsvaldo Noé Golijov is a Grammy award–winning composer of classical music.-Biography:Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family that had emigrated to Argentina in the 1920s from Romania and Russia.Golijov has developed a rich musical language, the result of...
, classical composer - Guillermo IsrailevichGuillermo IsrailevichGuillermo Israilevich is an Argentinian-Israeli footballer currently plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv . Guillermo's wife is set to receive a Spanish passport and rumors have it that Guillermo will receive a Spanish passport as well and plans to move to Europe at the end of this season since his contract...
, soccer player of Israeli National Team (Jewish Father) - Martín JaiteMartín JaiteMartín Jaite is an Argentine right-handed former top-10 professional tour tennis player.Jaite's ATP highest tour ranking was World # 10, which he achieved in the summer of 1990, and he won a total of 12 titles and $1,873,881 in tour prize money during his career.Jaite's playing style leveraged his...
, former tennis player - Guido KaczkaGuido KaczkaGuido Kaczka , is an Argentine television show host, actor and producer. His wife was the actress Florencia Bertotti until their separation in 2010. They have been together since 1999. Their first child was born on July 10, 2008....
, actor, show host - Mauricio KagelMauricio KagelMauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance .-Biography:...
, classical composer - Daniel KatzDaniel Katz (politician)Victor Daniel Katz Jora known as Daniel Katz born in 1961, is an Argentine politician. He is a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. He previously served as high-profile mayor of the city and beach resort of Mar del Plata in Buenos Aires Province.Katz trained as an architect at the...
, mayor of Mar del PlataMar del PlataMar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is the second largest city of Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" had apparently the sense of "sea of the Río de la Plata region" or "adjoining sea to the Río de la Plata"... - León KlimovskyLeón KlimovskyLeón Klimovsky was an Argentine film director.A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show art movies...
, film director - Alejandro LernerAlejandro LernerAlejandro Federico Lerner is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has written and sang countless songs including several hits, and his fame and recognition spread all over South America....
, singer/composer - Miguel LifschitzMiguel LifschitzRoberto Miguel Lifschitz , is the current mayor of the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina.He obtained his degree at the Engineering Faculty of the National University of Rosario in 1979, and worked in the private sector until 1989, when he became Director-General of the Public Housing...
, mayor of RosarioRosarioRosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....
(Jewish Father) - César MilsteinCésar MilsteinCésar Milstein FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.-Biography:...
, immunologist, Nobel prize - Marcos MundstockMarcos MundstockMarcos Mundstock, born May 25, 1942, in Santa Fe, Argentina, is a musician, writer, comedian and former broadcaster and copywriter, most famous for being a founding member of Les Luthiers, their emcee, and writing many of their libretti and lyrics...
, musician-humorist of the group Les LuthiersLes LuthiersLes Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other Spanish-speaking countries such as Paraguay, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela. They were formed in 1967 by Gerardo Masana, during the height of a period of very... - Miguel NajdorfMiguel NajdorfMiguel Najdorf was a Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster of Jewish origin, famous for his Najdorf Variation....
, chess player - Gastón NeedlemanGastón NeedlemanGastón Needleman is a chess prodigy from Mendoza, Argentina. He attended high school at Escuela de Comercio Martin Zapata.-Chess career:At the age of 15, he scored 8.0/11 to tie with six other players for second place in the American Continental Championship, Buenos Aires, August 5–16, 2005...
, chess player - Carlos Núñez CortésCarlos Núñez CortésCarlos Núñez Cortés was born October 15, 1942, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been a member of Les Luthiers since 1969.In the group, his functions include:* Creating new instruments ....
, musician-humorist of the group Les LuthiersLes LuthiersLes Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other Spanish-speaking countries such as Paraguay, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela. They were formed in 1967 by Gerardo Masana, during the height of a period of very... - Alicia PartnoyAlicia PartnoyAlicia Mabel Partnoy is a human rights activist, poet, and translator.After Argentinian President Juan Perón died, the students from the left of the Peronist political party organized with fervor within the country's universities and with workers, were persecuted and imprisoned...
, writer - Raquel PartnoyRaquel PartnoyRaquel Partnoy is a painter, poet, and essayist. She studied at an art school in that city but it was after she got married and moved to the southern port city of Bahía Blanca in1954, that she attended for several years the Buenos Aires’s workshop of the influential Argentine painter and teacher...
, painter - Jorge PelikánJiří Pelikán*Jiří Pelikán *Jiří Pelikán , Czechoslovakian journalist and member of parliament , then a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Socialist Party...
, chess player - Melina PetriellaMelina PetriellaMelina Petriella is an Argentine movie and television actress.-Filmography:* Besos en la frente * Esperando al Mesías aka Waiting for the Messiah* Nocturno * El Abrazo partido aka Lost Embrace...
, actress - Alejandra PizarnikAlejandra PizarnikAlejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet.-Life and work:She was born on April 29, 1936 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Avellaneda, a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A year after entering the department of Philosophy and Letters at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pizarnik published her...
, poet - Isaias PleciIsaias PleciIsaías Pléci was an Argentine chess master.-Chess tournaments:Pléci was the Argentine Champion in 1929 to 1930. He won at Buenos Aires 1928 and lost a match for the title to Roberto Grau . later, he won in 1929 and won a match against Grau in 1930...
, chess player - Julio Popper, engineer and colonizer of Tierra del FuegoTierra del FuegoTierra del Fuego is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of , and a group of smaller islands including Cape...
, from Romania. - Daniel Rabinovich, musician-humorist of the group Les LuthiersLes LuthiersLes Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other Spanish-speaking countries such as Paraguay, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela. They were formed in 1967 by Gerardo Masana, during the height of a period of very...
- Ariel RotAriel RotAriel Rot is an Argentine musician.He went to Spain when he was young and became a member of the group Tequila. Later he started a musical career alone, after which he became a member of the group Los Rodríguez .More recently he has returned to solo performing...
, musician - Cecilia RothCecilia RothCecilia Roth is an Argentine actress.Her father, Abrasha Rotenberg , a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Ukraine, is an editor and a journalist. He met Cecilia's mother, an Argentinian singer of Sephardic descent Dina Rot, in Argentina. Cecilia Roth has made appearances in numerous television series...
, actress - Jaime José RotmanJaime José RotmanJaime José Rotman is a retired Argentine football goalkeeper. He began his career in 1932 with Argentinos Juniors, where he played until 1935. He then joined Vélez Sársfield....
, soccer player - Lalo SchifrinLalo SchifrinLalo Schifrin is an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the "Theme from Mission: Impossible". He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations...
, composer - Aaron SchwartzmanAaron SchwartzmanAaron Schwartzman is a former Argentine chess master who was prominent in chess tournaments of the 1930s and 1940s....
, chess player - Samuel SchweberSamuel SchweberSamuel Schweber is an Argentine chess player.Schweber played in several Argentine chess championships. He was 7-8th in 1956 , 4-6th in 1960 , 2nd in 1963 , 3rd in 1965 , 5-8th in 1967 , 2nd in 1968 , 3rd-4th in 1969 , 3rd-4th in 1980 Samuel Schweber (born 16 July 1936) is an Argentine chess...
, chess player - Ana María ShuaAna María ShuaAna María Shua is an Argentine writer who has published over eighty books in numerous genres including: novels, short stories, micro fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays...
, writer - Gerardo SofovichGerardo SofovichGerardo Sofovich is an Argentine businessman, impresario, TV host actor, comedian, scriptwriter, and film director....
, actor / producer - Hugo SofovichHugo SofovichHugo Sofovich was an Argentine film director and screenwriter.Although predominantly a screenwriter, Sofovich directed 15 films and script write over 20 films during his career, directed and writing films such as Amante para dos in 1988...
, director / producer - Ariel SorinAriel SorinAriel Sorín is an Argentine chess Grandmaster.He played three times in the Panamerican Junior Championships, and took 2nd at Saladillo 1985, tied for 5-7th at Quito 1986, and tied for 4-5th at Asuncion 1987. He was Argentine Junior Champion in 1987. He took 3rd place at the 1987 Argentina Absolute...
, chess player - Juan Pablo SorínJuan Pablo SorínJuan Pablo Sorín is a former Argentine footballer. He was born in Buenos Aires. He is a much-travelled player, having spent time in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy, France and Germany. He was captain of the Argentine team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.He is a versatile left wing-back who can play...
, soccer player - Coti Sorokin, songwriter / musician / composer
- Ana Maria StekelmanAna Maria StekelmanAna María Stekelman is one of Argentina’s leading choreographers and is the founder of the Tangokinesis dance troupe.Stekelman studied modern dance in Buenos Aires with Paulina Ossona and Renate Schottelius and then traveled to New York, where she studied at the Martha Graham Dance School.In 1968...
, Tango choreographer - Adrián SuarAdrián SuarAdrián Kirzner Schwartz, better known as Adrián Suar is an Argentine Jewish former actor, and a current media producer and businessman, better known as the programme director of Canal 13....
, actor / TV producer, - Jorge TelermanJorge TelermanJorge Telerman is an Argentine politician and journalist. He was the fourth Chief of Government of Buenos Aires City, replacing Aníbal Ibarra between 2006 and 2007...
, Ex mayor of Buenos AiresBuenos AiresBuenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent... - Jacobo Timmerman, journalist
- Bernardo VerbitskyBernardo VerbitskyBernardo Verbitsky was an Argentine writer and journalist, and father of Horacio Verbitsky.Verbitsky was a screenwriter, a journalist from Noticias Gráficas, and a member of Academia Porteña del Lunfardo...
, novelist - Horacio VerbitskyHoracio VerbitskyHoracio Verbitsky is a prominent Argentine investigative journalist and author. He writes for the left-leaning Argentine newspaper Página/12 and heads up the Center for Legal and Social Studies , an Argentine human-rights organization.He is also a member of the Directive Board of Human Rights...
, journalist - Bernardo WexlerBernardo WexlerBernardo Wexler was an Argentine chess master.-Biography:Born to Jewish parents in Bucharest, Romania, he emigrated to Argentina at the age of seven. His chess career began after World War II.In 1951, Wexler tied for 6-7th in Mar del Plata/Buenos Aires...
, chess player - Bernardo KliksbergBernardo KliksbergBernardo Kliksberg is an Argentine Doctor of Economics, recognized around the world as the founder of a new discipline, social management, and a pioneer of development ethics, social capital and corporate social responsibility....
, coordinator of the Inter-American Development BankInter-American Development BankThe Inter-American Development Bank is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean...
Initiative on Social Capital, Ethics, and Development; decorated by Guatemala for "eminent services to the country and to the continent"
Brazil
- Clara AntClara AntClara Levin Ant is a Brazilian architect and political activist.She started her political activity in the Trotskyist movement Liberdade e Luta but later moved to the centre left...
, political activist and presidential adviser - Jom Tob AzulayJom Tob AzulayJom Tob Azulay, is a Brazilian ex-diplomat, producer, director, writer, director of photography and soundman. In 1975, he established himself as producer with his company A&B Productions Ltd., in Rio de Janeiro. Produced and directs shorts, documentaries and videos...
, film director - Hector BabencoHector BabencoHéctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.He has worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States....
, film director - Eduardo SaverinEduardo SaverinEduardo P. Saverin is a Brazilian-born American internet entrepreneur and investor. Saverin is best known for co-founding Facebook, along with Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes...
, Co-founder and CFO of Facebook. - Leoncio BasbaumLeoncio BasbaumLeôncio Basbaum was a Brazilian Marxist historian.Basbaum, the child of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, was born and raised in the state of Pernambuco. He qualified as a medical doctor in Rio de Janeiro in 1929...
, physician and political activist - Moysés BaumsteinMoysés BaumsteinMoysés Baumstein was a Brazilian artist.Moysés worked in many fields: from literary creation to painting, from film making to holography....
, holographer, film/video producer, painter, writer - Adriana BeharAdriana BeharAdriana Brandão Behar is one of the most outstanding volleyball players of her generation....
, beach volleyball player - Samuel BenchimolSamuel BenchimolSamuel Benchimol , was a Jewish Brazilian economist, scientist and professor. He was also one of the leading experts on the Amazon region. His main contribution to the field of economics was the study of the social aspects of the economy; with respect to the Amazon, he studied sustainable...
, entrepreneur and Amazon pioneer - Abraham BentesAbraham BentesAbraham Ramiro Bentes was a Brazilian Army commander and linguist.Born in Itaituba, Pará State in Northern Brazil, he was the offspring of Jewish immigrants from Morocco. Bentes joined the Brazilian Army in the 1930s and after a long distinguished career reached the post of four-star general and...
, army commander - Daniel BenzaliDaniel BenzaliDaniel Benzali is a Brazilian-American stage, television and film actor.-Biography:Benzali was born in Rio de Janeiro to Brazilian Jewish parents...
, TV actor - Claudio Besserman Vianna, comedian
- Joel BirmanJoel BirmanJoel Birman, a Brazilian psychiatrist and psychotherapist, was born in Vitória, State of Espírito Santo of Romanian Jewish immigrant parents. He graduated in Medicine in the 1970s and pursued his post graduate studies in São Paulo and Paris. Birman is one of the most prolific Brazilian authors in...
, writer - Eva Altman BlayEva Altman BlayEva Alterman Blay, a Brazilian sociologist, was born in São Paulo in 1937.She is a pioneer of women’s right in Brazil and is the founder of the Center for the Study of Women and Gender Rights of the University of São Paulo. She is active in politics as a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy...
, sociologist and politician - Debora BlochDébora BlochDébora Bloch is a Brazilian actress.She is the daughter of actor Jonas Bloch, and is descendant of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants .-External links:...
, actress - Ilan Wainstein, art director
- Waldemar Levy CardosoWaldemar Levy CardosoWaldemar Levy Cardoso was the last living Field Marshal of the Brazilian Army. He was of Jewish Algerian-Moroccan descent and was born on Rua Evaristo da Veiga in Rio de Janeiro. Cardoso graduated from military college at the top of his class in late 1918, making him a World War I-era veteran...
, field marshal - Boris CasoyBoris CasoyBoris Casoy is a Brazilian journalist, the son of Jewish Russian immigrant parents. He has spent most of his professional life in TV journalism and is currently a Brazilian TV news anchorman....
, journalist - Otto Maria CarpeauxOtto Maria CarpeauxOtto Maria Carpeaux , born Otto Karpfen, was a Brazilian literary critic born in Austria and multilingual scholar.Carpeaux was born in 1900 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family, and lived there until 1939...
, literary critic - Moyses ChahonMoyses ChahonMoyses Chahon was a Brazilian Army general and a distinguished veteran of World War II. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. He joined the Brazilian Army Infantry as a cadet-officer in the late 1930's. As a young officer, Lieutenant Chahon served in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy and was...
, army commander - Juca ChavesJuca ChavesJuca Chaves is a Brazilian comedian, singer and writer well known for his irreverence. He is the son of Austrian Jewish immigrants....
, comedian, composer and singer - Victor CivitaVictor CivitaVictor Civita was an American businessman, journalist and naturalized Brazilian...
, journalist - Deborah ColkerDeborah ColkerDeborah Colker is a worldwide famous Brazilian writer dancer and choreographer. She received the Lawrence Oliver Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance in 2001 for her choreography work on the show 'Mix'. In 2009, she directed the Cirque du Soleil production, OVO.-External links:* *...
, dancer and choreographer - Arnaldo CohenArnaldo Cohen-Biography:Cohen graduated in Engineering from the Federal University, Cohen also studied violin and piano and started his professional career as a violinist of the Rio de Janeiro Opera House Orchestra...
, pianist - Gilberto DimensteinGilberto DimensteinGilberto Dimenstein is a Brazilian journalist. He is currently a columnist at the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, of which he is also a member of the editorial counsil. He also keeps a column at CBN radio....
, journalist - Alberto DinesAlberto DinesAlberto Dines is a Brazilian journalist and writer. With a career spanning over five decades, Dines directed and launched several magazines and newspapers in Brazil and Portugal...
, journalist - Tufi DuekTufi DuekTufi Duek is a Brazilian fashion designer, creator of the Triton and Forum brands, which have an international following.-References:...
, fashion designer - Dina DublonDina DublonDina Dublon is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and current member of the boards of directors at Microsoft, Accenture, and PepsiCo. She also serves as a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Global Fund for Women and...
, director - German EfromovichGerman EfromovichGerman Efromovich is a Bolivian-born Colombian-Brazilian entrepreneur born to a family of Polish Jews in Bolivia, raised in Arica, Chile and in São Paulo, Brazil...
, entrepreneur - Benny FeilhaberBenny FeilhaberBenny Feilhaber is Brazilian-born American soccer player currently playing for New England Revolution in Major League Soccer.-Early life:...
professional soccer player - Fortuna, singer and composer
- Vilém FlusserVilém FlusserVilém Flusser was a Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist. He lived for a long period in São Paulo, Brazil and later in France, and his works are written in several different languages....
, philosopher - Marcelo GleiserMarcelo GleiserMarcelo Gleiser is a Brazilian physicist and astronomer.-Biography:Gleiser received his bachelor's degree in 1981 from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, his M.Sc. degree in 1982 from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and his Ph.D. in 1986 from King's College London...
, physicist and writer - José GoldembergJosé GoldembergJosé Goldemberg , a Brazilian physicist, university educator, scientific leader and research scientist, is a leading expert on energy end environment issues....
, educator, physicist and minister - Mario HaberfeldMario HaberfeldMario Haberfeld is a Brazilian auto racing driver.After winning the British Formula Three Championship in 1998, he drove in Formula 3000 from 1999 until 2002. He posted some decent results, but struggled his first season driving for the McLaren junior team failing to score a single point while...
, racing driver - Alexandre HerchcovitchAlexandre HerchcovitchAlexandre Herchcovitch is a Brazilian fashion designer. He's of Jewish descent, his grandparents emigrated from Poland and Romania.-Overview:...
, fashion designer - Wladimir Herzog, journalist
- Luciano HuckLuciano HuckLuciano Grostein is a Brazilian television personality and presenter. He is better well-known as Luciano Huck, which is his artistic pseudonym, after the famous jurist Hermes Marcelo Huck....
, TV show host - Roberto JustusRoberto JustusRoberto Luiz Justus is a Brazilian television personality.Justus was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Son of Hungarian immigrants, Justus has hosted the popular program O Aprendiz, the Brazilian version of The Apprentice. He is married to Ticiane Pinheiro, who is the daughter of the Garota de Ipanema ...
, advertiser and TV host http://www.visaojudaica.com.br/Novembro_2004/Quem,onde,quando/quem_onde_quando_nov_2004.htm - Isaac KarabtchevskyIsaac KarabtchevskyIsaac Karabtchevsky in São Paulo) is a brazilian conductor of russian jew ancestry. He studied music and conducting in Germany, where his teachers included Wolfgang Fortner, Pierre Boulez and Carl Ueter....
, musician and conductor - Jacques KleinJacques KleinJacques Klein was a Brazilian composer and pianist.Born to a Jewish family in Aracati, he grew up in the nearby city of Fortaleza, where he began to study piano at the Conservatório Alberto Nepomuceno, which had been founded by his father...
, pianist http://www.judaica.com.br/perfil.htm - Samuel Klein (businessman)Samuel Klein (businessman)Samuel Klein is a businessman who founded the Casas Bahia string of department stores in Brazil, building them into the top retailer in the country...
, entrepreneur http://www.judaica.com.br/materias/053_05a07.htm - Samuel KicisSamuel KicisSamuel Kicis , was a Brazilian Army general and a veteran of World War II. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the child of Jewish immigrants from Romania. He joined the Brazilian Army as a cadet-officer in 1932. He served as an Artillery captain, in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy and was...
, army commander - Ithamara KooraxIthamara KooraxIthamara Koorax is a popular Brazilian pop-jazz singer.-Discography:*2009 - Bim Bom - The Complete João Gilberto Songbook - Motéma Music*2007 - Brazilian Butterfly - IRMA...
, jazz singer - Miguel KrigsnerMiguel KrigsnerMiguel Krigsner is a Bolivian entrepreneur. He is the president of the Brazilian company O Boticário, the second major cosmetic company in the Southern Hemisphere . Krigsner is also the founder of the Fundação de Proteção à Natureza, one of the main Brazilian environmental NGOs.-References:...
, entrepreneur and environmentalist - Celso LaferCelso LaferCelso Lafer, born August 7, 1941 is a Brazilian jurist, full professor of Philosophy of Law at University of São Paulo, twice former foreign minister and a former commerce minister.-Education:...
, diplomat http://www.judaica.com.br/perfil.htm - Cesar LattesCésar LattesCesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes , also known as Cesar Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark.-Life:Lattes was born to a family of Italian Jewish immigrants in Curitiba, Southern Brazil...
, physicist - Jaime LernerJaime LernerJaime Lerner was governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, three times...
, politician (governor Paraná state), urban planner - Alexandre LevyAlexandre LevyAlexandre Levy was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor.Born in São Paulo, he pioneered a fusion of classical composition with Brazil's popular folk music and rhythms. Levy died prematurely at 27 and his hometown grants a prestigious award in his name.-1882:* Fosca, fantasia brilhante, op....
, musician - José LewgoyJosé LewgoyJosé Lewgoy was an American-Brazilian television, film and theatre actor.He was born in Veranópolis, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to a Russian father and an American mother, who met in New York. He died in Rio de Janeiro. He was considered one of the best actors in Brazil, and was usually typecast...
, actor and director - Clarice LispectorClarice LispectorClarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist...
, writer´ - Gerson Levi-LazzarisGerson Levi-LazzarisGerson Levi-Lazzaris is a Brazilian archaeologist, descendent of Italo-Slovenian immigrants. Most of the Lazzaris are from Forno di Zoldo, Veneto, from where most of them emigrated during the end of the 19th century, and also after the Second World War to Argentina, Australia, Brazil and United...
, ethnoarchaeologist - Carlos Maltz, drummer of rock band Engenheiros do Hawaii
- Salomão Nauslausky, army commander
- Noel NutelsNoel NutelsNoel Nutels was a Brazilian physician who dedicated his life to the well-being of Brazilian Amerindians.He was born in Ukraine in 1913 and immigrated to Pernambuco in Brazil as a youngster...
, public health physician and human rights activist - Carlos Nuzman, sportsman and president of Olympic Committee http://www.judaica.com.br/materias/005_05e06.htm
- Ivo PerelmanIvo PerelmanIvo Perelman is a Brazilian free jazz saxophonist born in Sao Paulo.Perelman learned to play guitar, cello, clarinet, trombone, and piano while young, and concentrated on tenor sax from age 19. He attended the Berklee College of Music for one semester and then dropped out, moving to Los Angeles in...
, jazz saxophonist http://www.google.com.br/search?hl=pt-BR&q=%22Ivo+Perelman%22+%22judeu%22&btnG=Pesquisar&meta= - Olga Benário PrestesOlga Benário PrestesOlga Benário Prestes was a German-Brazilian communist militant.She was born in Munich as Olga Gutmann Benário, to a Jewish family. Her father, Leo Benário, was a Social-Democrat lawyer, and her mother, Eugenie , was a member of Bavarian high-society...
, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
-born communist militant - Sultana Levy RosenblattSultana Levy RosenblattSultana Levy Rosenblatt was a Jewish Brazilian writer. Later in her life she published on Revista Morashá pieces such as Antônio José, o Judeu, Como Viemos Parar na Amazônia, As Aventuras de Jonas, As Aventuras de Daniel e Seus Amigos, David e Golias,Yom Kipur lá em casa, em Belém,Mulheres na...
, writer - Dan Reuven, Engineer
- Edmond SafraEdmond SafraEdmond J. Safra was a Jewish Brazilian-naturalized, Lebanese banker who continued the family tradition of banking in Lebanon, Brazil and Switzerland. He married Lily Watkins. He died in a fire that attracted wide media interest and was judicially determined to be due to arson.-Life of Edmond...
, banker http://lebaneselobby.org/lebanese/Edmond%20J%20Safra.htm - Jacob SafraJacob SafraJacqui Eli Safra is a Swiss investor, descendant of the Lebanon-Swiss Jewish Safra banking family. Some of his investments include Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster, and Spring Mountain Vineyards, a large wine-growing estate located in Saint Helena, California. He is the nephew of Edmond...
, banker - Joseph SafraJoseph SafraJoseph Safra currently runs the Brazilian banking and investment empire, Safra Group. As the chairman of all Safra companies, among them Safra National Bank of New York and the large Banco Safra headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, he is ranked at 68 with a net wealth of 11.4$ billion on Forbes...
, banker - Moise Safra, banker
- Silvio SantosSilvio Santos-External links:*...
, (Senor Abravanel), TV show host - Mario SchenbergMário SchenbergMário Schenberg, , var. Mário Schönberg, Mario Schonberg, Mário Schoenberg), was a Jewish Brazilian electrical engineer, physicist, art critic and writer.-The Urca process:...
, physicist - Moacyr ScliarMoacyr ScliarMoacyr Jaime Scliar was a Brazilian writer and physician.Scliar is best known outside Brazil for his 1981 novel Max and the Cats , the story of a young man who flees Berlin after he comes to the attention of the Nazis for having had an affair with a married woman...
, writer - Lasar SegallLasar SegallThe artist Lasar Segall was a Brazilian Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor born in Lithuania. Segall's work is derived from impressionism, expressionism and modernism...
, artist - Ricardo SemlerRicardo SemlerRicardo Semler is the CEO and majority owner of Semco SA, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering. Under his ownership, revenue has grown from US$4 million in 1982 to US$212 million in 2003 and his innovative business management...
, entrepreneur - Amir SlamaAmir SlamaAmir Slama is a Brazilian-born fashion designer of Iraqi Jewish and Romanian heritage . He is the designer, stylist and owner of the Brazilian beach fashion brand Rosa Chá....
, fashion designer - Henry SobelHenry SobelHenry Sobel is a Brazilian reform rabbi and an American citizen, and was president of the Congregação Israelita Paulista , the second largest Jewish congregation in Latin America, in São Paulo, Brazil....
, Rabbi, community leader - Mauricio WaldmanMauricio WaldmanMaurício Waldman is a professor, social activist and pioneer of Brazilian environmentalist movement.-Biography:Waldman was born to a Jewish family originally from Poland and Italy in São Paulo city on December 2, 1955...
, sociologist and politician - Yaron Lichtenstein, Responsável pela arte marcial Krav-Magá no mundo
- Yara YavelbergYara YavelbergYara Yavelberg was a Brazilian psychologist and university lecturer, who committed suicide in Salvador, Bahia.-Biography:...
, political activist - Mayana ZatzMayana ZatzMayana Zatz is a Brazilian molecular biologist and geneticist. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo, currently being its Research dean.-Biography:...
, geneticist - Benjamin ZymlerBenjamin ZymlerBenjamin Zymler was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1956 and is currently based in Brasilia. He is a graduate of the Military Institute of Engineering and of Law. He has written extensively on the subject of audit and public oversight in government. He currently serves as a Minister - Controller General...
, auditor-general
Chile
- Volodia TeitelboimVolodia TeitelboimVolodia Valentín Teitelboim Volosky was a Chilean lawyer, politician and author.Born in Chillán to Jewish immigrants , Teitelboim was interested in literature from an early age...
, lawyer, politician and author. - Baruch ArensburgBaruch ArensburgBaruch Arensburg , professor of Anatomy, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University , is a physical anthropologist whose main field of study has been prehistoric and historic populations of the Levant....
, professor of Anatomy - Claudio BunsterClaudio BunsterClaudio 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) - Roberto DueñasRoberto DueñasRoberto 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 - Daniel EmilforkDaniel EmilforkDaniel 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 - Leonardo FarkasLeonardo FarkasLeonardo Julio Farkas Klein is a Chilean businessman and philanthropist.-Early years:Farkas's parents were Jews of Hungarian descent who emigrated from Transylvania to South America in 1939....
, businessman - Don Francisco (Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld)Don Francisco (television host)Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld , better known by his stage name, Don Francisco, is a Chilean television personality, and a popular television personality on the Univision network reaching Spanish-speaking viewers in the United States...
, Television Host - Tomás HirschTomás HirschTomás 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 - Alejandro JodorowskyAlejandro JodorowskyAlejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
, film director (Chilean-born)
- Nicolás MassúNicolás MassúNicolás 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 (Jewish mother) - Israel PolackIsrael PolackIsrael Polack was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian, Chilean and Israeli textile industrialist. He is best known for creating and managing the Israel-based Polgat company....
, businessman - Denise RosenthalDenise RosenthalDenise Rosenthal is a Chilean actress, singer, songwriter, and model who became famous as one of the young protagonists in the Chilean television series Amango, which aired on Canal 13 during 2007 and 2008...
, actress, singer and model - Sebastián RozentalSebastián RozentalSebastián 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...
, football player - Leon SchidlowskyLeon SchidlowskyLeon Schidlowsky is a well known Chilean-Israeli composer and painter. He has written music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, and instruments including the piano, violin, cello, flute, mandolin, guitar, harp, organ, as well as about sixty-five pieces of music with graphic notation...
, composer and painter - Claudio SpiesClaudio SpiesCarlos Claudio Spies is a Chilean-American composer.Born in Santiago, Chile, of German-Jewish parents, Spies completed primary and secondary education in Santiago in 1941, when he passed the Bachillerato...
, composer - Shmuel SzteinhendlerShmuel SzteinhendlerShmuel 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 MasortiMasortiThe 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)
Colombia
- Main: Colombian Jews
- Jorge IsaacsJorge IsaacsJorge Isaacs Ferrer was a Colombian writer, politician and soldier. His only novel, María, became one of the most notable works of the Romantic movement in Spanish literature....
, Poet and novelist - Jaime Gilinski Bacal, Banker, Real Estate Developer, and Philanthropist
- Isaac Gilinski SragowiczIsaac Gilinski SragowiczIsaac Gilinski Sragowicz is a Colombian banker and financier currently serving as Ambassador of Colombia to Israel.-Personal life:The son of Lithuanian immigrants who settled in Barranquilla, Colombia from Israel in the 1920s. He is married to Perla Bacal Zweiban since 1957, with whom he had...
, Banker, Ambassador - James Martin Eder, Industrialist, entrepreneur, pioneer
- Ramon Gomez PortilloRamon Gomez PortilloRamón Raimundo Gómez Portillo Poet and journalist born in Ocaña, North of Santander, Colombia. Son of Ramón Gómez Garcia and Anselma Portillo Quintero. Close relative of Laureano Gomez Castro, the former President of Colombia. He was the first journalist in Ocaña and published "El Escalpelo", a...
, Journalist, Writer, Poet
Cuba
- Ruth BeharRuth BeharRuth Behar is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan.After receiving her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1977, she studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University...
, writer - Fabio GrobartFabio GrobartFabio Grobart was born in Bialystok, Poland August 30, 1905; his birth name was Abraham Grobart aka Abraham Simjovitch. Apparently following orders of the Comintern, during the early 1920s he became a founding member of the Cuban Communist Party...
, Communist Party co-founder - Olga GuillotOlga GuillotOlga Guillot was a Cuban singer who was known to be the "queen of bolero". She was a native of the Cuban city of Santiago.Guillot and her family moved to Havana, Cuba when she was a small child...
, singer - José MillerJosé MillerDr. Josie Miller was the leader of the Jewish community of Cuba for 25 years, from 1981 when the community was tiny and endangered, through the 1990s during which they returned to vigorous growth and reemerged on the world stage...
, leader of the Cuban Jewish community - Meyer RosenbaumMeyer Rosenbaum (II)Chief Rabbi Meyer Rosenbaum was the spiritual leader of the Kehilla Adath Israel and the Chief Rabbi of Cuba from 1942 to 1958. Rabbi Rosenbaum was the founder of the Tahkemoni School in Havana. He also authored many scholarly works in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Spanish.Chief Rabbi Rosenbaum was a son...
, Rabbi and spiritual leader
Dominican Republic
- Francisco Henríquez y CarvajalFrancisco Henríquez y CarvajalFrancisco Hilario Henríquez y Carvajal was a doctor, lawyer, writer, educator and politician from the Dominican Republic. He served as President in 1916. He married Salomé Ureña. He had 4 children, Pedro, Francisco, Max, and Camila....
, author, president (1916) (Jewish father) - Eugenio Generoso de Marchena, minister of commerce (1882-1883), banker, presidential candidate (1892), executed (1892)
Guatemala
- Francisco GoldmanFrancisco GoldmanFrancisco Goldman is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College. He is workshop director at , the journalism school for Latin-America created by Gabriel García Márquez...
, author (Jewish father) - Alcina Lubitch DomecqAlcina Lubitch DomecqAlcina Lubitch Domecq is a Jewish Guatemalan short story writer. She was born in Guatemala to an Auschwitz survivor father, and an Iberian-Guatemalan mother. After her parents' divorce, she moved to Mexico in the sixties and left in the early 1970s...
, author - David Unger, author
- Eduardo HalfonEduardo HalfonEduardo Halfon is a Guatemalan writer.-Biography:Halfon was born in 1971 in Guatemala City. He studied Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University, and later was professor of Literature at Universidad Francisco Marroquín, in Guatemala...
, author - [Juana Solorzano De Paz], [Francisca Paz de Castillo] [Cristina Castillo Paz de Diaz], author
Honduras
- Juan LindoJuan LindoJuan Nepomuceno Fernández Lindo y Zelaya was a Conservative Central American politician, president of the Republic of El Salvador from 1841 to 1842 and of the Republic of Honduras from 1847 to 1852.-Background:Lindo was born into a landholding family...
, president (1847) (Jewish father) - Ricardo MaduroRicardo MaduroRicardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest is a former President of Honduras and Bank of Honduras chairman. Maduro graduated from The Lawrenceville School and later Stanford University...
, president (2002) - Salvador MoncadaSalvador MoncadaSir Salvador Enrique Moncada, FRS, FRCP, FRCS is a Honduran-British physician and pharmacologist. He is the husband of Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, who is a member of the Belgian Royal Family.-Background:...
, pharmacologist (Jewish mother) - Jaime RosenthalJaime RosenthalJaime Rolando Rosenthal Oliva is a Honduran politician.His Romanian-Jewish father, Yankel Rosenthal, emigrated from Romania to Honduras in 1929. Jaime Rosenthal is the leader of one of Liberal Party of Honduras's wings, and has been a perennial candidate for President...
, Honduran businessman and politician (Jewish father)
Honduras
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sefardi
gradma jew Francisca Barrera
and Mother gradma Ramona Ferrera jew last name.
Nicaragua
- Herty LewitesHerty LewitesHerty Lewites Rodríguez was a Nicaraguan politician of Jewish descent.Lewites was born in the San Felipe barrio of Jinotepe, the son of a Jewish immigrant from Poland. He joined the struggle against the Somoza dictatorship in 1958 and went into exile in Brazil in 1960...
, Nicaraguan politician - Sergio TorresSergio TorresSergio Raul Torres is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Crawley Town. He was signed from Peterborough United in July 2010. He holds an Italian passport, since his grandmother was Italian...
, former military commander, judge and now lawyer.
Panama
- Eric Arturo DelvalleEric Arturo DelvalleEric Arturo Delvalle Cohen-Henríquez is a former Panamanian head of state.Delvalle was born in Panama City. He is a member of the Latino fraternity Phi Iota Alpha. His brother Raúl is a former member of the National Assembly . Both he and his uncle, Max Delvalle, were members of the Kol Shearit...
, president (1987) - Ricardo MaduroRicardo MaduroRicardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest is a former President of Honduras and Bank of Honduras chairman. Maduro graduated from The Lawrenceville School and later Stanford University...
, Honduran president (Panamanian-born)
Peru
- Manuel BuchwaldManuel BuchwaldManuel Buchwald, O.C., Ph.D., F.R.S.C., is a Canadian geneticist and academic.Born in Lima, Peru, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in 1962 from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in 1967 from Brandeis University. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.In 1971, he joined the...
, famous physicist, expert on GeneticsGeneticsGenetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
. - Eliane KarpEliane KarpEliane Karp Toledo , a French-born anthropologist and economist, she is the wife of the president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo. She is a prevalent academic, specializing in the study of Andean indigenous cultures. -Early life:...
, former First Lady of Peru - Salomón LibmanSalomón LibmanSalomón Libman is an Peruvian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Peruvian First Division club Alianza Lima and the Peruvian national team. Before playing for Alianza Lima he played for Peruvian team Sport Boys....
, football (soccer) player - Meredith MonkMeredith MonkMeredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.-Life and work:Meredith Monk is primarily known for her...
, performance artist. - David Waisman Rjavinsthi, Former Second Vice President of Peru. Member of the congress for Alianza Parlamentaria party.
- Barton ZwiebachBarton ZwiebachBarton Zwiebach is a string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, born in Lima, Perú. His undergraduate work was in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Peru, from which he graduated in 1977.His graduate work was in physics at the...
, Physics Professor at the MIT. Expert in String TheoryString theoryString theory is an active research framework in particle physics that attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity. It is a contender for a theory of everything , a manner of describing the known fundamental forces and matter in a mathematically complete system...
. Author of the book "A First Course in String Theory". - Inca Jews
Puerto Rico
- Alegría Hudes, QuiaraQuiara Alegría HudesQuiara Alegría Hudes is an American playwright and author best known for writing the book for the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights.-Personal life:...
– author, playwright. Wrote the book for BroadwayBroadway theatreBroadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
's musicalMusical theatreMusical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
In the Heights. Her play, Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, was a Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
finalist in 2007. - Sandy Alomar, Sr.Sandy Alomar, Sr.Santos "Sandy" Alomar, Sr., or in the Spanish naming system Santos Alomar Conde is a former Major League Baseball second baseman who played for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves , New York Mets , Chicago White Sox , California Angels , New York Yankees , and Texas Rangers . Alomar was a...
father was Jewish but an agnostic who allowed his children to be brought up Catholic - Anderson, AxelAxel AndersonAxel Anderson is a German-born Puerto Rican actor.-Early life:Anderson was born Axel Levy to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany. In 1936 Anderson's family escaped the Holocaust by emigrating to Paraguay. Due to political instability in Paraguay, Anderson's family soon moved to Argentina...
– actor/director, Anderson made his debut in Puerto Rican televisionTelevisionTelevision is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
with a sitcom named Qué Pareja a local version of I Love LucyI Love LucyI Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System...
. - Blaine, DavidDavid BlaineDavid Blaine is an American illusionist and endurance artist. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic. He has set and broken several world records...
– magician, Blaine is also an endurance artist and Guinness Book of Records world recordWorld recordA world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and verified in a specific skill or sport. The book Guinness World Records collates and publishes notable records of all types, from first and best to worst human achievements, to extremes in the natural world and beyond...
-holder. - Brugman, MathiasMathias BrugmanMathias Brugman , a.k.a. Mathias Bruckman, was a leader in Puerto Rico's independence revolution against Spain known as El Grito de Lares .-Early years:...
– was a leader in Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
's independence revolution against SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
known as El Grito de Lares (Lares' Cry)Grito de LaresEl Grito de Lares —also referred as the Lares uprising, the Lares revolt, Lares rebellion or even Lares Revolution—was the first major revolt against Spanish rule and call for independence in Puerto Rico...
. - Kaplan, JulioJulio KaplanJulio Argentino Kaplan Pera a Puerto Rican chess player and former world junior champion.Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1963 to Puerto Rico, where he was raised and studied, and then later in his life to the United States, where he works for Autodesk. Earlier in his career, In the 1980s he...
– Puerto Rican chess player and former world junior champion. - Katz Montiel, MarcoMarco KatzMarco Katz plays trombone and arranges and composes music for Band, Brass quintet, and other musical ensembles. Reviewer Adam Gaines writes, "Katz's compositions are a real highlight of the disc...
– composer for Zoey's Zoo and trombonist with Charlie PalmieriCharlie PalmieriCharlie Palmieri was a renowned Bandleader and musical director of salsa music. He was known as "The Giant of the Keyboards".-Early years:...
and Mon RiveraMon RiveraMon Rivera is the common name given to two distinct Puerto Rican musicians , namely Monserrate Rivera Alers and his oldest son, Efraín Rivera Castillo Mon Rivera is the common name given to two distinct Puerto Rican musicians (both born in Mayagüez), namely Monserrate Rivera Alers (originally...
. - Leavitt, Raphy – composer, director and founder of "La Selecta"
- Lehman, MannyManny LehmanManny Lehman is a house music DJ and producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Lehman is one of the most requested remixers presently, transforming many songs into club hits....
– DJ and producer. - Levy, Hila – U.S. Air Force, made history in 2007 when she became the first Puerto Rican Rhodes Scholar.
- Meyers, AriAri MeyersAri Meyers is an actress. She is best known for her role as Emma Jane McArdle in the television series Kate & Allie .-Early years:...
– actress, Best known for her role as Emma Jane McArdle in the Kate & AllieKate & AllieKate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984 to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS...
(1984) TV seriesTelevision programA television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
. - Ostow, MicolMicol OstowMicol Ostow is an American author, editor and educator who has written more than 40 published works. Her first original hardcover novel, "Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa", was named a "New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age"...
– author of "Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa" and "Mind Your Manners, Dick and Jane". - Phoenix, JoaquinJoaquin PhoenixJoaquin Rafael Phoenix , formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is an American film actor. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and his family returned to the continental United States four years later...
– actor, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorAcademy Award for Best Supporting ActorPerformance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
), GladiatorGladiator (2000 film)Gladiator is a 2000 historical epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays the loyal Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed...
in 2000 and in 2005, he was nominated for the Best Actor OscarAcademy Award for Best ActorPerformance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
, and won a Golden Globe in the same category in 2006 for his role as Johnny CashJohnny CashJohn R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
in Walk the LineWalk the LineWalk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold and based on the early life and career of country music artist Johnny Cash...
. - Prinze, FreddieFreddie PrinzeFreddie Prinze was an American actor and stand-up comedian. He was known as the star of Chico and the Man. He is the father of actor Freddie Prinze, Jr.-Early life:...
– actor, was best known as the star of Chico and the ManChico and the ManChico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974 to July 21, 1978. It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown , the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano...
. - Prinze Jr., FreddieFreddie Prinze, Jr.Freddie James Prinze, Jr. is an American actor. He rose to fame during the late 1990s and early 2000s, after starring in several Hollywood films aimed at teenage audiences, I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer , as well as She's All That , Summer...
– actor, Prinze starred in several Hollywood films which included DelgoDelgo (film)Delgo is a 2008 computer-animated fantasy film. The film was produced by Fathom Studios, a division of Macquarium Intelligent Communications, which began development of the project in 1999....
, I Know What You Did Last SummerI Know What You Did Last SummerI Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1997 American horror film. The film stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. The screenplay was written by Kevin Williamson, writer of Scream, and very loosely based on Lois Duncan's popular novel of the same title...
and its sequelI Still Know What You Did Last SummerI Still Know What You Did Last Summer is a 1998 slasher film and sequel to the 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer. The screenplay was written by Trey Callaway, based on characters originally created in a popular novel by Lois Duncan. Callaway's script was published in an edited "young adult"...
, as well as She's All ThatShe's All ThatShe's All That is a 1999 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Iscove, and is a modern adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion...
, and Scooby-DooScooby-Doo (film)Scooby-Doo is a 2002 American comedy film based on the Hanna-Barbera television cartoon series Scooby-Doo about a group of young detectives and their talking dog. It is the first installment in the Scooby-Doo live action film series...
. - Rivera, GeraldoGeraldo RiveraGeraldo Rivera is an American attorney, journalist, author, reporter, and former talk show host...
– journalist - Seijo, JorgeJorge Seijo-Early years:At the age of 16, Seijo, who was born in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, started his radio career in nearby Manatí, Puerto Rico at a local station, WMNT-AM . He received a degree in Economics at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras and post grad. studies at George Washington...
– Puerto Rican radio and television personality - Starr, Brenda K.Brenda K. StarrBrenda K. Starr is an American singer-songwriter. She is well known originally in dance-pop, but now mostly in salsa-based music...
– salsa singer, her seventh album, Atrevete a OlvidarmeAtrevete a OlvidarmeAtrevete a Olvidarme is Brenda K. Starr's seventh studio album, released in 2005. The album consists of Salsa songs with a few Pop ballads in the mix. All the songs give plenty of room for Starr's unique, charismatic vocals to shine. Includes the hit singles, "Tu Eres" and the title track. "Damelo"...
, titled, "Tu Eres" earned her a nomination by the Billboard Latin Music Awards in 2006. - St.Iago-Peretz Bennazar, Frantz S. – theologian, philosopher
- Snyder, Aaron CecilA. Cecil SnyderAaron Cecil Snyder was an American lawyer who served as a prosecutor and judge in Puerto Rico.Snyder was born in Baltimore, Maryland. After attending Baltimore City College and Johns Hopkins University as an undergraduate, he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1930.Snyder practiced law briefly...
– Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico - Tassler, NinaNina TasslerNina Tassler is an American television executive, a graduate of Boston University , and holds the position of President of CBS Entertainment since September 2004....
– President of CBSCBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
Entertainment. - Ticotin, RachelRachel TicotinRachel Ticotin is an American film and television actress.-Early life:Ticotin was born in Bronx, New York, the daughter of Iris Torres, a Puerto Rican educator, and Abe Ticotin, a Russian Jewish used car salesman. Her brother, Sahaj, is a musician and the lead singer for his rock group, Ra...
– actress, starred in Critical ConditionCritical Condition (film)Critical Condition is a 1987 comedy film starring Richard Pryor.-Synopsis:Pryor plays Kevin Lennihan, a con man who is framed in a jewel robbery. In order to escape custody, he fakes insanity, then poses as surgeon Dr. Eddie Slattery at a local hospital when he switches places with the...
, Where the Day Takes YouWhere the Day Takes YouWhere the Day Takes You is a 1992 film directed by Marc Rocco. The film tells the story of teenage runaways trying to survive on the streets of Los Angeles...
Falling DownFalling DownFalling Down is a 1993 crime-drama film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film stars Michael Douglas in the lead role of William Foster , a divorcee and unemployed former defense engineer...
Total RecallTotal RecallTotal Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox & Mel Johnson, Jr.. It is based on the Philip K. Dick story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”...
and in Con AirCon AirCon Air is an Academy Award–nominated 1997 American action-thriller film directed by Simon West and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It stars Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich...
, where she earned an ALMA AwardAlma AwardThe American Latino Media Arts Award, or ALMA Award is a distinction awarded to Latino performers who promote positive portrayals of Latinos in the entertainment field...
for her role as prison guard Sally Bishop. - Ticotin, SahajSahaj (musician)Daniel "Sahaj" Ticotin , is an American musician, vocalist, record producer, and member of the rock band, Ra. Sahaj was born to a Puerto Rican mother and a Russian-Jewish father. During a pilgrimage to India in 1992, he studied meditation and was given the name "Sahaj"...
– vocalist/guitaristGuitaristA guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
from the Rock bandBand (music)In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* All-female band* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band...
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Uruguay
- Monsieur ChouchaniMonsieur ChouchaniMonsieur Chouchani , or "Shushani," is the nickname of an otherwise anonymous and enigmatic Jewish teacher who taught a small number of distinguished students in post-World War II Europe and elsewhere, including Emmanuel Levinas and Elie Wiesel....
, mysterious scholar - Gisele Ben-DorGisele Ben-DorGisele Ben-Dor is an American Israeli orchestra conductor of Uruguayan origin.-International Orchestra Conductor:Gisele Ben-Dor was born in Uruguay and immigrated to Israel in 1973. She graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University and the Yale School of Music, also studying with...
, conductor - Jorge DrexlerJorge DrexlerJorge Drexler is an Uruguayan musician and actor.In 2004 Drexler won wide acclaim after becoming the first Uruguayan ever to win an Academy Award...
, singer/songwriter (Jewish father) - Ricardo EhrlichRicardo EhrlichRicardo Ehrlich is a Uruguayan engineer anda political figure.Since 2005 he has been Mayor of Montevideo...
, mayor of Montevideo - Gabe SaportaGabe SaportaGabriel Eduardo "Gabe" Saporta is the lead singer and primary creative force behind the synthpop band Cobra Starship. He was previously the lead singer, bassist, and lyricist for the pop punk band Midtown....
, singer/songwriter/bassist of Cobra StarshipCobra StarshipCobra Starship is an American synthpop band created by former Midtown bassist and lead vocalist Gabe Saporta in 2003 in New York City, New York...
and MidtownMidtown-In cities:Nepal*Midtown, Kathmandu, NepalUnited States*Midtown, Agoura Hills, California*Midtown Atlanta, Georgia**Midtown , passenger rail station near this area*Midtown Columbus, Georgia*Midtown, Detroit, Michigan... - Carlos ShermanCarlos ShermanCarlos Sherman was a Uruguay-born Belarusian–Spanish translator, writer, human rights activist and honorary vice-president of the Belarusian PEN Center . He translated from Spanish into Belarusian and Russian.-Biography:Carlos was born in Montevideo, Uruguay...
, writer (Jewish father, Uruguay-born)
Venezuela
- Main: Venezuelan Jews
- Baruj BenacerrafBaruj BenacerrafBaruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-born American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and...
, immunologist - Amador BendayánAmador BendayánAmador Bendayán [ben-dah-IAN] was a Venezuelan actor and entertainer.The son of Moroccan Jewish immigrants, Bendayán was born in Villa de Cura, Aragua, and was raised and educated in Caracas...
, actor, comedian - Manuel BlumManuel BlumManuel Blum is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".-Biography:Blum attended MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree and...
, computer scientist - Jacques BraunsteinJacques BraunsteinJacques Braunstein was an economist, publicist and disc jockey.A native of Bucharest, Romania, Braunstein studied violin at age six and later, at age thirteen, took up the acoustic bass. Raised in a Jewish home, he moved to Brazil with his family before settling in Caracas, Venezuela in the early...
, economist, publicist, disc jockey - Gerardo BudowskiGerardo BudowskiGerardo Budowski a German–Venezuelan chess master.Born in Berlin into a family loving chess. His mother drew a game with José Raúl Capablanca in his simultaneous exhibition on 30 October 1925 in Berlin. His father had a friendly relationship with Alexander Alekhine who gave chess lessons to the...
, chess master - Ilan ChesterIlan ChesterIlan Chester is a celebrated Venezuelan singer, keyboardist, arranger and composer. Born in Israel in 1952, of European parents, Ilan emigrated to Venezuela in 1953.- Biography :...
, composer, pop singer - Paulina GamusPaulina GamusPaulina Gamus is a Venezuelan political commentator and former member of the National Assembly of Venezuela. Gamus is the only Venezuelan Jew to be a member of the National Assembly.- References :...
, politician - Alicia FreilichAlicia FreilichAlicia Freilich is a Venezuelan writer, novelist, journalist and educator.-Early life:Born in Caracas, Alicia Freilich is the oldest of three girls born to Máximo Freilich and Rebeca Freilich, immigrants of Polish origin...
, writer, novelist, journalist - Reynaldo HahnReynaldo HahnReynaldo Hahn was a Venezuelan, naturalised French, composer, conductor, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie....
, composer - Ricardo HausmannRicardo HausmannRicardo Hausmann is a former Venezuelan Minister of Planning and Head of the "Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning" and current Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at John F...
, professor, academic - Karina, pop singer
- Moisés KaufmanMoisés KaufmanMoisés Kaufman is a playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is the author of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, 33 Variations and is perhaps best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project...
, screenwriter, director - Andres LevinAndres LevinAndres Levin is a Venezuelan-American record producer, band leader, film maker, recording engineer and philanthropist. Levin won a Grammy award in 2009 for his production of the In The Heights Cast Recording...
, musician - Yucef MerhiYucef MerhiYucef Merhi is a Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer, based in New York.-Life and work:Yucef Merhi was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied at Universidad Central de Venezuela and New School University.. His artistic practice began in the mid 80s...
,artist, poet - Moisés NaímMoisés Naím-External links:****...
, editor, economist - Teodoro PetkoffTeodoro PetkoffTeodoro Petkoff Malec is a Venezuelan politician, ex-guerrilla, journalist and economist. One of the most prominent politicians on the left in Venezuela, Petkoff began as a communist but gravitated towards liberalism in the 1990s. As Minister of Planning he oversaw President Rafael Caldera's...
, journalist, economist - Maurice RuahMaurice RuahMaurice Ruah , is a former professional tennis player from Venezuela. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 82 in 1994....
, tennis player - Veronica SchneiderVeronica SchneiderVeronica Schneider is a model and actress.-Biography:Schneider studied Computer Science at Universidad Central de Venezuela. In 1998 she began dating a Physics Student named A.A...
, actress
See also
- History of the Jews in Latin AmericaHistory of the Jews in Latin AmericaThe history of the Jews in Latin America dates, according to some interpretations, back to Christopher Columbus and his first cross-Atlantic voyage on August 3, 1492, when he left Spain and eventually discovered the New World...
- Jewish immigration to Puerto RicoJewish immigration to Puerto RicoThe Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century with the arrival of the anusim who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage...
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