List of Iberian Jews
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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:
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Portugal
- Abraham Aboab Falero (? – 1642), seventeenth century philanthropist.
- Abraham Zacutus Lusitanus, (1575-1642), physician and medical author
- Daniel Blaufuks (1963–), photographer.{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/6962271|title = "Under Strange Skies": Private and Public Memory in the Work of Daniel Blaufuks|last1 = Pires|first1 = Ana}}
- Joshua Benoliel (1873–1932), photojournalist, official photographer for King Carlos I of Portugal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsmuseum.pt/en/imortais/joshua-benoliel|title=Joshua Benoliel|date=April 13, 2016|website=NewsMuseum}}
- Moisés Bensabat Amzalak (1892–1978),{{sfn|Milgram|2011|p=34}} {{cite book |last= Milgram|first=Avraham |year=2011 |title=Portugal, Salazar, and the Jews |publisher= Yad Vashem|pages=34 |isbn= 9789653083875 }}
- Isaac Cardoso (1603/1604 – 1683), physician, philosopher, and polemic writer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cardozo-cardoso-isaac|title=Cardozo (Cardoso), Isaac | Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}
- Artur Carlos de Barros Basto (1887–1961), author and military captain.{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/historical-drama-depicts-untold-story-of-the-1930s-portuguese-dreyfus-affair/|title = Historical drama depicts untold story of the 1930s 'Portuguese Dreyfus Affair'|website = The Times of Israel}}
- Artur Alberto de Campos Henriques (1853–1922), 50th Prime Minister of Portugal.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}
- Nico Castel (1931–2015) tenor.Fox, Margalit. [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/arts/music/nico-castel-tenor-and-diction-coach-at-the-met-dies-at-83.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0 "Nico Castel, Tenor and Diction Coach at the Met, Dies at 83"], The New York Times, June 3, 2015
- Uriel da Costa (1585–1640), philosopher.{{cite web |url=https://www.bh.org.il/blog-items/uriel-da-costa-the-story-of-a-nonbeliever/ |title=Uriel da Costa: the Story of a Nonbeliever |last=Derman |first=Ushi |date=December 19, 2018|access-date=2019-12-13}}
- Abraham Curiel (1545–1609), physician.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/curiel|title = Curiel}}
- David Curiel (1594–1666), merchant.
- Jacob Curiel (1587–1664), diplomat, merchant and nobleman.
- Tatiana Salem Levy (1979–), novelist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/conversation-with-tatiana-salem-levy/|title=Conversation with Tatiana Salem Levy|website=Kill Your Darlings}}
- Rodrigo Lopez (1517–1594), physicianConcise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish physician"
- Fernão de Loronha (1470–1540), explorer and merchant.{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/noronha-loronha-fern-x00e3-o-de |title=Noronha (Loronha), Fernão de |work=Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=1 August 2021}}
- 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-from-history/gracia-mendes-nasi-renaissance-businesswoman/|title = Gracia Mendes Nasi, Renaissance Businesswoman| newspaper=Headstuff |date = 12 November 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nasi-gracia|title=Nasi, Gracia|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}
- Solomon Molcho (1500–1532), mystic and writer.{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishlinknj.com/features/34362-a-doomed-proposal-for-a-joint-jewish-christian-crusade-three-divergent-views-of-solomon-molcho |title=A Doomed Proposal for a Joint Jewish-Christian Crusade: Three Divergent Views of Solomon Molcho |work=jewishlinknj |first=Joel Davidi |last=Weisberger |date=November 14, 2018}}
- Garcia de Orta (1501–1578), herbalist, naturalist and physician.{{Cite web|url=http://chickensoupexhibit.org/garcia-de-orta-a-portuguese-jewish-doctor/|title=Garcia de Orta: A Portuguese Jewish Doctor | Beyond Chicken Soup}}
- Pedro Nunes (1502–1578), mathematician, cosmographer, and professor{{Cite web|url=http://www.dulcerodrigues.info/historia/uk/efemeride_morte_pedro_nunes_uk.html|title=Pedro Nunes, the great Portuguese astronomer and mathematician of the Renaissance, historical article by Dulce Rodrigues|website=www.dulcerodrigues.info}}
- Jacob Rodrigues Pereira (1715–1780), irst teacher of deaf-mutes in France.{{Cite web|url=https://jdcc.org/feature-news/jacob-rodrigues-pereira-a-portugal-jew-in-18th-century/|title = Jacob Rodrigues Pereira: A Portugal Jew in 18th Century – Jewish Deaf Community Center}}
- Daniela Ruah (1983–), actress, dual American citizen{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/film_fest_celebrates_sephardim|title=Film Fest celebrates Sephardim|work=Jewish Journal|first=Evan|last=Henerson|date=November 8, 2012|access-date=March 1, 2015| archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402120151/http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/film_fest_celebrates_sephardim|url-status=live}}
- Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738–1816), Lisbon-born French doctor.{{cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2011/04/24/cultura/1303596003_850215.html|title=Reportaje – El salvador de los 'zurbarán'|newspaper=El País|date=24 April 2011|access-date=5 February 2018|via=elpais.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/isaac-henrique-sequeira/8a1936f6-a7d8-4c00-b9a5-6bb1a99df911|title=Isaac Henrique Sequeira – The Collection – Museo Nacional del Prado|website=www.museodelprado.es|access-date=5 February 2018}}
- 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.espiritosantoib.com/index.php?cat=8 |title=www.haitongib.com. Retrieved 2014-07-12.}}
- David ben Solomon ibn Yahya (1425–1528), rabbi sentenced by King João II to be burned at the stake fled to Corfu.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ibn-yahya-david-ben-solomon|title=Ibn Yaḥya, David ben Solomon | Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}
- Jacob Tirado (1540–1620), founder of the Spanish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/tirado-jacob|title = Tirado, Jacob}}
- Fernando Ulrich (1952–), economist and banking administrator.{{in lang|pt}} [https://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/fernando-ulrich-banqueiro-por-tradicao-familiar_24411.html Fernando Ulrich banqueiro por tradição familiar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520120410/http://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/fernando-ulrich-banqueiro-por-tradicao-familiar_24411.html |date=2016-05-20 }}, Económico
- Samuel Usque (1500–1555), author.Meyer M. A. Ideas of Jewish history 1974 p105 "Samuel Usque (sixteenth century) was a Portuguese Marrano, a Jew forcibly converted to Christianity, who after extensive wanderings settled in Ferrara.
- Richard Zimler (1956–), American-born author, dual-citizen.{{Cite web|url=http://goodbooksguide.blogspot.com/2009/05/writing-life-richard-zimler.html|title=eric forbes's book addict's guide to good books: THE WRITING LIFE ... Richard ZIMLER}}{{cite news |url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/the-gospel-according-to-richard-zimler-demons-dreams-and-yeshua-1.486124 |title=The Gospel according to Richard Zimler: demons, dreams and Yeshua |first=Anne |last=Joseph |date=July 5, 2019 |newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle}}
==Spain==
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- Petrus Alphonsi, 11th & 12th century physician, writer, astronomer, and polemicist.{{cite news |title=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1116-great-thinker-converts-then-turns-on-jews-1.5374396 |author=David B. Green |access-date=December 15, 2019}}
- Vidal Astori (15th century) merchant and silversmith.{{Cite web |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/murviedro |title=Murviedro}}
- Bonafos Caballeria (?-1464), historian and anti-Jewish writer.
- Abraham Cresques (1325–1387), cartographer.{{cite web |title=You have reached your destination: The Jewish cartographers without whom we would not have WAZE |url=https://www.bh.org.il/blog-items/reached-destination-jewish-cartographers-without-not-waze/ |author=Ushi Derman|date=7 April 2019 |access-date=December 15, 2019}}
- Jehudà Cresques (1360–1410), cartographer.{{Cite web|url=https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/795/the-living-waters-of-history/|title=The Living Waters of History|first=Amy Newman|last=Smith|date=March 5, 2014|website=Jewish Review of Books}}
- Alfonso de Cartagen (1384–1456), Roman Catholic bishop, diplomat, historian and writer of pre-Renaissance Spain.{{Cite journal|url=https://brill.com/view/journals/me/24/1-3/article-p226_9.xml|doi=10.1163/15700674-12340022|title=The Virus in the Language: Alonso de Cartagena's Deconstruction of the "Limpieza de Sangre" in Defensorium Unitatis Christianae (1450)|year=2018|last1=Giordano|first1=Maria Laura|journal=Medieval Encounters|volume=24|issue=1–3|pages=226–251|s2cid=165514241|url-access=subscription}}
- Moses Hamon (1490–1567) physician, historian and phlanthopoist.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1580261|jstor=1580261|title=Moses Hamon, Chief Jewish Physician to Sultan Süleymān the Magnificent|last1=Heyd|first1=Uriel|journal=Oriens|year=1963|volume=16|pages=152–170|doi=10.2307/1580261|url-access=subscription}}
- Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez (15th & 16th century), mystic and theologian.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jabez-joseph-ben-x1e24-ayyim|title = Jabez, Joseph ben Hayyim}}
- Felipe Godínez (1588–1637), Portuguese born dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.{{cite web|title=Felipe Godinez|url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/felipe_godinez/biografia/|publisher=Foundation Virtual Library Miguel de Cervantes|access-date=4 November 2013}}
- Jacob ibn Jau (9th century), silk-manufacturer and held a position in the court of the Hisham II.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ibn-jau-jacob|title=Ibn Jau, Jacob | Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}
- Judah ben Joseph ibn Ezra (12th century), physician.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judah-ha-Levi|title = Judah ha-Levi | Hebrew poet| date=27 June 2023 }}
- Joseph Kimhi (1105–1170), rabbi and biblical commentator.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/david-kimchi|title = David Kimchi}}
- Antonio de León Pinelo (1589–1660), writer and historian.{{Cite web|url=https://ccjs.uchicago.edu/jewish-inka-king-paytiti-and-converso-guaman-poma-%C2%A0de-ayala-jewish-old-testament-culture-tridentine|title=The Jewish Inka King of Paytiti and the Converso Guaman Poma de Ayala (Jewish Old Testament culture in Tridentine Peru, 1600–1650) | The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies|website=ccjs.uchicago.edu}}
- Moses de León (1240–1305), rabbi and Kabbalist who is considered the composer or redactor of the Zohar. ={{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100211684|title=Moses de Leon|website=Oxford Reference}}
- Isaac ben Moses Eli (15th century), mathematician.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8204-isaac-ben-moses-eli-ha-sefardi|title=ISAAC BEN MOSES ELI (Ha-Sefardi) - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}
- Caterina Tarongí (1646–1691), burned alive by the Spanish Inquisition.{{Cite web|url=https://www.commentary.org/articles/robert-graves/a-dead-branch-on-the-tree-of-israel-the-xuetas-of-majorca/|title="A Dead Branch on the Tree of Israel" The Xuetas of Majorca – Robert Graves, Commentary Magazine|date=February 1957}}
- Bartolomé de Torres Naharro (1845–1530), writer.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/338175|jstor = 338175|title = New Biographical Ideas on Bartolomé de Torres Naharro|last1 = Lihani|first1 = John|journal = Hispania|year = 1971|volume = 54|issue = 4|pages = 828–835|doi = 10.2307/338175|url-access = subscription}}
- Solomon ibn Verga (1460–1554), historian and physician.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ibn-verga-solomon|title=Ibn Verga, Solomon | Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}
- Joseph Zabara (1140–1200), physicist, poet and satirist, writer of the Book of Delights'.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15137-zabara-joseph|title=JOSEPH ZABARA (Joseph ben Meïr Zabara) - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}
- Abraham Zacuto (1452-c.1515), astronomer
- Francisco Perea (1620 – ?), first-generation son of Sephardic Jews exiled from Spain in Peru{{cite web |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LT9Y-R8V |title = FamilySearch: Sign In|website = FamilySearch}}
=Post-expulsion=
- Isak Andic (1953–), Turkish-born businessman and founder Mango.{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/isak-andic|title = Isak Andic is part of the BoF 500}}
- Miguel de Barrios (1625–1701), philosopher, historian and poet.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/barrios-daniel-levi-miguel-de|title=Barrios, Daniel Levi (Miguel) de | Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1453280|jstor=1453280|title=Miguel de Barrios and the Amsterdam Sephardic Community|last1=Scholberg|first1=Kenneth R.|journal=The Jewish Quarterly Review|year=1962|volume=53|issue=2|pages=120–159|doi=10.2307/1453280|url-access=subscription}}
- Nissan Ben-Avraham (1957–), Marrano rabbi.{{Cite news|publisher=Jerusalem Post|title=First ex-Marrano Israeli rabbi returns to Spain as emissary|date=Dec 15, 2019|url=http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=168149}}
- Esther Bendahan (1964–), Moroccan born author.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43744033|jstor = 43744033|title = An Interview with Esther Bendahan|last1 = Campoy-Cubillo|first1 = Adolfa|last2 = Bendahan|first2 = Esther|journal = European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe|year = 2014|volume = 47|issue = 2|pages = 122–129}}
- Elena Benarroch (1955–), fashion designer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.levante-emv.com/vida-y-estilo/gente/personajes/2013/10/17/elena-benarroch-perfecta-jewish-mama/1042475.html|title = Elena Benarroch: "Soy la perfecta jewish mama"|date = 17 October 2013}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/2002/11/25/archive/around-the-jewish-world-few-jews-in-spain-yet-supposed-jewish-lobby-still-draws-readers|title=Around the Jewish World Few Jews in Spain, Yet Supposed 'jewish Lobby' Still Draws Readers|date=25 November 2002}}
- Doris Benegas (1951–2016), Venezuelan-born political lawyer, half Jewish.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/suplementos/cronica/2009/709/1242511206.html|title = – EL MUNDO | Suplemento cronica 709 – DORIS, EL CISMA FAMILIAR DE LOS BENEGAS}}
- José María Benegas (1948–2015), Venezuelan-born politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, half Jewish.
- Ricardo Bofill (1939–), world famous architect, half Jewish.{{cite web|url=https://www.world-architects.com/en/architecture-news/insight/versailles-for-the-people|title= Versailles for the People |work=World-Architects.com|first=Ulf|last=Meyer|date=December 5, 2019|access-date=December 15, 2019}}
- Rafael Cansinos-Asséns (1882–1964), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator.{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishquarterly.org/2009/05/a-catalogue-of-jewish-symbols-by-ilan-stavans/|title=A Catalogue of Jewish Symbols |work=Jewishquarterly|first=Ilan|last=Stavans|date=August 24, 2014|access-date=December 15, 2019}}
- Abraham Miguel Cardoso (1626–1706), Sabbatean prophet and physician.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1486734|jstor=1486734|title=Abraham Miguel Cardoso's Messianism: A Reappraisal|last1=Rosenstock|first1=Bruce|journal=AJS Review|year=1998|volume=23|issue=1|pages=63–104|doi=10.1017/S0364009400010035|s2cid=162719628|url-access=subscription}}
- Isaac Carasso (1874–1939), Ottoman born co-founder of Danone.{{Cite web|url=http://www.public-histoire.com/saga/yaourt/yaourt7.html|title=Public Histoire – Sagas – Le TGV|date=October 15, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015040444/http://www.public-histoire.com/saga/yaourt/yaourt7.html|archive-date=2007-10-15}}
- Daniel Carasso (1905–2009), Ottoman born co-founder of Danone
- 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.{{Cite web|url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/02/claudio-guillen/|title=Claudio Guillén|date=17 February 2011}}
- Heinrich Gärtner (1885–1962), Austro-Hungarian-born cinematographer.Bock & Bergfelder p.572
- Andrés Herzog (1974–), politician and lawyer;spokesperson of the Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD),half Jewish.{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/politica/2015/07/22/actualidad/1437566420_809835.html|title=Herzog vuelve a la selva|newspaper=El País|date=26 July 2015|last1=Carbajo|first1=Juan Antonio}}
- Jon Juaristi (1951–), poet, essayist and translator, self-confessed former ETA militant. Convert.{{cite web|url=https://www.politika.io/en/notice/basques-jews-and-the-racialization-of-spanish-identity |title=Basques, Jews, and the Racialization of Spanish Identity|first=Jean-Frédéric|last=Schaub|date=February 26, 2018|access-date=December 15, 2019}}
- Alicia Koplowitz (1954–), businesswoman and philanthropist, half Jewish.[http://www.abc.es/hemeroteca/historico-24-08-2007/abc/Gente/las-koplowitz-las-mas-ricas-de-espa%C3%B1a_164500293074.html ABC (Spain): "Las Koplowitz Las más ricas de España" by ISABEL GUTIÉRREZ (in Spanish)] August 24, 2007
- Esther Koplowitz (1953–), businesswoman and philanthropist, half Jewish.
- Enrique Múgica Herzog (1932–), lawyer, politician and co-founder of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, half-Jewish.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/1988/07/12/archive/minister-in-spanish-government-first-jew-since-inquisition|title=Minister in Spanish Government First Jew Since Inquisition|date=12 July 1988}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4955014|title=The Basque Jew, Catalan king and shoemaker's adviser|newspaper=Haaretz}}
- 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|date=December 2019}}
- Samuel Toledano (1929–1996), Moroccan-born Jewish lawyer and Jewish community leader.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/25/world/samuel-toledano-66-advocate-for-jews-of-spain.html|title=Samuel Toledano 66 advocate for jews of spain|work=New York Times|date=25 July 1996|access-date=December 15, 2019}}
- Joseph de la Vega (1650–1692), well known merchant, poet, and philanthropist in Amsterdam.{{cite news|title=The First Book Written About a Stock Market Is Selling for $300,000|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-04/the-first-book-written-about-a-stock-market-is-selling-for-300-000|author= James Tarmy|website=Bloomberg News|date=4 December 2018 |access-date=December 15, 2019}}
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