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Presented below are lists of famous or notable Ukrainian people of Jewish descent and other Jews born in the territory of present day Ukraine.
[edit] Politicians
- Pinhas Krasny, Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine [1]
- Moisei Rafes, deputy secretary of National Affairs (Jewish Affairs) for the General Secretariat
- Abraham Revutsky, Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine
- Moishe Zilberfarb, deputy secretary of National Affairs (Jewish Affairs) for the General Secretariat
- Alexander Zolotarev, state controller for the General Secretariat
- Yukhym Zvyahilsky, former Prime Minister of Ukraine and entrepreneur
[edit] Russian/Soviet politicians
- Adolph Joffe, Bolshevik diplomat[2][3][4]
- Karl Radek, Soviet politician[3][4][5]
- Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik politician[6]
- Abram Slutsky, headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service (INO), then part of the NKVD
- Leon Trotsky, Soviet politician, the founder of the Red Army,[7][8][9][10] commissar (Soviet minister) of Foreign Affairs
- Moisei Uritsky, Soviet politician,[3][11] chekist
- Grigory Yavlinsky, Russian politician, head of a liberal "Yabloko" party[12] (half Jewish)
- Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician[4][8][13]
[edit] Israeli politicians
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel (1952–63)[14][15][16]
- Shmuel Dayan, Zionist activist, Israeli politician[17]
- Levi Eshkol, Israeli Prime Minister (1963–69)[18][19]
- Ephraim Katzir, fourth President of Israel (1973–78)[20][21]
- Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1969–74)[22][23]
- Natan Sharansky, Israeli politician[24]
- Moshe Sharett, Israeli Prime Minister (1954–55)[6][25]
[edit] Israeli military persons
- Yaakov Dori, the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (1948–1949)[26]
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of British Jewish Legion [27][28]
- Tzvi Tzur, the sixth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1961–1964)[29]
[edit] Soldiers and Revolutionaries
- Pavel Axelrod, Menshevik, Marxist revolutionary[4][30]
- Yakov Blumkin, Soviet spy [31]
- Morris Childs (born Moishe Chilovsky), American communist and spy
- Leo Deutsch, revolutionary[32]
- Raya Dunayevskaya, founder of Marxist humanism in the U.S.[33]
- Israel Fisanovich, World War II submarine commander and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Grigory Goldenberg, revolutionary[34]
- Jacob Golos, Soviet spy
- Olga Kameneva, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician (sister of Leon Trotsky) [35]
- Walter Krivitsky (born Samuel Ginsberg), Soviet spy
- Rodion Malinovsky, Soviet front commander, WWII, Minister of Defence[4][36] (Jewish origin is disputed)
- Abram Mogilevsky, General stationed in Mongolia during WWII.
- Leo Olshanetsky, Soldier during WWII.
- Alexander Parvus, revolutionary,[4][37] major investor and financial supporter of the October Revolution
- Sidney Reilly (born Shlomo Rosenblum), a Ukrainian-born adventurer and Secret Intelligence Service agent [38]
- Pinhas Rutenberg, Zionist, Social revolutionary[39]
- Grigori Shtern (Grigory Stern), Red Army commander (Colonel General)
- Naum Sorkin, Red Army military intelligence chief in the Far East (Major-General)[40]
- V. Volodarsky (born Moisei Goldstein), communist revolutionary[41]
- Mark Zborowski, Soviet spy
- Iona Yakir, Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II[42]
- Mishka Yaponchik, gangster, leader of the Odessa Jewish Resistance group in 1917-1921
[edit] Other Historical figures
- Michael Dorfman, Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist
- Yisroel ben Eliezer (The Baal Shem Tov), Rabbi, founder of Hasidic Judaism
- Shlomo Ganzfried, Rabbi
- Fanny Kaplan, would-be assassin of Lenin
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism
[edit] Business figures
- Leon Bagrit, pioneer of automation[43]
- Zino Davidoff
- Bernard Delfont, impresario[44]
- Leslie Grade, executive[45]
- Lew Grade, founder of ATV[46]
- Lev Hinsburh (Lev Ginsburg), Ukrainian proprietor, businessman, a member of the First Guild, famous for his skyscraper in Kyiv (Ginsburg House), later invited to Chicago for similar projects
- Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal[47]
- Hryhoriy Surkis, head of public organization Football Federation of Ukraine, Ukrainian parliamentary
- Viktor Vekselberg, billionaire, steelmaker[48]
[edit] Natural scientists
- Waldemar Haffkine, biologist, vaccine against colera and plague[49]
- Boris Hessen, physicist[50]
- Abram Ioffe, nuclear scientist[51]
- Veniamin Levich, electrochemist[52]
- Alexander Vilenkin, cosmologist[53]
- Selman Waksman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)[54]
[edit] Mathematicians
- Georgy Adelson-Velsky, mathematician [55]
- Vladimir Arnold, mathematician [56]
- Mark Naimark
- Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
[edit] Social scientists
- Solomon Buber, Hebraist[57]
- Ariel Durant, historian,
- Boris Eichenbaum, historian
- Mikhail Epstein, literary theorist
- Moshe Feldenkrais, inventor of the Feldenkrais method
- Alexander Gerschenkron, economic historian
- Jean Gottmann, geographer[58]
- Jacob Marschak, economist[59]
[edit] Musicians
- Simon Barere, pianist
- Felix Blumenfeld, pianist
- Shura Cherkassky, pianist
- Isaak Dunayevsky, composer
- Mischa Elman, violinist[60]
- Anthony Fedorov, singer, American Idol finalist[61]
- Samuil Feinberg, composer[62][63]
- Emil Gilels, pianist[64]
- Maria Grinberg, pianist
- Jascha Horenstein, conductor
- Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
- Tina Karol, singer[65]
- Leonid Kogan, violinist
- Mikhail Kopelman, violinist
- Oleg Maisenberg, pianist
- Samuel Maykapar, composer/pianist [66]
- Nathan Milstein, violinist
- Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist
- David Oistrakh, violinist
- Igor Oistrakh, violinist (Jewish father)
- Leo Ornstein, composer
- Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist
- Pokrass brothers, composers
- Mark Donskoy, Soviet film director
- Heinrich Schenker, music theorist
- Joseph Schillinger, composer, music theorist, and composition teacher
- Leo Sirota, pianist [67]
- Isaac Stern, violinist [68]
- Yakov Zak, pianist
[edit] Performing and fine artists
- Jacob Adler, actor
- Nathan Altman, painter and stage
- Boris Aronson, painter & designer
- Nudie Cohn, fashion designer
- Sonia Delaunay, painter
- Maya Deren, filmmaker
- Boris Efimov, cartoonist
- Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director[69]
- Alexander Granach, Actor in theater and film (Berlin & Germany, Poland, USSR, Hollywood and Broadway). (1890–1945)
- Boris Iofan, architect
- Ilya Kabakov, conceptualist artist (Jewish father)
- Yevgeny Khaldei, photographer
- Aleksei Kapler, film artist
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz , polish filmmaker
- Jacob Kramer, painter[70]
- Mila Kunis, actress [71]
- Morris Lapidus, architect
- Anatole Litvak, director
- Alla Nazimova, actress
- Louise Nevelson, sculptor
- Solomon Nikritin, painter
- Leonard Nimoy, actor
- Jules Olitski, painter
- Leonid Pasternak, painter
- Antoine Pevsner, sculptor
- Elena Ralph, model[72]
- William Shatner, actor
- Yakov Smirnoff, American comedian[73]
- Mikhail Turovsky, painter
- Roman Turovsky, painter
[edit] Writers and poets
- Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish-language writer[74]
- Isaac Babel, writer[14]
- Eduard Bagritsky, poet[14]
- Hayyim Nahman Bialik, poet[14]
- Yosef Haim Brenner, Hebrew-language writer[14]
- Sasha Cherny, poet[75]
- Michael Dorfman, journalist and esseyst
- Moysey Fishbein, poet
- Ilya Ehrenburg, writer[18]
- Alexander Galich, playwright poet[76]
- Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'Am), Hebrew-language writer
- Lydia Ginzburg, writer[76]
- Jacob Gordin, American playwright[76]
- Alexander Granach, Brilliant autobiography
- Vasily Grossman, writer[76]
- Ilya Ilf, writer[77]
- Vera Inber, poet[77]
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, Spanish-language writer and filmmaker
- A.M. Klein, poet
- Pavel Kogan, poet
- Lev Kopelev, author and dissident
- Leonid A Lieberman, Soviet journalist for Chess & Checkers Sports Magazines
- Clarice Lispector, writer from Brazil.
- Benedikt Livshits, writer
- Nadezhda Mandelstam, writer
- Yunna Morits, poet
- Anatoli Rybakov, writer[78]
- Boris Slutsky, war-time poet
- Shaul Tchernichovsky, poet and translator [79]
[edit] Chess players
- Alexander Beliavsky[80]
- Ossip Bernstein[80]
- Isaac Boleslavsky[80]
- David Bronstein, World Championship challenger[80]
- Iossif Dorfman[81]
- Louis Eisenberg
- Alexander Evensohn[82]
- Efim Geller[83]
- Eduard Gufeld[83]
- Ilya Gurevich[83]
- Mikhail Gurevich[83]
- Nicolai Jasnogrodsky
- Gregory Kaidanov[84]
- Alexander Konstantinopolsky[84]
- Konstantin Lerner[85]
- Moishe Lowtzky[85]
- Vladimir Malaniuk[86]
- Sam Palatnik[87]
- Ernest Pogosyants[87]
- Iosif Pogrebyssky[87]
- Leonid Stein[88]
- Mark Taimanov[89]
- Boris Verlinsky[41]
- Yakov Vilner[41]
[edit] See also
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