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Many of the ]s expelled from the ] during the ] settled in the ], leaving large ] communities in South-East Europe: mainly in ], ], ] and ] (though the latter in particular also had a large ] population). Here is a list of some prominent South-East European Jews, arranged by country of origin.
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Many of the Jews expelled from the ] during the ] settled in the ], leaving behind, at the wake of Empire, large ] communities in South-East Europe: mainly in ], ], ], ] and ].


==Bosnia-Herzegovina== == Bosnia and Herzegovina ==
* ], writer and philosopher<ref>{{Cite web |title=Time, People, Memories |url=http://www.benevolencija.eu.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=70 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204132227/http://www.benevolencija.eu.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=70 |archive-date=4 December 2023 |website=benevolencija.eu.org |language=hr, en}}</ref>
* ], poet & scholar (Bosnian parents)
* ], businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ceeol.com/ |title=Home |website=ceeol.com}}</ref>
* ], rabbi, early Zionist
* ], architect-researcher, former president of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and vice-chairman of the Yugoslav Federation of Jewish Communities, 1992&ndash;1996<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=2692&TTL=The_Destruction_of_the_Memory_of_Jewish_Presence_in_Eastern_Europe;_A_Case_Study:_Former_Yugoslavia |title=The Destruction of the Memory of Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe; a Case Study: Former Yugoslavia &ndash; Interview with Ivan Ceresnjes |date=December 2008 |accessdate=14 May 2011 |publisher=] |archive-date=14 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514160601/http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=2692&TTL=The_Destruction_of_the_Memory_of_Jewish_Presence_in_Eastern_Europe;_A_Case_Study:_Former_Yugoslavia |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ], businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo
* ], composer and conductor * ], composer and conductor<ref>Voices of Yugoslav Jewry By Paul Benjamin Gordiejew, p. 62</ref>
* ], Israeli general and ] of ] * ], Israeli general and ] of ]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Elazar|title=David Elazar &#124; Israeli military commander &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=26 April 2024 }}</ref>
*], politician, ambassador of ] to Switzerland
* ], writer
*], painter
* ], rabbi, political and cultural activist of the Bosnian Renaissance
*], painter
* ], basketball player
* ], writer * ], rabbi of Sarajevo
* ], basketball player (Jewish mother)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.safsal.co.il/article.aspx?id=6463|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206104720/http://www.safsal.co.il/article.aspx?id=6463|url-status=dead|title=ספסל- הבית של הכדורסל הישראלי - אינפורמציה, סטטיסטיקה וחדשות יומיות על כל השחקנים, הקבוצות והליגות<!-- Bot generated title -->|archivedate=6 February 2012}}</ref>
* ], President of the Jewish community in Sarajevo, President of the Interreligoius Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* ], writer<ref>{{cite web |last=Palavestra |first=Predrag |title=Jewish Writers in Serbian Literature: Isak Samokovlija |url=http://www.serbianstudies.org/home_files/pdf/14_1/Vol14_1_Palavestra.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926180048/http://www.serbianstudies.org/home_files/pdf/14_1/Vol14_1_Palavestra.pdf |archivedate=26 September 2007 |accessdate=2015-05-30}}</ref>


==Bulgaria== == Bulgaria ==
{{See also|Category:Bulgarian Jews}}
* ]
* ], Bulgarian-born French economist<ref>], 2nd ed., art. "Aftalion, Albert"</ref>
* ]
* ], tenor
* ], member of the band ]
* ]
* ]
* ], president of M3 Communications Group * ], president of M3 Communications Group
* ], Torah scholar and chief rabbi
* ], vice-premier (Jewish mother)
* ]
* ], novelist, Nobel prize (1981)
* ], vice-premier (Jewish mother)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bakardjieva |first=Teodora |title=Jews in Bulgaria |url=http://www.sefarad.org/publication/lm/037/7.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630130302/http://www.sefarad.org/publication/lm/037/7.html |archive-date=June 30, 2022 |website=sefarad.org}}</ref>
* ], developer of the ] pill (Bulgarian father)
* ], Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria (Polish) * ], author and ] winner
* ], rabbi and teacher
* ] & ], actors
* ]
* ], actress (Bulgarian mother)
* ], dramatist<ref name=autogenerated1>{{Cite web|url=http://www.omda.bg/engl/HISTORY/jewsreno.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209163329/http://www.omda.bg/engl/HISTORY/jewsreno.htm|url-status=dead|title=Renowned Bulgarian Jews<!-- Bot generated title -->|archivedate=9 December 2006}}</ref>
* ], prime minister (Jewish mother)
* ]
* ], artist (Jewish father)
* ], philosopher * ]
* ]
* ], foreign minister
* ], musicologist and composer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ziezi.net/tribal/iudei.htm|title=Българи юдеи ("Bulgarian Jews")|publisher=Ziezi|language=Bulgarian|accessdate=2009-01-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207032411/http://ziezi.net/tribal/iudei.htm|archive-date=7 December 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ], painter
* ]
* ], author & screenwriter
* ], pianist * ]
* ], jazz composer (Jewish father)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.plovdivcityguide.com/newsfiles/news.php?id=130&lang_id=3 |title=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<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=14 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081148/http://www.plovdivcityguide.com/newsfiles/news.php?id=130&lang_id=3 |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ], artist (Jewish father)<ref name=autogenerated1 />
* ], philosopher<ref name=autogenerated1 />
* ], foreign minister,<ref></ref> son of Isaac Passy
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ], author & screenwriter<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bulgaria-france.net/culture/auteurs-bulgares/angel-wagenstein.php|title=Abraham le Poivrot, roman de Angel Wagenstein|website=www.bulgaria-france.net|date=22 July 2016 }}</ref>
* ], pianist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Weissenberg-Alexis.htm|title=Alexis Weissenberg (Piano) - Short Biography|website=www.bach-cantatas.com}}</ref>
* ]
* ]


==Croatia== == Croatia ==
{{See also|Category:Croatian Jews|Category:Jewish Croatian history|History of the Jews in Croatia}}
* ]
* ], film producer * ], architect
* ], sculptor and ceramics artist
* ], inventor of the ]
* ], architect
* ], architect
* ], architect
* ], Croatian politician
* ], architect
* ], mathematician
* ], architect
* ], prominent Croatian university professor, lawyer and economist, UN's expert
* ], physician, politician, humanitarian
* ], architect
* ], architect
* ], film producer and winner of two Academy Awards
* Blessed ], beatified in 2003
* ], sculptor
* ], architect
* ], founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation"
* ], physician and founder of the first sanatorium in Osijek
* ], industrialist, founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar


==Cyprus== == Cyprus ==
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{{See also|History of the Jews in Cyprus|Category:Jews and Judaism in Cyprus}}
* ] (converted to Christianity)
* ] (mentioned in the New Testament)
* ], French-based singer (Cyprus-born) * ], French-based singer (Cyprus-born)
* ] (converted to Christianity)
** ]
* ], rabbi


==Greece== == Greece ==
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* ], conductor
{{See also|Category:Greek Jews|History of the Jews in Greece}}
* ], entrepreuners
*]
* ], Artificial Intelligence pioneer
*]
* ], actor (Greek descent)
*]
* ], actor (Greek grandparents)
* ], pianist *]
* ], leader of the workers' movement
* ], philosopher
* ], member of the ] resistance.
* ], founder of ] or Dannon
* ], tv actress (Greek parents)
* ], novelist
* ], Rebetika singer
* ], Greek tv actor
* ], author and critic
* ], World War II colonel, first Greek senior officer killed in action
* ], fashion designer (Greek mother)
* ], rebetika singer
* ], painter
* ] (Cohen), theatrical director and reformer of the ancient Greek tragedy into the ]
* ], shipowner
* ], old movies actor
* ], documentarist
* ], sociologist (Greek Jewish parents who migrated to France)
* ], member of the first National team of Greece in soccer and scorer of the team's first ever goal in 1929
* ], former model and tv persona
* ], son of Holocaust survivors from Salonika, he has been called the "father of Greek music in Israel" and is quite popular in both Israel and Greece.
* ], classical philosopher
* ], author, parents from Rhodes
* ], journalist
* ], mathematician
* ], musician
* ], tv host (Greek parents)
* ], professional musical artist
* ], French politician (Greek mother)
* ], actress (Greek father)
* ], fashion designer (Greek parents from Rhodes). His original name is "Nissim Israel."
* ], CEO of Motorola (Greek mother)
* ], claimed Messiah, came from a ] family


== Montenegro ==
==Macedonia, FYRo==
{{See also|History of the Jews in Montenegro}}
* ], Romany singer (half Jewish) (''unconfirmed'')
* ], writer, politician and journalist

== North Macedonia ==
{{See also|History of the Jews in North Macedonia}}
*], Yugoslav partisan
*]
*], Sephardi Jewish partisan, writer, academic, and political activist

== Serbia ==
{{See also|Category:Serbian Jews|Category:Jewish Serbian history|History of the Jews in Serbia}}


==Serbia & Montenegro==
* ], writer * ], writer
* ], military officer, physician, diplomat, and Jewish community leader
* ], writer (Jewish father)
* ], composer
* ], member of ] and the leader of the ] party
* ], philosopher * ], poet
* ], playwright and columnist
* ], communist politician
* ], actor
* ], actress
* ], actress
* ], writer
* ], composer
* ], writer
* ], pop singer
* ], Holocaust survivor, racewalker and two-time Olympian
* ], former ]i politician of ] descent, born in ]
* ], feminist, translator, literary critic, literature theoretician, and professor of literature in Belgrade
* ], political activist
* ], cardiac surgeon, general-colonel of the ] medical unit
* ], politician, painter, art critic and publicist
* ], actress
* ], actress<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/kultura.71.html:382318-Seka-Sablic-Kad-porastem-bicu-bogata |title= Seka Sablić: Kad porastem, biću bogata |author=Vukica Strugar | date=3 June 2012 |publisher=Večernje Novosti |language=Serbian}}</ref>
* ], art collector
* ], writer

== Slovenia ==
{{See also|Category:Slovenian Jews}}

*], politician
*], author
*], Medieval rabbi
*], sociologist and politician
*], author and editor


==Turkey== ==Turkey==
{{#section-h:History of the Jews in Turkey|Notable Turkish Jews}}
* Cantor Rabbi ]
== See also ==
* ], political theorist
* ]
* ], fashion designer (Turkish parents)
* ]
* ], singer (Turkish mother)
* ]
* ], pianist; married to non-Jew ]
* ]
* ], (Muslim convert) translator & wife of author ]
* ], ] * ]
* ], singer * ]
* ], ] * ]
* ]
* ], singer (Turkish father)
* ], Founder of Engineering Giant Alarko
* ], claimed Messiah


==See also== == References ==
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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

Bulgaria

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Croatia

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Montenegro

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North Macedonia

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Serbia

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Turkey

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