Venezuelan Jews - Reynaldo Hahn, Teodoro Petkoff, Ricardo Hausmann, Karina, Henrique Capriles Radonski, Baruj Benacerraf, Jacques Braunstein (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Reynaldo Hahn, Teodoro Petkoff, Ricardo Hausmann, Karina, Henrique Capriles Radonski, Baruj Benacerraf, Jacques Braunstein, Maurice Ruah, Moiss Kaufman, Ilan Chester, Moiss Nam, Amador Bendayn, Gerardo Budowski, Paulina Gamus. Excerpt: Amador Bendayn Amador Bendayn (November 11, 1920 August 8, 1989) was a Venezuelan actor and entertainer . The son of Moroccan Jewish immigrants, Bendayn was born in Villa de Cura, Aragua, and was raised and educated in Caracas . He started his career in radio in 1937 as an announcer and comedian . Bendayn gained a huge popularity for his comedies El Bachiller y Bartolo (1949 59) and La Bodega de la Esquina (1950 1960), and when it went from radio to television, his popularity and his audience continued to grow. He also appeared in several movies in Mexico and Venezuela from 1947 through 1971 and worked in The Amador News, a satirical TV-news parody, in the mid-1960s. In 1968, Bendayn was hired by Radio Caracas Televisin to host Sbado Espectacular, a five-hour marathon variety show which lasted through 1971. A year later he moved to Venevisin, as the show was renamed Sbado Sensacional . Bendayn hosted his show until 1989, a few months before his death in Caracas, aged 68. Selected filmography Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Baruj Benacerraf Baruj Benacerraf (born 29 October 1920) is a Venezuelan immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self." His brother is well-known philosopher Paul Benacerraf . Born in Caracas, his parents were Sephardic Jews: his father was born in the Spanish Morocco (city o...