Jewish immigration to 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 — more than half of whom live in Argentina, with large communities also present in Brazil and Mexico.
In Mexico, Monterrey (several early settlers were Jews) and Mexico City have the largest Jewish populations. The book '' Estudio Histórico De La Migración Judía A México 1900-1950 '' has records of almost 11,300 who immigrated to Mexico between 1900 and 1950 . A majority of these (7,023) where Ashkenazi Jews who originated from Eastern Europe , mainly from Poland . 2,640 others arrived from either Spain or the Ottoman Empire and 1,619 from Cuba and the United States . In 1990 there were almost 58,000 and 45,000 people in 2000 professing the Jewish religion in the country, according to the INEGI .
The following is a list of some renowned Mexican Jews:
- Carlos Alazraki , prominent publicist
- Alix Bauer , singer, ex-member of Timbiriche
- Jacob Bekenstein , physicist
- Sergio Berlioz , composer, musicologist, journalist
- Sabina Berman , playwright
- Shanik Berman broadcaster
- Emilio Betech Rophie writer and host of Jewish talk show on Radio Red
- Judit Bokser , writer and professor at the UNAM
- Daniel Catán , composer
- Esther Cohen , author
- David Saul Guakil ,President of the State congress in Baja California
- Salomon Cohen & Miguel Goldstein co-founders of Dorian department stores chain
- Giselle Fernández , television journalist (Jewish mother)
- Senya Fleshin , Ukranian -born anarchist and photographer, companion of Mollie Steimer
- Julio Frenk , physician and current Secretary of Health in Mexico
- Pedro Friedeberg , painter
- Morris Gilbert , theater producer, director of OCESA Teatro
- Margo Glantz , writer & critic
- Alejandro Jodorowsky , Chile an-born director
- Arnoldo Kraus , author
- Enrique Krauze , writer & historian
- Helen Kleinbort Krauze , historian mother of Enrique Krauze
- Santiago Levy Algazi , director of the Mexican Social Security Institute from December 2000 to September 2005
- Alejandro Marcovich , member of Caifanes
- Adela Micha , news anchor
- Myriam Moscona , author, journalist, poet and Ladino translator
- Marcos Moshinsky , physicist
- Sergio Nudelstejer , author and historian
- Sara Paxton , actress
- Arturo Ripstein , film director
- Pablo Rudomín , neuroscientist
- Wolf Ruvinskis , actor, Luchador
- Isaac Saba Rafaul , owner of Grupo Casa Saba
- Moisés Saba , businessman
- Fernando Schwartz , sports comentator
- Sara Sefchovich , writer
- Esther Shabot , journalist and educator
- Ilan Stavans , literary critic
- Rodolfo Stavenhagen , United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms Of Indigenous Peoples
- Mollie Steimer , Russia n-born anarchist and communist, companion of Senya Fleshin
- Henryk Szeryng , violinist
- Alan Tacher broadcaster & entertainer
- Ari Telch , actor
- Abe Vigoda , actor
- Arturo Warman , anthropologist, cabinet member of Salinas and Zedillo
- José Woldenberg , former president of Federal Electoral Institute
- Abraham Zabludovsky , TV journalist (son of Jacobo Zabludovsky)
- Abraham Zabludovsky , architect brother of Jacobo Zabludovsky
- Jacobo Zabludovsky , TV journalist
- Marshall Lahiff , Mexican Rabbi
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