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 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.
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[edit] Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Ammiel Alcalay, poet & scholar (Bosnian parents)
- Judah Alkalai, rabbi, early member of the Zionist movement
- 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
- 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
[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)<ref>http://www.plovdivcityguide.com/newsfiles/news.php?id=130&lang_id=3</ref>
- 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
[edit] Croatia
- David Frankfurter
- Branko Lustig, film producer
- David Schwarz, inventor of the Zeppelin
- Branko Grünbaum, mathematician
[edit] Cyprus
- Mike Brant, French-based singer (Cyprus-born)
[edit] Greece
- Maurice Abravanel, conductor
- Allatini Brothers, entrepreuners
- 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 Carasso, founder of Danone or Dannon
- 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 <ref>Stand With Us, "Pete Sampras, the World's greatest tennis player, is a Greek Jew." Accessed 27 Oct 2006.</ref>
- 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)<ref>AllMusic biography</ref>
[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] 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
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