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Enrique Múgica Herzog (1932–), lawyer, politician and co-founder of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, half-Jewish. [64] [65] Romeo Niram (1974–), figurative painter. Eduardo Propper de Callejón (1895–1972), diplomat remembered for facilitating escape of tens of thousands of Jews from France, half Jewish. [citation needed]
Pages in category "American people of Spanish-Jewish descent" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Surnames appearing less than 100 times represented less than 10% of the population. [11] The most common surname remains Smith ; over two million Americans have that name and it is the most common name for white, native and multiracial residents.
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; Moran Atias (1981-), Israeli-American actress; Jacques Attali (1943-), Algerian-born French economist, advisor to President François Mitterrand ...
This is a list of Hispanos, both settlers and their descendants (either fully or partially of such origin), who were born or settled, between the early 16th century and 1850, in what is now the southwestern United States (including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, southwestern Colorado, Utah and Nevada), as well as Florida, Louisiana (1763–1800) and other Spanish colonies in what is ...
Some traditional surnames relate to Jewish history or roles within the religion, such as Cohen ("priest"), Levi, Shulman ("synagogue-man"), Sofer ("scribe"), or Kantor ("cantor"), while many others relate to a secular occupation or place names. The majority of Jewish surnames used today developed in the past three hundred years. [3] [4]
These are the lists of the most common Spanish surnames in Spain, Mexico, Hispanophone Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic), and other Latin American countries. The surnames for each section are listed in numerically descending order, or from most popular to least popular.
, The Sephardim of England: A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community 1492–1951: London 1951; Katz and Serels (ed.), Studies on the History of Portuguese Jews: New York, 2004 ISBN 978-0-87203-157-9; Laski, Neville, The Laws and Charities of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation of London