List of Iberian Jews
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Sephardim, settled mainly in North Africa, South-East Europe, the Netherlands
, England, and America. Jews were only formally readmitted to the peninsula in the late 19th century. The modern Jewish Iberian population is based on post-war immigration and numbers around 14,000. The following is a list of prominent Iberian Jews arranged by country of origin:
Portugal
- philanthropist.
- Daniel Blaufuks (1963–), photographer.[1]
- Joshua Benoliel (1873–1932), photojournalist, official photographer for King Carlos I of Portugal.[2]
- ISBN 9789653083875.
- Isaac Cardoso (1603/1604 – 1683), physician, philosopher, and polemic writer.[4]
- Artur Carlos de Barros Basto (1887–1961), author and military captain.[5]
- Artur Alberto de Campos Henriques (1853–1922), 50th Prime Minister of Portugal.[citation needed]
- Nico Castel (1931–2015) tenor.[6]
- Uriel da Costa (1585–1640), philosopher.[7]
- Abraham Curiel (1545–1609), physician.[8]
- David Curiel (1594–1666), merchant.[8]
- Jacob Curiel (1587–1664), diplomat, merchant and nobleman.[8]
- Tatiana Salem Levy (1979–), novelist.[9]
- Rodrigo Lopez (1517–1594), physician[10]
- Fernão de Loronha (1470–1540), explorer and merchant.[11]
- Solomon Molcho (1500–1532), mystic and writer.[14]
- Garcia de Orta (1501–1578), herbalist, naturalist and physician.[15]
- Pedro Nunes (1502–1578), mathematician, cosmographer, and professor[16]
- Jacob Rodrigues Pereira (1715–1780), irst teacher of deaf-mutes in France.[17]
- Daniela Ruah (1983–), actress, dual American citizen[18]
- Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738–1816), Lisbon-born French doctor.[19][20]
- Francisco Sanches (1550 – November 16, 1623), Portuguese born, Spain raised, French skeptic philosopher and physician.
- José Maria Espírito Santo Silva Ricciardi (1954–), economist and banker.[21]
- David ben Solomon ibn Yahya (1425–1528), rabbi sentenced by King João II to be burned at the stake fled to Corfu.[22]
- Jacob Tirado (1540–1620), founder of the Spanish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam.[23]
- Fernando Ulrich (1952–), economist and banking administrator.[24]
- Samuel Usque (1500–1555), author.[25]
- Richard Zimler (1956–), American-born author, dual-citizen.[26][27]
Spain
Pre-expulsion
- Petrus Alphonsi, 11th & 12th century physician, writer, astronomer, and polemicist.[28]
- Vidal Astori (15th century) merchant and silversmith.[29]
- Bonafos Caballeria (?-1464), historian and anti-Jewish writer.
- Abraham Cresques (1325–1387), cartographer.[30]
- Jehudà Cresques (1360–1410), cartographer.[31]
- Alfonso de Cartagen (1384–1456), Roman Catholic bishop, diplomat, historian and writer of pre-Renaissance Spain.[32]
- Moses Hamon (1490–1567) physician, historian and phlanthopoist.[33]
- Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez (15th & 16th century), mystic and theologian.[34]
- Felipe Godínez (1588–1637), Portuguese born dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.[35]
- Jacob ibn Jau (9th century), silk-manufacturer and held a position in the court of the Hisham II.[36]
- Judah ben Joseph ibn Ezra (12th century), physician.[37]
- Joseph Kimhi (1105–1170), rabbi and biblical commentator.[38]
- Antonio de León Pinelo (1589–1660), writer and historian.[39]
- Moses de León (1240–1305), rabbi and Kabbalist who is considered the composer or redactor of the Zohar. =[40]
- Isaac ben Moses Eli (15th century), mathematician.[41]
- Caterina Tarongí (1646–1691), burned alive by the Spanish Inquisition.[42]
- Bartolomé de Torres Naharro (1845–1530), writer.[43]
- Solomon ibn Verga (1460–1554), historian and physician.[44]
- Joseph Zabara (1140–1200), physicist, poet and satirist, writer of the Book of Delights'.[45]
- Abraham Zacuto (1452-c.1515), astronomer
- Francisco Perea (1620 – ?), first-generation son of Sephardic Jews exiled from Spain in Peru[46]
Post-expulsion
- Isak Andic (1953–), Turkish-born businessman and founder Mango.[47]
- Miguel de Barrios (1625–1701), philosopher, historian and poet.[48][49]
- Nissan Ben-Avraham (1957–), Marrano rabbi.[50]
- Esther Bendahan (1964–), Moroccan born author.[51]
- Elena Benarroch (1955–), fashion designer.[52][53]
- Doris Benegas (1951–2016), Venezuelan-born political lawyer, half Jewish.[54]
- José María Benegas (1948–2015), Venezuelan-born politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, half Jewish.[54]
- Ricardo Bofill (1939–), world famous architect, half Jewish.[55]
- Rafael Cansinos-Asséns (1882–1964), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator.[56]
- Abraham Miguel Cardoso (1626–1706), Sabbatean prophet and physician.[57]
- Isaac Carasso (1874–1939), Ottoman born co-founder of Danone.[58]
- Daniel Carasso (1905–2009), Ottoman born co-founder of Danone[58]
- Pancracio Celdrán (1942–2019), professor, intellectual and journalist who specializes in history & literature of antiquity & the medieval period.
- Claudio Guillén (1924–2007), French-born writer and historian, half Jewish.[59]
- Austro-Hungarian-born cinematographer.[60]
- Andrés Herzog (1974–), politician and lawyer;spokesperson of the Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD),half Jewish.[61]
- Jon Juaristi (1951–), poet, essayist and translator, self-confessed former ETA militant. Convert.[62]
- Alicia Koplowitz (1954–), businesswoman and philanthropist, half Jewish.[63]
- Esther Koplowitz (1953–), businesswoman and philanthropist, half Jewish.[63]
- Enrique Múgica Herzog (1932–), lawyer, politician and co-founder of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, half-Jewish.[64][65]
- Romeo Niram (1974–), figurative painter.
- Eduardo Propper de Callejón (1895–1972), diplomat remembered for facilitating escape of tens of thousands of Jews from France, half Jewish.[citation needed]
- Antonio Puerta (1984–2007), footballer.[66]
- Samuel Toledano (1929–1996), Moroccan-born Jewish lawyer and Jewish community leader.[67]
- Joseph de la Vega (1650–1692), well known merchant, poet, and philanthropist in Amsterdam.[68]
See also
- List of Sephardic Jews
- Sephardi Jews
- History of the Jews in Spain
- Spanish and Portuguese Jews
- Lists of Jews
- List of Portuguese
- List of Spaniards
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- ^ "Joshua Benoliel". NewsMuseum. April 13, 2016.
- ^ Milgram 2011, p. 34.
- ^ "Cardozo (Cardoso), Isaac | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
- ^ "Historical drama depicts untold story of the 1930s 'Portuguese Dreyfus Affair'". The Times of Israel.
- ^ Fox, Margalit. "Nico Castel, Tenor and Diction Coach at the Met, Dies at 83", The New York Times, June 3, 2015
- ^ Derman, Ushi (December 19, 2018). "Uriel da Costa: the Story of a Nonbeliever". Retrieved 2019-12-13.
- ^ a b c "Curiel".
- ^ "Conversation with Tatiana Salem Levy". Kill Your Darlings.
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish physician"
- ^ "Noronha (Loronha), Fernão de". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ "Gracia Mendes Nasi, Renaissance Businesswoman". Headstuff. 12 November 2018.
- ^ "Nasi, Gracia". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
- ^ Weisberger, Joel Davidi (November 14, 2018). "A Doomed Proposal for a Joint Jewish-Christian Crusade: Three Divergent Views of Solomon Molcho". jewishlinknj.
- ^ "Garcia de Orta: A Portuguese Jewish Doctor | Beyond Chicken Soup".
- ^ "Pedro Nunes, the great Portuguese astronomer and mathematician of the Renaissance, historical article by Dulce Rodrigues". www.dulcerodrigues.info.
- ^ "Jacob Rodrigues Pereira: A Portugal Jew in 18th Century – Jewish Deaf Community Center".
- ^ Henerson, Evan (November 8, 2012). "Film Fest celebrates Sephardim". Jewish Journal. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
- ^ "Reportaje – El salvador de los 'zurbarán'". El País. 24 April 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2018 – via elpais.com.
- ^ "Isaac Henrique Sequeira – The Collection – Museo Nacional del Prado". www.museodelprado.es. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ "www.haitongib.com. Retrieved 2014-07-12".
- ^ "Ibn Yaḥya, David ben Solomon | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
- ^ "Tirado, Jacob".
- ^ (in Portuguese) Fernando Ulrich banqueiro por tradição familiar Archived 2016-05-20 at the Wayback Machine, Económico
- ^ Meyer M. A. Ideas of Jewish history 1974 p105 "Samuel Usque (sixteenth century) was a Portuguese Marrano, a Jew forcibly converted to Christianity, who after extensive wanderings settled in Ferrara.
- ^ "eric forbes's book addict's guide to good books: THE WRITING LIFE ... Richard ZIMLER".
- ^ Joseph, Anne (July 5, 2019). "The Gospel according to Richard Zimler: demons, dreams and Yeshua". The Jewish Chronicle.
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- ^ "Murviedro".
- ^ Ushi Derman (7 April 2019). "You have reached your destination: The Jewish cartographers without whom we would not have WAZE". Retrieved December 15, 2019.
- ^ Smith, Amy Newman (March 5, 2014). "The Living Waters of History". Jewish Review of Books.
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- ^ "Jabez, Joseph ben Hayyim".
- ^ "Felipe Godinez". Foundation Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
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- ^ "Judah ha-Levi | Hebrew poet". 27 June 2023.
- ^ "David Kimchi".
- ^ "The Jewish Inka King of Paytiti and the Converso Guaman Poma de Ayala (Jewish Old Testament culture in Tridentine Peru, 1600–1650) | The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies". ccjs.uchicago.edu.
- ^ "Moses de Leon". Oxford Reference.
- ^ "ISAAC BEN MOSES ELI (Ha-Sefardi) - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com.
- ^ ""A Dead Branch on the Tree of Israel" The Xuetas of Majorca – Robert Graves, Commentary Magazine". February 1957.
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- ^ "JOSEPH ZABARA (Joseph ben Meïr Zabara) - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com.
- ^ "FamilySearch: Sign In". FamilySearch.
- ^ "Isak Andic is part of the BoF 500".
- ^ "Barrios, Daniel Levi (Miguel) de | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
- JSTOR 1453280.
- Jerusalem Post. Dec 15, 2019.
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- ^ "Around the Jewish World Few Jews in Spain, Yet Supposed 'jewish Lobby' Still Draws Readers". 25 November 2002.
- ^ a b "– EL MUNDO | Suplemento cronica 709 – DORIS, EL CISMA FAMILIAR DE LOS BENEGAS".
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