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The Carasso family (also spelled Karasu, Karaso, Karassu, Karsu, Karso , Carrasco and Karasso) was a prominent
Sephardic Jewish Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...
family in Ottoman
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(modern Thessaloniki, Greece). In the early 20th century, some members of the family were active in the
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and others went on to found the modern
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industry. Notable members of the family include: * David Samuel Carasso (
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1874–1880), writer and traveler * Emmanuel Carasso or Emanuel Karasu (1862–1934) was a lawyer and politician, and prominent member of the Young Turks. His name was Turkified as Emanuel Karasu, meaning 'black water'. *
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) emigrated to Barcelona, where he founded the yogurt company that became
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. ** Daniel Carasso (1905–2009), Isaac's son, took over the family business in Spain and established Danone in France and the United States and built the company up to Groupe Danone. * Albert Karasu or Carasso (1885–1982), founder of the French-language Istanbul newspaper '' Le Journal d'Orient''.


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