List of Iberian Jews
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Jews had lived in the Iberian peninsula since the Dark Ages, experiencing a Golden Age under Arab 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 and South-East Europe. 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. Here is a list of prominent Iberian Jews arranged by country of origin.
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[edit] Gibraltar
- Don Pacifico, businessman
- Joshua Hassan, Prime Minister of Gibraltar
[edit] Portugal
[edit] Pre-expulsion
- Isaac Abravanel, Jewish statesman and philosopher
- Yosef Karo, rabbi, halakhist
- Amato Lusitano, doctor
- Garcia de Orta, doctor
[edit] Post-expulsion
- Uriel Acosta, philosopher
- Menasseh Ben Israel, Jewish leader
- Joshua Benoliel, Potuguese photographer
- Yosef ben Ephraim Caro, rabbi
- Sabato Morais, American rabbi
- Pedro Nunes, mathematician (converso)
- Jacob Rodrigues Pereira,deaf-mute language inventor
- Emile Pereire and Isaac Pereire,French bankers
- Camille Pissarro, painter (Sephardic Portuguese father)
- Johann Philipp Reis, telephone inventor
- Jorge Sampaio, president of Portugal (Moroccan Jewish grandmother)
- António José da Silva, writer
- Baruch de Spinoza, philosopher (Portuguese parents)
[edit] Spain
[edit] Pre-expulsion
- Ezmel de Ablitas, banker and government official
- Joseph Albo, rabbi
- Benjamin of Tudela, explorer
- Hasdai Crescas, philosopher, halakhist
- Abraham ibn Daud, philosopher, scholar
- Abraham ibn Ezra, grammarian, scholar
- Abraham Cresques, cartographer
- Solomon ibn Gabirol, philosopher, poet
- Jacob Gaón, tax collector
- Yehuda Halevi, philosopher, poet
- Asher ben Jehiel, rabbi, Talmudist
- Yosef Karo, rabbi, halakhist
- David Kimhi, linguist
- Dunash ben Labrat, poet, grammarian
- Moses de Leon, composer of the Zohar
- Levi ben Gershom, "Jacob's staff" quadrant navigation
- Joseph ben Makhir, developed a new model, quadrant judaicus
- Maimónides, philosopher
- Nahmanides, scholar, rabbi
- Bahya ibn Paquda, rabbi
- Hasdai ibn Shaprut, physician, diplomat
- Shem Tob of Carión, rabbi, poet
- Mecia de Vildestes, cartographer
- Abraham Zacuto, astronomer astrolable early navigation instrument
- Luis de Torres, explorer
[edit] Post-expulsion
- Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, politician.
- Juan March Ordinas, businessman and politician.
- Isaac & Nahman Andic founders of Mango
- Lluís Bassat Coen, advertising businessman.
- Esther Bendahan, writer
- Isaac Carasso, founder of Danone
- Jon Juaristi, writer (converted to Judaism)
- Abraham Hassan, architect
- Victoria Kamhi, Turkish-born pianist; married to non-Jew Joaquín Rodrigo
- Alicia Koplowitz and Esther Koplowitz, businesswomen (Jewish father)
- Charles Lafitte, banker
- Diego Lainez, Jesuit leader (father of 'Jewish descent')
- Fernando Múgica Herzog, Spanish ombudsman
- Saul Panbello, author, journalist
- Fernando de Rojas, writer (converso)
- Cecilia Rodrigo, academic, professor in music history (Jewish mother)
- Joseph de la Vega (1650–1692), businessman, wrote Confusion de Confusiones (1688), first book on stock markets
- Milton Wolff, head of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
- José Carlos Cataño, poet
