Many of the Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish Inquisition settled in the Ottoman Empire, leaving behind, at the wake of Empire, large Sephardic communities in South-East Europe: mainly in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ivan Ceresnjes, architect-researcher, former president of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and vice-chairman of the Yugoslav Federation of Jewish Communities from 1992–1996
Kalmi Baruh, writer and philosopher
Emerik Blum, businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo
Oskar Danon, composer and conductor
David Elazar, Israeli general and Chief of Staff of Israel Defense Forces
Jakob Finci, politician, ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Switzerland
Isaac Pardo, rabbi of Sarajevo
Robert Rothbart, basketball player (Jewish mother)
Isak Samokovlija, writer
Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist
Binyamin Arditi
Aron Aronov, tenor
Mira Aroyo, member of the band Ladytron
Gabi Ashkenazi
Sammi The Jew
Stavri Kalinov, artist.
Redjina Kalinova, artist.
Iossif Melamed, producer and director.
Michael Bar-Zohar
Maxim Behar, president of M3 Communications Group
Shimon Bejarno
Alexander Bozhkov, vice-premier (Jewish mother)
Elias Canetti, author and Nobel Prize Winner
Carl Djerassi
Marcus Ehrenpreis, Poland-born Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria
Itzhak & Samuel Fintzi, dramatists
Pini Gershon
Moshe Gueron
Shlomo Kalo
Nikolay Kaufman, musicologist and composer
Yehezkel Lazarov
Moshe Leon
Etien Levi, singer
Sabin Levi
Milcho Leviev, jazz composer (Jewish father)
Raphael Mechoulam
Moni Moshonov
Ya'akov Nitzani
Ya'akov Nehushtan
Jules Pascin, artist (Jewish father)
Isaac Passy, philosopher
Solomon Passy, foreign minister, son of Isaac Passy
David Peretz (ja)
Valeri Petrov
Georgi Pirinski, Jr.
David Primo
Sarah-Theodora
Victor Shem-Tov
Molly Sidi (now Molly Resnick), former NBC producer, journalist
Maxim Staviski
Angel Wagenstein, author & screenwriter
Alexis Weissenberg, pianist
Jaime Yankelevich
Emanuel Zisman
Viktor Axmann, architect
Julio Deutsch, architect
Hugo Ehrlich, architect
Ignjat Fischer, architect
Josip Frank, Croatian politician
Stjepan Gomboš, architect
Branko Grünbaum, mathematician
Leo Hönigsberg, architect
Slobodan Lang, physician, politician, humanitarian
Rikard Lang, prominent Croatian university professor, lawyer and economist, UN's expert
Branko Lustig, film producer and winner of two Academy Awards
Slavko Löwy, architect
Rudolf Lubinski, architect
Blessed Ivan Merz, beatified in 2003
Oscar Nemon, sculpture
Ivo Stern, founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation"
Vladimir Šterk, architect
Karlo Weissmann, physician and founder of the first sanatorium in Osijek
Dragutin Wolf, industrialist, founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar
Aristobulus of Britannia (converted to Christianity)
Barnabas (mentioned in the New Testament)
Mike Brant, French-based singer (Cyprus-born)
Epiphanius of Salamis (converted to Christianity)
John the Merciful
Arie Zeev Raskin, rabbi
Sid Ganis
Hank Azaria
Anna Rezan
Jelena Đurović, writer, politician and journalist
David Albahari, writer
Oskar Danon, composer
Oskar Davičo, poet
Filip David, playwright and columnist
Predrag Ejdus, actor
Vanja Ejdus, actress
Ivan Ivanji, writer
Enriko Josif, composer
Danilo Kiš, writer
Marko Kon, pop singer
Tommy Lapid, former Israeli politician of Hungarian descent, born in Novi Sad
Sonja Licht, political activist
Izidor Papo, cardiac surgeon, general-colonel of the Yugoslav Army medical unit
Moša Pijade, politician, painter, art critic and publicist
Seka Sablić, actress
Erich Šlomović, art collector
Aleksandar Tišma, writer
Katja Boh, politician
Berta Bojetu, author
Israel Isserlin, Medieval rabbi
Klemen Jelinčič Boeta, historian, anthropologist and translator
Lev Kreft, sociologist and politician
Dušan Šarotar, author and editor
Mirjam Štajner, writer
Music industry executive Morris Levy
Cantor Rabbi Isaac Algazi
Seyla Benhabib, political theorist
Can Bonomo, the singer who represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012.
Victoria Kamhi, pianist
Elijah Mizrachi, Hakham Bashi
Dario Moreno, singer
Chaim Nahum, Hakham Bashi
Haim Palachi, grand rabbi of Izmir
Abraham Palacci, grand rabbi of Izmir
Rahamim Nissim Palacci, grand rabbi of Izmir
Joseph Palacci, rabbi of Izmir
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