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Jews had lived in the
Iberian Peninsula since the Ancient Age, experiencing a
Golden Age under Muslim rule. Following the
Reconquista and increasing persecution, many of them were
expelled from Spain in 1492 and
Portugal in 1497 . Some of 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
Abraham Aboab Falero (? – 1642), seventeenth century
philanthropist .
Daniel Blaufuks (1963–), photographer.
[1]
Joshua Benoliel (1873–1932), photojournalist, official photographer for
King Carlos I of Portugal .
[2]
Moisés Bensabat Amzalak (1892–1978), Milgram, Avraham (2011). Portugal, Salazar, and the Jews . Yad Vashem. p. 34.
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]
Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510–1569), wealthy women of Renaissance Europe, became a prominent figure in the Ottoman Empire and developed an escape network that hundreds of
Conversos .
[12]
[13]
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]
Heinrich Gärtner (1885–1962),
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]
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