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 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, 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
- Haim Bejarano, Torah scholar and chief rabbi
- Shimon Bejarano
- Alexander Bozhkov, vice-premier (Jewish mother)[9]
- Elias Canetti, author and Nobel Prize winner
- Sabetay Djaen, rabbi and teacher
- Carl Djerassi
- Itzhak Fintzi, dramatist[10]
- Pini Gershon
- Moshe Gueron
- Shlomo Kalo
- Nikolay Kaufman, musicologist and composer[11]
- Yehezkel Lazarov
- Moshe Leon
- Milcho Leviev, jazz composer (Jewish father)[12]
- Raphael Mechoulam
- Moni Moshonov
- Ya'akov Nehushtan
- Ya'akov Nitzani
- Jules Pascin, artist (Jewish father)[10]
- Isaac Passy, philosopher[10]
- Solomon Passy, foreign minister,[13] son of Isaac Passy
- Valeri Petrov
- Georgi Pirinski, Jr.
- David Primo
- Sarah-Theodora
- Victor Shem-Tov
- 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
- Rikard Lang, prominent Croatian university professor, lawyer and economist, UN's expert
- Slobodan Lang, physician, politician, humanitarian
- Slavko Löwy, architect
- Rudolf Lubinski, architect
- Branko Lustig, film producer and winner of two Academy Awards
- Blessed Ivan Merz, beatified in 2003
- Oscar Nemon, sculptor
- Vladimir Šterk, architect
- Ivo Stern, founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation"
- Karlo Weissmann, physician and founder of the first sanatorium in Osijek
- Dragutin Wolf, industrialist, founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar
Cyprus
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- 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
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Montenegro
- Jelena Đurović, writer, politician and journalist
North Macedonia
- Haim Estreya Ovadya, Yugoslav partisan
- Rafael Moshe Kamhi
- Žamila Kolonomos, Sephardi Jewish partisan, writer, academic, and political activist
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
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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
- List of Macedonians
References
- ↑ "Time, People, Memories". benevolencija.eu.org (in hrvatski and English). Archived from the original on 4 December 2023.
- ↑ "Home". ceeol.com.
- ↑ "The Destruction of the Memory of Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe; a Case Study: Former Yugoslavia – Interview with Ivan Ceresnjes". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. December 2008. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ↑ Voices of Yugoslav Jewry By Paul Benjamin Gordiejew, p. 62
- ↑ "David Elazar | Israeli military commander | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 26 April 2024.
- ↑ "ספסל- הבית של הכדורסל הישראלי - אינפורמציה, סטטיסטיקה וחדשות יומיות על כל השחקנים, הקבוצות והליגות". Archived from the original on 6 February 2012.
- ↑ Palavestra, Predrag. "Jewish Writers in Serbian Literature: Isak Samokovlija" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica, 2nd ed., art. "Aftalion, Albert"
- ↑ Bakardjieva, Teodora. "Jews in Bulgaria". sefarad.org. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Renowned Bulgarian Jews". Archived from the original on 9 December 2006.
- ↑ "Българи юдеи ("Bulgarian Jews")" (in Bulgarian). Ziezi. Archived from the original on 7 December 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
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- ↑ The Israeli Government's Official Website, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- ↑ "Abraham le Poivrot, roman de Angel Wagenstein". www.bulgaria-france.net. 22 July 2016.
- ↑ "Alexis Weissenberg (Piano) - Short Biography". www.bach-cantatas.com.
- ↑ Vukica Strugar (3 June 2012). "Seka Sablić: Kad porastem, biću bogata" (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti.
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