List of South-East European Jews

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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 Bosnia And Herzegovina (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.

[edit] Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Vanja Albahari, actor
• Ammiel Alcalay, poet & scholar (Bosnian parents)
• Judah Alkalai, rabbi, early member of the Zionist movement
• Haim Alkalaj, writer
• Sven Alkalaj, minister of foreign affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Abraham Capon, poet
• Ivica Ceresnjes, architect-researcher, former president of the Jewish community in Sarajevo
• Laura Papo Bahoreta, writer
• Jakov Bararon, painter
• Berta Baruh, painter
• Kalmi Baruh, writer and philosopher
• Emerik Blum, businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo
• Matusja Blum, pianist, former manager of Musical Academy in the Sarajevo
• Meir Menahem Danon, rabbinical writer, and chief rabbi of Sarajevo
• Mosha Danon, writer
• Oskar Danon, composer and conductor
• Avram Buki Finci, writer
• Eli Finci, writer, journalist, manager of the former Yugoslav national theatre
• Leon Finci, writer, publisher
• Zoja Finci, painter
• David Elazar, Israeli general and Chief of Staff of Israel Defense Forces
• Samuel Elazar, historian, former president of the Jewish community in Sarajevo
• Papo Sentov Eliezer, writer
• Igor Gaon, former head of municipality Centar Sarajevo, former ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Council of Europe
• Daniel Kabiljo, painter
• Baruh Kalmi, writer, linguist and historian, famous international scientist
• David Kamhi, musician and writer
• Aron Katon, writer
• Erih Kosh, writer
• Moric Levi, rabbi, political and cultural activist of the Bosnian Renaissance
• Josip Levi - Monsino, painter
• Rikica Ovadija, painter
• Daniel Ozmo, graphic artist
• Isak Papo, writer
• Etela Pardo, actress
• Jicak Pardo, writer
• Moreno David Pardo, writer
• James Haim Pinto, painter
• Ranko Rihtman, composer, pianist, conductor, arranger for big bands, chamber and symphonic orchestras.
• Abraham Merkado Romano, writer
• Samuel Romano, poet
• Robert Rothbart, basketball player
• Isak Samokovlija, writer
• Marcel Schneider, philosopher and mathematician
• Ivan Straus, famous architect, member of Academy of Arts & Sciences
• Jakob Finci, President of the Jewish community in Sarajevo, President of the Interreligious Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina

[edit] Bulgaria

• Albert Aftalion, French economist
• Maxim Behar, president of M3 Communications Group
• Alexander Bozhkov, vice-premier (Jewish mother)
• Elias Canetti, novelist, Nobel prize (1981)
• Marcus Ehrenpreis, Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria
• Itzhak & Samuel Fintzi, dramatists
• Milcho Leviev, jazz composer (Jewish father)^[1]
• Andrey Lukanov, prime minister (Jewish mother)
• Jules Pascin, artist (Jewish father)
• Isaac Passy, philosopher
• Solomon Passy, foreign minister
• David Peretz, painter
• Pancho Vladigerov, composer
• Angel Wagenstein, author & screenwriter
• Alexis Weissenberg, pianist

[edit] Croatia

• William Feller, statistician [3]
• David Frankfurter
• Lavoslav Glesinger (Leopold Glesinger) (February 6, 1901, Zagreb, Hungary – March 29, 1986, Zagreb, Croatia), professor, physician
• Branko Grünbaum, mathematician
• Branko Lustig, film producer
• David Schwarz, inventor of the Zeppelin^[2]

[edit] Cyprus

• Mike Brant, French-based singer (Cyprus-born)

[edit] Greece

• Maurice Abravanel, conductor
• Allatini Brothers, entrepreneurs
• Saul Amarel, Artificial Intelligence pioneer
• Gina Bachauer, pianist
• Avraam Benaroya, leader of the workers' movement
• Isaak Benrubi, philosopher
• Moisis Michail Bourlas, member of the World War II resistance.
• Isaac & Daniel Carasso, founders of Danone [4]
• 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
• Stella Haskill, rebetika singer
• Julio Kaimi, painter
• Angelo Langadakis, major civil engineer, (Greek Jewish father who migrated from Istambul, Turkey; into Greece)
• Mordechai Mano, Ship-Owner
• Nestor Matsas, documentarist
• Artemis Matsas, old movies actor
• Edgar Morin, 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 Thessaloniki, 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
• Pete Sampras, tennis player^[3]
• Susan Sideropoulos, actress & singer (Greek father)
• Olivier Strelli, fashion designer (Greek parents from Rhodes). His original name is "Nissim Israel."
• Sabbatai Zevi, claimed Messiah, came from a Romaniotes family

[edit] Republic of Macedonia

• Esma Redzepova, Romany singer (half Jewish)^[4]

[edit] 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

[edit] Slovenia

• Miso Alkalaj, writer

[edit] Turkey

• Cantor Rabbi Isaac Algazi
• Seyla Benhabib, political theorist
• Victoria Kamhi, pianist
• Tilda Kemal, (Muslim convert) translator & wife of author Yasar Kemal
• Elijah Mizrachi, Hakham Bashi
• Dario Moreno, singer
• Chaim Nahum, Hakham Bashi
• Isaac Alaton, Founder of Engineering Giant Alarko
• Sabbatai Zevi, claimed to be the Messiah

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.plovdivcityguide.com/newsfiles/news.php?id=130&lang_id=3
2. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica
3. ^ "Not too many people know that I am Jewish", Pete Sampras told the JC this week. ... Sampras added that he had never been to Synagogue.' Jewish Chronicle, June 18 1999, p.1.; [1]: "I'm 75 percent Greek" Accessed 9 February 2007; [2]: "Pete Sampras, who is Greek" Accessed 9 February 2007
4. ^ AllMusic biography

[edit] See also

• List of Bosnians
• List of Bulgarians
• List of Croatians
• List of Greeks
• List of Serbs
• List of Slovenians
• List of Turks