List of Czech, Bohemian, Moravian and Slovak Jews
Encyclopedia
There was a large and thriving community of Jews
, both religious and secular, in Czechoslovakia
before World War II
. Many perished during the Holocaust. Today, nearly all of the survivors inter-married and assimilated into the Czech and Slovak society.
Jews
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
, both religious and secular, in Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
before World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. Many perished during the Holocaust. Today, nearly all of the survivors inter-married and assimilated into the Czech and Slovak society.
Academics and scientists
- Yehuda BauerYehuda BauerYehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Biography:...
, Czech born Israeli historian of the Holocaust - Itzhak BentovItzhak BentovItzhak Bentov was a Czech born scientist, inventor, mystic and author. He was an early exponent of what has come to be referred to as consciousness studies.-Life:Bentov was born in Czechoslovakia and moved to Israel....
, inventor - Samuel BergmanHugo BergmannSamuel Hugo Bergman, or Samuel Bergman was a German and Israeli Jewish philosopher.-Biography:...
, philosopher - Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian
- Gerty CoriGerty CoriGerty Theresa Cori was an American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Cori was born in Prague...
(1896–1957) biochemist - Daniel MandlDaniel MandlDaniel Mandl was a civil engineer, inventor, a student of anthroposophy.- Life :Daniel Mandl was born in Prostějov, Moravia. He studied engineering at the University of Vienna, Austria. During World War I, he commanded an artillery unit of the Austro-Hungarian Army, and fought in Albania. A...
(1891–1944) civil engineer, inventor, victim of the Holocaust. - Martin FleischmannMartin FleischmannMartin Fleischmann is a British chemist noted for his work in electrochemistry. He came to wider public prominence following his controversial publication of work with colleague Stanley Pons on cold fusion using palladium in the 1980s and '90s.-Early life:Born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia,...
, chemist - Vilém FlusserVilém FlusserVilém Flusser was a Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist. He lived for a long period in São Paulo, Brazil and later in France, and his works are written in several different languages....
(1920–1991) self-taught philosopher - Ernest GellnerErnest GellnerErnest André Gellner was a philosopher and social anthropologist, described by The Daily Telegraph when he died as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals and by The Independent as a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism."His first book, Words and Things —famously, and uniquely...
(1925–1995) philosopher and social anthropologist - Carl Koller (1857–1944), ophthalmologist
- Stephan KornerStephan KörnerStephan Körner, FBA was a British philosopher, who specialised in the work of Kant, the study of concepts, and in the philosophy of mathematics...
, philosopher - Bartholomew Kubat MD (1917–2003) medical doctor, surgeon, Holocaust survivor.
- Ernest NagelErnest NagelErnest Nagel was a Czech-American philosopher of science. Along with Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, and Carl Hempel, he is sometimes seen as one of the major figures of the logical positivist movement....
, philosopher - Samuel Steinherz, Czechoslovakian mediaevalist.
- Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995) mathematician
- Rudolf VrbaRudolf VrbaRudolf "Rudi" Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg was a Slovak-Canadian professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia, who came to public attention during the Second World War when, in April 1944, he escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland with the first...
(1924–2006) pharmacologist
Arts/Entertainment
- Bedřich FeuersteinBedrich FeuersteinBedřich Feuerstein was a Czech architect, painter and essayist.Feuerstein was born in Dobrovice and studied at the Czech Technical University under professor Jože Plečnik. Between 1924 and 1926 he worked with Auguste Perret in Paris, and between 1929 and 1931 in Tokyo, Japan with Antonín Raymond...
(1892–1936) architect, painter and essayist - Miloš FormanMiloš FormanJan Tomáš Forman , better known as Miloš Forman , is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, are among the most celebrated in the history of film, both gaining him the Academy Award for...
(* 1932) film director, actor and script writer - Miloš KopeckýMiloš KopeckýMiloš Kopecký was a Czech actor, active mainly in the second half of the 20th century.- Biography :...
(1922–1996) actor - Arnošt GoldflamArnošt GoldflamArnošt Goldflam is a Czech playwright, writer, director, screenwriter, and actor. He appeared in more than thirty films between 1986 and 2011.-Selected filmography:-External links:...
(* 1946) playwright, writer, director, screenwriter and actor - Hugo HaasHugo HaasHugo Haas was a Czech film actor, director and writer. He appeared in over 60 films between 1926 and 1962, as well as directing 20 films between 1933 and 1962....
(1901–1968), actor and film director - Francis LedererFrancis LedererFrancis Lederer was a film and stage actor with a successful career, first in Europe, then in the United States.-Europe:...
(1899–2000) actor - Hugo LedererHugo LedererProfessor Hugo Lederer was an Austro-Hungarian-born German sculptor.Lederer studied in Dresden under sculptor John Schilling from 1890, then briefly under Christian Behrens. His greatest success came in 1902 with the commission for a Bismarck tower in the center of Hamburg...
(1871–1940) sculptor - Herbert LomHerbert LomHerbert Lom is a Czech film actor, best known for his role as former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther movie series.-Life and career:...
(1917), actor - Robert MaxwellRobert MaxwellIan Robert Maxwell MC was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament , who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire...
(1923–1991) media mogul - Emil OrlikEmil OrlíkEmil Orlik was born in Prague, which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and lived and worked in Prague, Austria and Germany...
(1870–1932) painter - Alfréd RadokAlfréd RadokAlfréd Radok was a distinguished Czech stage director.He worked as the stage director of the National Theatre in Prague in the years 1948 to 1949 and 1966 to 1968. Radok's work belongs to the top of the Czech stage direction of the 20th century...
(1917–1976) stage director - Karel ReiszKarel ReiszKarel Reisz was a Czech-born British filmmaker who was active in post–war Britain, and one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in 1950s and 1960s British cinema.-Early life:...
(1926–2002) director, became one of the most important film-makers in post war Britain - Ivan ReitmanIvan ReitmanIvan Reitman, OC is a Canadian film producer and director. He is known for the comedies he has directed and produced, especially in the 1980s and 1990s.He is the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 2000.-Early life:...
(* 1946) film director (born in Slovakia) - Jan SaudekJan SaudekJan Saudek is a Czech art photographer.- Life :Saudek's father was a Jew and the family was therefore persecuted by Germans. Many of his family members died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. Jan and his brother Karel were held in a children's concentration camp located...
(* 1935) art photographer - Anna TichoAnna TichoAnna Ticho was a Jewish artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills.- Biography :Anna Ticho was born in Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1894...
(1894–1980) artist
Athletes
- Kurt EpsteinKurt EpsteinKurt Epstein was a Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player.-Early life:Epstein was Jewish, and born to Maximilian and Helena Epstein. He grew in Roudnice near the Elbe River, 22 miles north of Prague, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian province of Bohemia...
, Czechoslovak national water polo team, Olympic competitor, incarcerated by the Nazis in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz - Gertrude "Traute" KleinováGertrude KleinováGertrude "Traute or Trude" Kleinová was a three-time world champion table tennis player, winning the women's team world championship twice, and the world mixed doubles once....
, table tennis, 3x world champion, incarcerated by the Nazis in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz
Music
- Elena Poletto (1906–1959), orchestral violist, respected composer
- Karel AnčerlKarel AncerlKarel Ančerl , was a Czech conductor, known for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers...
(1908–1973) conductor, respected for his performances of contemporary music and particularly cherished for his interpretations of music by Czech composers - Karel BermanKarel BermanKarel Berman was a Jewish Czech opera singer, composer and opera director.- Life :...
(1919–1995) opera singer and composer - Ignaz BrüllIgnaz BrüllIgnaz Brüll was an Austrian pianist and composer.Ignaz Brüll was born the eldest son of a prosperous Jewish merchant family in the Moravian provincial town of Prostějov . In 1850 he moved with his parents to Vienna, which became the centre of his life and work...
, composer and pianist - Alexander GoldscheiderAlexander GoldscheiderAlexander Goldscheider is a Czech-born composer, music producer, and computer specialist living since 1981 in London....
(1950) composer and producer - Alfred GrünfeldAlfred GrünfeldAlfred Grünfeld was an Austrian pianist and composer.He studied under Höger, under Josef Krejčí at the Prague Conservatory, and under Theodor Kullak at the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst, Berlin. In 1873 he settled at Vienna, where he received the title of "Kammervirtuose"...
(1852–1924) pianist & composer - Pavel HaasPavel HaasPavel Haas was a Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was an exponent of Leoš Janáček's school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk music and jazz. Although his output was not large, he is notable particularly for his song cycles and string quartets.-Pre-war:Haas...
(1899–1944) composer - Eduard HanslickEduard HanslickEduard Hanslick was a Bohemian-Austrian music critic.-Biography:Hanslick was born in Prague, the son of Joseph Adolph Hanslick, a bibliographer and music teacher from a German-speaking family, and one of his piano pupils, the daughter of a Jewish merchant from Vienna...
(1825–1904) music critic - Gideon KleinGideon KleinGideon Klein was a Czech pianist and composer of classical music, organizer of cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.-Life:...
(1919–1945) composer of classical music - Eliška KleinováEliška KleinováEliška Kleinová, born Elisabeth "Lisa" Klein was a Czech Jewish pianist, music educator, and was the sister of Gideon Klein....
(1912–1999) pianist, music educator, and was the sister of Gideon KleinGideon KleinGideon Klein was a Czech pianist and composer of classical music, organizer of cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.-Life:... - Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austro-Hungarian film and romantic music composer. While his compositional style was considered well out of vogue at the time he died, his music has more recently undergone a reevaluation and a gradual reawakening of interest...
, composer - Hans KrásaHans KrásaHans Krása was a Czech composer who was killed in the Holocaust at Auschwitz. He helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.-Life:...
(1899–1944) composer - Egon LedečEgon LedečEgon Ledeč was a Czech violinist and composer. Ledeč was one of the Jewish artists sent to Theresienstadt and is shown as concertmaster in Karel Ančerl’s orchestra in the Nazi propaganda movie Theresienstadt: A Documentary from the Jewish Settlement...
(1889–1944) music composer - Gustav MahlerGustav MahlerGustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
(1860–1911), music composer and conductor, Czech-born - Herbert Thomas MandlHerbert Thomas MandlHerbert Thomas Mandl was a Czechoslovak-German-Jewish author, concert violinist, professor of music, philosopher, inventor and lecturer...
(1926–2007) concert violinist, professor at the Janáček Academy of Music in OstravaOstravaOstrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the second largest urban agglomeration after Prague. Located close to the Polish border, it is also the administrative center of the Moravian-Silesian Region and of the Municipality with Extended Competence. Ostrava was candidate for the...
, Holocaust survivor who was a contemporary witness to the rich cultural life in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghettoGhettoA ghetto is a section of a city predominantly occupied by a group who live there, especially because of social, economic, or legal issues.The term was originally used in Venice to describe the area where Jews were compelled to live. The term now refers to an overcrowded urban area often associated...
. - Ignaz MoschelesIgnaz MoschelesIgnaz Moscheles was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.-Sources:Much of what we know about Moscheles's life...
(1794–1870) composer and piano virtuoso - Zuzana RůžičkováZuzana RužickováZuzana Růžičková is a famous Jewish Czech contemporary harpsichordist, an interpreter of classical and baroque music.Růžičková studied music but during 1941–45 she was sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Afterwards she continued the study at music school in Plzeň and Prague...
(1927 – ) contemporary harpsichordist, interpret of classical and baroque music - Erwin SchulhoffErwin SchulhoffErwin Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist.-Life:Born in Prague of Jewish-German origin, Schulhoff was one of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany...
(1894–1942) composer and pianist - Julius SchulhoffJulius SchulhoffJulius Schulhoff, was a Bohemian pianist and composer of Jewish birth. He was the great-uncle of the 20th century composer Erwin Schulhoff....
(1825–1898) pianist and composer - Walter SusskindWalter SusskindJan Walter Susskind was a Czech-born British conductor.-Biography:Susskind was born in Prague, Austria–Hungary, now the Czech Republic. His father was a Viennese music critic and his Czech mother was a piano teacher. At the State Conservatorium he studied under composer Josef Suk, the son-in-law...
(1913–1980) conductor, Vilem Tausky, CBE, the noted Czech born composer/conductor, - Viktor UllmannViktor UllmannViktor Ullmann was a Silesia-born Austrian, later Czech composer, conductor and pianist of Jewish origin.- Biography :...
(1898–1944) composer, conductor and pianist - Jaromír WeinbergerJaromír Weinberger- Biography :Weinberger was born in Prague, from a family of Jewish origin. He heard Czech folksongs from time spent at his grandparents' farm as a youth. He started to play the piano at age 5, and was composing and conducting by age 10. He began musical studies with Jaroslav Křička. Later teachers...
(1896–1967) composer
Politicians
- Emanuel Mandler (1932–2009) born in Třebíč, Politician, publicist "Czechs and Germans, Myths, Discords, Actuality, Praha 2001
- Victor AdlerVictor Adler----Victor Adler was an Austrian Social Democratic leader.Born in Prague, Adler received a university degree in Vienna in 1881. He founded the Socialist movement in Austria and created the Marxist journals Gleicheit in 1886 and Arbeiter-Zeitung in 1889...
(1852–1918) socialist politician, born Prague - Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine AlbrightMadeleine Korbelová Albright is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0...
(* 1937) served as the 64th United States Secretary of State - Jan FischerJan Fischer (politician)Jan Fischer was Prime Minister of the caretaker government of Czech Republic in 2009−2010. A lifelong statistician, he was previously the president of the Czech Statistical Office since April 2003.- Personal life and education :...
(* 1951) prime minister of the Czech Republic (2009) - Ignaz KurandaIgnaz KurandaIgnaz Kuranda was an Austrian deputy and political writer.- Establishes "Die Grenzboten" :His grandfather and father were dealers in second-hand books...
, politician - Artur LondonArtur LondonArtur London, , was a Czechoslovak communist politician and co-defendant in the Slánský Trial. He was born in Ostrava, Austria-Hungary to a Jewish family....
(1915–1986) communist politician and co-defendant in the Slánský trial. He was born in Ostrava, Silesia, Austria-Hungary - Rudolf MargoliusRudolf MargoliusRudolf Margolius was Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Czechoslovakia , and a co-defendant in the Slánský trial in November 1952....
(1913–1952) Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade (1949–1952), a victim of the Slánský trial - Rudolf SlánskýRudolf SlánskýRudolf Slánský was a Czech Communist politician. Holding the post of the party's General Secretary after World War II, he was one of the leading creators and organizers of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia...
(1901–1952) Communist politician and the party's General SecretaryGeneral SecretaryThe office of general secretary is staffed by the chief officer of:*The General Secretariat for Macedonia and Thrace, a government agency for the Greek regions of Macedonia and Thrace...
after World War II. Later he fell into disfavour with the regime and was executed after a show trial - Michael Žantovský Politician and author. He was appointed to serve as the Ambassador to Israel in July 2003.
- Vladimír ŽeleznýVladimír ŽeleznýVladimír Železný is a media businessman, politician and convicted criminal in the Czech Republic. He was the first CEO of TV NOVA, a popular Czech television station and was a member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2009...
(* 1945) a media businessman and politician, member of the European ParliamentEuropean ParliamentThe European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
, the founder of TV NOVA.
Psychologists and psychiatrists
- Sigmund FreudSigmund FreudSigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
(1856–1939) founder of psychoanalysis - Wilhelm JerusalemWilhelm JerusalemWilhelm Jerusalem was an Austrian Jewish philosopher and pedagogue....
(1854–1923) philosopher and psychologist - Max WertheimerMax Wertheimer- External links :* * * * *...
, one of the founders of Gestalt psychology - Edmund HusserlEdmund HusserlEdmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology. He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, yet he elaborated critiques of historicism and of psychologism in logic...
, philosopher and founder of Phenomenology
Religious leaders
- Samuel Abramson, rabbi of Carlsbad
- Tzvi AshkenaziTzvi AshkenaziRabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi , known as the Chacham Tzvi , for some time rabbi of Amsterdam, was a resolute opponent of the followers of the false messiah, Sabbatai Zevi. He had a chequered career, owing to his independence of character...
, better known as Haham Zevi, chief rabbi of Amsterdam, prominent opponent of the Sabbateans - Nehemiah BrüllNehemiah BrüllNehemiah Brüll was a rabbi and versatile scholar.- Life :Brüll received his rabbinic-Talmudic education from his father, Jakob Brüll , who combined wide Talmudic knowledge with acute historical perception...
, rabbi (born Rousínov, Moravia) - Israel BrunaIsrael BrunaIsrael Bruna was a German rabbi and Posek . He is also known as Mahari Bruna, the Hebrew acronym for "Our Teacher, the Rabbi, Israel Bruna". Rabbi Bruna is best known as one of the primary Ashkenazi authorities quoted by Moses Isserles in the Shulkhan Arukh.-Biography:Rabbi Bruna was born in Brno...
, rabbi (born Brno) - Aaron ChorinAaron ChorinÁron Chorin was a Hungarian rabbi and pioneer of religious reform. He favored the use of the organ and of prayers in the vernacular, and was instrumental in founding schools along modern lines. Chorin was thus regarded as a leader of the newer Judaism...
, rabbi (born Moravia) - Joseph H. HertzJoseph H. Hertz----Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, CH was a Jewish Hungarian-born Rabbi and Bible scholar. He is most notable for holding the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1913 until his death in 1946, in a period encompassing both world wars and The Holocaust.- Early life :Hertz was born in the...
(1872–1946) Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. - Judah Loew ben BezalelJudah Loew ben BezalelJudah Loew ben Bezalel, alt. Loewe, Löwe, or Levai, widely known to scholars of Judaism as the Maharal of Prague, or simply The MaHaRaL, the Hebrew acronym of "Moreinu ha-Rav Loew," was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who served as a leading rabbi in the city of...
(1525?–1609) rabbi - Isaac ben Jacob ha-LavanIsaac ben Jacob ha-LavanRabbi Isaac ben Jacob or Yitzhak ben Yaakov, nicknamed "ha-Lavan" or "the white" was a 12th century rabbi of Bohemia. He was a Tosafist and liturgical poet who flourished at Prague in the late 12th century. He was the brother of the renowned traveler Petachiah of Regensburg...
, Bohemian tosafist - Mordecai MeiselMordecai MeiselMordecai Marcus Meisel was a philanthropist and communal leader in Prague; he was son of Samuel Meisel....
, Philanthropist and communal leader at Prague - Karol SidonKarol SidonRabbi Karol Efraim Sidon is a Czech Rabbi, writer and playwright. He is the current chief rabbi of the city of Prague and of the Czech Republic.-Life:...
, playwright, chief rabbi of PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, and Convert to Judaism.
Writers
- Henri BlowitzHenri BlowitzHenri Georges Stephane Adolphe Opper de Blowitz was a Bohemian journalist.He was born to a family of Jewish ancestry at Blovice in Bohemia, and left home at the age of fifteen to travel, acquiring a wide range of languages in the process. When financial constraints led him to plan emigration to...
, journalist - Max BrodMax BrodMax Brod was a German-speaking Czech Jewish, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka...
(1884–1968) author, composer, and journalist - Avigdor DaganAvigdor DaganAvigdor Dagan was an Israeli writer, a playwright and literary translator; a diplomat...
(1912–2006) writer - Egon HostovskyEgon HostovskýEgon Hostovský , was a Czech writer. He was related to the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. Hostovský described Zweig as "a very distant relative"; some sources describe them as cousins....
(1908–1973) writer - Franz KafkaFranz KafkaFranz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
(1883–1924), novelist - Jan Kouba (1986–)author, artist and Cthulhu MythosCthulhu MythosThe Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...
writer. - Siegfried KapperSiegfried KapperSiegfried Kapper was the literary pseudonym of Isaac Salomon Kapper , a Bohemian-born Austrian writer of Jewish origin. Born in Smichow, Kapper studied medicine at Prague University, later completing a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna...
(1821–1879) writer - Ivan KlímaIvan KlímaIvan Klíma is a Czech novelist and playwright.- Biography :Klíma's early childhood in Prague was happy and uneventful, but this all changed with the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, after the Munich Agreement...
(1931 – ) novelist, playwright - Leopold KompertLeopold KompertLeopold Kompert was a Bohemian Jewish writer. He was born in Mnichovo Hradiště , Bohemia, and died in Vienna....
(1822–1886), author - Arnošt LustigArnošt LustigArnošt Lustig was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust.Lustig was born in Prague...
(1926–2011) author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust - Ota PavelOta PavelOta Pavel was a Czech writer, journalist and sport reporter...
(1930–1973) writer, journalist and sport reporter.
- Heda Margolius KovályHeda Margolius KovályHeda Margolius Kovály was a Czech writer.- Early life :She was born Heda Bloch to Jewish parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where she lived until 1941 when her family was rounded up along with the rest of the city's Jewish population and taken to the Lodz Ghetto in central Poland.-...
author and translator - Leopold PerutzLeo PerutzLeopold Perutz was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. He was born in Prague and was thus a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
(1882–1957) German language novelist and mathematician - Karel PoláčekKarel PolácekKarel Poláček was a Czechoslovak writer, humorist and journalist of Jewish descent.-Life:He was born in Rychnov nad Kněžnou into a family of a Jewish trader. He started to attend secondary school there, but due to his bad results he transferred to a secondary school in Prague, from which he...
(1892–1945) writer and journalist - Tom StoppardTom StoppardSir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and...
(1937 – ) playwright, famous for plays such as The Real Thing and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and for the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love - Hermann UngarHermann UngarHermann Ungar was a Bohemian writer and an officer in Czechoslovakia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His novels were influenced by expressionism and psychoanalysis...
(1893–1929) writer of German language and an officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia - Jiří WeilJirí WeilJiří Weil was a Czech writer. He was Jewish. His noted works include the two novels Life with a Star , and Mendelssohn Is on the Roof , as well as many short stories, and other novels....
(1900–1959) writer whose works include the two novels Life with a Star (Život s hvězdou) and Mendelssohn is on the Roof - Franz WerfelFranz WerfelFranz Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet.- Biography :Born in Prague , Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods. His mother, Albine Kussi, was the daughter of a mill owner...
(1890–1945); Czech-born writer; married Mahler's widow
Other
- Jacob BasseviJacob BasseviJacob Bassevi von Treuenberg was a Bohemian Court Jew and financier. He entered business early in life, ultimately became very wealthy, and stood in high favor with the emperors Rudolph II, Matthias, and Ferdinand II, to whom he, with other Jewish capitalists, frequently rendered financial...
(1580–1634) Bohemian Court Jew and financier - Hana BradyHana BradyHana Brady was a 13-year old Jewish girl murdered in the Holocaust. She is the subject of the 2002 non-fiction children's book Hana's Suitcase, written by Karen Levine.-Biography:Hana Brady was born in Nové Mesto, Czechoslovakia on May 16, 1931...
(1931–1944) Holocaust victim - George Brady (1928 – ) brother of Hana BradyHana BradyHana Brady was a 13-year old Jewish girl murdered in the Holocaust. She is the subject of the 2002 non-fiction children's book Hana's Suitcase, written by Karen Levine.-Biography:Hana Brady was born in Nové Mesto, Czechoslovakia on May 16, 1931...
- Salo FlohrSalo FlohrSalomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...
(1908–1983) leading chess master of the early 20th century - Petr GinzPetr GinzPetr Ginz was a Czechoslovak boy of Jewish descent who was deported to the Terezín concentration camp during the Holocaust...
(1928–1944) young boy who was deported to the Terezín concentration camp during the Holocaust - Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von HofmannsthalIsaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von HofmannsthalIsaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal was an Austrian merchant....
, (1759–1849) merchant - Frank LowyFrank LowyFrank Lowy, AC is an Australian-Israeli businessman. He is a co-founder of the Westfield Group, operator of over 100 shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Great Britain...
(1930–), businessman - Frank Petschek, a Czech-German businessman whose properties were seized by the Nazis, and who financed the publication, after the war, of Raul Hilberg's pathfinding work of history, The Destruction of the European Jews (1961).
- Richard RétiRichard RétiRéti composed one of the most famous chess studies, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king...
(1889–1929) chess grandmaster - Wilhelm SteinitzWilhelm SteinitzWilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. From the 1870s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz was effectively the champion earlier...
(1836–1900) first World Chess Champion - Yoshua Samuel Rusnak (also "Yehoshua Sh'mu'el Rusnak") Diasporan Jew and Zionist based in Kosice, SlovakiaKošiceKošice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary...
. Spouse was Leonora Reisova Rusnkakova (1860–1937); children Paula (1881–1884), Adolf (1884–1913), Vilmosz, David "Dudus" (b. 1894), and Simon Rusnak (1896–1955), and Pepi Rusnkova Grinfeldova (married Zoltan "Zoli" Grinfeld (b. 1895)). All who lived during the Second World War but Simon (who immigrated to the United States) perished in the Holocaust on May 17, 1944 at Auschwitz.
See also
- History of the Jews in SlovakiaHistory of the Jews in SlovakiaBefore World War II, 135,000 Jews lived in Slovakia. Some emigrated before the war, but most were killed in deportation. After the Slovak Republic proclaimed its independence in March 1939 under the protection of Nazi Germany, Slovakia began a series of measures aimed against the Jews in the...
- History of the Jews in the Czech RepublicHistory of the Jews in the Czech RepublicJews in the Czech Republic are predominantly Ashkenazic Jews, and the current Jewish population is only a fraction of the First republic's Jewish population. As of 2005, there were approximately 4,000 Jews living in the Czech Republic. There are ten small Jewish communities all around the country...
- List of Austrian Jews
- List of East European Jews
- List of Czechs