List of Sephardic Jews

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

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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  • Lainie Kazan, singer and actress (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
  • Otto Klemperer, conductor (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)

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[edit] U, V

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  • Avrham B. Yehoshua, author
  • David Levi Yulee, politician
  • Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, of Iraqi Descent

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Eichner, Itamar. "Israeli minister, American Idol", YNetNew.com, 2006-11-17. Retrieved on 2006-11-17.
  2. ^ Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001
  3. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  4. ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica, art. "Bernal": "BERNAL, Sephardi family of Marrano extraction. ... The physicist JOHN DESMOND BERNAL (1901–) is also descended from this family."
  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. ^ Peggy K. Liss, "Isabel the Queen," New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 165 - disputed, however.
  8. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
  9. ^ 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"
  10. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
  11. ^ Peggy K. Liss, "Isabel the Queen," New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 165 - disputed, however.
  12. ^ Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001.
  13. ^ Peggy K. Liss, "Isabel the Queen," New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 165; James Reston, Jr. "Dogs of God," New York: Doubleday, 2005, p. 18.
  14. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290
  15. ^ Otaka, Yasujiro: An Aspiration Sealed. [1] Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
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