Apart from France, established Jewish populations exist in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland. With the original medieval populations wiped out by the Black Death and the pogroms that followed it, the current Dutch and Belgian communities originate in the Jewish expulsion from Spain and Portugal, while a Swiss community was only established after emancipation in 1874. However, the vast majority of the population in the Netherlands and a large proportion of the one in Belgium were killed in the Holocaust, and much of the modern Jewish population of these countries (as well as of Switzerland) derives from post-Holocaust arrivals from other parts of Europe. Here is a list of some prominent Sephardi Jews in western Europe, arranged by country of origin.
Ireland
William Annyas, Mayor of Youghal
Henri Bergson, philosopher (Anglo-Irish mother)
Agnes Bernelle, entertainer
Robert Briscoe, member of the Irish Republican Army during the Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War, and twice Lord Mayor of Dublin, in 1956 and 1961
Ben Briscoe T.D., Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1988 (and son of Robert)
Daniel Day-Lewis, actor (Jewish mother)
Gerald Goldberg, Lord Mayor of Cork
Chaim Herzog, Israeli president
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, first Chief Rabbi of Ireland (and father of Chaim)
Sir Otto Jaffe, Lord Mayor of Belfast 1899 and 1904
Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1949 and 1958 and later British Chief Rabbi
Isaac Leon Kandel
Louis Lentin, director of documentary films, television and theatre
David Marcus, author, editor, broadcaster and lifelong supporter of Irish-language fiction
Daniel Radcliffe, actor (Jewish mother, Northern Irish father)
Alan Shatter, Fine Gael politician
Mervyn Taylor, former Irish Labour Party politician
Alessandro d'Ancona, 1904 Senator and 1906 mayor of Pisa
Emanuele Fiano, politician
Vittorio Foa, socialist trade unionist
Alessandro Fortis, Italian Prime Minister (1905–1906)
Anna Kuliscioff, revolutionary feminist
Rita Levi-Montalcini, scientist and Senator
Luigi Luzzatti, Italian Prime Minister (1910–1911)
Ernesto Nathan, mayor of Rome (1907–1913)
Margherita Sarfatti, journalist and mistress of Benito Mussolini
Claudio Treves, politician and writer, grandfather of Carlo Levi
Leone Wollemborg, politician and former Minister of Economy
Religious and communal leaders
Samuel Aboab, prominent rabbi
Aaron ben Gershon Abu Al-Rabi or Aronne Abulrabi of Catania (1400–1450), rabbinic scholar, cabalist and astrologer; called also Aldabi or Alrabi, Aaron was "the first Jew in the history to be invited during a Pontificate to discuss freely and without censorship about religious subjects and papal perplexities; Pope Martin V welcomed him in Rome
Barbara Aiello, American rabbi with an interest in Italy
Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain
Umberto Cassuto, rabbi
Abraham Isaac Castello, rabbi
Leone Ebreo, Neoplatonic philosopher
Amos Luzzatto, writer and former president of the Italian Jewish Communities Union
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, rabbi, scholar, mystic, also known as Ramchal
Samuel David Luzzatto, important rabbi and scholar, also known as Shadal
Raphael Meldola, rabbi
David Nieto, rabbi
Riccardo Pacifici, rabbi
Joseph Pardo, rabbi
Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, rabbi, philosopher
Sidney Sonnino, Italian politician of Jewish origin
Elio Toaff, rabbi and former Chief of Italian Jews Community
Isaiah di Trani, talmudist, rabbi, also known as RID
Emilio Artom, mathematician
pedigree of Azzopardi
Faraj ben Salim, Sicilian physician and translator from Agrigento
Mosé Bonavoglia de' Medici, or Bonavoglio de' Medici (d. 1447), Sicilian physician from Messina and Dienchelele (Naggid or Dayan kelali = Universal Judge of Sicilian Jews); his Hebrew name was Moses Hefez
Michele Besso, engineer
Caecilius of Calacte, Sicilian rhetorician from modern Caronìa
Eugenio Calabi, mathematician
Laura Capón, physicist; married to non-Jew Enrico Fermi
Guido Castelnuovo, mathematician
Enrico Castelnuovo, art historian and medievalist
Federigo Enriques, mathematician
Gino Fano, mathematician
Robert Fano, physicist
Ugo Fano, physicist
Guido Fubini, mathematician
Carlo Ginzburg, historian
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, physicist (Jewish father)
Alberto Jori, philosopher (Jewish mother)
Beppo Levi, mathematician
Tullio Levi-Civita, mathematician
Giorgio Levi della Vida
Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)
Cesare Lombroso, criminologist
Salvador Luria, microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1969)
Samuel David Luzzatto
Franco Modigliani, economist, Nobel Prize (1985)
Arnaldo Momigliano, Italian-born historian
Attilio Momigliano, literary critic, Dante scholar
Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist
Guido Pontecorvo, geneticist
Giulio Racah, physicist
Bruno Rossi, astrophysicist
Asher Salah, historian
Beniamino Segre, mathematician
Cesare Segre, linguistics, semiotics
Corrado Segre, mathematician
Emilio Segrè, physicist, Nobel Prize (1959)
pedigree of Sforno
Piero Sraffa, economist
Manfredo Tafuri, architectural historian, critic and theorist
Ariel Toaff, historian
Andrew Viterbi, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
Vito Volterra, mathematician
Bruno Zevi, architectural critic and historian
Mario Ancona, baritone
Abramo Basevi, composer and musician
Alvise Bassano, musician
Anthony Bassano, musician
Baptista Bassano, musician
Jeronimo Bassano, musician
Haim Cipriani, violinist and reform rabbi
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, guitar,classical and synagogal music composer
Giacobbe Cervetto, cellist and composer
Lorenzo Da Ponte (b. Emanuele Conegliano), opera librettist (born Jewish, raised Catholic)
Abramino dall'Arpa, harpist
Aldo Finzi, composer
Obadiah the Proselyte, musician
Salamone Rossi, baroque composer
Victor de Sabata, conductor (Jewish mother)
Leone Sinigaglia, composer
Devorà Ascarelli, poet and translator
Enrico Castelnuovo, father of Guido
Giorgio Bassani, author
Angela Bianchini, fiction writer
Riccardo Calimani, fiction writer and historian
Lorenzo Da Ponte (b. Emanuele Conegliano), opera librettist (born Jewish, raised Catholic)
Leonardo de Benedetti, physician and writer
Manuela Dviri, writer
Alain Elkann, writer and journalist, father of John, Lapo and Ginevra
Carlo Ginzburg, historian, writer, essayst and pioneer of microhistory
Leone Ginzburg, writer (born in Ukraine)
Natalia Ginzburg (b. Levi), author (Jewish father), wife of Leone and mother of Carlo
Arrigo Levi, writer, journalist and TV anchorman
Carlo Levi, writer, painter and physician
Primo Levi, chemist and author
Carlo Michelstaedter, philosopher
Lisa Morpurgo Dordoni, writer, astrologer
Paolo Mieli, journalist, historian and director of Corriere della Sera
Liana Millu, writer
Alberto Moravia (b. Pincherle), author (Jewish father)
Alessandro Piperno, writer
Umberto Saba, poet (Jewish mother)
Rubino Romeo Salmonì, writer
Roberto Saviano, writer, journalist (Jewish mother)
Clara Sereni, writer
Italo Svevo (b. Schmitz), author
Humbert Wolfe, poet and civil servant
Vito D'Ancona, painter
Cristiana Capotondi, actress (half Jewish)
Gioele Dix (b. Davide Ottolenghi), actor and comedian
Ginevra Elkann, film director, sister of John and Lapo
Arnoldo Foà, actor
Massimiliano Fuksas, architect (Jewish father)
Vittorio Gassman, actor (Jewish mother)
Alessandro Haber, actor
Carlo Levi, writer, painter and physician
Leo Lionni
Emanuele Luzzati, painter
Gabriele Levy, sculptor
Anna Magnani, actress (Jewish mother)
Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor
Ernesto Nathan Rogers, architect, critic and editor
Moni Ovadia, theatre figure
Gillo Pontecorvo, director
Xenia Rappoport, actress
Bruno Zevi, architect
Carlo De Benedetti, industrialist, ex-CEO of FIAT, Olivetti, CIR Group, ex-deputy chairman of Banco Ambrosiano and ex-president of Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso
Chaim Bracha, one of the founders of Jaffa Oranges
John and Lapo Elkann, Vice Chairman of Fiat (Jewish father)
Adriano Goldschmied, fashion designer known as the "godfather of denim" who created Diesel, Replay, and AG Adriano Goldschmied; currently directing Goldsign and men's Citizens of Humanity
Armand, Georges, Maurice and Paul Marciano, founders of GUESS
Moses Haim Montefiore, financier and philanthropist
Adriano Olivetti, son of Camillo, industrialist and social activist
Camillo Olivetti, founder of Olivetti typewriters
Eugenio Calò, Jewish partisan awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valour
Angelo Donati, banker who protected Jews in Southern France during Italian occupation in 1942-43
Mario Finzi, partisan (died in Auschwitz in 1945)
Camila Giorgi, tennis player
Gad Lerner, TV anchorman and journalist
Giorgio Liuzzi, Chief of the Staff of the Italian Army from 1954 to 1959
Renato Mannheimer, pollster, president of IPSO
Maurizio Molinari, journalist and essayist
Edgardo Mortara, boy kidnapped by Catholic Papal authorities
Fiamma Nirenstein, essayist, journalist and MP for PDL (elected in 2008)
Enzo Sereni
Hugo Gernsback, science-fiction pioneer (unconfirmed)
Emil Hirsch, reform rabbi
Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist (Luxembourg-born)
Arno Joseph Mayer, historian
Franz Schreker, composer (Jewish father)
Switzerland
Maurice Abravanel, conductor
Jeff Agoos, US soccer international
Ernest Bloch, composer
Felix Bloch, physicist, Nobel Prize (1952)
Alain de Botton, writer
Albert Cohen, novelist
Arthur Cohn, film producer
Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss president (1999)
Camille and Henri Dreyfus, inventors of Celanese
Al Dubin, lyricist
Jean Dunand-Gotscho, sculptor, painter, lacquerer
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize (1921)
Edmond Fischer, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992) (Jewish father)
Robert Frank, photographer
Meyer Guggenheim, businessman
Jeanne Hersch, philosopher
Frank Key, writer
Mathilde Krim, AIDS researcher (convert)
Dani Levy (1957–), filmmaker, theatrical director and actor
Rolf Liebermann, Swiss music administrator and composer
Meret Oppenheim, surrealist artist
Rachel, stage actress (Swiss-born)
Tadeus Reichstein, chemist, Nobel Prize (1950)
Edmond Safra, banker
Jean Starobinski, literary critic
Sigismond Thalberg, pianist and composer
Regina Ullmann, poet
Charles Weissmann, biochemist
Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, owners of Chanel
John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons
Leon Brittan, Conservative Member of Parliament and Home Secretary
Benjamin Disraeli, British Conservative Prime Minister; converted to Anglicanism at age 12
Greville Janner, Labour Member of Parliament
Tim Judah, journalist and historian
Peter Mandelson, Labour Member of Parliament
David Miliband, politician, Labour Party (UK)
Ed Miliband, politician, Labour Party (UK)
Jacob Rothschild, banker
Elyakim Schlesinger, rabbi
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