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| Lists of Jews by country |
| Europe |
| Eastern Europe | North Europe |
| South-East Europe |
| West Europe |
| Americas |
| Latin America | Caribbean |
| Canada | United States |
| Elsewhere |
| Israel* | Arab World | Asia |
| Oceania | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| (*most are Jewish) |
Here is a list of some prominent (non Latin-) Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin.
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Antigua and Barbuda
- Jamaica Kincaid, writer (convert)
Aruba
- Cantor Irving N. Spenadel led the Jewish community of Aruba on July 2002.
Bermuda
- Puisne Judge Hector Barci, elected as highest office in Bermuda.
Cuba
- John Nunes Jamaican Jewish distiller at Santiago founder of what is now Bacardi
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.
- Gilbert Bigio, Haitian businessman and Israeli honorary consul in Haiti
Jamaica
- Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records (Jewish mother)
- Isaac Mendes Belisario, artist
- Lewis Gordon, philosopher
- Joshua Haim & Jacob Raphael DeCordova, founders of the Jamaica Gleaner
- Bob Marley [1] "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.
- Jason Adleberg, another one of the first Jews to start a trading business in Martinique (Sephardic Origin).
Trinidad and Tobago
- Nathaniel Nathan, chief justice
US Virgin Islands
- Judah Benjamin, US & Confederate politician
- Ralph Moses Paiewonsky Businessman, Politician and Governor
- Camille Pissarro, artist
- David Levy Yulee, US politician
See also
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