Sephardic Jews in The Netherlands - Persons of Partial Dutch Sephardic Jewish Descent

Persons of Partial Dutch Sephardic Jewish Descent

  • Jacques d'Ancona - television personality, Jewish father (no relative of Hedy d'Ancona) (September 15, 1937)
  • Frieda Belinfante - cellist and conductor, Jewish father (May 10, 1904 - April 26, 1995)
  • Neve Campbell - Canadian actress, daughter of an Amsterdam-born mother of Sephardic Jewish descent (October 3, 1973)
  • Abraham Pais - particle physicist, science historian, Sephardic father, Ashkenazi mother (May 19, 1918 - July 28, 2000)
  • Ophir Pines-Paz - Israeli politician, Dutch-Sephardic father (July 11, 1961)

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