Seka Sablic

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 large Sephardic communities in South-East Europe: mainly in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia (though the latter in particular also had a large Ashkenazi population).

Judah Alkalai, rabbi, early member of the Zionist movement
Sven Alkalaj, minister of foreign affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ivica Ceresnjes, architect-researcher, former president of the Jewish community in Sarajevo
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
Robert Rothbart, basketball player (Jewish mother)
Isak Samokovlija, writer

David Frankfurter, student
Branko Lustig, film producer
Branko Grunbaum, mathematician
William Feller, mathematician, among the foremost probabilist outside Russia at the time
David Schwarz, inventor of the Zeppelin
Slavko Goldstein

Maurice Abravanel, conductor
Allatini Brothers, entrepreneurs
Saul Amarel, Artificial Intelligence pioneer
Gina Bachauer, pianist
Avraam Benaroya, leader of the workers' movement
Isaak Benrubi, philosopher
Isaac & Daniel Carasso, founders of Danone
Aaron Castro, founder of the Castro fashion company
Albert Cohen, novelist
Roza Eskenazi, Rebetika singer
Mordechai Frizis, World War II colonel, first Greek senior officer killed in action
Karolos Koun, famous theatrical director, revived Ancient Greek Comedy
Mordechai Mano, ship-owner
Yehuda Poliker, son of Holocaust survivors from Thessaloniki, he has been called the "father of Greek music in Israel" and is quite popular in both Israel and Greece.
Philo, classical philosopher
Maria Rezan, journalist
Raphaël Salem, mathematician
David Saltiel, musician
Sabbatai Zevi, claimed Messiah, came from a Romaniotes family