Jews from the Ottoman Empire

The list Jews from the Ottoman Empire includes Amalia Bakas, Maurice Abravanel, Daniel Carasso, Salha "Mama" Bobo and Róza Eskenázi. The list consists of 56 members and 12 sublists.

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Ottoman Empire

Empire centered about modern Turkey, 1299-1922

American people of Ottoman-Jewish descent
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Ashkenazi Jews from the Ottoman Empire
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Jewish politicians from the Ottoman Empire
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- Emmanuel Carasso
- Joseph Nasi
Jews from Ottoman Palestine
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Jews from Thessaloniki
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Jews from the Ottoman Empire by century
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Jews from Ottoman Syria
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Orthodox Jews from the Ottoman Empire
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Rabbis from the Ottoman Empire
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Sephardi Jews from the Ottoman Empire
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Smyrniote Jews
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Amalia Bakas

Greek singer

Overview: Amalia Bakas (born Mazaltov [Mally] Matsa 1897–1979) was a Greek singer and performer in the United States during the 20th century. She was heavily involved in the eighth Avenue scene in New York City ...

Date of birth: 1897

Date of death: 1979

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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20th-century Greek women singers 65T

20th-century American women singers 2,155T

Greek people of Jewish descent 7T
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Maurice Abravanel

Greek-American Jewish conductor

Overview: Maurice Abravanel (January 6, 1903 – September 22, 1993) was an American classical music conductor. He is remembered as the conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra for over 30 years.

Date of birth: 6 January 1903

Date of death: 22 September 1993

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to France 72T

20th-century American conductors (music) 591T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
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Daniel Carasso

French, Relative

Overview: Daniel Carasso (December 16, 1905 – May 17, 2009), a member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founder of the (now) multinational Danone.

Date of birth: 16 December 1905

Date of death: 17 May 2009

Age: 103 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Relative

Gender: Male

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French Sephardi Jews 48T

American people of Ottoman-Jewish descent 9T

French emigrants to the United States 677T
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Salha "Mama" Bobo

Overview: Salha "Mama" Bobo (1907–2001) was a Syrian-American Jewish businesswoman, philanthropist, and matriarch of the Bobo family, based in Tampa, Florida.

Date of birth: 1907

Date of death: 2001

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philanthropist

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20th-century philanthropists 1,966T

Businesspeople from Tampa, Florida 29T

Jews in the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon 7T
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Sarah Aaronsohn

Jewish spy working for the British in World War I (1890–1917)

Overview: Sarah Aaronsohn (Hebrew: שרה אהרנסון‎; 5 January 1890 – 9 October 1917) was a member of Nili, a ring of Jewish spies working for the British in World War I, and a sister of notable agronomist Aaron ...

Date of birth: 5 January 1890

Date of death: 9 October 1917

Age: 27 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Spy

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1917 suicides 16T

Women in war in the Middle East 39T

People from Zikhron Ya'akov 21T
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Róza Eskenázi

Greek singer

Overview: Roza Eskenazi (mid-1890s – 2 December 1980, Greek: Ρόζα Εσκενάζυ) was a famous Jewish-Greek singer of rebetiko, Greek folk music, Kanto and Turkish folk music born in Constantinople, whose recording and ...

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20th-century women singers 3,624T

People from Constantinople Vilayet 16T

Singers from Istanbul 54T
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Shlomo Yellin

Overview: Shlomo Yellin was a Jewish lawyer and Ottoman nationalist who was born in the Old City of Ottoman Jerusalem. He was the younger brother of David Yellin. Shlomo was 10 years younger than his brother David ...

Occupation: Attorney

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David Yellin

Overview: David Yellin (Hebrew: דוד ילין‎; March 19, 1864 – December 12, 1941) was an educator, a researcher of the Hebrew language and literature, a politician, one of the leaders of the Yishuv, the founder ...

Date of birth: 19 March 1864

Date of death: 12 December 1941

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Educator

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Maír José Benardete

Scholar

Overview: Maír José Benardete (1895, Çanakkale, Ottoman Empire – 1989, U.S.) was a scholar of Sephardic studies and was a long-time Professor of Spanish and Sephardic Studies at Brooklyn College.

Date of birth: 1895

Date of death: 1989

Age: 93 (age at death)

Occupation: Writer

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Ladino-language writers 6T

American people of Turkish-Jewish descent 39T

20th-century Sephardi Jews 132T
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Esther Handali

Ottoman-Jewish businesswoman

Overview: Esther Handali (died 18 or 19 December 1588 ) was a Jewish Ottoman businesswoman. She was the influential favorite and Kira (business agent) of Nurbanu Sultan, Safiye Sultan, and possibly of Hürrem Sultan ...

Date of death: 1590

Occupation: Philanthropist

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16th-century women of the Ottoman Empire 25T

16th-century businesswomen 35T

16th-century businesspeople of the Ottoman Empire 9T
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Esperanza Malchi

Overview: Esperanza Malchi also spelled Malk or Malkhi (died 1 April 1600) was a Jewish Ottoman businesswoman. She was the influential favorite and Kira (business agent) of Valide Sultan Safiye.

Date of death: 1600

Occupation: Business

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17th-century businesspeople of the Ottoman Empire 4T

16th-century businesspeople of the Ottoman Empire 9T

17th-century businesswomen 44T
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Albert Karasu

Turkish journalist

Overview: Albert Karasu or Carasso (1885–1982) was a Jewish-Turkish journalist born in Ottoman Salonica.

Date of birth: 1885

Date of death: 1982

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: Turkish

Occupation: Journalist

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Writers from Thessaloniki 30T

20th-century journalists 2,834T

Jews from Thessaloniki 52T
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Hatice Muazzez Sultan

Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Overview: Hatice Muazzez Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: خدیجہ معزز سلطان; "respecful lady" and "precious", died 12 September 1687) was the third Haseki Sultan of Sultan Ibrahim and the mother of Sultan Ahmed II.

Date of death: 12 September 1687

Nationality: Polish

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17th-century Ottoman royalty 28T

Wives of Ottoman sultans 116T

Valide sultan 27T
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Eve Frank

Self-proclaimed Jewish messiah

Overview: Eve Frank or Eva Frank (1754 – 1816 or 1817), born in Nikopol, Ottoman Empire (now Bulgaria) under the name Rebecca or Rachel, was the daughter of Jacob Frank, the claimant to the position of Jewish Messiah ...

Date of birth: 1754

Date of death: 1816

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: Bulgarian

Occupation: Hoaxer

Gender: Female

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19th-century Bulgarian women 17T

18th-century Bulgarian women 2T

19th-century women of the Ottoman Empire 61T
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Solomon Ayllon

Dutch Sephardic haham

Overview: Solomon Ayllon (1665 – 10 April 1728) was haham of the Sephardic congregations in London and Amsterdam, and a follower of Shabbethai Ẓebi. His name is derived from the town of Ayllon, in what is now the ...

Date of birth: 1665

Date of death: 10 April 1728

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: British

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Rabbis from Thessaloniki 24T

17th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire 35T

18th-century Dutch rabbis 5T
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Mordecai Comtino

Overview: Mordecai ben Eliezer Comtino (Hebrew: מרדכי כומטיאנו‎; lived at Adrianople and Constantinople; died in the latter city between 1485 and 1490) was a Talmudist and scientist.

Date of death: 1485

Occupation: Astronomer

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15th-century Byzantine scientists 1T

15th-century Byzantine writers 13T

Medieval Ottoman Jews 3T
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Emmanuel Carasso

Ottoman-Jewish lawyer

Overview: Emmanuel Carasso or Emanuel Karasu (1862 in Salonica – 1934 in Trieste) was an Ottoman lawyer and a member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family of Ottoman Salonica (now Thessaloniki ...

Date of birth: 1862

Date of death: 1934

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: Turkish

Occupation: Politician

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Jewish Ottoman politicians 2T

Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni 251T

Young Turks movement 25T
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Karolos Koun

Greek theater director (1908–1987)

Overview: Karolos Koun (Greek: Κάρολος Κουν; September 13, 1908 in Bursa – February 14, 1987 in Athens) was a prominent Greek theater director, widely known for his lively staging of ancient Greek plays.

Date of birth: 13 September 1908

Date of death: 14 February 1987

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Director

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Greek people of Jewish descent 7T

Greek theatre directors 23T

Theatre in Greece 26T
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Isaac Carasso

Spanish founder of Groupe Danone

Overview: Isaac Carasso (1874 – April 19, 1939) was a member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family of Ottoman Salonica (modern Thessaloniki, Greece). After emigrating to Barcelona, he started a yogurt ...

Date of birth: 1874

Date of death: 19 April 1939

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: Spanish

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Spanish company founders 6T

Jews from Thessaloniki 52T

People from Thessaloniki 275T
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Hayyim ben Abraham Uziel

Overview: Hayyim ben Abraham Uziel (Hebrew: חיים בן אברהם עזיאל) was a Sephardic Jew scholar and author who flourished in the latter half of the 16th century in the Ottoman Empire. He wrote Meḳor Ḥayyim (3 vols. ...

Nationality: Spanish

Occupation: Writer

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Spanish scholars 12T

Spanish rabbis 56T

16th-century Spanish people 452T