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Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,477 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
See also Category:Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin Pages in category "Surnames of Sephardic origin" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total.
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 ...
Jews were only formally readmitted to the peninsula in the late 19th century. The modern Jewish Iberian population is based on post-war immigration and numbers around 14,000. The following is a list of prominent Iberian Jews arranged by country of origin:
Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; [1]: 190 the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries. [ 2 ] Jews have some of the largest varieties of surnames among any ethnic group, owing to the geographically diverse Jewish diaspora , as well as cultural assimilation and the ...
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.
Eastern Sephardim still often carry common Spanish surnames, as well as other specifically Sephardic surnames from 15th-century Spain with Arabic or Hebrew language origins (such as Azoulay, Abulafia, Abravanel) which have since disappeared from Spain when those that stayed behind as conversos adopted surnames that were solely Spanish in origin ...
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 .