List of South-East European Jews

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

• Ivan Ceresnjes, architect-researcher, former president of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and vice-chairman of the Yugoslav Federation of Jewish Communities from 1992–1996^[1]
• Kalmi Baruh, writer and philosopher^[2]
• Emerik Blum, businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo^[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
• 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
• Sammi The Jew
• Stavri Kalinov, artist.
• Redjina Kalinova, artist.
• Iossif Melamed, producer and director.
• Michael Bar-Zohar
• Maxim Behar, president of M3 Communications Group
• Shimon Bejarno
• Alexander Bozhkov, vice-premier (Jewish mother)^[9]
• Elias Canetti, author and Nobel Prize Winner
• Carl Djerassi
• Marcus Ehrenpreis, Poland-born Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria
• Itzhak & Samuel Fintzi, dramatists^[10]
• Pini Gershon
• Moshe Gueron
• Shlomo Kalo
• Nikolay Kaufman, musicologist and composer^[11]
• Yehezkel Lazarov
• Moshe Leon
• Etien Levi, singer
• Sabin Levi
• Milcho Leviev, jazz composer (Jewish father)^[12]
• Raphael Mechoulam
• Moni Moshonov
• Ya'akov Nitzani
• Ya'akov Nehushtan
• Jules Pascin, artist (Jewish father)^[10]
• Isaac Passy, philosopher^[10]
• Solomon Passy, foreign minister,^[13] son of Isaac Passy
• David Peretz (ja)
• Valeri Petrov
• Georgi Pirinski, Jr.
• David Primo
• Sarah-Theodora
• Victor Shem-Tov
• Molly Sidi (now Molly Resnick), former NBC producer, journalist
• Maxim Staviski
• Angel Wagenstein, author & screenwriter^[14]
• Alexis Weissenberg, pianist^[15]
• Jaime Yankelevich
• Emanuel Zisman

Croatia

• Viktor Axmann, architect
• Julio Deutsch, architect
• Hugo Ehrlich, architect
• Ignjat Fischer, architect
• Josip Frank, Croatian politician
• Stjepan Gomboš, architect
• Branko Grünbaum, mathematician
• Leo Hönigsberg, architect
• Slobodan Lang, physician, politician, humanitarian
• Rikard Lang, prominent Croatian university professor, lawyer and economist, UN's expert
• Branko Lustig, film producer and winner of two Academy Awards
• Slavko Löwy, architect
• Rudolf Lubinski, architect
• Blessed Ivan Merz, beatified in 2003
• Oscar Nemon, sculpture
• Ivo Stern, founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation"
• Vladimir Šterk, architect
• Karlo Weissmann, physician and founder of the first sanatorium in Osijek
• Dragutin Wolf, industrialist, founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar

Cyprus

• 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)
  • John the Merciful
• Arie Zeev Raskin, rabbi

Greece

• Sid Ganis
• Hank Azaria
• Anna Rezan

Kosovo

Montenegro

• Jelena Đurović, writer, politician and journalist

Serbia

• David Albahari, writer
• Oskar Danon, composer
• Oskar Davičo, poet
• Filip David, playwright and columnist
• Predrag Ejdus, actor
• Vanja Ejdus, actress
• Ivan Ivanji, writer
• Enriko Josif, composer
• Danilo Kiš, writer
• Marko Kon, pop singer
• Tommy Lapid, former Israeli politician of Hungarian descent, born in Novi Sad
• Sonja Licht, political activist
• Izidor Papo, cardiac surgeon, general-colonel of the Yugoslav Army medical unit
• Moša Pijade, politician, painter, art critic and publicist
• Seka Sablić, actress^[16]
• Erich Šlomović, art collector
• Aleksandar Tišma, writer

Slovenia

• Katja Boh, politician
• Berta Bojetu, author
• Israel Isserlin, Medieval rabbi
• Klemen Jelinčič Boeta, historian, anthropologist and translator
• Lev Kreft, sociologist and politician
• Dušan Šarotar, author and editor
• Mirjam Štajner, writer

Turkey

• Music industry executive Morris Levy
• Cantor Rabbi Isaac Algazi
• Seyla Benhabib, political theorist^[17]
• Can Bonomo, the singer who represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012.
• Victoria Kamhi, pianist^[18]
• Elijah Mizrachi, Hakham Bashi^[19]
• Dario Moreno, singer^[20]
• Chaim Nahum, Hakham Bashi^[19]
• Haim Palachi, grand rabbi of Izmir
• Abraham Palacci, grand rabbi of Izmir
• Rahamim Nissim Palacci, grand rabbi of Izmir
• Joseph Palacci, rabbi of Izmir

References

1. ↑ "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. Retrieved 14 May 2011. 
2. ↑ http://www.benevolencija.eu.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=70
3. ↑
4. ↑ Voices of Yugoslav Jewry By Paul Benjamin Gordiejew, Pg 62
5. ↑ David Elazar - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
6. ↑ ספסל- הבית של הכדורסל הישראלי - אינפורמציה, סטטיסטיקה וחדשות יומיות על כל השחקנים, הקבוצות והליגות
7. ↑ http://www.serbianstudies.org/home_files/pdf/14_1/Vol14_1_Palavestra.pdf
8. ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica, 2nd ed., art. "Aftalion, Albert"
9. ↑ Jews in Bulgaria
10. 1 2 3 Renowned Bulgarian Jews
11. ↑ "Българи юдеи ("Bulgarian Jews")" (in Bulgarian). Ziezi. Retrieved 2009-01-03. 
12. ↑ 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
13. ↑ The Israeli Government's Official Website, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
14. ↑ "Abraham le Poivrot" de Angel Wagenstein
15. ↑ Alexis Weissenberg (Piano) - Short Biography
16. ↑ Vukica Strugar (3 June 2012). "Seka Sablić: Kad porastem, biću bogata" (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti. 
17. ↑ Continental Philosophy » Book Reviews
18. ↑
19. 1 2 Jewish Intellectual Timeline
20. ↑ Actors - Dario Moreno

See also

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