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Many of the Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish Inquisition settled in the Ottoman Empire, leaving behind, at the wake of Empire, large Sephardic communities in South-East Europe: mainly in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ivan Ceresnjes, architect-researcher, former president of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and vice-chairman of the Yugoslav Federation of Jewish Communities from 1992–1996[1]
- Kalmi Baruh, writer and philosopher[2]
- Emerik Blum, businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo[3]
- Oskar Danon, composer and conductor[4]
- David Elazar, Israeli general and Chief of Staff of Israel Defense Forces[5]
- Jakob Finci, politician, ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Switzerland
- Isaac Pardo, rabbi of Sarajevo
- Robert Rothbart, basketball player (Jewish mother)[6]
- Isak Samokovlija, writer[7]
Bulgaria
- Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist[8]
- Binyamin Arditi
- Aron Aronov, tenor
- Mira Aroyo, member of the band Ladytron
- Gabi Ashkenazi
- Sammi The Jew
- Stavri Kalinov, artist.
- Redjina Kalinova, artist.
- Iossif Melamed, producer and director.
- Michael Bar-Zohar
- Maxim Behar, president of M3 Communications Group
- Shimon Bejarano
- Alexander Bozhkov, vice-premier (Jewish mother)[9]
- Elias Canetti, author and Nobel Prize Winner
- Carl Djerassi
- Marcus Ehrenpreis, Poland-born Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria
- Itzhak & Samuel Fintzi, dramatists[10]
- Pini Gershon
- Moshe Gueron
- Shlomo Kalo
- Nikolay Kaufman, musicologist and composer[11]
- Yehezkel Lazarov
- Moshe Leon
- Etien Levi, singer
- Sabin Levi
- Milcho Leviev, jazz composer (Jewish father)[12]
- Raphael Mechoulam
- Moni Moshonov
- Ya'akov Nitzani
- Ya'akov Nehushtan
- Jules Pascin, artist (Jewish father)[10]
- Isaac Passy, philosopher[10]
- Solomon Passy, foreign minister,[13] son of Isaac Passy
- David Peretz (ja)
- Valeri Petrov
- Georgi Pirinski, Jr.
- David Primo
- Sarah-Theodora
- Victor Shem-Tov
- Molly Sidi (now Molly Resnick), former NBC producer, journalist
- Maxim Staviski
- Angel Wagenstein, author & screenwriter[14]
- Alexis Weissenberg, pianist[15]
- Jaime Yankelevich
- Emanuel Zisman
Croatia
- Viktor Axmann, architect
- Julio Deutsch, architect
- Hugo Ehrlich, architect
- Ignjat Fischer, architect
- Josip Frank, Croatian politician
- Stjepan Gomboš, architect
- Branko Grünbaum, mathematician
- Leo Hönigsberg, architect
- Slobodan Lang, physician, politician, humanitarian
- Rikard Lang, prominent Croatian university professor, lawyer and economist, UN's expert
- Branko Lustig, film producer and winner of two Academy Awards
- Slavko Löwy, architect
- Rudolf Lubinski, architect
- Blessed Ivan Merz, beatified in 2003
- Oscar Nemon, sculpture
- Ivo Stern, founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation"
- Vladimir Šterk, architect
- Karlo Weissmann, physician and founder of the first sanatorium in Osijek
- Dragutin Wolf, industrialist, founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar
Cyprus
- Aristobulus of Britannia (converted to Christianity)
- Barnabas (mentioned in the New Testament)
- Mike Brant, French-based singer (Cyprus-born)
- Epiphanius of Salamis (converted to Christianity)
- Arie Zeev Raskin, rabbi
Greece
Kosovo
Montenegro
- Jelena Đurović, writer, politician and journalist
Serbia
- David Albahari, writer
- David Albala, military officer, physician, diplomat, and Jewish community leader
- Oskar Danon, composer
- Oskar Davičo, poet
- Filip David, playwright and columnist
- Predrag Ejdus, actor
- Vanja Ejdus, actress
- Rahela Ferari, actress
- Ivan Ivanji, writer
- Enriko Josif, composer
- Danilo Kiš, writer
- Marko Kon, pop singer
- Shaul Ladany, Holocaust survivor, racewalker and two-time Olympian
- Tommy Lapid, former Israeli politician of Hungarian descent, born in Novi Sad
- Paulina Lebl-Albala, feminist, translator, literary critic, literature theoretician, and professor of literature in Belgrade
- Sonja Licht, political activist
- Izidor Papo, cardiac surgeon, general-colonel of the Yugoslav Army medical unit
- Moša Pijade, politician, painter, art critic and publicist
- Seka Sablić, actress[16]
- Erich Šlomović, art collector
- Aleksandar Tišma, writer
Slovenia
- Katja Boh, politician
- Berta Bojetu, author
- Israel Isserlin, Medieval rabbi
- Klemen Jelinčič Boeta, historian, anthropologist and translator
- Lev Kreft, sociologist and politician
- Dušan Šarotar, author and editor
- Mirjam Štajner, writer
Turkey
- Ishak Alaton, co-founder of Alarko Holding
- Aaron Alfandari, writer.
- Solomon Eliezer Alfandari, Sephardic Rabbi.
- Isaac Algazi, Cantor Rabbi
- Seyla Benhabib, political theorist[17]
- Can Bonomo, musician who represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan
- Abraham Salomon Camondo, Ottoman-Italian financier and philanthropist and the patriarch of the Camondo family
- Cemil Candas, politician killed during 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt aftermath.
- Moses Capsali, first Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Chief Rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire
- Uzeyir Garih, co-founder of Alarko Holding
- Umut Güzelses, Turkish-Israeli soccer player
- Ishak Haleva, current Hakham Bashi of Turkey
- Barzillai ben Baruch Jabez, talmudist
- Victoria Kamhi, pianist[18]
- Emanuel Karasu, Salonica-born Ottoman statesman
- Morris Levy, music industry executive
- Elijah Mizrachi, Hakham Bashi[19]
- Darío Moreno, Izmir-born musician[20]
- Chaim Nahum, Hakham Bashi[19]
- Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi
- Joseph Nasi, Portuguese Ottoman Trader and the first non-Muslim to be appointed to the rank of Sanjak-bey (governor)
- Haim Palachi, grand rabbi of Izmir
- Abraham Palacci, grand rabbi of Izmir
- Rahamim Nissim Palacci, grand rabbi of Izmir
- Joseph Palacci, rabbi of Izmir
- Mosè Piccio, lexicographer
- Izak Senbahar, American real estate developer
- Joseph Taitazak, Spanish-born Ottoman Rabbi and Kabbalist
- Sabbatai Zevi, Sephardic Rabbi and Kabbalist
References
- ↑ "The Destruction of the Memory of Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe; a Case Study: Former Yugoslavia – Interview with Ivan Ceresnjes". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. December 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ↑ http://www.benevolencija.eu.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=70
- ↑
- ↑ Voices of Yugoslav Jewry By Paul Benjamin Gordiejew, Pg 62
- ↑ David Elazar - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ↑ ספסל- הבית של הכדורסל הישראלי - אינפורמציה, סטטיסטיקה וחדשות יומיות על כל השחקנים, הקבוצות והליגות Archived 6 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica, 2nd ed., art. "Aftalion, Albert"
- ↑ Jews in Bulgaria
- 1 2 3 Renowned Bulgarian Jews Archived 9 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Българи юдеи ("Bulgarian Jews")" (in Bulgarian). Ziezi. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
- ↑ Plovdiv, tourism, property, real estates, Bulgaria, travel agency, hotels, Pictures, maps, tour, restaurant, vacation, holiday, visit, wine, roses, architecture, sea, relaxing, art, artist, craftsmen, souvenirs, comfort, affordable
- ↑ The Israeli Government's Official Website, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- ↑ "Abraham le Poivrot" de Angel Wagenstein
- ↑ Alexis Weissenberg (Piano) - Short Biography
- ↑ Vukica Strugar (3 June 2012). "Seka Sablić: Kad porastem, biću bogata" (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti.
- ↑ Continental Philosophy » Book Reviews
- ↑
- 1 2 Jewish Intellectual Timeline
- ↑ Actors - Dario Moreno
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