List of Caribbean Jews
Here is a list of some prominent (non Latin-) Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
- Cantor Irving N. Spenadel led the Jewish community of Aruba on July 2002.
- Hugo Ou, chinaman.
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
- Nick Ligthart, owner of the first banana plantation on the island; notorious for importing Ukrainian immigrant workers. Ashkenazi origin.
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)
- Nikolo Kottarelli, luxury hotel tycoon
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
- Storm Portner, one of the first sugar cane producers in Haiti.
Jamaica
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
See also