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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.
Austria
Belgium
Chantal Akerman (born 1950), director-screenwriterSaul Akkemay , publicist-journalistZora Arkus-Duntov , father of the Chevrolet Corvette (Belgian-born)Gérard Blitz , Olympic water polo medallist, co-founder of Club Med Leopold Flam , philosopherLouis Franck , politicianDiane von Fürstenberg , fashion designerJean Gol , politicianNico Gunzburg , professorCamille Gutt , finance minister; head of the International Monetary Fund Paul Hymans , liberal leader; president of the League of Nations René Kalisky , writerGeorge Koltanowski , chess playerClaude Lévi-Strauss , anthropologist (Belgian-born; atheist of Jewish descent)Alfred Lowenstein , financier (Jewish mother)Ernest Mandel , marxist theoristBob Mendes , writer (Jewish father)Ralph Miliband , political scientist[ 1] Chaim Perelman , philosopher (Polish-born)Ilya Prigogine , chemist (Russian-born), Nobel Prize (1977)Henry Spira , animal rights activistElias M. Stein , mathematician (Belgian-born)Marc Schlomo Jizchak Stern , Orthodox rabbi, cantor (de) Gilbert Stork , chemistOlivier Strelli , fashion designerSamy Szlingerbaum , film director, writer, and actor[ 2] Guy Lee Thys , film director (Jewish mother)Raymond van het Groenewoud , singer-songwriter (Jewish mother)Sandra Wasserman , tennis player
France
Ireland
William Annyas , Mayor of Youghal Henri Bergson , philosopher (Anglo-Irish mother)Agnes Bernelle , entertainerRobert 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 1961Ben 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 presidentYitzhak HaLevi Herzog first Chief Rabbi of Ireland (and father of Chaim)Sir Otto Jaffe , Lord Mayor of Belfast 1899 and 1904Immanuel Jakobovits , Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1949 and 1958 and later British Chief RabbiIsaac Leon Kandel Louis Lentin , Director - Documentary Films, Television & TheatreDavid Marcus , author, editor, broadcaster and lifelong supporter of Irish-language fictionAlan Shatter , Fine Gael politicianMervyn Taylor , former Irish Labour Party politicianDaniel Radcliffe , actor (Jewish mother, Northern Irish father)
Italy
Emanuele Fiano , politicianVittorio Foa , socialist trade unionistAlessandro d'Ancona , 1904 Senator and 1906 mayor of PisaAlessandro Fortis , Italian Prime Minister (1905–1906)Anna Kuliscioff , revolutionary feministRita Levi-Montalcini , scientist and Senator Luigi Luzzatti , Italian Prime Minister (1910–1911)Ernesto Nathan , mayor of Rome (1907–1913)Margherita Sarfatti , journalist & mistress of Benito Mussolini Claudio Treves , politician and writer, grandfather of Carlo Levi Leone Wollemborg , politician and former Minister of EconomyPelliccioli, Bérgamo Duke adviser , politician nobility
Religious and communal leaders
Samuel Aboab , prominent rabbiAaron 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.The Pope Martin V with his swarm of Cardinals welcomed him in Rome.[ 3] Barbara Aiello , American rabbi with an interest in ItalyBenjamin Artom , Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great BritainUmberto Cassuto , rabbiAbraham Isaac Castello , rabbiLeone Ebreo, Neoplatonic philosopher
Amos Luzzatto , writer and former president of the Italian Jewish Communities Union Moshe Chaim Luzzatto , rabbi, scholar, mystic, also known as RAMCHALSamuel David Luzzatto important Rabbi and scholar, also known as SHADALRaphael Meldola , rabbiDavid Nieto , rabbiRiccardo Pacifici , rabbiJoseph Pardo , rabbiObadiah ben Jacob Sforno , rabbi, philosopherSidney Sonnino, Italian politician of Jewish origin
Elio Toaff , rabbi and former Chief of Italian Jews CommunityIsaiah di Trani , talmudist, rabbi, also known as RID
Academics
Emilio Artom , mathematicianpedigree 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 .[ 4] Michele Besso , engineerCaecilius of Calacte , Sicilian rhetorician from modern Caronìa Eugenio Calabi , mathematicianLaura Capón , physicist; married to non-Jew Enrico FermiGuido Castelnuovo , mathematicianEnrico Castelnuovo, art historian and medievalist
Federigo Enriques , mathematicianGino Fano , mathematicianRobert Fano , physicistUgo Fano , physicist[ 5] Guido Fubini , mathematicianCarlo Ginzburg , historianGiovanni Jona-Lasinio , physicist (Jewish father)Alberto Jori , philosopher (Jewish mother)Beppo Levi , mathematicianTullio Levi-Civita , mathematicianGiorgio Levi della Vida Rita Levi-Montalcini , neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)Cesare Lombroso , criminologistSalvador Luria , microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1969)Samuel David Luzzatto Franco Modigliani , economist, Nobel Prize (1985)Arnaldo Momigliano , Italian-born historian (Jewish Year Book 1985 p188)Attilio Momigliano, literary critic, Dante scholar
Bruno Pontecorvo , physicistGuido Pontecorvo , geneticistGiulio Racah , physicistBruno Rossi , astrophysicistAsher Salah , HistorianBeniamino Segre , mathematicianCesare Segre , linguistics, semioticsCorrado Segre , mathematicianEmilio Segrè , physicist, Nobel Prize (1959)pedigree of Sforno
Piero Sraffa , economistManfredo Tafuri , architectural historian, critic and theoristAriel Toaff , HistorianAndrew Viterbi , inventor of the Viterbi algorithm Vito Volterra , mathematicianBruno Zevi , architectural critic and historian
Musicians
Mario Ancona , baritoneAbramo Basevi , composer and musicianAlvise Bassano , musician[ 6] Anthony Bassano , musician[ 6] Baptista Bassano , musician[ 6] Jeronimo Bassano , musician[ 6] Haim Cipriani , violinist and reform rabbiMario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , guitar,classical and synagogal music composerGiacobbe Cervetto , cellist[ 7] Lorenzo Da Ponte (b. Emanuele Conegliano), opera librettist (born Jewish, raised Catholic)Abramino dall'Arpa , harpistAldo Finzi , composerSalamone Rossi , baroque composerVictor de Sabata , conductor (Jewish mother)Leone Sinigaglia , composerObadiah the Proselyte , musician[ 8]
Writers
Enrico Castelnuovo , father of GuidoGiorgio Bassani , authorAngela Bianchini , fiction writerRiccardo Calimani , fiction writer and historianLorenzo Da Ponte (b. Emanuele Conegliano), opera librettist (born Jewish, raised Catholic)Leonardo de Benedetti , physician and writerManuela Dviri , writerAlain 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 anchormanCarlo Levi , writer, painter and physicianPrimo Levi , chemist and authorCarlo Michelstaedter , philosopherLisa Morpurgo Dordoni , writer, astrologerPaolo Mieli , journalist, historian and director of Corriere della Sera Liana Millu , writerAlberto Moravia (b. Pincherle), author (Jewish father)Alessandro Piperno , writerUmberto Saba , poet (Jewish mother)Roberto Saviano , writer, journalist (Jewish mother)Clara Sereni , writerItalo Svevo (b. Schmitz), authorHumbert Wolfe , poet and civil servant[ 9]
Artists
Vito D'Ancona , painterCristiana Capotondi , actress (half Jewish)Gioele Dix , (b. Davide Ottolenghi ) actor and comedianGinevra Elkann , film director, sister of John and Lapo Arnoldo Foà , actorMassimiliano Fuksas , architect (Jewish father)Vittorio Gassman , actor (Jewish mother)Alessandro Haber , actorCarlo Levi , writer, painter and physicianLeo Lionni Emanuele Luzzati , painterGabriele Levy , sculptorAnna Magnani , actress (Jewish mother)Amedeo Modigliani , painter and sculptorErnesto Nathan Rogers, architect, critic and editor
Moni Ovadia , theatre figureGillo Pontecorvo , directorXenia Rappoport , actressBruno Zevi , architect
Business
John & 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, and is currently directing Goldsign and men's Citizens of Humanity.Armand , Georges , Maurice & Paul Marciano , founders of GUESS .[ 10] Moses Haim Montefiore , financier & philanthropist.Adriano Olivetti , son of Camillo, industrialist and social activist.Camillo Olivetti , founder of Olivetti typewriters.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
Other
Eugenio Calò , a Jewish partisan awarded the Gold Medal for Military ValourAngelo Donati , banker who protected Jews in Southern France during Italian occupation in 1942-43Mario Finzi , partisan (died in Auschwitz in 1945)Gad Lerner , TV anchorman and journalistRenato Mannheimer , pollster, president of IPSO Maurizio Molinari , journalist and essayistEdgardo Mortara , boy kidnapped by Catholic Papal authoritiesFiamma Nirenstein , essayist, journalist and MP for PDL (elected in 2008)Enzo Sereni Camila Giorgi , tennis playerPiero Coen , basketball coach
Luxembourg
Monaco
Netherlands
Scotland
Spain and Portugal
Switzerland
Maurice Abravanel , conductorJeff Agoos , US soccer internationalErnest Bloch , composerFelix Bloch , physicist, Nobel Prize (1952)Alain de Botton , writerAlbert Cohen , novelistArthur Cohn , film producerRuth Dreifuss , Swiss president (1999)Camille & Henri Dreyfus , inventors of Celanese Al Dubin , lyricistJean Dunand -Gotscho, sculptor, painter, lacquererAlbert Einstein , physicist, Nobel Prize (1921)Edmond Fischer , biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992) (Jewish father)Robert Frank , photographerMeyer Guggenheim , businessmanJeanne Hersch , philosopherMathilde Krim , AIDS researcher (convert)Dani Levy (1957–) film maker, theatrical director and actor[ 11] Rolf Liebermann , Swiss music administrator and composerMeret Oppenheim , surrealist artistRachel , stage actress (Swiss-born)Tadeus Reichstein , chemist, Nobel Prize (1950)Edmond Safra , bankerJean Starobinski , literary criticSigismond Thalberg , pianist, composerRegina Ullmann , poetCharles Weissmann , biochemistAlain & Gerard Wertheimer , owners of Chanel [ 12]
United Kingdom
See also
Notes
^ 1928 Olympics Dutch Women's Gymnastics Team – the first ever women's gymnastics gold medalists – 5 were Jewish. All but Levie were murdered in the Holocaust .
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