List of Caribbean Jews

List of Caribbean Jews

Here is a list of some prominent (non Latin-) Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin.

Antigua and Barbuda

* Jamaica Kincaid, writer (convert)

Curaçao

*Mordechai Ricardo
*George Maduro
*Abram Mendes de Chumaceiro
*Daniel De Leon, socialist leader
*Carlos Zarur, mother from Curaçao
*Rafael Martinez Cohen
*Moises Martinez

French Guiana

*Paulo Jacomo Pinto - also from Brazilian descents, allowed Jews to enter French Guiana by the way of the Dutch West India company.

Guyana

* Janet Jagan, president (1997-99)

Haiti

* Luis de Torres, one of the first Jews to settle on Haiti, and also Christopher Columbus's interpreter.

Jamaica

* Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records (Jewish mother)
* Isaac Mendes Belisario, artist
* Joshua Haim & Jacob Raphael DeCordova, founders of the Jamaica Gleaner
* Bob Marley [http://www.bobmarleymagazine.com/interviews/heather.htm] "Per what I was told by my mother, grandmother and uncle, the Marleys were Syrian Jews that migrated from the Middles East to England and then to Jamaica. About ten years ago I did research on the surname which also showed that to be true" (Jewish Father)
* Sean Paul, singer (father of Sephardic origin)
* Frank Silvera, actor, founder of Theatre of Being (Jewish father)
* Louis Simpson, poet

Martinique

* David Gradis, one of the first Jews to start a trading business in Martinique.

Trinidad and Tobago

* Nathaniel Nathan, chief justice

US Virgin Islands

* Judah Benjamin, US & Confederate politician
* Camille Pissarro, artist
* David Levy Yulee, US politician

ee also

*List of Jews
*List of Jamaicans


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