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List of Latin American Jews
Since immigration began in the late 19th century, 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 and Mexico. Here is a list of some prominent Latin American Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Argentina
- Hector Babenco , film director (Argentinian-born)
- Daniel Barenboim, conductor & pianist
- Laszlo Biro, inventor of the biro
- Daniel Burman , film director
- Andrés Calamaro , singer/songwriter
- Gregory Chaitin, mathematician (Argentinian parents)
- Mario Davidovsky, composer
- Ariel Dorfman, playwright (Argentinian-born)
- Giora Feidman , klezmer musician
- Juan Gelman , poet
- Alberto Gerchunoff, writer
- Osvaldo Golijov, classical composer
- Mauricio Kagel, classical composer
- Daniela Krukower , judo world champion
- César Milstein, immunologist, Nobel prize (1984)
- Miguel Najdorf, chess player
- Alejandra Pizarnik , poet
- Cecilia Roth , actress
- Lalo Schifrin, composer
- Ana María Shua , writer
- Juan Pablo Sorin, football player
- Alicia Steimberg , writer
- Jacobo Timerman, journalist
- Horacio Verbitsky , journalist
Brazil
- Hector Babenco , film director
- Adriana Behar , beach volleyball player
- Daniel Benzali , TV actor
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, literary critic
- Vilém Flusser, philosopher
- Ithamara Koorax , jazz singer
- Jaime Lerner, Paraná governor, urban planner
- Clarice Lispector, writer
- Oscar Niemeyer, architect
- Ivo Perelman , jazz saxophonist
- Flora Purim, jazz singer
- Bernard Rajzman , volleyball player
- Edmond Safra , banker
- Silvio Santos, TV show host
- Moacyr Scliar , author
- Lasar Segall , artist
- Gregori Warchavchik , architect
Chile
Colombia
- Jorge Isaacs , poet
- Kaleil Isaza Tuzman , entrepeneur
Cuba
- Ruth Behar , writer
- Jamie-Lynn DiScala, actress (converted Cuban mother)
- Fabio Grobart , communist party co-founder
- Brett Ratner, film director (Cuban mother)
El Salvador
Guatemala
- Francisco Goldman , author (Jewish father)
Honduras
- Juan Lindo, president (1847) (Jewish father)
- Ricardo Maduro, president (2002)
- Salvador Moncada , pharmacologist (Jewish mother)
Mexico
- Jacob Bekenstein, physicist
- Sabina Berman , playwright
- Jorge Castañeda, foreign minister (Jewish mother)
- Daniel Catán, composer
- Tito Fuentes , member of Molotov
- Margo Glantz , writer & critic
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, director
- Frida Kahlo, painter (Jewish father)
- Alejandro Marcovich , member of Caifanes
- Marcos Moshinsky, physicist
- Fernando Schwartz , sports comentator
- Ilan Stavans , literary critic
- Henryk Szeryng, violinist
- Ari Telch , actor
- Leon Trotsky, revolutionary (Mexican exile)
- Pancho Villa, revolutionary (Jewish paternal grandfather)
- Jacobo Zabludovsky, tv journalist
Panama
- Eric Arturo Delvalle , president (1987)
- Ricardo Maduro, Honduran president (Panamanian-born)
Peru
- Isaac Goldemberg , poet
- Meredith Monk, performance artist
- David Waisman , second vice-president
Uruguay
- Gisele Ben-Dor , conductor
- Jorge Drexler, singer/songwriter (Jewish father, raised Jewish)
- Jose Gurvich , painter
- Teresa Porzecanski , writer
Venezuela
- Manuel Blum, computer scientist, Turing Award (1995)
- Andres Levin , keyboardist in Yerba Buena
- Moisés Kaufman , founder of NY's Tectonic Theater Project
- Reynaldo Hahn, composer (Jewish father)
- Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel prize (1980)
See also
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