Many of the Jews expelled from the

Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula (), ** * Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica'' ** ** * french: Péninsule Ibérique * mwl, Península Eibérica * eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...

during the Spanish Inquisition settled in the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

, leaving behind, at the wake of Empire, large

Sephardic Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), ...

communities in South-East Europe: mainly in

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...

and

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina

* Kalmi Baruh, writer and philosopher *

Emerik Blum Emerik Blum (7 August 1911 – 24 June 1984) was a Bosnian Jewish businessman, philanthropist and the founder and first director of one of Southeast Europe's largest conglomerates, Energoinvest. He also served as the 26th mayor of Sarajevo from ...

, businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo *

Ivan Ceresnjes Ivan Ceresnjes (born 1945, Sarajevo), also known as Ivica Ceresnjes, is a Bosnian architect-researcher at the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specializing in the documentation of the Jewish architectural-cultural heri ...

, architect-researcher, former president of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and vice-chairman of the Yugoslav Federation of Jewish Communities, 1992–1996 * Oskar Danon, composer and conductor *

David Elazar David "Dado" Elazar ( he, דוד אלעזר; 27 August 1925 – 15 April 1976) was the ninth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), serving in that capacity from 1972 to 1974. He was forced to resign in the aftermath of the Yom Kippu ...

, Israeli general and

Chief of Staff The title chief of staff (or head of staff) identifies the leader of a complex organization such as the armed forces, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a principal staff officer (PSO), who is the coordinator of the supporti ...

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...

* Jakob Finci, politician, ambassador of

to Switzerland * Daniel Kabiljo, painter *

Daniel Ozmo Daniel Ozmo (14 March 1912 – 5 September 1942) was a Yugoslav Jewish painter and printmaker. He studied in Belgrade, where he became a member of the communist progressive youth movement. His paintings, other than of Sephardi Jewish life, port ...

, painter *

Isaac Pardo Isaac ben David Pardo ( he, יצחק בן דוד פארדו) was a rabbi as well as the author of "''To'afot Re'em''", a commentary on the responsa of Rabbi Ahai of Shabha, with an index of the different responsa. He succeeded his father, Rabbi Da ...

, rabbi of Sarajevo *

Robert Rothbart Robert Rothbart ( he, רוברט רות'בארט, born Boris Kajmaković on June 16, 1986) is a Bosnian-Israeli professional basketball player playing the position of center for Elitzur Eito Ashkelon of the Israeli National League. He was named t ...

, basketball player (Jewish mother) * Isak Samokovlija, writer

Bulgaria

* Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist * Binyamin Arditi *

Aron Aronov Aron Sabat Aronov is a Bulgarian tenor and vocal pedagogue from a Jewish heritage. Early years Aron Aronov was born on 12 July 1937 in Dupnica, Bulgaria. As a student he plays sports, chess and was interested in music. He became a regional ch ...

, tenor * Mira Aroyo, member of the band Ladytron * Gabi Ashkenazi * Michael Bar-Zohar *

Maxim Behar Maxim Behar ( bg, Максим Бехар; he, מקסים בכר) is a Bulgarian businessman of Jewish descent. He is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of M3 Communications Group, Inc, a public relations and public affairs company and a Hill ...

, president of M3 Communications Group *

Shimon Bejarano Shimon Bejarano ( he, שמעון בז'רנו, 28 September 1910 – 17 October 1971) was an Israeli industrialist and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the General Zionists between 1951 and 1959. Biography Born in Plovdiv ...

* Alexander Bozhkov, vice-premier (Jewish mother) *

Elias Canetti Elias Canetti (; bg, Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her t ...

, author and

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

winner *

Carl Djerassi Carl Djerassi (October 29, 1923 – January 30, 2015) was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Middlebrook, Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is b ...

* Itzhak Fintzi, dramatistRenowned Bulgarian Jews
*

Pini Gershon Pinhas "Pini" Gershon ( he, פנחס "פיני" גרשון, born 13 November 1951), is an Israeli former professional basketball player and coach. He won three top-level European-wide club championships as the head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv. He wo ...

Moshe Gueron Moshe Yitzhak Gueron ( he, משה יצחק גרון; b. 20 March 1926 - 11 December 2017) was an Israeli physician and researcher, innovator, scientist, medical educator, Professor of Cardiology at the Medical School for International Health at Be ...

Shlomo Kalo Shlomo Kalo ( he, שלמה קאלו; February 25, 1928 – August 30, 2014) was a writer and microbiologist. He published approximately 80 fiction and nonfiction books in Hebrew, some of which are published in translation internationally. Biograp ...

* Nikolay Kaufman, musicologist and composer *

Yehezkel Lazarov Yehezkel Lazarov ( he, יחזקאל לזרוב Y'ḥezeqel Lazarov; born 8 February 1974) is an Israeli actor, director, and multidisciplinary artist. In 2022 he was elected to serve as the head of the school of Performing Arts at the Kibbutzim Sem ...

Moshe Leon Moshe "Mutzi" Leon ( he, משה "מוצי" ליאון; born January 9, 1944) is a former Israeli international footballer of Bulgarian descent. Leon is regarded as the greatest player in the history of Maccabi Jaffa, there he played for over 20 ...

Milcho Leviev Milcho Leviev ( bg, Милчо Левиев ; December 19, 1937 – October 12, 2019) was a Bulgarian composer, arranger, and jazz pianist. Career Leviev was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and graduated from the Bulgarian State Academy of Music in 1 ...

, jazz composer (Jewish father) * Raphael Mechoulam * Moni Moshonov * Ya'akov Nehushtan * Ya'akov Nitzani *

Jules Pascin Julius Mordecai Pincas (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930), known as Pascin (; erroneously or ), Jules Pascin, or the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian artist known for his paintings and drawings. He later became an American citizen ...

, artist (Jewish father) *

Isaac Passy Isaac Passy ( bg, Исак Паси; 13 March 1928 in Plovdiv – 13 August 2010) was a Bulgarian Jewish philosopher history.html" ;"title="Renowned Bulgarian Jews specializing in history">Renowned Bulgarian Jews specializing in history, literat ...

, philosopher * Solomon Passy, foreign minister, son of Isaac Passy * Valeri Petrov * Georgi Pirinski, Jr. *

David Primo David Primo ( he, דוד פרימו; born 5 May 1946 in Bulgaria) is a former Israeli international footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football a ...

Sarah-Theodora Sarah, Theodora or Sarah-Theodora was an Empress of Bulgaria during the Second Bulgarian Empire and second wife of Tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria (ruled 1331–1371). Biography Sources agree that she was of Jewish descent, having lived with her f ...

Victor Shem-Tov Victor Shem-Tov ( bg, Виктор Шемтов; he, ויקטור שם-טוב; 1 February 1915 – 8 March 2014) was an Israeli politician who held several ministerial portfolios in the late 1960s and 1970s. Biography Born in Bulgaria to a fami ...

Maxim Staviski Maxim Staviski ( bg, Максим Стависки, links=no, born 16 November 1977) is a Russian-born naturalized Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiancée Albena Denkova, he is a two-time (2006– 2007) World champion, a two-time (2003� ...

Angel Wagenstein Angel Raymond Wagenstein ( bg, Анжел Раймонд Вагенщайн) (born 17 October 1922) is a Bulgarian screenwriter and author. Wagenstein was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, but spent his childhood in France where his Jewish family emigrat ...

, author & screenwriter *

Alexis Weissenberg Alexis Sigismund Weissenberg ( bg, Алексис Сигизмунд Вайсенберг; 26 July 1929 – 8 January 2012) was a Bulgarian-born French pianist. Early life and career Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking ...

, pianist *

Jaime Yankelevich Jaime Yankelevich (13 March 1896 – 25 February 1952) was an Argentine engineer and businessman who was a pioneer in the development of his country's radio and television media. Life and times Jaime Yankelevich was born into a Jewish family in Bu ...

Emanuel Zisman Emanuel Zisman ( bg, Емануел Зисман; he, עמנואל זיסמן, 11 February 1935 – 11 November 2009) was an Israeli politician and ambassador. He served as a member of the Knesset between 1988 and 1999. Biography Zisman was born ...

Croatia

Viktor Axmann Viktor Axmann (given name: Vladoje Aksmanović; 29 August 1878, Osijek, Croatia – 3 March 1946, Valpovo, Croatia) was a Croatian architect. He spent most of his life in Osijek, but he died in 1946 in a Yugoslav Partisans, communist Valpov ...

, architect *

Slavko Brill Slavko Brill (27 December 1900 – January 1943) was a Croatian-Jewish sculptor and ceramics artist born in Nova Gradiška. He graduated in 1926 at Art Academy in Zagreb. His artistic works included portraits, busts, and cemetery monuments. Af ...

, 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 Slavko Löwy (August 7, 1904 – April 1, 1996) was well-known Croatian architect. Background, family and education Löwy was born in Koprivnica to a respectable and wealthy Croatian Jewish family, who were engaged in trade. In Koprivnica he att ...

, architect * Rudolf Lubinski, architect * Branko Lustig, film producer and winner of two Academy Awards * Blessed Ivan Merz, beatified in 2003 *

Oscar Nemon Oscar Nemon (born Oscar Neumann; 13 March 1906 – 13 April 1985) was a Croatian sculptor who was born in Osijek, Croatia, but eventually settled in England. He is best known for his series of more than a dozen public statues of Winston Churchill, ...

, sculptor *

Vladimir Šterk Vladimir Šterk (5 January 1891 – 6 March 1941) was well-known Croatian architect. Family and education Šterk was born into a Jewish family, to father Vjekoslav-Alois Šterk and mother Lina ( née Jelinek). In Zagreb he finished elementar ...

, architect * Ivo Stern, founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation" * Karlo Weissmann, physician and founder of the first sanatorium in Osijek *

Dragutin Wolf Dragutin Wolf (1866–1927) was a Croatian Jewish industrialist and founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar. Wolf was born in Bjelovar to a Jewish family. With his wife Irma Wolf he had two sons, Slavko and Otto. Wolf owned a small b ...

, industrialist, founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar

Cyprus

* Aristobulus of Britannia (converted to Christianity) * Barnabas (mentioned in the New Testament) *

Mike Brant Mike Brant (born Moshe Michael Brand, he, משה מיכאל ברנד, 1 February 1947 – 25 April 1975) was an Israeli singer and songwriter who achieved fame after moving to France. His most successful hit was "Laisse-moi t'aimer" ("Let Me Lov ...

, French-based singer (Cyprus-born) *

Epiphanius of Salamis Epiphanius of Salamis ( grc-gre, Ἐπιφάνιος; c. 310–320 – 403) was the bishop of Salamis, Cyprus, at the end of the 4th century. He is considered a saint and a Church Father by both the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches. He gai ...

(converted to Christianity) ** John the Merciful *

Arie Zeev Raskin Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin ( he, אריה זאב רסקין; born 1976) is the Chief Rabbi of Cyprus and the first rabbi on the island in many years. Career Raskin's brothers are also serving as rabbis in Jewish communities, with Shlomo Raskin in Fra ...

, rabbi

Greece

* Hank Azaria *

Sid Ganis Sidney (Sid) Ganis (born January 8, 1940) is an American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as '' Big Daddy'', '' Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo'', ''Mr. Deeds'', ''The Master of Disguise'' and '' Akeelah and the Bee, B ...

Anna Rezan Anna Rezan ( el, Άννα Ρεζάν; born ''Anna Hannah Rezan Kritseli'', el, Άννα Χάνα Ρεζαν Κριτσέλη, links=no; 12 December 1992) is a Greek actress and singer. She began her career in her early teens by appearing in Gre ...

Montenegro

* Jelena Đurović, writer, politician and journalist

North Macedonia

* Haim Estreya Ovadya, Yugoslav partisan

Serbia

David Albahari David Albahari (, ; born 15 March 1948)Biography
at

, writer *

David Albala David Albala (born David Kovu; 1 September 1886 – 4 April 1942) was a Serbian military officer, physician, diplomat and Jewish community leader. In 1905, Albala enrolled at the University of Vienna to study medicine. He returned to Serbia ...

, military officer, physician, diplomat, and Jewish community leader * Oskar Danon, composer * Oskar Davičo, poet *

Filip David Filip David ( sr-cyr, Филип Давид; born 4 July 1940) is a Serbian writer and screenwriter, best known for penning essays, dramas, short stories and novels. In 2015, he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his nov ...

, playwright and columnist *

Predrag Ejdus Predrag Ejdus ( sr-cyr, Предраг Ејдус; 24 July 1947 – 28 September 2018) was a Serbian actor of theater, film and television. His extensive body of work includes over 200 theater productions, 50 films and 30 television series. Ejdu ...

, actor * Vanja Ejdus, actress *

Rahela Ferari Bella Rochel Fraynd (; 27 August 1911 – 12 February 1994), known as Rahela Ferari (), was a Serbian actress who appeared in more than ninety films from 1951 to 1993. She was of Ashkenazi (Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or J ...

, actress *

Ivan Ivanji Ivan Ivanji (; born 24 January 1929) is a Serbian author of many internationally renowned novels. He was held in Auschwitz and Buchenwald during 1944 and 1945. He was Secretary General of the Yugoslav Writers' Union from 1982 - 1988. His most r ...

, writer *

Enriko Josif Enriko Josif ( sr-cyr, Eнрико Јосиф; 1 May 1924 – 13 March 2003) was a Serbian composer, pedagogue and musical writer, and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Biography He was born on May 1, 1924 in Belgrade into a Se ...

, composer * Danilo Kiš, writer * Marko Kon, pop singer * Shaul Ladany, Holocaust survivor, racewalker and two-time Olympian *

Tommy Lapid Yosef "Tommy" Lapid ( he, יוסף "טומי" לפיד, born as Tomislav Lampel, sr-cyr, Томислав Лампел; 27 December 1931 – 1 June 2008) was a Yugoslav-born Israeli radio and television presenter, playwright, journalist, politi ...

, former

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i politician of Hungarian descent, born in

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

Paulina Lebl-Albala Paulina Lebl-Albala (; August 9, 1891 – October 8, 1967) was a Serbian feminist, translator, literary critic, literature theoretician, and professor of literature in Belgrade. A co-founder of the ''Udruženje univerzitetski obrazovanih žena'' ...

, feminist, translator, literary critic, literature theoretician, and professor of literature in Belgrade *

Sonja Licht Sonja Licht ( sr, Sonja Liht, Соња Лихт, he, סוניה ליכט, born 1947 in Subotica, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian sociologist and political activist. Currently, she is president of the Foreign Policy Council at the Serbian Mi ...

, political activist * Izidor Papo, cardiac surgeon, general-colonel of the Yugoslav Army medical unit *

Moša Pijade Moša Pijade ( sr-Cyrl, Мoшa Пијаде; he, משה פיאדה; alternate English transliteration Moshe Piade; 4 January 1890 – 15 March 1957), nicknamed Čiča Janko (, lit. "Old Man Janko") was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist of J ...

, politician, painter, art critic and publicist *

Eva Ras Eva or EVA may refer to: * Eva (name), a feminine given name Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment * Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in t ...

, actress *

Seka Sablić Jelisaveta "Seka" Sablić ( sr-cyr, Јелисавета "Сека" Саблић; born 13 June 1942) is a Serbian actress. She had performed in theatre houses in Belgrade and on TV and film. She is the winner of major theatre awards in Serbia and ...

, actress *

Erich Šlomović Erich Šlomović ( sr-Latn, Erih Šlomović, also known as Erich Chlomovitch) (1915–1942) was a Yugoslav art collector. He was an assistant and protégé of Ambroise Vollard. Early life Šlomović was born in Đakovo (Austro-Hungarian Empire) ...

, art collector *

Aleksandar Tišma Aleksandar Tišma ( sr-cyr, Александар Тишма; 16 January 1924 – 15 February 2003) was a Serbian novelist. Biography Tišma was born in Horgoš, Kanjiža on the present-day border of Serbia and Hungary, to a Serbian father and a ...

, writer

Slovenia

Katja Boh Katja Boh (1929–2008) was a Slovenian sociologist, diplomat and politician. Early life and career She was born in a wealthy middle class family in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now the capital of Slovenia). Her father was an Austrian Jew w ...

, politician *

Berta Bojetu Berta Bojetu (also Berta Bojetu Boeta; 7 February 1946 – 16 March 1997) was a Slovene writer, poet and actress. Life Bojetu was born in Maribor in 1946. She studied at the Faculty of Education at the University of Ljubljana and at the Acade ...

, author *

Israel Isserlin Israel Isserlin (ישראל איסרלן; Israel Isserlein ben Petachia; 1390 in Maribor, Duchy of Styria – 1460 in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria) was a Talmudist, and Halakhist, best known for his ''Terumat HaDeshen'', which served as one ...

, Medieval rabbi *

Lev Kreft Lev Kreft (born 15 September 1951) is a Slovenian politician, former Member of Parliament, editor, philosopher and sociologist. Biography He was elected into the first Parliament of the Republic of Slovenia in 1992 and acted as Vice Preside ...

, sociologist and politician *

Dušan Šarotar Dušan Šarotar (born 16 April 1968) is a Slovenian writer, essayist, literary critic and editor. He was born in the town of Murska Sobota in northeastern Slovenia. He studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. He has publ ...

, author and editor

Turkey

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North Macedonia

Serbia

Slovenia

Turkey

See also

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