List of Iberian Jews
Jews had lived in the Iberian peninsula since the Dark Ages, experiencing a Golden Age under Muslim rule. Following the Reconquista and increasing persecution, they were expelled from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1497. Their descendants, known as the 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
Isaac Abravanel , statesman and philosopher Jonah Abravanel , poetJudah Leon Abravanel , physician, poet, and philosopherJoseph Abravanel , physician and scholarIsaac Abravanel II , scholarSamuel Abravanel , scholar and financierJoshua Benoliel , photographer Yosef ben Ephraim Caro , rabbiAntonio Fernandez Carvajal , merchantIsaac da Costa , poetUriel da Costa , philosopherJacob Mendes Da Costa , American surgeonEmanuel Mendez da Costa , naturalistMenasseh Ben Israel , Jewish leaderYosef Karo , rabbi, halakhistAmato Lusitano , doctorRodrigo Lopez , physician[1] Sabato Morais , American rabbiPedro Nunes , mathematicianGarcia de Orta , doctorDon Pacifico , businessmanEmile Péreire and Isaac Péreire , the Péreire brothers , French bankers Jacob Rodrigues Pereira , deaf-mute language innovator David Cohen Nassy , explorerGracia Mendes Nasi , millionaire and benefactorSilvio Santos , Brazilian television network ownerAntónio José da Silva , writerBaruch de Spinoza , philosopherAbraham Usque , publisher and scholar
Spain
Pre-expulsion
Ezmel de Ablitas , banker and government officialAbraham Abulafia , founder of kabbalah Isaac ben Reuben Albargeloni , Talmudist , poetJoseph Albo , rabbiPetrus Alphonsi , physician[2] Shem Tob of Carión , rabbi, poetAbraham Cresques , cartographer Hasdai Crescas , philosopher, halakhistAbraham ibn Daud , philosopher, scholarAbraham ibn Ezra , grammarian, scholarSolomon ibn Gabirol , philosopher, poetJacob Gaón , tax collectorLevi ben Gershom , "Jacob's staff" quadrant navigationYehuda Halevi , philosopher, poetAbraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi , mathematician and astronomerSamuel ben Isaac Ha-Sardi Hillel of Verona , rabbi, physicianAsher ben Jehiel , rabbi, TalmudistYosef Karo , rabbi, halakhistDavid Kimhi , linguistDunash ben Labrat , poet, grammarianMoses de Leon , composer of the Zohar Joseph ben Makhir , developed a new model, quadrant judaicusMaimónides , philosopherNahmanides , scholar, rabbiBahya ibn Paquda , rabbiHasdai ibn Shaprut , physician, diplomatLuis de Torres , settler Benjamin of Tudela , explorerMecia de Vildestes , cartographerAbraham Zacuto , astronomer, inventor of early navigation instrument
Post-expulsion
Isaac & Nahman Andic founders of Mango , a Spanish clothing lineEsther Bendahan , writerIsaac & Daniel Carasso , founders of Danone [3] José Carlos Cataño , poetLluís Bassat Coen , advertising businessman.Abraham Hassan , architectEnrique Múgica Herzog , Spanish ombudsman Jon Juaristi , writer (converted to Judaism )Victoria Kamhi , Turkish-born pianist; married to non-Jew Joaquín Rodrigo Alicia Koplowitz and Esther Koplowitz , businesswomen (Jewish father)Charles Lafitte , bankerDiego Lainez , Jesuit leader (father of 'Jewish descent')Juan Álvarez Mendizábal , politician.Juan March Ordinas , businessman and politician.Saul Panbello , author, journalistCecilia Rodrigo , academic, professor in music history (Jewish mother)Gabriel Abraham Rojas , athleteFernando de Rojas , writer (converso )Joseph Penso de la Vega (1650 ?1692 ), businessman, wrote Confusion de Confusiones (1688 ), first book on stock market sJorge Wagensberg , professor of phyiscs, writerMilton Wolff , head of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Others
See also
Notes
↑ Dictionary of National Biography : "Jewish physician"↑ Dictionary of National Biography ↑ http://www.public-histoire.com/saga/yaourt/yaourt7.html
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