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Mexico has had a Jewish population since the early
Colonial Era . However, these early individuals could not openly worship as they were persecuted by the
Spanish Inquisition for practicing
Judaism . After achieving independence, Mexico eventually adopted
freedom of religion and began receiving Jewish immigrants, many of them refugees. The book Estudio histórico de la migración judía a México 1900-1950 has records of almost 18,300 who emigrated to Mexico between 1900 and 1950. Most (7,023) were
Ashkenazi Jews whose ancestors had settled in Eastern Europe, mainly
Poland . A further 2,640 Jews arrived from either
Spain or the
Ottoman Empire and 1,619 came from
Cuba and the
United States .
The 2010 Census recorded 67,476 individuals professing Judaism,
[1] most of whom live in
Mexico City .
[1]
The following is a list of notable past and present Mexican Jews (not all with both parents Jewish, nor all practising Judaism), arranged by their main field of activity:
Jose Luis Seligson Visual Artist
Academia
Adina Cemet, sociologist, author, essayist.
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
Julio Frenk , president of the
University of Miami , former
Secretary of Health and dean of the
Harvard School of Public Health
[6]
Enrique Krauze , public intellectual, historian, essayist, critic, producer, and publisher
Helen Kleinbort Krauze , historian, mother of Enrique Krauze
[7]
Arturo Warman , anthropologist, cabinet member of
Salinas and
Zedillo
[8]
Larissa Adler Lomnitz , social anthropologist (French-born)
Judit Bokser, sociologist
Flora Botton , sinologist and gender studies scholar
Daniel Cazés , anthropologist and gender studies scholar
Enrique Leff , economist, environmental sociologist and environmentalist
Katya Mandoki , philosophy scholar
Otto Mayer-Serral , musicologist
Andrés Roemer ; lawyer and economist
Architecture
Arts
Classical music
Photography
Visual arts
Maurice Ascalon , sculptor
Arnold Belkin , painter, born in Canada
[12]
Olga Costa , painter
Luis Filcer , Expressionist painter
Pedro Friedeberg , painter
[13]
Mathias Goeritz , painter, sculptor, born in Germany
[14]
Vlady Kibalchich Russakov , painter
Tosia Malamud , sculptor
Leonardo Nierman , painter, sculptor
Wolfgang Paalen , painter, sculptor and art philosopher
Fanny Rabel , painter, member of Los Fridos artistic group.
Diego Rivera , painter, muralist (Atheist)
José Sacal , sculptor
[15]
[16]
Business
Entertainment
Film and television
Brigitte Alexander , actress, director, author and translator for
UNESCO
Susana Alexander , actress
Erick Elias , actor
Irán Eory , actress, model
Gabriela Goldsmith , actress
Israel Jaitovich , host and comedian
Pati Jinich , TV chef, cookbook author
Brontis Jodorowsky , actor
Mauricio Kleiff , screenwriter
María Eugenia Llamas , actress
Mariana Levy , actress
Emmanuel Lubezki , cinematographer, winner of three
Ariel Awards for Best Cinematography (1992, 1993, 1994) and 3
Oscars in the category (2013–15)
[17]
Miroslava , actress
Norma Mora , actress
David Ostrosky , actor
Alfredo Ripstein , film producer
Arturo Ripstein , filmmaker, screenwriter, producer
Claudia Salinas , model, actress
Alexander Salkind , producer.
Ilya Salkind , producer.
Diego Schoening , singer, actor and television host
Alan Tacher , television host
Ari Telch , actor
Gregorio Walerstein , film producer and screenwriter
Music
Alix Bauer , singer, founding member of
Timbiriche
Ari Borovoy , songwriter, founding member of the Latin pop group
OV7
Adan Jodorowsky , musician, singer, and actor
Mark Tacher , musician, vocalist, guitarist, and television host
Ariel Pink , musician, indie rocker, progenitor of the
hypnagogic pop genre
Journalism
Literature
Chloe Aridjis , novelist
[19]
Sabina Berman , author, playwright, screenwriter
Anita Brenner , writer, historian
[20]
Mariana Frenk-Westheim , prose writer, Hispanist, translator
Margo Glantz , writer and critic
[21] * a prose writer who was author of the New York Times bestseller The Empress .
Bárbara Jacobs , author, poet, essayist, translator
Myriam Moscona , author, journalist, poet and
Ladino translator
[22]
Moises Salinas author and psychologist
[23]
Sara Sefchovich , writer
[21]
Esther Seligson , writer, poet, translator, and historian
Ilan Stavans , literary critic
[24]
Science
Biology
Engineering
Edward Esseis, nuclear engineer
Mathematics
Medicine
George Rosenkranz , pioneering scientist in the field of steroid chemistry;
Contract bridge Grand Life Master
Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty , neuroscientist
Nora Volkow , psychiatrist; current director of the United States'
National Institute on Drug Abuse
David Kershenobich Stalnikowitz, gastroenterologist; former director of the
Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition
Samuel Siegfried Karl von Basch , personal physician of emperor
Maximilian of Mexico and the inventor of the
blood pressure meter (also known as
sphygmomanometer )
Edna Cukierman , biochemist
René Drucker Colín , neuroscientist
Enrique Graue Wiechers , ophtalmologist, former rector of
UNAM .
Marcos Rojkind Matlyuk , physiologist
Arturo Rosenblueth , physiologist, known as one of the pioneers of cybernetics
Physics
Politics
Gabriela Brimmer , writer and activist for persons with disabilities
Luis de Carabajal y Cueva , adventurer, slave-trader, Governor of Nuevo León
Luis de Carabajal the younger , Governor of Nuevo León, author
Francisco de Carvajal , founder of the New Kingdom of León.
David Goldbaum , surveyor and politician of Baja California
Jorge Castañeda Gutman , politician and academic who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs; also known for losing a Supreme Court ruling that would have allowed him to run as an Independent in the 2006 Presidential race
Vicente Lombardo Toledano , labor leader
Diego de Montemayor [
citation needed ] , founder of Monterrey
[29]
[30]
Juan de Oñate , Governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, descendant of Conversos
Andrés Roemer , diplomat, author
Eliezer Ronen , Israeli politician
Claudia Sheinbaum , Mayor of Mexico City and Presidential candidate
Binyamin Temkin , Israeli politician
José Woldenberg , political scientist and sociologist
Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, Senator from Mexico City and former Secretary of Health
Religion
Jacob Avigdor , Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Jewish community, author, Holocaust survivor
Yosef Dayan , rabbi and the author of several books in Hebrew, Spanish and Italian
Moisés Kaiman , rabbi from Monterrey
Sports
See also
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"Critical Approaches to Jewish-Mexican Literature Review | Sephardic Horizons" . www.sephardichorizons.org .
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Wolf Ruvinskis was a famous wrestler in the 1950s.... Jacobo Zabludovsky is a household name, having been a prominent news anchor for decades both in television and radio."
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Archived 2006-04-26 at the
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Where Words Like Monarchs Fly
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".:: Welcome To The Jewish Ledger ::" . jewishledger.com . Archived from
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^ Farias, George. The Farias chronicles: a history and genealogy of a Portuguese/Spanish family.
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