List of South-East European Jews

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 == Kalmi Baruh, writer and philosopher Emerik Blum, businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo Ivan Ceresnjes, architect-researcher, former president of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and vice-chairman of the Yugoslav Federation of Jewish Communities, 1992–1996 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 Daniel Kabiljo, painter Daniel Ozmo, painter Isaac Pardo, rabbi of Sarajevo Robert Rothbart, basketball player Isak Samokovlija, writer == Bulgaria == Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist Binyamin Arditi Aron Aronov, tenor Mira Aroyo, member of the band Ladytron Gabi Ashkenazi Michael Bar-Zohar Maxim Behar, president of M3 Communications Group Haim Bejarano, Torah scholar and chief rabbi Shimon Bejarano Alexander Bozhkov, vice-premier (Jewish mother) Elias Canetti, author and Nobel Prize winner Sabetay Djaen, rabbi and teacher Carl Djerassi Itzhak Fintzi, dramatist Pini Gershon Moshe Gueron Shlomo Kalo Nikolay Kaufman, musicologist and composer Yehezkel Lazarov Moshe Leon Milcho Leviev, jazz composer (Jewish father) Raphael Mechoulam Moni Moshonov Ya'akov Nehushtan Ya'akov Nitzani Jules Pascin, artist (Jewish father) Isaac Passy, philosopher Solomon Passy, foreign minister, son of Isaac Passy Valeri Petrov Georgi Pirinski, Jr.

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