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:
David Abraham, football player
Daniel Brailovsky, football player
Dario Cvitanich, 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.
Walter Samuel, football player
Diego Schwartzman, tennis player
Martín Schusterman, rugby player
Ariel Gerardo Seltzer, football 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
Héctor Babenco, film director
Tato Bores, humorist
Daniel Burman, filmmaker
Julio Chávez, actor
Jorge Guinzburg, journalist, theatrical producer, humorist and TV and radio host
Adrián Suar, actor, entertainment businessmen
Daniel Barenboim, conductor and pianist
Martha Argerich, concert pianist, considered among the top in the 20th century
Mario Davidovsky, composer
Giora Feidman, klezmer musician
Osvaldo Golijov, classical composer
Max Glücksmann, pioneer of the Argentine music and film industries
Alejandro Lerner, composer and singer
Oscar Strasnoy, composer and conductor
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
Sergio Bergman, rabbi, politician, pharmacist, writer, and social activist
Abraham Skorka, rabbi and biophysicist
Laszlo Biro, inventor of the ballpoint pen
César Milstein, immunologist, Nobel prize winner
Marcos Aguinis, journalist, writer
Marcelo Birmajer, writer
Isidoro Blaisten, writer
Sergio Chejfec, writer
León Dujovne, writer, philosopher, journalist, essayist
Samuel Eichelbaum, writer
Alberto Gerchunoff, writer
Alejandra Pizarnik, poet
Ana María Shua, writer
Bernardo Verbitsky, novelist
Horacio Verbitsky, journalist
Raquel Partnoy, painter
Naomi Preizler, fashion model and artist
Alejandro Romay, businessman working with theater and TV
Damián Szifron, film and television director and screenwriter
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