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See also Category:Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin. Pages in category "Surnames of Sephardic origin" The following 96 pages are in this category, out of 96 total.
Direct descendant of Isaac Abravanel. Abraham Amigo (1610-1683), Israeli rabbi of Sepharadi descent [ 1] Benjamin Artom (1835-1879), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain [ 2] Lior Ashkenazi (1969-), Israeli actor. Ben Ashkenazy (1968/69-), American billionaire real estate developer.
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.
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 ...
Pardo (surname) Pardo ( Hebrew: פרדו) is a very old surname of Sephardic Jewish origin and judaite tribe [1] that derives from the Greek and Latin name Pardus which means leopard, to later change to Spanish Pardo meaning (Spa: marrón / Eng: brown-grey) and referring to the color of the feline, in Latin "Panthera pardus" ( leopard ).
Aryeh Bibi - politician, Iraqi Jewish member of Knesset for Kadima. Born in Baghdad, Iraq. Aryeh Deri - politician, and former leader of Israel's Shas Party. Born in Meknes, Morocco. Yaakov Edri - Member of Knesset for Kadima. Born In Morocco. Gila Gamliel - Member of the Knesset for Likud and minister.
Apart from these original surnames, the surnames of Jewish people of the present have typically reflected family history and their ethnic group within the Jewish people. Sephardic communities began to take on surnames in the Middle Ages (specifically c.10th and 11th centuries), and these surnames reflect the languages spoken by the Sephardic ...
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 ...