List of Argentine Jews
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The history of the Jews in Latin America
began with seven sailors arriving in Christopher Columbus
's crew. Since then, the Jewish population of Latin America has risen to more than 500,000 — most of whom live in Argentina
, with large communities also present in Brazil
and Mexico
. The following is a list of some prominent Argentine Jews:
The history of the Jews in Latin America
History of the Jews in Latin America
The history of the Jews in Latin America dates, according to some interpretations, back to Christopher Columbus and his first cross-Atlantic voyage on August 3, 1492, when he left Spain and eventually discovered the New World...
began with seven sailors arriving in Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...
's crew. Since then, the Jewish population of Latin America has risen to more than 500,000 — most of whom live in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, with large communities also present in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
and Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. The following is a list of some prominent Argentine Jews:
Athletes
- Daniel BrailovskyDaniel Brailovsky- As a player :An attacking midfielder and striker, Brailovsky was born in Buenos Aires, and after playing amateur football at Jewish clubs, Brailovsky was brought to Montevideo for a trial at Peñarol. Under the guidance of coach Roque Máspoli, Brailovsky became part of the team that won the 1978...
, former football (soccer) player, midfielder (Argentina, Uruguay, & Israel national teams) - Gastón EtlisGastón EtlisGastón Etlis is a former tennis player from Argentina. He is Jewish.In January 2005 Etlis was ranked No.17 in doubles....
, tennis player - Naón IsidroNaón IsidroNaón Isidro is an Argentine-Israeli association football player currently contracted to Hapoel Ashkelon.- Playing career :Isidro arrived in Israel and first trialled with Maccabi Netanya. Actor Dubie Gal acted as the players agent and suggested Isidro trial with Netanya to one of the club's...
, association footballer - Martín JaiteMartín JaiteMartín Jaite is an Argentine right-handed former top-10 professional tour tennis player.Jaite's ATP highest tour ranking was World # 10, which he achieved in the summer of 1990, and he won a total of 12 titles and $1,873,881 in tour prize money during his career.Jaite's playing style leveraged his...
, tennis, highest world ranking #10 - Giselle Kañevsky, field hockey, Olympic bronze
- Daniela KrukowerDaniela KrukowerDaniela Yael Krukower is a former judoka from Israel who represented Argentina since 1999.-Biography:...
, Israel/Argentina, judo world champion (under 63 kg) - Lucas Matías LichtLucas Matías LichtLucas Matías Licht is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Racing Club de Avellaneda, mainly as a left defender .-Football career:...
, football (soccer) left defender/left winger (Racing Club de AvellanedaRacing Club de AvellanedaRacing Club is an Argentine professional football club from Avellaneda, a suburb of Greater Buenos Aires. Founded in 1903, Racing has been historically considered one of the "big five" clubs of Argentine football...
) - José PekermanJosé PekermanJosé Néstor Pékerman is an Argentine football coach and an ex-football player. He become famous as a youth level coach for Argentina, winning the FIFA World Youth Championship three times, and the U-20 South American Youth Championship twice...
, former Argentina national football team coach - Walter SamuelWalter SamuelWalter Adrián Samuel is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for Internazionale. Throughout his career he has been regarded as one of football's toughest defenders, with team-mate and Inter captain Javier Zanetti referring to him as the "hardest player" he has played with.Having been gifted...
, football (soccer) defender (FC InternazionaleF.C. Internazionale MilanoFootball Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...
and national team) - Juan Pablo SorínJuan Pablo SorínJuan Pablo Sorín is a former Argentine footballer. He was born in Buenos Aires. He is a much-travelled player, having spent time in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy, France and Germany. He was captain of the Argentine team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.He is a versatile left wing-back who can play...
, former Argentina national football team defender - Nicolás TauberNicolás TauberNicolás Tauber , is an Argentinian-Israeli footballer currently playing for Chacarita Juniors.-Playing career:During the summer of 2003, former Maccabi Netanya manager, Gili Landau, spotted Nicolás during a scouting tour of Argentina...
, Argentina/Israel, soccer goalkeeper (Chacarita JuniorsChacarita JuniorsClub Atlético Chacarita Juniors is an Argentine sports club from Villa Maipú, General San Martín Partido in Greater Buenos Aires, which football squad is currently playing in the Primera B Nacional, the second division of the Argentine football league system.The club was founded on May 1, 1906, in...
)
Entertainers
- Héctor BabencoHector BabencoHéctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.He has worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States....
, film director (Argentinian-born) - Daniel BurmanDaniel BurmanDaniel Burman is a film director, screenplay writer, and producer.According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for Mabuse, a cinema magazine, Daniel Burman is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c...
filmmaker - Tato Bores, humorist
- Adrián SuarAdrián SuarAdrián Kirzner Schwartz, better known as Adrián Suar is an Argentine Jewish former actor, and a current media producer and businessman, better known as the programme director of Canal 13....
, actor, entretainment businessmen
Musicians
- Giora FeidmanGiora FeidmanGiora Feidman is an Argentinian-born Israeli clarinetist who specializes in klezmer music.-Biography:Giora Feidman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his Bessarabian Jewish parents immigrated to escape persecution. Feidman comes from a family of klezmer musicians...
, klezmer musician - Daniel BarenboimDaniel BarenboimDaniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....
, conductor and pianist - Osvaldo GolijovOsvaldo GolijovOsvaldo Noé Golijov is a Grammy award–winning composer of classical music.-Biography:Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family that had emigrated to Argentina in the 1920s from Romania and Russia.Golijov has developed a rich musical language, the result of...
, classical composer - Mario DavidovskyMario DavidovskyMario Davidovsky is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today...
, composer - Max Glücksmann, pioneer of the Argentinian music and film industries
- Alejandro LernerAlejandro LernerAlejandro Federico Lerner is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has written and sang countless songs including several hits, and his fame and recognition spread all over South America....
, composer and singer - Chico Novarro, composer and singer
Politicians
- José AlperovichJosé AlperovichJosé Jorge Alperovich is an Argentine politician, currently the governor of Tucumán Province.Alperovich was born in Banda del Río Salí to Israeli parents, in 1955. He enrolled at the University of Tucumán, and graduated as an accountant...
, governor of the Tucumán Province - Tania BíderHaydée Tamara Bunke BiderHaydée Tamara Bunke Bider , better known as Tania or Tania the Guerrilla, was an Argentine-born East German communist revolutionary and spy who played a prominent role in the Cuban government after the Cuban Revolution and in various Latin American revolutionary movements...
revolutionary fighter - Marcelo Stubrin, former national congresist
- César JaroslavskyCésar JaroslavskyCésar Jaroslavsky was an Argentine politician prominent in the UCR, the country's oldest existing political party.-Early life:...
, former national congresist - Daniel Zilberay, master of AEPI pi rho chapter
Scientists
- Laszlo BiroLászló BíróLászló József Bíró was the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen.Bíró was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1899. He presented the first production of the ball pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931...
, inventor of the ballpoint penBiroBíró is a Hungarian surname meaning "judge", and may refer to:* A brand of ballpoint pen. In British English the word "biro" is often used as a generic term for any ballpoint pen.* László Bíró, the inventor of the ballpoint pen.... - César MilsteinCésar MilsteinCésar Milstein FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.-Biography:...
, immunologist, Nobel prize
Writers
- Isidoro BlaistenIsidoro BlaistenIsidoro Blaisten was an Argentine writer.Son of David Blaisten and Dora Gliclij, Blaisten was born in Concordia, Argentina. His family was among the many Argentine Jews who populated rural areas in Entre Ríos Province during the early 20th century...
, writer - Alberto GerchunoffAlberto GerchunoffAlberto Gerchunoff , was an Argentine writer born in the Russian Empire, in the city of Proskuriv, now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. His family emigrated in 1889 to the agricultural colony of Moises Ville. His father, Rab Gershon ben Abraham Gerchunoff was murdered by a gaucho on February 12, 1891...
, writer - Bernardo VerbitskyBernardo VerbitskyBernardo Verbitsky was an Argentine writer and journalist, and father of Horacio Verbitsky.Verbitsky was a screenwriter, a journalist from Noticias Gráficas, and a member of Academia Porteña del Lunfardo...
, novelist - Marcelo BirmajerMarcelo BirmajerMarcelo Birmajer is an Argentine Jewish author. The grandson of Romanian, Polish, Lithuanian and Syrian immigrants. Best known for writing the script for the 2004 film El abrazo partido. Birmajer's work usually revolves around the Porteño neighbourhood of Once and its colorful inhabitants...
, writer - Marcos AguinisMarcos AguinisMarcos Aguinis is an Argentine psychiatrist, writer and columnist.- Background :Marcos Aguinis was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1935 the son of a Romanian Jewish immigrant...
, journalist/writer - Ana María ShuaAna María ShuaAna María Shua is an Argentine writer who has published over eighty books in numerous genres including: novels, short stories, micro fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays...
, writer - Horacio VerbitskyHoracio VerbitskyHoracio Verbitsky is a prominent Argentine investigative journalist and author. He writes for the left-leaning Argentine newspaper Página/12 and heads up the Center for Legal and Social Studies , an Argentine human-rights organization.He is also a member of the Directive Board of Human Rights...
, journalis
Others
- Raquel PartnoyRaquel PartnoyRaquel Partnoy is a painter, poet, and essayist. She studied at an art school in that city but it was after she got married and moved to the southern port city of Bahía Blanca in1954, that she attended for several years the Buenos Aires’s workshop of the influential Argentine painter and teacher...
, painter - Alejandro RomayAlejandro RomayAlejandro Romay is an Argentine businessman working with theater and TV. He worked for many years at Channel 9, and became known as the "Czar of television".-Biography:...
, businessman working with theater and TV
See also
- History of the Jews in ArgentinaHistory of the Jews in ArgentinaThe history of the Jews of Argentina goes back to the days of the Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition, when Jews fleeing persecution settled in what is now Argentina. Many of the Portuguese traders in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata were Jewish, but an organized Jewish community...
- List of Latin American Jews
- List of Argentines
- List of Jews