• Source: List of Mexican Jews

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, most of whom live in Mexico City.
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.
Julio Frenk, president of the University of Miami, former Secretary of Health and dean of the Harvard School of Public Health
Enrique Krauze, public intellectual, historian, essayist, critic, producer, and publisher
Helen Kleinbort Krauze, historian, mother of Enrique Krauze
Arturo Warman, anthropologist, cabinet member of Salinas and Zedillo
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


Sara Topelson de Grinberg, architect
Abraham Zabludovsky, architect
Alejandro Zohn, architect, Holocaust survivor




Arts






= Classical music

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Daniel Catán, composer
Max Lifchitz, composer
Henryk Szeryng, violinist




= Photography

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Senya Fleshin, photographer and anarchist
Mariana Yampolsky, photographer




= Visual arts

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Maurice Ascalon, sculptor
Arnold Belkin, painter, born in Canada
Olga Costa, painter
Luis Filcer, Expressionist painter
Pedro Friedeberg, painter
Mathias Goeritz, painter, sculptor, born in Germany
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




Business


Carlos Alazraki, advertising executive
Daniel Lubetzky, entrepreneur, author
Franz Mayer, financier, photographer, collector, and the founder of the Franz Mayer Museum
Isaac Assa, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Moisés Saba, businessman; board member of various companies
Sergio Zyman, marketing executive




Entertainment






= Film and television

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Brigitte Alexander, actress, director, author and translator for UNESCO
Susana Alexander, actress
Erick Elias, actor
Irán Eory, actress, model
Amat Escalante, director
Gabriela Goldsmith, actress
Israel Jaitovich, host and comedian
Scummy, 'cord user
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 three Oscars in the category (2013–2015)
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

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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


Shanik Berman, journalist
David Faitelson, sports journalist
Giselle Fernández, television journalist
Adela Micha, TV and radio journalist
Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski, TV journalist




Literature


Chloe Aridjis, novelist
Sabina Berman, author, playwright, screenwriter
Anita Brenner, writer, historian
Mariana Frenk-Westheim, prose writer, Hispanist, translator
Margo Glantz, writer and critic* 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
Moises Salinas author and psychologist
Sara Sefchovich, writer
Esther Seligson, writer, poet, translator, and historian
Ilan Stavans, literary critic




Science






= Biology

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Jerzy Rzedowski, botanist, plant geographer, researcher, Holocaust survivor
Annie Pardo Cemo, cell biologist




= Engineering

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Edward Esseis, nuclear engineer




= Mathematics

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Samuel Gitler Hammer, mathematician




= Medicine

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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

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Jacob Bekenstein, physicist
Deborah Berebichez, physicist
Gloria Koenigsberger, physicist
Marcos Moshinsky, awarded physicist, UNAM cathedratic, Ukrainian-born




Politics


Andrés Roemer, diplomat, author
Binyamin Temkin, Israeli politician
Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico
David Goldbaum, surveyor and politician of Baja California
Diego de Montemayor, founder of Monterrey
Eliezer Ronen, Israeli politician
Gabriela Brimmer, writer and activist for persons with disabilities
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
José Woldenberg, political scientist and sociologist
Juan de Oñate, Governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, descendant of Conversos
Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva, adventurer, slave-trader, first Governor of Nuevo León
Francisca Nuñez de Carabajal, Marrana, sister of Luis de Carabajal, executed along with family members for practicing Judaism
Luis de Carabajal the younger, author, merchant
Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, Senator from Mexico City and former Secretary of Health
Vicente Lombardo Toledano, labor leader




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


Ilana Berger, tennis player
Wolf Ruvinskis, wrestler




See also


List of Latin American Jews
List of Mexicans
List of Jews




References






External links


Judíos Destacados en México, articles on notable Mexican Jews by Diario Judio

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