List of South-East European Jews
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
- Kalmi Baruh, writer and philosopher[1]
- Emerik Blum, businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo[2]
- 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[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
- Daniel Kabiljo, painter
- Daniel Ozmo, painter
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Slavko Brill, sculptor and ceramics artist
- 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
Montenegro
- Jelena Đurović, writer, politician and journalist
North Macedonia
- Haim Estreya Ovadya, Yugoslav partisan
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
- Eva Ras, actress
- Seka Sablić, actress[16]
- Erich Šlomović, art collector
- Aleksandar Tišma, writer
Slovenia
- Katja Boh, politician
- Berta Bojetu, author
- Israel Isserlin, Medieval rabbi
- Lev Kreft, sociologist and politician
- Dušan Šarotar, author and editor
Turkey
- Ishak Alaton, co-founder of Alarko Holding
- Aaron Alfandari, writer.
- Solomon Eliezer Alfandari, Sephardic 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.
- Elijah Capsali, first Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Chief Rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire.
- Moses Capsali, Hakham Bashi.
- 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
- Hila Klein, Israeli-American YouTuber whose mother is of Turkish-Jewish descent
- 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
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See also
- List of Bosnians
- List of Bulgarians
- List of Croatians
- List of Greeks
- List of Serbs
- List of Slovenians
- List of Turks
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