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List Of Jews From The Arab World
Until the 20th century, Jews accounted for a significant minority among the populations of West Asia and North Africa, which has mostly consisted of the Arab world since the early Muslim conquests. Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the majority of the Arab world's Jews—numbering around 900,000 people—Jewish exodus from the Muslim world, left or were expelled in waves of mass movement that continued until the 1970s. Roughly 72% of these refugees were absorbed by Israel and the remainder largely by the Western world. This article provides a list of prominent Jews with either full or partial origins in the territory of the Arab world from as far back as the early medieval era. Al-Andalus (Arab Spain) * Dunash ben Labrat, commentator, poet, and grammarian * Maimonides, Mūsā ibn Maymūn, medieval philosopher and Torah scholar * Moses ibn Ezra, Abu Harun Musa bin Ya'acub ibn Ezra, philosopher and linguist * Hasdai ibn Shaprut, scholar, physician, and diplomat Algeria * Isaa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jews
Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly interrelated, as Judaism is their ethnic religion, though it is not practiced by all ethnic Jews. Despite this, religious Jews regard Gerim, converts to Judaism as members of the Jewish nation, pursuant to the Conversion to Judaism, long-standing conversion process. The Israelites emerged from the pre-existing Canaanite peoples to establish Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), Israel and Kingdom of Judah, Judah in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.John Day (Old Testament scholar), John Day (2005), ''In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel'', Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 47.5 [48] 'In this sense, the emergence of ancient Israel is viewed not as the cause of the demise of Canaanite culture but as its upshot'. Originally, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Bruel
Patrick Benguigui (; born 14 May 1959), better known by his stage name Patrick Bruel (), is a French singer-songwriter, actor and professional poker player. Biography Early life Patrick is the son of Pierre Benguigui and Augusta Kammoun, daughter of Elie and Céline ben Sidoun. He lived in the staff accommodation of the girls' school in Argenteuil where his mother was a teacher. In his youth, Bruel aspired to be a football player, but decided instead to pursue singing after seeing Michel Sardou in 1975. Acting and music careers His first success came as an actor, in 1979's ''Le Coup de sirocco''. He continued acting in films, on television, and in the theater while pursuing his singing career. His first single, "Vide" ("Empty"), released in 1982, was not a success, but the follow-up, "Marre de cette nana-là" ("Fed up with that chick"), was a hit. In 2003, just before his partner, the writer and playwright Amanda Sthers, gave birth to his first child, Oscar, on 19 Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Khedouri
Nancy Dinah Elly Khedouri (; born 1975) is a Bahraini politician, businesswoman and author. She has been a member of the National Assembly of Bahrain since 2010. Early life and family The Khedouris family are one of the Jewish families in Bahrain, a family of importers of tablecloths and linens. Her direct family is third generation in Bahrain, and she is the cousin of Houda Nonoo, the Bahraini Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2013.Ismaeel NaarRetracing Bahrain’s Jewish contributions to Gulf economics and politics ''Alarabiya.net'', 26 February 2017 In her 2007 book ''From Our Beginning to Present Day'', she documented the history of Bahraini Jews from the first settlers (late 1880s) to present days. Political career In 2010, Nancy Khedouri became a member of the National Assembly of Bahrain. She has worked on smoothening relationships with Israel by appearing publicly with political figures such as Yisrael Katz. In April 2017, she represented her country at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menasheh Idafar
Menasheh Idafar (, born 13 March 1991) is a British-Bahraini racing driver. In 2010 he competed in the British Formula 3 Championship and won the National Class. Early life Menasheh is a part of the History of the Jews in Bahrain, small Jewish community of Bahrain. His father is Salman Idafar (a British Jew) and his mother is Bahraini politician Houda Nonoo (a History of the Jews in Bahrain, Bahraini Jew) who was the first Jew, and the third woman, to be appointed ambassador of Bahrain Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it comprises a small archipelago of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered on Bahrain Island, which mak .... References External links Official website * 1991 births Living people Bahraini Jews Bahraini people of Iraqi-Jewish descent Formula Renault BARC drivers British Formula Renault 2.0 drivers British Formula Three Championship driver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinette L'Oranaise
Sultana Daoud (also known as Reinette l'Oranaise; 1918 in Tiaret, Algeria – 17 November 1998, in Paris) was an Algerian Jewish singer, who helped preserve Arab-Andalus music, as well as introducing the genre to European audiences. Early life She was born in Tiaret, the daughter of a Moroccan Rabbi. Being blind as a result of smallpox when two years old, she studied at a school for the blind in Algiers, until her mother encouraged her to take up music. She studied with Saoud l'Oranais, who gave her the nickname ''Reinette l'Oranaise'' ("Queenie from Oran"). From him she learned to play several instruments, and learned a great many traditional songs in the Arab-Andalus and Raï styles. They moved to Paris in 1938, but at his suggestion she soon returned to Algeria. There she joined the orchestra of Meriem Fekkaï, until Algerian independence ended her career - she had been opposed to independence. Unable to find work in her home country, she returned to France, playing in restaura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line Monty
Line Monty, born as Éliane Serfati, also known by her stage name Leïla Fateh (1926 in Algiers – 19 August 2003 in Paris), was a Jewish Algerian singer who sang in Arabic and French. Career She first appeared on a short movie by Alberto Spadolini ''Nous, les Gitanes'' in 1950.Line Monty - La Française qui chante si bien l'arabe at jechantemagazine.net, retrieved May 10th 2019 In 1952 she started recording on Pathé Marconi's behalf. A collection of her recordings of |
Enrico Macias
Gaston Ghrenassia (born 11 December 1938), known by his stage name Enrico Macias, is a French singer, songwriter and musician. Early years Gaston Ghrenassia was born to a Sephardic Jews, Sephardic Jewish family. His father, Sylvain Ghrenassia (1914–2004), was a violinist in an orchestra that played primarily ''malouf'', Andalusian classical music. Gaston played the guitar from childhood, and started playing with the Cheikh Raymond Leyris Orchestra at age 15. He pursued a school teacher career, but continued playing the guitar. In 1961, the Algerian War of Independence was raging, and the situation became untenable for the European colonizers of Constantine. The assassination in 1961 of his father-in-law and musician Cheikh Raymond, Cheikh Raymond Leyris by the National Liberation Front (Algeria), National Liberation Front (FLN) was of immense effect on Gaston Ghrenassia, and appears to have been due to his opposition to the independence of Algeria from France and pro-Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Georges Lévy (; ; born 5 November 1948) is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the " Nouveaux Philosophes" (New Philosophers) movement in 1976. His opinions, political activism, and publications have also been the subject of several controversies over the years. Life and career Early life and career Lévy was born in 1948 in Béni Saf, French Algeria, to an affluent Sephardic Jewish ( Algerian-Jewish) family. His family moved to Paris a few months after his birth. He is the son of Dina (Siboni) and André Lévy, the founder and manager of a timber company, Becob, and became a multimillionaire from his business. He is the brother of . Inspired by a call for an International Brigade to aid Bangladeshi separatists made by André Malraux, he became a war correspondent for ''Combat'' in 1971, covering the Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan. The next year he worked as a civil servant for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Hanin
Roger Hanin (born Roger Levy, 20 October 1925 – 11 February 2015) was a French actor and film director, best known for playing the title role in the TV police drama, '' Navarro''. Career Roger Hanin was born in 1925 in Algiers, Algeria as Roger Lévy to Jewish parents. His brother-in-law was François Mitterrand (the former President of France), whose wife, Danielle, was the sister of Hanin's wife, Christine Gouze-Rénal. With Claude Chabrol, Hanin co-wrote the scripts for a pair of spy films in the mid-1960s. Chabrol directed '' Code Name: Tiger'' (1964) and '' Our Agent Tiger'' (1965), both featuring Hanin in the starring role of secret agent ''Le Tigre''. From the late 1970s, Hanin enjoyed newfound popularity in France thanks to his roles in ''Le Coup de Sirocco'', a dramedy about the pieds-noirs exodus in Metropolitan France and ''Le Grand pardon'', a gangster film about the French Jewish pied-noir mafia. Both films were directed by Alexandre Arcady Alexandre Arcady ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse Halimi
Alphonse Halimi (February 18, 1932 – November 12, 2006) was a French boxer. He took the Undisputed World Bantamweight Championship on April 1, 1957, in Paris, and the European Bantamweight Championship five years later. Early life He was born in Constantine, Algeria, to an Orthodox Jewish family. He was the last of 13 children, only seven of whom reached adulthood. His father was a postal inspector. At the age of 10, he ran away from home for the first time, living for long periods of time on the streets of a nation torn by war. A tailor named Dianoux, of Algiers, took Halimi under his wing and trained him to work as a tailor by the age of 12.Silver, Mike, "Stars in the Ring", (2016), Roman and Littelfield, Guilford, Connecticut, pg. 282-3 After he was caught in a fight on the streets of Algiers, Dianoux encouraged him to train at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida;Peeters (2013), pp. 12–13. See also 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophyVincent B. Leitch ''Postmodernism: Local Effects, Global Flows'', SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996), p. 27. although he distanced himself from post-structuralism and disavowed the word "postmodernity". During his career, Derrida published over 40 books, together with hundreds of essays and public presentations. He has had a significant influence on the humanities and social sciences, including philosophy, literature, law, anthropology, historiography, applie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
