List of Sephardic Jews

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The following is a list of Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews.

A list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry:

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.

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  • Lainie Kazan, singer and actress (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
  • Otto Klemperer, conductor (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
  • Jayme King, Famous Television Weatherman in Phoenix, Arizona. (Sephardic Mother "Sholomith Family") Ashkenazic Father)

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  • Avrham B. Yehoshua, author
  • David Levy Yulee, politician
  • Yosef haLevi de Oliveira, outstanding Talmudist, translator and founder of Yahdut Sefarad, in Israel
  • Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, of Iraqi Descent

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Eichner, Itamar. "Israeli minister, American Idol", YNetNew.com, 2006-11-17. Retrieved on 2006-11-17. 
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  3. ^ Lee, Felicia. “Facing Down His Color as a Path to Privilege,” The New York Times (5 May 1999), pp. E1, 10; reprinted as “A Writer Confronts His Color as A Path to Privilege,” in The International Herald Tribune (6 May 1999)
  4. ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica, art. "Bernal": "BERNAL, Sephardi family of Marrano extraction. ... The physicist JOHN DESMOND BERNAL (1901–) is also descended from this family."
  5. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle Dec 10, 1982 p.12
  6. ^ "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
  7. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
  8. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son of David Guedalla, an almond broker in Mincing Lane, who came from a Spanish-Jewish family ... He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
  9. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
  10. ^ Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001. Notice that Inês Pires is only presently presented as a conversa, and that for centuries there was no known doubt regarding her non-Jewish Portuguese ethnicity (which, of course could have been hidden for religious and political reasons, her being the mother of Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza).
  11. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290
  12. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "The Mocatta family were Jews driven from the Iberian peninsula in 1492"
  13. ^ Otaka, Yasujiro: An Aspiration Sealed. [1] Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
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