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Revision as of 15:55, 2 August 2006 by 20.138.246.89 (talk) (Restoring unexplained deletions)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Template:Jew list Template:JewsByCountry Many of the Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish Inquisition settled in the Ottoman Empire, leaving large Sephardic communities in South-East Europe: mainly in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia (though the latter in particular also had a large Ashkenazi population). Here is a list of some prominent South-East European Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Ammiel Alcalay, poet & scholar (Bosnian parents)
- Judah Alkalai, rabbi, early Zionist
- Emerik Blum, businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo
- Oskar Danon, composer and conductor
- David Elazar, Israeli general and Chief of Staff of Israel Defense Forces
- Aleksandar Hemon, writer
- Moric Levi, rabbi, political and cultural activist of the Bosnian Renaissance
- Robert Rothbart, basketball player
- Isak Samokovlija, writer
- Jakob Finci, President of the Jewish community in Sarajevo, President of the Interreligoius Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
- Albert Aftalion, French economist
- Maxim Behar, president of M3 Communications Group
- Alexander Bozhkov, vice-premier (Jewish mother)
- Elias Canetti, novelist, Nobel prize (1981)
- Carl Djerassi, developer of the oral contraceptive pill (Bulgarian father)
- Marcus Ehrenpreis, Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria (Polish)
- Itzhak & Samuel Fintzi, actors
- Mia Kirshner, actress (Bulgarian mother)
- Andrey Lukanov, prime minister (Jewish mother)
- Jules Pascin, artist (Jewish father)
- Isaac Passy, philosopher
- Solomon Passy, foreign minister
- David Peretz, painter
- Angel Wagenstein, author & screenwriter
- Alexis Weissenberg, pianist
Croatia
- David Frankfurter
- Branko Lustig, film producer
- David Schwarz, inventor of the Zeppelin
- Branko Grünbaum, mathematician
Cyprus
- Mike Brant, French-based singer (Cyprus-born)
Greece
- Maurice Abravanel, conductor
- Allatini Brothers, entrepreuners
- Saul Amarel, Artificial Intelligence pioneer
- Alan Arkin, actor (Greek descent)
- Hank Azaria, actor (Greek grandparents)
- Gina Bachauer, pianist
- Avraam Benaroya, leader of the workers' movement
- Isaak Benrubi, philosopher
- Moisis Michail Bourlas, member of the World War II resistance.
- Isaac Carasso, founder of Danone or Dannon
- Gabrielle Carteris, tv actress (Greek parents)
- Albert Cohen, novelist
- Roza Eskenazi, Rebetika singer
- Alberto Eskenazy, Greek tv actor
- Michelle Fais, author and critic
- Mordechai Frizis, World War II colonel, first Greek senior officer killed in action
- Diane von Fürstenberg, fashion designer (Greek mother)
- Stella Haskill, rebetika singer
- Julio Kaimi, painter
- Karolos Kuhn, theatrical director and reformer of the ancient Greek tragedy into the 20th century
- Mordechai Mano, shipowner
- Nestor Matsas, documentarist
- Artemis Matsas, old movies actor
- Edgar Moren, sociologist (Greek Jewish parents who migrated to France)
- Alvertos Nahmias, member of the first National team of Greece in soccer and scorer of the team's first ever goal in 1929
- Errikos Petillon, former model and tv persona
- Yehuda Poliker, 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.
- Philo, classical philosopher
- Moise Rahmani, author, parents from Rhodes
- Maria Rezan, journalist
- Raphaël Salem, mathematician
- David Saltiel, musician
- Silvio Santos, tv host (Greek parents)
- Nicholas Sarkozy, French politician (Greek-Jewish grandfather)
- Susan Sideropoulos, actress & singer (Greek father)
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler, actress (Greek father)
- Olivier Strelli, fashion designer (Greek parents from Rhodes). His original name is "Nissim Israel."
- Edward Zander, CEO of Motorola (Greek mother)
- Sabbatai Zevi, claimed Messiah, came from a Romaniotes family
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
- Esma Redzepova, Romany singer (half Jewish) (unconfirmed)
Serbia & Montenegro
- David Albahari, writer
- Danilo Kis, writer (Jewish father)
- Yosef Lapid, member of Knesset and the leader of the Shinui party
- Thomas Nagel, philosopher
- Moše Pijade, communist politician
Turkey
- Cantor Rabbi Isaac Algazi
- Seyla Benhabib, political theorist
- Nicole Farhi, fashion designer (Turkish parents)
- Eydie Gorme, singer (Turkish mother)
- Victoria Kamhi, pianist; married to non-Jew Joaquín Rodrigo
- Tilda Kemal, (Muslim convert) translator & wife of author Yasar Kemal
- Elijah Mizrachi, Hakham Bashi
- Dario Moreno, singer
- Chaim Nahum, Hakham Bashi
- Neil Sedaka, singer (Turkish father)
- Isaac Alaton, Founder of Engineering Giant Alarko
- Sabbatai Zevi, claimed Messiah
See also
- List of Bosnians
- List of Bulgarians
- List of Croatians
- List of Greeks
- List of Serbs
- List of Slovenians
- List of Turks