List of Caribbean Jews

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List of Jews by
country
Europe
Eastern Europe | North Europe
South-East Europe
West Europe
Americas
Latin America | Caribbean
Canada | United States
Rest of World
Oceania | Sub-Saharan Africa
Arab World | Asia | Israel*
(*most are Jewish)

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

Contents

[edit] Antigua and Barbuda

[edit] Curaçao

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

[edit] Guyana

[edit] 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 [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

[edit] Trinidad and Tobago

  • Nathaniel Nathan, chief justice

[edit] US Virgin Islands

[edit] See also