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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.
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.
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 ...
Other names. Variant form (s) Mejías, Megía/Megías, Mexía/Mexia/Mexías. Mejía is a Spanish surname of Jewish origin dating back to the early 1500s. In Spain, the surname is predominantly found in Galicia and Toledo. It is also common in several Latin American countries, particularly Mexico, Honduras, and Colombia.
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 ...
Arab-Jewish surnames (10 P) Ashkenazi surnames (2 C, 49 P) H. Hebrew-language surnames (3 C, 229 P) J. Jewish matronymic surnames (22 P)
t. e. The history of the Jews in the current-day Spanish territory stretches back to Biblical times according to Jewish tradition, but the settlement of organised Jewish communities in the Iberian Peninsula possibly traces back to the times after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. [ 1] The earliest archaeological evidence of Hebrew ...
The regional distribution of surnames within Spain was homogenized mostly through internal migrations, especially since 1950. Names typical of the old crown of Castile have become the most common all over the country. Most of the common Spanish patronymic surnames were introduced in Spain during the fifth to seventh centuries by the Visigoths.