Here is a list of some prominent Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin. Antigua and Barbuda Jamaica Kincaid (1949-), writer, converted to Judaism Aruba Henny Eman (1948-), Prime Minister Mike Eman (1961-), Prime Minister Cuba Ruth Behar (1956-), writer José Antonio Bowen (1962-), jazz musician and president of Goucher College Fabio Grobart (1905-1994), Communist Party co-founder Olga Guillot (1922-2010), singer José Miller (1925-2006), leader of the Cuban Jewish community Meyer Rosenbaum (1910-1997), Rabbi and spiritual leader William Levy (1980-), actor in American film & TV, quarter Jewish Curaçao Rebecca Cohen Henriquez (1864-1935), philanthropist George Maduro (1916-1940), Daniel De Leon (1852-1940), socialist leader Dominican Republic Oscar Haza(1954-), journalist Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal (1859–1935), Dominican President Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1884–1946), academic and writer Guyana Janet Jagan (1920-2009), née Rosenberg, president (1997–99) Haiti Eric André (1983-), actor, comedian, and television host, dual American citizen star of The Eric Andre Show & Bad Trip Gilbert Bigio (1935-), businessman billionaire of Syrian descent and Israeli honorary consul in Haiti Luis de Torres (-1493), one of the first Jews to settle on Haiti, and also Christopher Columbus's interpreter Monique Péan (1981-), fine jewelry designer Sol (1988-), hip hop musician Jamaica Ivan Barrow (1911-1979), cricketer who played 11 Tests for the West Indies. Chris Blackwell (1937-), founder of Island Records Jacob De Cordova (1808–1868), the founder of the Jamaica Gleaner Leander de Cordova (1877–1969), Jamaican-born actor and film director, grandnephew of Jacob de Cordova Rudolph de Cordova (1860–1941), a Jamaican-born British writer, screenwriter and actor. Lewis Gordon (1962-), philosopher Isaac Mendes Belisario (1795-1849), artist Sean Paul (1973-), singer, quarter Jewish Frank Silvera (1914-1970), actor in American film & TV Killer's Kiss & Hombre, founder of Theatre of Being, half Jewish Louis Simpson (1923-2012), poet, half Jewish Yehoshua Sofer (1958-), Jamaican-born Israeli hip hop and rap artist, also a martial artist & trainer. Martinique Puerto Rico Quiara Alegría Hudes (1977-), author, playwright. Wrote the book for Broadway's musical In the Heights. Her play, Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007. Sandy Alomar Sr. (1943-), Baseball player, father was Jewish but an agnostic who allowed his children to be brought up as a Catholic Axel Anderson (1929-2012), German-born actor/director, Anderson made his debut in Puerto Rican television with a sitcom named Qué Pareja a local version of I Love Lucy. David Blaine (1978-), magician, Blaine is also an endurance artist and Guinness Book of