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\n\nComedic supporting actor who starred in the 1997 film\u00a0Boogie Nights\u00a0and the 1993 film Carlito's Way. As a voice actor, he portrayed Ricardo Diaz in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. His other acting credits include the Netflix originals\u00a0Sandy Wexler,\u00a0Narcos\u00a0and\u00a0Wednesday.
\nHe worked as a social worker after graduating from City College of New York.
\nHe briefly had his own Fox television series, Luis, in 2003. He also had a recurring role in\u00a0Shameless.\u00a0 He played the role of Eli Katz in\u00a0You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.
\nHe married Angelita Galarza in 1985, and together they had seven children: Cemi, Yoruba, Clare, Yemaya, Luna, Jace and Margarita.
\nHe co-starred in the 2012 film\u00a0Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, with Dwayne Johnson.
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\n\nLuis Guzmán is a Puerto Rican actor. Known for his long and distinguished career that includes mostly character roles, the actor has managed to make a mark for himself in the industry. Though he was initially not interested in acting, he later pursued the craft as a hobby and became an active street theater artist. Luis’s life changed after an old friend of his asked him to audition for an upcoming TV series. The project later resulted in 'Miami Vice,' and Luis earned a significant role in it. This paved his path to the mainstream industry. Even though for a significant number of years in his career, Luis has played thugs, sidekicks, and police officers, he earned a few lead parts and roles with relatively longer screen presence later. In addition to Luis's acting skills, his brooding expression makes him noticeable even if he plays brief roles. As he moved further toward the mainstream industry, Luis became a favorite of film directors Steven Soderbergh and Paul Thomas Anderson, who later played a crucial role in shaping his career. In his formative years, Luis mostly appeared in TV productions. He also played varied characters in his initial days. However, as the 1990s progressed, the actor gained prominence in the film fraternity and appeared in movies of a range of genres, including a few romantic comedies. Luis has earned a few awards and nominations for his remarkable work in the industry. In addition to acting, the actor has experimented with film production, too.
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\nDavid Zayas\n\nAge: 67 Years, 67 Year Old Males
\n\n\nSpouse/Ex-: Angelita Galarza-Guzman (m. 1985)
mother: Rosa Cardona
children: Cemi Briggs-Guzman, Clare Briggs-Guzman, Luna Briggs-Guzman, Margarita Briggs-Guzman, Yemaya Briggs-Guzman, Yoruba Briggs-Guzman
Born Country: Puerto Rico
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Height: 5'5" (165 cm), 5'5" Males
Notable Alumni: City College Of New York
education: City College Of New York, American University
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\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe English meaning of Guzman is Land owner, good man, \n nobleman, served in the military. \r\n \t
\r\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThere are many indicators that the name Guzman may be of Jewish origin, emanating from the Jewish communities of Spain and Portugal.
When the Romans conquered the Jewish nation in 70 CE, much of the Jewish population was sent into exile throughout the Roman Empire. Many were sent to the Iberian Peninsula. The approximately 750,000 Jews living in Spain in the year 1492 were banished from the country by royal decree of Ferdinand and Isabella. The Jews of Portugal, were banished several years later. Reprieve from the banishment decrees was promised to those Jews who converted to Catholicism. Though some converted by choice, most of these New-Christian converts were called CONVERSOS or MARRANOS (a derogatory term for converts meaning pigs in Spanish), ANUSIM (meaning \"coerced ones\" in Hebrew) and CRYPTO-JEWS, as they secretly continued to practice the tenets of the Jewish faith.
\r\nOur research has found that the family name Guzman is cited with respect to Jews & Crypto-Jews in at least 7 bibliographical, documentary, or electronic references:
\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \t\t\t\tThe Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World, by Seymour B. Liebman. Reports the names of people who appeared before the inquisition in the New Spain
\r\nExcept for a brief introduction, the entire book is a listing of Inquisition Records in the New World. This is a source for converso names in the New World.
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\r\n GET IT ON SITE\r\n From the publication, \"Los Sefardíes\" (The Sephardim),by Jose M. Estrugo. Published by Editorial Lex La Habana, 1958.(Surnames common among the Sephardim)
\r\nWhen the Romans conquered the Jewish nation in 70 CE, much of the Jewish population was sent into exile throughout the Roman Empire. Many were sent to the Iberian peninsula. The area became known by the Hebrew word \"Sepharad\". The JEWS in SPAIN and PORTUGAL became known as \"Sephardim\" or and those things associated with the SEPHARDIM including names, customs, genealogy and religious rituals, became known as SEPHARDIC.
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\r\n GET IT ON SITE\r\n Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews, by David Gitlitz
\r\nDespite the increased attention given to Hispano-Jewish topics, and the \"conversos\" or Crypto-Jews in particular, this is the first thorough compilation of their customs and practices. The author has culled from Inquisition documents and other sources to paint a portrait of the richness and diversity of Crypto-Jewish practices in Spain, Portugal, and the New World. The history of Spanish Jews, or Sephardim, stretches back to biblical times. The Jews of Spain and Portugal made formative contributions to all Hispanic cultures, the impact of which is first being measured and recognized today. The Sephardim experienced a Golden Age in Iberia between 900-1100, during which they acted as the intermediaries between the rival political and cultural worlds of Islam and Christianity. This Golden Age ended with the Reconquest of Spain by Catholic overlords, though for another 300 years the Jews continued to contribute to Iberian life. In 1391 and again in 1492, intense and violent social pressures were put upon the Jews to join the larger Christian community. Many Jews converted, often unwillingly. In 1492 the remaining Jews were exiled from Spain. The converted Jews (Conversos) became an underclass in Spanish society. Many of them clung tenaciously to Jewish practices in the face of torture and death at the hands of the Inquisition. Having lost contact with other Jews, these people developed a religion which was an admixture of Catholic and Jewish rituals. David Gitlitz examines these practices in detail and attempts to answer the question of whether the Conversos were in fact Jewish. Gitlitz's research is exhaustive. He has combed through thousands of Inquistion records, showing that a sense of \"Jewishness\" if not Jewish practice remained a core value of many Spaniards' lives well into the 1700s. Gitlitz is convincing in showing that the Inquisition unwittingly aided crypto-Jews in perpetuating themselves by publishing Edicts of Faith. Essentially checklists for informers, they described the behavior of \"Judaizers\" (sometimes the practices listed were absurd or simply erroneous). These, ironically, were used by Judaizers as guides to religious behavior. It is revealing that as the Inquisition faded, crypto-Judaism waned, though never totally vanished. Gitlitz's knowledge and research on the subject is encyclopedic. The book is written in a \"textbook\" style which makes it somewhat technical and dry, though it is enlivened by excerpts from Inquisition records, which Gitlitz has apparently chosen for their interest, irony, unintended comedy, or spiritedness. It is difficult to imagine that human beings would face the tortures of the rack for not eating pork. That these same tortured people could summon the will to laugh at their executioners is something wondrous. The book includes the names of the Sephardim (and sometimes their residences too).
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\r\n GET IT ON SITE\r\n Sangre Judia (Jewish Blood) by Pere Bonnin. Flor de Viento, Barcelona, 2006. A list of 3,500 names used by Jews, or assigned to Jews by the Holy Office (la Santo Oficio) of Spain. The list is a result of a census of Jewish communities of Spain by the Catholic Church and as found in Inquisition records.
\r\nPere Bonnin, a philosopher, journalist and writer from Sa Pobla (Mallorca), a descendant of converted Jews, settles with this work a debt \"owed to his ancestors\", in his own words. The book, written in a personal and accessible style and based on numerous sources, includes a review of basic Jewish concepts, Jewish history in Spain, and Christian Anti-Semitism. There is also a section that focuses on the reconciliation between the Church and Monarchy and the Jews, which took place in the 20th Century. In this study, Bonnin deals in depth with the issue of surnames of Jewish origin. In the prologue, the author explains the rules he followed in the phonetic transcription of surnames of Hebrew origin that are mentioned in the book. The researcher cites the Jewish origin, sometimes recognized and other times controversial, of historically prominent figures (like Cristobal Colon, Hernan Cortes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and many others) and links between surnames of Jewish origin with some concepts in Judaism.. The book also includes an appendix with more than three thousands surnames \"suspected\" of being Jewish, because they appear in censuses of the Jewish communities and on the Inquisitorial lists of suspected practitioners of Judaism, as well as in other sources. In the chapter \"Una historia de desencuentro\", the author elaborates on surnames of Jewish origin of the royalty, nobility, artistocracy, clergy, and also of writers, educators and university teachers during the Inquisition. Special attention is given to the \"Chuetas\" of Mallorca, the birthplace of the author.
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\r\n GET IT ON SITE\r\n Conversos on Trial, by Haim Bienart. The Hebrew University Magnes Press Ltd. 1981.
\r\nThe third volume in the Hispania Judaica Series, this well written story of the converso community of Ciudad Real in Spain, based on the Inquisition trials of the mid 15th century. The book was written by Haim Beinart (1917-2010), Professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an expert on this subject, and contains a list of names, sometimes also providing the names of relatives, house locations, and professions. Based on the Inquisition's records, it is a portrait of the Conversos' deep yearning for their Jewish past and the ultimate sacrifice they were prepared to offer for their continued adherence to their ancestral faith.
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\r\n GET IT ON SITE\r\n Dicionario Sefaradi De Sobrenomes (Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames), G. Faiguenboim, P. Valadares, A.R. Campagnano, Rio de Janeiro, 2004
\r\nA bilingual (Portugese/English)reference book of Sephardic surnames. Includes New Christians, Conversos, Crypto-Jews (Marranos), Italians, Berbers and their history in Spain, Portugal and Italy. Contains over 16,000 surnames presented under 12000 entries, with hundreds of rare photographs, family shields and illustrations.It also contains a 72-page summary of Sephardic history, before and after the expulsion from Spain and Portugal, as well as a 40-page linguistic essay about Sephardic names, including an interesting list of the 250 most frequent Sephardic surnames. The period covered by the dictionary is of 600 years, from the 14th to the 20th century, and the area covered includes Spain and Portugal, France, Italy, Holland, England, Germany, Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, the former Ottoman Empire, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, North America, Central America and the Caribbean, South America and more.
\r\n \t\t\r\nThis list is compiled from a catalogue the author found on a visit to Puerto Rico in the Museum of San Juan.
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\r\n \r\nAround the 12th century, surnames started to become common in Iberia. In Spain, where Arab-Jewish influence was significant, these new names retained their old original structure, so that many of the Jewish surnames were of Hebrew derivation. Others were directly related to geographical locations and were acquired due to the forced wanderings caused by exile and persecution. Other family names were a result of conversion, when the family accepted the name of their Christian sponsor. In many cases, the Portuguese Jews bear surnames of pure Iberian/Christian origin. Many names have been changed in the course of migration from country to country. In yet other cases \"aliases\", or totally new names, were adopted due to fear of persecution by the Inquisition.
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