List of Sephardic Jews

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The following is a list of Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews.

This is a list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.

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  • Isaac Abravanel(1437-1508), portuguese-born Spanish philosopher, rabbi, economist and Orthodox-Jew theologist.
  • Senor Abravanel (1930-), Brazilian businessman, media tycoon and television host. Direct descendant of Isaac Abravanel.
  • Abraham Amigo (1610-1683), Israeli rabbi of Sepharadi descent[1]
  • Benjamin Artom (1835-1879), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain[2]
  • Lior Ashkenazi (1969-), Israeli actor
  • Ben Ashkenazy (1968/69-), American billionaire real estate developer
  • Moran Atias (1981-), an Israeli-American actress
  • Jacques Attali (1943-), Algerian-born French economist, advisor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991
  • Hank Azaria (1964-) American actor and known for voicing many characters in the long-running animated series The Simpsons
  • Max Azria (1949-2019) Tunisian-born American fashion designer

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  • Aryeh Deri (1959-), Moroccan-born Israeli politician & one of the founders of Shas.
  • Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), Algerian-born French philosopher[10]
  • Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • Patrick Drahi (1963-), billionaire founder of international news channel i24news
  • Victor Drai (1947-), nightclub owner, entrepreneur and film producer.
  • Julien Dray (1955-), Algerian-born French politician, member of the National Assembly for the Socialist Party (PS)
  • Solomon Dwek (1973-) former American real estate investor and convicted felon

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  • Lior Raz (1971-), Israeli screenwriter & actor best known for starring in Fauda
  • Miri Regev (1965-), Israeli MK of Likud
  • Daniela Ruah (1983-), Portuguese-American actress
  • Rudy Rochman (1993-), Israeli Zionist activist

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  • ״Nani״ Noam Vazana (1982-), Israeli-Portuguese Singer, Trombonist and Composer and CEO of Why DIY Music

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See also[]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1399-amigo-abraham
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  3. ^ "The Maker's Mark". Smart Furniture. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  4. ^ Lee, Felicia. "Facing Down His Color as a Path to Privilege," The New York Times (5 May 1999), pp. E1, 10; reprinted as "A Writer Confronts His Color as A Path to Privilege," in The International Herald Tribune (6 May 1999)
  5. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle Dec 10, 1982 p.12
  6. ^ "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2007-02-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ http://www.public-histoire.com/saga/yaourt/yaourt7.html
  9. ^ "Helene Cixous".
  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
  12. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son of David Guedalla, an almond broker in Mincing Lane, who came from a Spanish-Jewish family... He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
  13. ^ "Leadership of Sephardic Community Alliance".
  14. ^ independent.co.uk: Obituary: Sir Joshua Hassan
  15. ^ Jacob M. Hassán
  16. ^ El pueblo de Estella dedicará una de sus calles al ceutí Jacob Hassan Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
  18. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290
  19. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "The Mocatta family were Jews driven from the Iberian peninsula in 1492"
  20. ^ Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001. Notice that Inês Pires is only presently presented as a conversa, and that for centuries there was no known doubt regarding her non-Jewish Portuguese ethnicity (which, of course could have been hidden for religious and political reasons, her being the mother of Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza).
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