List of Jews from the Arab world
From the Arab Expansion until the 1960s, Jews were a significant part of the population of Arab countries. Before 1948, an estimated 900,000 Jews lived in what are now Arab states. Here is a list of some prominent Jews from the Arab World, arranged by country of birth.
Al-Andalus
- Mūsā ibn Maymūn, medieval philosopher and Torah scholar
- Abu Harun Musa bin Ya'acub ibn Ezra-philosopher and linguist
Algeria
- Isaac Alfasi, Talmudist and posek. Best known for his work of halakha
- Jacques Attali, economist, writer
- Cheb i Sabbah, famous club DJ
- Lili Boniche, musician
- Patrick Bruel, singer, actor
- Alain Chabat, actor
- Hélène Cixous, feminist writer
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, physicist, Nobel prize (1997)
- Jacques Derrida, deconstructionist philosopher
- Alphonse Halimi, boxer: World Bantamweight Champion[1]
- Roger Hanin, film actor & director
- Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher
- Enrico Macias (Gaston Ghrenassia), French singer
- Line Monty (Eliane Sarfati), Algerian singer
- Reinette l'Oranaise, Famous Algerian singer from Oran. Known as one of Oran's respected artists. Best known for Nhabek Nhabek and Mazal Haï Mazal
Bahrain
- Menasheh Idafar, former Bahraini/British racing driver with dual citizenship
- Nancy Khedouri, current member of parliament[2]
- Ebrahim Daoud Nonoo, former member of parliament
- Houda Ezra Nonoo, former member of parliament and former Ambassador of Bahrain to the US
- Misha Nonoo, US-based British-Bahraini fashion designer
Egypt
- André Aciman, writer and academic
- Guy Béart, French singer
- Eli Cohen, celebrated Israeli spy
- Sir Ronald Cohen, Egyptian-born businessman
- Jacques Hassoun, Psychoanalyst, writer
- Aura Herzog, widow of Chaim Herzog, the sixth President of the State of Israel
- Eric Hobsbawm, historian (Jewish-Polish & -German parents living in Cairo)
- Edmond Jabès, poet
- Paula Jacques, writer, journalist, radio show producer
- Jacqueline Kahanoff, writer
- Ranan Lurie, political cartoonist
- Moshe Marzouk, doctor
- Roland Moreno, engineer, inventor of the Smart Card
- Layla Murad, singer
- Haim Saban, TV producer
- Saadia ben Yosef, rabbi
- Sylvain Sylvain (Sylvain Mizrahi), guitarist for New York Dolls
- Bat Ye'or, historian
- Avraham Yosef, rabbi
- Yaakov Yosef, rabbi
- Ahmed Zayat, entrepreneur and owner of Zayat Stables LLC
Iraq
- Many Tannaim and Amoraim, including:
- Abba Arika, "Rabh", amora
- Shmuel Yarchina'ah, "Mar Samuel", or Samuel of Nehardea, amora
- Rav Huna
- Rav Chisda
- Abaye, amora
- Rav Papa, amora
- Rav Ashi (Abana), rav, amora
- Anan ben David, founder of Qara'ism
- Dodai ben Nahman
- Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, politician
- Ya'qub Bilbul, poet
- Sir Sassoon Eskell, Iraqi statesman and financier
- Naeim Giladi, writer
- Sir Naim Dangoor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
- N.J. Dawood, translator of Koran
- Hakham Yosef Chayyim of Baghdad, "Ben Ish Chai"
- Yitzchak Kadouri, rabbi and kabbalist
- Elie Kedourie, historian
- Sami Michael*, Israeli writer
- Shafiq Ades, wealthy businessman
- Samir Naqqash, novelist
- Maurice & Charles Saatchi, advertising executives
- Yona Sabar, Kurdish Jewish scholar, linguist and researcher.
- David Sassoon, Anglo-Indian merchant, and Sassoon family
- Avi Shlaim, Oxford Professor born in Iraq
- Yaakov Chaim Sofer, rabbi
- Dahlia Wasfi, activist
- Ovadia Yosef, rabbi
Kuwait
- Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity, singers
Libya
- George Borba, footballer
Lebanon
- David Nahmad, backgammon champion and art dealer
- Yfrah Neaman, violinist
- Gad Saad, evolutionary behavioral scientist
- Isaac Sasson, president of the community 'Haïm Cohen Halala' in Beirut
- Edmond Safra, billionaire banker
- Jacob Safra, founder of Jacob E. Safra Bank
- Joseph Safra, chairman of all Safra companies
Morocco
Rabbi Shlomo Amar
- Michel Abitbol, academic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Amram Aburbeh, Sephardi Dayan, Scholar Chief Rabbi of Petah Tikva born in Tetouan. Best known of his work Netivei-Am
- Shlomo Amar, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Robert Assaraf, historian and writer
- André Azoulay, advisor to Kings Hassan II and Mohammed VI
- Shlomo Ben-Ami Israeli diplomat, politician and author born in Tangier
- Ralph Benmergui, Canadian media personality, born in Tangier
- Raphael Berdugo, dayan, scholar, and rabbi
- Salomon Berdugo, poet and rabbi from Meknes
- Frida Boccara, singer from Casablanca
- Aryeh Deri, Israeli politician, a former leader of Shas Party
- Edmond Amran El Maleh, writer
- André Elbaz, painter and filmmaker from El Jadida
- Gad Elmaleh, humorist, actor
- Serge Haroche, Nobel-winning physicist
- David Hassine, liturgic poet and rabbi
- Dunash ben Labrat, grammarian, poet
- David Levy, Israeli politician
- Nahum Ma'arabi, Hebrew poet and translator of the 13th century
- Chalom Messas, Grand Rabbi of Morocco until 2003
- David Messas, Grand Rabbi of Paris since 1995
- Amir Peretz, Israeli politician, leader of the Labour Party
- David Rebibo, congregational rabbi and Jewish day school dean in Phoenix, Arizona
- Baba Sali, rabbi
- Abraham Serfaty, political activist
- Meir Sheetrit, Israeli politician of Kadima
- Avi Toledano, singer who competed at the Eurovision Song Contest
- Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli dissident (converted to Christianity)
Saudi Arabia
- Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya (Samuel ibn 'Adiya), poet, warrior
- David Reubeni, false messiah
Sudan
- Nessim Gaon, financier
Syria
- Ezra Attiya, rabbi and rosh yeshiva
- Émile Benveniste, linguist
Tunisia
- Dove Attia, French-Tunisian musical television producer
- Max Azria, French-Tunisian fashion designer, founder of BCBG
- Roger Bismuth, Tunisian senator
- Alain Boublil, French musical theatre lyricist and librettist
- Michel Boujenah, French Tunisian comedian and humorist
- Paul Boujenah, French-Tunisian film director
- Dany Brillant, French singer
- Claude Challe, French club impresario and DJ
- Pierre Darmon, French tennis player
- Jacques Haïk, French producer
- Gisèle Halimi, Tunisian lawyer and essayist
- Élie Kakou, French actor and humorist
- Pierre Lellouche, French politician
- Albert Memmi, French novelist & sociologist
- Habiba Msika, Tunisian singer, dancer and actress
- Victor Perez, Tunisian boxing world champion
- Silvan Shalom, Israeli politician and former Foreign Minister of Israel
- René Trabelsi, Tunisian Politician
- Nissim Zvili, Israeli politician and diplomat
Yemen
- Nethanel ben Isaiah
- Jacob ben Nathanael
- Shoshana Damari was an Israeli singer.
- Ofra Haza, famous Israeli singer
- Yosef Qafih rabbi and leader of Baladi Yemenite Jewish community
- Abdullah ibn Saba, converted to Islam (born Jewish)
- Rabiah ibn Mudhar & Dhu Nuwas, kings of Himyarite
- Wahb bin Munabbih (?–732), converted to Islam (born Persian Jew)
- Shalom Shabazi, poet
See also
- Arab Jews
- Jewish exodus from Arab lands
- Jewish refugees
- List of Jews
- List of Egyptians
- List of Lebanese people
- List of Syrians
- List of Iraqis
- History of the Jews in Tunisia
- History of the Jews in Morocco
- History of the Jews in Algeria
- History of the Jews in Yemen
- List of famous Arabs
Footnotes
- "Alphonse Halimi". International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
- http://www.shura.bh/en/Council/MPs/2011MP70/Pages/default.aspx
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