List of Argentine Jews

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. The following is a list of some prominent Argentine Jews:

Athletes

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• Daniel Brailovsky, football player
• Carolina Duer, boxer
• Gastón Etlis, tennis player
• Nicolas Falczuk, football player
• Fernando Fligman, football player
• Naón Isidro, football player
• Martín Jaite, tennis player
• Waldo Kantor, volleyball player
• Giselle Kañevsky, field hockey player
• Valentina Kogan, handball player
• Nora Koppel, weightlifter
• Daniela Krukower, judoka
• Lucas Matías Licht, football player
• Bryan Man, football player
• Federico Mociulsky, football player
• José Pekerman, football coach
• Sergio Roitman, tennis player
• Martín Schusterman, rugby player
• Diego Schwartzman, tennis player
• Juan Pablo Sorín, football player
• Eial Strahman, football player
• Pablo Tabachnik, table tennis player
• Nicolás Tauber, football player
• Jonathan Tennenbaum, football player
• Nicolas Valansi, football player
• Alexis Weisheim, football player
• Fernando Zylberberg, field hockey player

Entertainers

• Héctor Babenco, film director
• Tato Bores, humorist
• Daniel Burman, filmmaker
• Julio Chávez, actor
• Jorge Guinzburg, journalist, theatrical producer, humorist and TV and radio host

Musicians

• Martha Argerich, concert pianist
• Daniel Barenboim, conductor and pianist
• Mario Davidovsky, composer
• Giora Feidman, klezmer musician
• Max Glücksmann, pioneer of the Argentine music and film industries
• Osvaldo Golijov, classical composer
• Alejandro Lerner, singer and songwriter
• Lalo Schifrin, composer
• Oscar Strasnoy, composer and conductor

Politicians

• José Alperovich, ex-governor of Tucumán Province
• Tania Bíder, revolutionary fighter
• Beatriz Rojkés de Alperovich, ex-Provisional President of the Senate
• Daniel Filmus, senator
• César Jaroslavsky, former national congressman
• Axel Kicillof, ex-Minister of Economy
• Héctor Timerman, journalist, politician, human rights activist and diplomat

Religion

• Sergio Bergman, rabbi, politician, pharmacist, writer and social activist
• Abraham Skorka, rabbi and biophysicist

Scientists

• Laszlo Biro, inventor of the ballpoint pen
• César Milstein, immunologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine winner

Mathematicians

• Gregory Chaitin, mathematician
• Beppo Levi, mathematician
• Cora Sadosky, mathematician
• Manuel Sadosky, mathematician

Writers

• Marcos Aguinis, journalist, writer
• Marcelo Birmajer, writer
• Isidoro Blaisten, writer
• Sergio Chejfec, writer
• León Dujovne, writer, philosopher, journalist, essayist
• Samuel Eichelbaum, writer
• Juan Gelman, poet
• Alberto Gerchunoff, writer
• Noé Jitrik, essayist, literary critic
• Alberto Manguel, novelist and essayist
• Alejandra Pizarnik, poet
• Andrés Rivera, born Marcos Ribak, novelist
• Alejandro Rozitchner, essayist
• Ana María Shua, writer
• César Tiempo, born Israel Zeitlin, writer and screenwriter
• Jacobo Timerman, Political commentator, journalist
• Bernardo Verbitsky, novelist
• Horacio Verbitsky, journalist

Others

• Mario Blejer, economist
• Miguel Najdorf, Polish-Argentine chess Grandmaster
• Raquel Partnoy, painter
• Naomi Preizler, fashion model and artist
• Alejandro Romay, businessman
• Damián Szifron, film and television director and screenwriter

See also

• History of the Jews in Argentina
• List of Latin American Jews
• List of Argentines
• List of Jews

Footnotes