Posts by Phil Mader
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Salvador Edward Luria was born Salvatore Luria in Turin, Italy to an influential Italian Sephardi Jewish family.Luria won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.His parents were Davide and Ester (Sacerdote) Luria. He attended the medical school at the University...
Sephardi Jewish Jean-Baptiste (Giovanni Battista) Ventura, born Rubino (25 May 1794 – 3 April 1858), was an Italian soldier; training officer (colonel) in the Persian Shah's army; general in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Punjab army, and early archaeologist of the Punjab region of the Sikh Empire.Ventura was born in Finale di Modena (now Finale Emilia) in the Duchy of Modena to Gavriel Massarani, a Je...
The invention of the sugarcane mill greatly revolutionized the Caribbean sugar growing industry in the 17th century, an industry that generated great wealth.Barbadian Sephardi Jew, David Rafael de Mercado(, (b. - 1685) invented the first sugarcane mill, which crushed the sugarcane, a process needed to prevent fermentation. Below David Rafael de Mercado's gravestone at the Nidhe Israel Cemetery, Br...
Pierre Barouh (born Élie Pierre Barouh; 19 February 1934 – 28 December 2016) was a French writer-composer-singer, the son of Sephardic Turkish Jews who moved to France, best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman as an actor and the lyricist/singer for Francis Lai's music score.He composed many successful and famous songs as a lyricist for famous French singers.With his fi...
**David Ricardo** (18 April 1772 – 11 September 1823) was a British [political economist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy), politician, and member of [Parliament](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom). He is recognized as one of the most influential [classical economists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_economics), alongside figures such as [Thomas...
**Elias Canetti** (1905 – 14 August 1994; was a [German-language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-language) writer, born in [Ruse, Bulgaria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruse,_Bulgaria) to a [Sephardic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardi_Jews) Jewish family.He won the [Nobel Prize in Literature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature) in [1981](https://en.wikipedia.org...
Another Abravanel with a father from Salonika. Senor Abravanel is the son of Sephardic Jewish immigrants born in the Ottoman Empire. His father, Alberto Abravanel, was born in Thessalonica, Greece in 1897 whilst his mother, Rebecca Caro, was born in Smyrna, Turkey in 1905. On his paternal side, Silvio Santos is a descendant of Isaac Abravanel.**Senor Abravanel** (Hebrew: סניור אברבנאל; born 12 Dec...
**Maurice Abravanel** (January 6, 1903 – September 22, 1993)[]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Abravanel#cite_note-Harvard_Bio-1) was an [American](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America) classical music [conductor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conductor_(music)). He is remembered as the conductor of the [Utah Symphony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Symphony) for over ...
Isaac Carasso, born in Salonica , was the Sephardi founder of Danone Yogurt, a highly successful French enterprise started in Spain at the turn of the 20th century.
From A Brazilian newspaper article stating that internationally famous Brazilian author, Jorge Amado , was a descendant of Jewish exiles from Portugual:"A commentator for a Rio de Janeiro newspaper raised the possibility that Jorge Amado was of Lebanese descent. Paloma Jorge Amado, his daughter, replied: “The Amados came from Portugal with Nassau at the time of the Inquisition. This made a cousi...
David Belasco was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Abraham H. Belasco (1830–1911) and Reyna Belasco (née Nunes, 1830–1899), Sephardic Jews who had moved from London’s Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community during the California Gold Rush.During his long creative career, stretching between 1884 and 1930, Belasco either wrote, directed, or produced more than 100 Broadway plays, includi...
Popular Austrian writer of Sephardi origin: Karl Emil Franzos
Jewish French painter, Camille Pissarro, is considered either the founder of the French Impressionist painting movement or co-founder, according to what source you verify. He is also associated with the neo-Impressionist movement of French painting.He was born in 1840 in the town of Charlotte Amelie, Island of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, among the tiny SEPHARDI Jewish community there.Pissarro ...