List of North European Jews
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Before the Holocaust, Jews were a significant part of the population in Lithuania where they numbered around 240,000, including approximately 100,000 in Vilnius, or about 45% of that city's pre-WWII population (Vilnius was also once known as the "Jerusalem of Lithuania"). A large Jewish community also existed in Latvia. In comparison, Estonia and the Nordic countries have had much smaller communities, concentrated mostly in Denmark and Sweden. The following is a list of some prominent North European Jews, arranged by country of origin:
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[edit] Denmark
- Kim Bodnia, actor
- Harald Bohr, mathematician and footballer (Jewish mother)
- Niels Bohr, physicist, Nobel Prize (1922) (Jewish mother)
- Victor Borge, entertainer
- Edvard Brandes, politician, critic and author
- Ernst Brandes, economist and editor
- Georg Brandes, author and critic, father of Danish naturalism
- Marcus Choleva, Chief executive officer of KFI.
- Meïr Aron Goldschmidt, author and editor
- Heinrich Hirschsprung, industrialist, art patron (Den Hirschsprungske Samling)
- Arne Jacobsen, architect & designer (Jewish mother)
- Arne Melchior, politician and former Transport Minister and Minister for Communication and Tourism.
- Marcus Melchior, chief rabbi of Denmark, father of Arne Melchior
- Michael Melchior, rabbi and Israeli politician
- Ivan Osiier, seven-time Olympic fencer
- Lee Oskar, harmonica player, member of War
- Herbert Pundik, journalist
- Raquel Rastenni, jazz and popular singer
- Edgar Rubin, Gestalt psychologist
[edit] Estonia
- Eino Baskin, actor and theatre director
- Gunnar Friedemann, chess player
- Louis I. Kahn, architect
- Eri Klas, conductor
- Yuri Lotman, semiotician
[edit] Finland
- Max Jakobson, diplomat [2]
- Gunnar K. A. Njalsson, CEO, administrative scientist (conservative), local politician (1998-2004) in city of Espoo[1]
- Moses Pergament, composer [3]
- Roni Porokara, football player
- Marion Rung, pop singer
- Seela Sella, actress
- Mauritz Stiller, director
- Ruben Stiller, talk-show host
- Ben Zyskowicz, conservative leader
[edit] Iceland
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist
- Elías Davíðsson, composer & human rights activist
- Bobby Fischer,(deceased) chess player (Jewish mother, but did not self-identify as a Jew; American expatriate, Icelandic citizen)
- Max Goldberg, international banker
- Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland
- Sruli Recht, An award-winning Designer
[edit] Latvia
- Elya Baskin, actor
- Isaiah Berlin, historian of ideas
- Lipman Bers, mathematician & activist [4]
- David Bezmozgis, author
- Boris Brutskus
- Movsas Feigins, chess player
- Morris Halle, linguist
- Philippe Halsman, photographer
- Joseph Hirshhorn, financier & philanthropist
- Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish musicologist
- Hermann Jadlowker, musician (born at Riga)
- Mariss Jansons, conductor (Jewish mother)
- Gil Kane, comic book illustrator
- Alexander Koblencs, chess player
- Abraham Isaac Kook, rabbi
- Gidon Kremer, violinist Kremer's father was a Jewish Holocaust survivor [5].
- Nechama Leibowitz
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz
- Armands Leimanis, singer
- Hermanis Matisons, chess player
- Mischa Maisky, cellist
- Solomon Mikhoels, actor
- Aron Nimzowitsch, chess player
- Arkady Raikin*, performing artist
- Mark Rothko, painter
- Yosef Rosen, der Rogatchover Gaon
- Elizabeth Shammash, US singer (Latvian mother, Iraqi father)
- Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, rabbi
- Mikhail Tal, world chess champion
- Max Weinreich, linguist
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Famous cantor and singer(1914-2002)
- Oscar Strok Composer(1893-1975)
[edit] Lithuania
- Semyon Alapin, chess player
- Mark Antokolsky, sculptor to Czar Alexander II of Russia
- Moshe Arens, former Minister of Defence and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel
- Aaron Barak, President of the Supreme Court of Israel
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, reviver of Hebrew
- Bernard Berenson, art critic
- Victor David Brenner, designer of the US penny
- Eli Broad, American philanthropist and investor; founder of KB Home
- Sir Montague Burton, British retailer [2]
- Abraham Cahan, writer & activist
- Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
- Simeon Dimanstein, Soviet Commissar of Nationalities
- Nosson Tzvi Finkel, famous rosh yeshiva of the Slabodka yeshiva
- Vyacheslav Ganelin, jazz pioneer
- Morris Ginsberg, sociologist (Jewish Year Book 1975 p213)
- Louis Ginzberg
- Itamar Golan, pianist
- Leah Goldberg, poet
- Emma Goldman, anarchist
- Nahum Goldmann, world Jewish leader
- Chaim Grade, writer
- Iosif Romualdovich Grigulevich
- Zvi Griliches, economist
- Shira Gorshman, Zionist pioneer, writer
- Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg, rabbi
- Aron Gurwitsch, philosopher
- Laurence Harvey, actor
- Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987) violinist, widely regarded as the greatest violinist of the 20th Century[3]
- Sidney Hillman, labor leader
- Jay M. Ipson, founder of Virginia Holocaust Museum
- Leo Jogiches
- Al Jolson, entertainer
- Jakob Jocz
- Berek Joselewicz
- Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, clothes manufacturer [4]
- Yisrael Meir Kagan, rabbi
- Mordechai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism
- Shlomo Kleit
- Aaron Klug, chemist, Nobel Prize (1982)
- Lazare Kopelmanas, international law scholar
- Jacob Koslowsky, painter
- Abba Kovner
- Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn, Hebrew writer
- Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Hebrew writer
- Phoebus Levene
- Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher
- Isaac Levitan, artist
- Morris Lichtenstein, rabbi, founder of the Jewish Science
- Jacques Lipchitz, cubist sculptor
- Jay Lovestone
- Alexander Ziskind Maimon
- Abraham Mapu, Hebrew novelist
- Osip Mandelstam, poet librettist
- Isser Zalman Meltzer
- Harvey Milk, USA gay politician
- Hermann Minkowski, mathematician
- Oskar Minkowski, physiologist
- Mitchell Parish (1900 – 1993) Lithuanian-born American lyricist[5]
- Abram Rabinovich, chess player
- Eduardas Rozentalis, chess player
- Meyer Schapiro, art historian
- Alexander Schneider, violinist & conductor
- Ben Shahn, artist
- Andrew W. Schally medicine Nobel Prize (1977)
- Lasar Segall
- Karl Shapiro, poet (Lithuanian parents)
- Yacov Shmuskevich Commander of Soviet Air Force
- Sam, Lee & Jacob Shubert, theatre managers, producers (cf. Shubert Brothers)
- Joe Slovo, ANC activist
- Elijah ben Solomon, rabbi, The Gaon of Vilna
- Helen Suzman, anti-apartheid MP (Lithuanian parents)
- Arkadijus Vinokuras, writer, journalist, publicist, actor
- Isakas Vistaneckis, chess player
- Louis Washkansky
- Uriel Weinreich, linguist
- David Wolfsohn Second President of World Zionist Organization
- Bluma Zeigarnik
- Emanuelis Zingeris, politician
- William Zorach, painter, sculptor & writer
- Louis Zukofsky, poet (Lithuanian parents)
- See also Litvak/Littauer, Lithuanian Jews, Kovno kollel
[edit] Norway
- Christian B. Anfinsen, chemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (Norwegian parents, convert)
- Jo Benkow, parliament speaker
- Leo Eitinger (b. in Slovakia), professor of Psychiatry at University of Oslo and Holocaust survivor, known mainly for his work on late-onset psychological trauma amongst Holocaust survivors
- Bente Kahan, Yiddish singer and actress
- Robert Levin, pianist
- Mona Levin, actress, writer
- Oskar Mendelsohn, historian, known for his 2-volume history of Norwegian Jews
- Eva Scheer, author known especially for her descriptions of the Lithuanian-Jewish shtetl environment
- Berthold Grünfeld, specialist in psychiatry, and professor in social medicine until 1993
- Joakim Krøvel, fashion photographer
[edit] Sweden
- Olof Aschberg, businessman
- Robert Aschberg, journalist
- Amalia Assur, the first female dentist in Sweden
- Lovisa Augusti, opera singer
- Jean-Pierre Barda, musician
- Mathilda Berwald, née Cohn, musician
- Sharon Bezaly, flute soloist
- Cordelia Edvardson, journalist
- Jerzy Einhorn, pathologist & politician
- Herbert Felix, entrepreneur
- Josef Frank, architect & designer
- Isaac Grünewald, artist
- Lars Gustafsson, writer & scholar
- Johan Harmenberg, épée fencer
- Eli Heckscher, economist
- Anya Jordanova, model. French/Swedish
- Erland Josephson, actor & writer
- Ernst Josephson, painter
- Ragnar Josephson, writer & art historian
- Ernst Klein, publicist & politician
- Georg Klein, pathologist & writer
- Oskar Klein, physicist
- Lennart Levi, biomedical researcher
- Oscar Levertin, poet & literary historian
- Jerzy Sarnecki, journalist
- Rudolf Meidner, economist
- David Muhlrad, male model
- Hanna Pauli, painter
- Dominika Peczynski, musician
- Alexandra Rapaport, actress
- Marcel Riesz, mathematician[6]
- Göran Rosenberg, journalist
- Nelly Sachs, poet, Nobel Prize (1966)[7]
- Harry Schein, writer & culture personality
- Leif Silbersky, lawyer & author
- Sara Sommerfeld, actress
- Mauritz Stiller, director[8]
- Marcus Storch, industrialist[9]
- Peter Weiss, dramatist & writer
[edit] See also
- List of Jews
- List of Danes
- List of Estonians
- List of Finns
- List of Icelanders
- List of Latvians
- List of Lithuanians
- List of Norwegians
- List of Swedes
- History of the Jews in Scotland
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Canadian Who's Who 2007. University of Toronto Press. 2007-05-30.
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Lithuania of Jewish parentage"
- ^ Heifetz - [1] "Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman... were all Jews, too"
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His parents were Orthodox Jews"
- ^ Bloom, Nate (2006-12-19). "The Jews Who Wrote Christmas Songs". InterfaithFamily. http://www.interfaithfamily.com/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ekLSK5MLIrG&b=297399&ct=3303147. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
- ^ Jewish Mathematicians
- ^ "Sachs, Nelly". Nationalencyklopedin Multimedia 2000. Höganäs: Bokförlaget Bra Böcker AB. 2000. ISBN 91-7133-747-4.
- ^ "Stiller, Mauritz". Nationalencyklopedin Multimedia 2000. Höganäs: Bokförlaget Bra Böcker AB. 2000. ISBN 91-7133-747-4.
- ^ Jewish Chronicle, February 4, 2000, p.6: "Jewish business leader Marcus Storch"
See also the page on Joe Slovo.
