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See also Category:Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin. Pages in category "Surnames of Sephardic origin" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total.
Surnames of Sephardic origin (96 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,461 total.
Sephardic Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדֵי סְפָרַד , romanized: Yehudei Sfarad, transl. 'Jews of Spain'; Ladino: Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, [a] [1] and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, [2] are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). [2]
Historically, Jews used Hebrew patronymic names. In the Jewish patronymic system the first name is followed by either ben- or bat- ("son of" and "daughter of," respectively), and then the father's name. ( Bar-, "son of" in Aramaic, is also seen.) Permanent family surnames exist today but only gained popularity among Sephardic Jews in Iberia and ...
Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely descended from Jews who lived as New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula during the few centuries following the forced expulsion of unconverted Jews from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1497.
At its peak, the Jewish community of Bosnia and Herzegovina numbered between 14,000 and 22,000 members in 1941. Of those, 12,000 to 14,000 lived in Sarajevo, comprising 20% of the city's population. [2] Today, there are 281 Jews living in Bosnia and Herzegovina, recognised as a national minority.
Meir Shmuel Gabay (1933-2010), first and only Israeli to be elected to the United Nations General Assembly for any office. Yakir Gabay (1966-), Israeli-born billionaire who founded Aroundtown SA; son of Meir Shmuel Gabay. David Galula (1919-1967), French military officer and counterinsurgency theoretician.
Eastern Sephardim. Eastern Sephardim are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews mostly descended from Jewish families which were exiled from Iberia in the 15th century, following the Alhambra Decree of 1492 in Spain and a similar decree in Portugal five years later. This branch of descendants of Iberian Jews settled across the Eastern ...