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Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ...
s had lived in the
Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula (), ** * Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica'' ** ** * french: Péninsule Ibérique * mwl, Península Eibérica * eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, def ...
since the Ancient Age, experiencing a
Golden Age The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the '' Works and Days'' of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the G ...
under Muslim rule. Following the
Reconquista The ' ( Spanish, Portuguese and Galician for "reconquest") is a historiographical construction describing the 781-year period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711 and the fall of the N ...
and increasing persecution, many of them were expelled from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1497. Some of their descendants, known as the
Sephardi Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), pt, Judeus sefa ...
m, settled mainly in North Africa, South-East Europe,
the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
, 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: :
''This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.''


Portugal

* Abraham Aboab Falero (? – 1642), seventeenth century
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Daniel Blaufuks Daniel Blaufuks (born 1963) is a Portuguese photographer. Life and work Blaufuks was born in Lisbon. He is the grandson of Polish and German Ashkenazi Jews who moved to Portugal in the late 1920s and 1930s. He moved to Germany in 1976 and retu ...
(1963 -) photographer. *
Joshua Benoliel Joshua Benoliel (13 January 1873 – 3 February 1932) was a Portuguese photojournalist. He was the official photographer for King Carlos I of Portugal. Biography Joshua Benoliel was born in Lisbon, to Judah Benoliel, a Gibraltar-born Jewish ...
(1873–1932) Photojournalist, official photographer for King Carlos I of Portugal. *
Moisés Bensabat Amzalak Moisés Bensabat Amzalak (4 October 1892 - 6 June 1978) was a Portuguese scholar and economist. Amzalak was born and educated in Lisbon. He combined a successful business career with broad academic activity. A devoted Jew, a central figure in the ...
(1892–1978), *
Isaac Cardoso Isaac (Fernando) Cardoso was a Jewish physician, philosopher, and polemic writer. Life He was born of Marrano parents at Trancoso, near Celorico, in the province of Beira, Portugal in 1603 or 1604 and died at Verona in 1683. He was an older bro ...
(1603/1604 – 1683) physician, philosopher, and polemic writer. *
Artur Carlos de Barros Basto Artur Carlos de Barros Basto ( he, אברהם ישראל בן-ראש; Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh) (18 December 1887 – 8 March 1961) was a Portuguese military officer and writer, who published several works related to Judaism. He was an important Je ...
(1887–1961) author and military captain. *
Artur Alberto de Campos Henriques Artur Alberto de Campos Henriques, GCTE GCC (Porto, 28 April 1853 – Lisbon, 7 November 1922) was a Portuguese politician who once served as Prime Minister of Portugal. Biography Campos Henriques was of Jewish ancestry. His brother was the ...
(1853–1922) The 50th
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. * Nico Castel (1931–2015)
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"Nico Castel, Tenor and Diction Coach at the Met, Dies at 83"
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Uriel da Costa Uriel da Costa (; also Acosta or d'Acosta; c. 1585 – April 1640) was a Portuguese philosopher and skeptic who was born Christian, but returned to Judaism and ended up questioning the Catholic and rabbinic institutions of his time. Life Many det ...
(1585–1640), Philosopher. * Abraham Curiel (1545–1609), physician. * David Curiel (1594–1666), merchant. * Jacob Curiel (1587–1664), diplomat, merchant and nobleman. *
Tatiana Salem Levy Tatiana Salem Levy (born January 24, 1979 Lisbon) is a Brazilian writer and translator. Early life and education Levy's parents are Turkish Jews established in Portugal during the Brazilian military government. She studied literature at the Fed ...
(1979 -) Novelist. * Rodrigo Lopez (1517–1594), physician *
Fernão de Loronha Fernão de Loronha ( or earlier – ), whose name is often corrupted to Fernando de Noronha or Fernando della Rogna, was a prominent 16th-century Portuguese merchant of Lisbon, of Jewish descent. He was the first charter-holder (1502–1512) ...
(1470–1540), Explorer and merchant. *
Gracia Mendes Nasi Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510 – 1569), also known as Doña Gracia or ''La Señora'' (The Lady), was a Portuguese philanthropist and one of the wealthiest Jewish women of Renaissance Europe. She married Francisco Mendes/ Benveniste. She was the mate ...
(1510–1569), wealthy women of Renaissance Europe, became a prominent figure in the Ottoman Empire and developed an escape network that hundreds of
Conversos A ''converso'' (; ; feminine form ''conversa''), "convert", () was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of his or her descendants. To safeguard the Old Christian p ...
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Solomon Molcho Solomon Molcho ( he, שלמה מולכו Shelomo Molkho), or Molkho, originally Diogo Pires (c. 1500 – 13 December 1532) was a Portuguese Jewish mystic and messiah claimant. When he met with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to urge the creation of ...
(1500–1532), mystic and writer. * Garcia de Orta (1501–1578) Herbalist, naturalist and physician. *
Pedro Nunes Pedro Nunes (; Latin: ''Petrus Nonius''; 1502 – 11 August 1578) was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor, from a New Christian (of Jewish origin) family. Considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, Nun ...
(1502–1578), Mathematician, cosmographer, and professor *
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira Jacob Rodrigues Pereira or Jacob Rodrigue Péreire (April 11, 1715 – September 15, 1780) was an academic and the first teacher of deaf-mutes in France. Jacob Rodrigues Pereira was born in Berlanga (Badajoz), Spain, a descendant of a Por ...
(1715–1780), the first teacher of deaf-mutes in France. *
Daniela Ruah Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah (born December 2, 1983) is an American-Portuguese actress and film director best known for playing NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye in the CBS police procedural series '' NCIS: Los Angeles''. Early life Ruah was born in Bo ...
(1983 -), actress, dual American citizen *
Isaac Henrique Sequeira Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738-1816) was a Portuguese Sephardic Jewish doctor. Early life Sequeira was born in Lisbon, and educated at Bordeaux and Leiden. Career Sequeira served as physician extraordinary to the Portuguese Embassy at the Court ...
(1738–1816) Lisbon-born French doctor. * Francisco Sanches (1550 – November 16, 1623), was a Portuguese born Spain raised, French skeptic philosopher and physician. * José Maria Espírito Santo Silva Ricciardi (1954–), economist and banker. *
David ben Solomon ibn Yahya David ben Solomon ibn Yaḥya (1455–1528) was a rabbi in Lisbon, in 1476. Life Accused of inducing the Marranos to relapse into Judaism, he was sentenced by King João II to be burned at the stake. He fled to Naples with his family, but was ...
(1425–1528), Rabbi sentenced by King João II to be burned at the stake fled to Corfu. * Jacob Tirado (1540–1620), founder of the Spanish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam. * Fernando Ulrich (1952 -), economist and banking administrator.Fernando Ulrich banqueiro por tradição familiar
, Económico * Samuel Usque (1500–1555), author. *
Richard Zimler Richard Zimler (born 1 January 1956 in Roslyn Heights, New York) is a best-selling author. His books, which have earned him a 1994 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and the 1998 Herodotus Award, have been published in many cou ...
(born 1956), American-born author, dual-citizen.


Spain


Pre-expulsion

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Petrus Alphonsi Petrus Alphonsi (died after 1116) was a Jewish Spanish physician, writer, astronomer and polemicist who converted to Christianity in 1106. He is also known just as Alphonsi, and as Peter Alfonsi or Peter Alphonso, and was born Moses Sephardi. ...
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Vidal Astori Vidal Astori, born in Valencia in the 15th century, was a Sephardic silversmith and merchant. He worked for the court of Ferdinand the Catholic between 1467 and 1469. With time he would reach the prestigious rank of "silversmith of the king," a stat ...
(15th century) merchant and silversmith. * Bonafos Caballeria (?-1464), historian and anti-Jewish writer. *
Abraham Cresques Abraham Cresques (, 1325–1387), whose real name was Cresques (son of) Abraham, was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer from Palma, Majorca (then part of the Crown of Aragon). In collaboration with his son, Jehuda Cresques, Cresques is credit ...
(1325–1387), cartographer. * Jehudà Cresques (1360–1410), cartographer. * Alfonso de Cartagen (1384–1456), Roman Catholic bishop, diplomat, historian and writer of pre-Renaissance Spain. *
Moses Hamon Moses Amon also known as Moses Hamon (Granada, c. 1490 – 1554) (Amon) was the son of Joseph Hamon, born in Spain. Going with his father to Constantinople, he became physician to Suleiman the Magnificent. This "famous prince and great phys ...
(1490–1567) physician, historian and phlanthopoist. *
Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez (also "Yaavetz") (1438-1539) was a Spanish-Jewish theologian. He lived for a time in Portugal, where he associated with Joseph Hayyun, who inspired him with that taste for mysticism which he subsequently displayed in hi ...
(15th & 16th century), mystic and theologian. * Felipe Godínez (1588–1637), Portuguese born dramatist of the
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. * Jacob ibn Jau (9th century), silk-manufacturer and held a position in the court of the
Hisham II Hisham II or Abu'l-Walid Hisham II al-Mu'ayyad bi-llah (, Abū'l-Walīd Hishām al-Muʾayyad bi-ʾllāh) (son of Al-Hakam II and Subh of Cordoba) was the third Umayyad Caliph of Spain, in Al-Andalus from 976 to 1009, and 1010–13. Reign In 97 ...
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Judah ben Joseph ibn Ezra Judah ben Joseph ibn Ezra (in Hebrew, Yehuda ben Yosef ibn Ezra) was a Jew of Granada, Spain who lived in the twelfth century and rose to favour under Alfonso VII of León and Castile, eventually becoming the king's court chamberlain. Judah, a ...
(12th century), physian. *
Joseph Kimhi Joseph Qimḥi or Kimchi (1105–1170) ( he, יוסף קמחי) was a medieval Jewish rabbi and biblical commentator. He was the father of Moses and David Kimhi, and the teacher of Rabbi Menachem Ben Simeon and poet Joseph Zabara. Grammarian ...
(1105–1170), rabbi and biblical commentator. * Antonio de León Pinelo (1589–1660) writer and historian. *
Moses de León Moses de León (c. 1240 – 1305), known in Hebrew as Moshe ben Shem-Tov (), was a Spanish rabbi and Kabbalist who first publicized the Zohar. Modern scholars believe the Zohar is his own work, despite his claim that he took traditions goin ...
(1240–1305) rabbi and Kabbalist who is considered the composer or redactor of the Zohar. = * Isaac ben Moses Eli (15th century), mathematician. * Caterina Tarongí (1646–1691), burned alive by the
Spanish Inquisition The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition ( es, Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition ( es, Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand ...
. * Bartolomé de Torres Naharro (1845–1530), writer. * Solomon ibn Verga (1460–1554) historian and physician. * Joseph Zabara (1140–1200), physicist, poet and satirist, writer of the Book of Delights'. *
Abraham Zacuto Abraham Zacuto ( he, , translit=Avraham ben Shmuel Zacut, pt, Abraão ben Samuel Zacuto; 12 August 1452 – ) was a Castilian astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian who served as Royal Astronomer to King John II of Portugal. ...
(1452-c.1515), astronomer *
Francisco Perea Francisco Perea (January 9, 1830 – May 21, 1913) was an American businessman and politician, serving first in the House of the New Mexico Territory after the area's acquisition by the United States following the Mexican–American War. He was ...
(1620 – ?), First-generation son of Sephardic Jews exiled from Spain in Peru


Post-expulsion

* Isak Andic (1953–), Turkish-born businessman and founder
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Miguel de Barrios Miguel Barrios (a.k.a. Daniel Levi de Barrios; c. 1625 – 1701) was a poet and historian from a converso family who joined the community of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam. He was born in Montilla, Spain and died in Amsterdam. Miguel was ...
(1625–1701), philosopher, historian and poet. * Nissan Ben-Avraham (1957–), Marrano rabbi. * Esther Bendahan (1964–), Moroccan born author. * Elena Benarroch (1955–), fashion designer. * (1974–), politician, former President of Malaga Provincial Deputation * Doris Benegas (1951–2016), Venezuelan-born political lawyer, half Jewish. *
José María Benegas José María "Txiki" Benegas Haddad (25 July 1948 – 25 August 2015) was a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). His nickname "Txiki" is Basque for "small". Early life Benegas was born in Caracas, Venezleua. His f ...
(1948–2015), Venezuelan-born politician for the
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español ; PSOE ) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources: * * * * political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in gov ...
, half Jewish. *
Ricardo Bofill Ricardo Bofill Leví (; 5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Spanish architect from Catalonia. He founded Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 and developed it into a leading international architectural and urban design practice. ...
(1939–), world famous architect, half Jewish. *
Rafael Cansinos-Asséns Rafael Cansinos Asséns (November 24, 1882 – July 6, 1964) was a Spanish poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator. Biography Censinos was born in Seville on November 24, 1882. Through his father's paternal line, he is rela ...
(1882–1964), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator. *
Abraham Miguel Cardoso Abraham Miguel Cardozo (also Cardoso; c. 1626–1706) was a Sabbatean prophet and physician born in Rio Seco, Spain. Biography A descendant of Marranos from around the city of Celorico, in the province of Beira, Portugal, he studied medicine ...
(1626–1706), Sabbatean prophet and physician. *
Isaac Carasso Isaac Carasso (1874 – 19 April 1939) was a member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso (Karasu) family of Ottoman Salonica (modern Thessaloniki, Greece). After emigrating to Barcelona, he started a yogurt factory which later became Grou ...
(1874–1939), Ottoman born co-founder of
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Daniel Carasso Daniel Carasso (December 16, 1905 – May 17, 2009) was a French American member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founder of the (now) multinational Danone. Biography Carasso, son of Isaac Carasso, wa ...
(1905–2009), Ottoman born co-founder of
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Pancracio Celdrán Pancracio Celdrán Gomáriz (1942 – 24 March 2019) was a Spanish professor, intellectual and journalist whose specialties were the history and literature of antiquity and the medieval period. Life Born in Murcia, Celdrán received a degree in H ...
(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. * Heinrich Gärtner (1885–1962),
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-born cinematographer. *
Andrés Herzog Andrés Gustavo Herzog Sánchez (born 21 January 1974) is a Spanish lawyer and politician who is the spokesperson of the centrist party Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD). Background Herzog was born in San Sebastián, Basque Country, and is ...
(1974–), Politician and lawyer that is the spokesperson of the
Union, Progress and Democracy Union, Progress and Democracy ( es, link=no, Unión, Progreso y Democracia , UPyD ) was a Spanish political party founded in September 2007 and dissolved in December 2020. It was a social-liberal party that rejected any form of nationalism, espe ...
(UPyD),half Jewish. *
Jon Juaristi Jon Juaristi Linacero (born in Bilbao in 1951) is a Spanish poet, essayist and translator in Spanish and Basque, as well as a self-confessed former ETA militant.
(1951–), poet, essayist and translator, as a self-confessed former ETA militant. Convert.Politika ''Politika'' ( sr-Cyrl, Политика; ''Politics'') is a Serbian daily newspaper, published in Belgrade. Founded in 1904 by Vladislav F. Ribnikar, it is the oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in the Balkans. Publishing and owners ...
"> * Alicia Koplowitz (1954–), businesswoman and philanthropist, half Jewish.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 Enrique () is the Spanish variant of the given name Heinrich of Germanic origin. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Enric (Catalan), Enrico (Italian), Henrik (Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian), Heinrich (German), Hendrik, Henk ( ...
(1932–), lawyer, politician and co-founder of
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, half-Jewish. * Romeo Niram (1974–), figurative painter. *
Eduardo Propper de Callejón Eduardo Propper de Callejón (Madrid, 9 April 1895 – London, 11 January 1972) was a Spanish diplomat who is remembered mainly for having facilitated the escape of thousands of Jews from Occupied France during World War II between 1940 and 194 ...
(1895–1972), diplomat remembered for facilitating escape of tens of thousands of Jews from France, half Jewish. *
Antonio Puerta Antonio José Puerta Pérez (; 26 November 1984 – 28 August 2007) was a Spanish professional footballer who played solely for Sevilla. Mainly a left midfielder who could also operate as an attacking left-back, he died on 28 August 2007 affec ...
(1984–2007), footballer. * Samuel Toledano (1929–1996), Moroccan-born Jewish lawyer and Jewish community leader. *
Joseph de la Vega José or Joseph Penso de la Vega, best known as Josseph de la Vega (ca. 1650 — Amsterdam, 13 November, 1692), was a Sephardi Jewish merchant in diamonds, financial expert, moral philosopher and poet, residing in Amsterdam. He became famous for ...
(1650–1692), well known merchant, poet, and philanthropist in Amsterdam.


See also

* List of Sephardic Jews *
Sephardi Jews Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), pt, Judeus sefa ...
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History of the Jews in Spain While the history of the Jews in the current-day Spanish territory stretches back to Biblical times according to legendary Jewish tradition, the settlement of organised Jewish communities in the Iberian Peninsula possibly traces back to the time ...
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Spanish and Portuguese Jews Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely descended from Jews who lived as New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula during the ...
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Lists of Jews This list of lists may include both lists that distinguish between ethnic origin and religious practice, and lists that make no such distinction. Some of the constituent lists also may have experienced additions and/or deletions that reflect incom ...
* List of Portuguese * List of Spaniards


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