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:
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
, Jews were a significant part of the population in Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
where they numbered around 240,000, including approximately 100,000 in Vilnius
Vilnius
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
, 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
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
. In comparison, Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
and the Nordic countries
Nordic countries
The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...
have had much smaller communities, concentrated mostly in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
and Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. The following is a list of some prominent North European Jews, arranged by country of origin:
Denmark
- Kim BodniaKim Bodnia-Movie career:He has appeared in several of the successful Danish films from the 1990s and 2000s, e.g. Nattevagten , Pusher, and Bleeder, the latter two directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, and the two Lasse Spang Olsen films In China They Eat Dogs, Old Men in New Cars and Terribly Happy.Bodnia has...
, actor - Harald BohrHarald BohrHarald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and football player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr...
, mathematician and footballer (Jewish mother) - Niels BohrNiels BohrNiels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...
, physicist, Nobel Prize (1922) (Jewish mother) - Victor BorgeVictor BorgeVictor Borge ,born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark,The Unmelancholy Dane,and The Great Dane.-Early life and career:...
, entertainer - Edvard BrandesEdvard BrandesCarl Edvard Cohen Brandes was a Danish politician, critic and author, and the younger brother of Georg Brandes and Ernst Brandes. He was a Ph.D. in eastern philology....
, politician, critic and author - Ernst BrandesErnst Immanuel Cohen BrandesErnst Immanuel Cohen Brandes was a Danish economist, writer, and newspaper editor best known for editing the Kjøbenhavns Børs-Tidende, which published articles written by leading Danish men of letters, including future Nobel Prize winner Henrik Pontoppidan, during a period later hailed as the...
, economist and editor - Georg BrandesGeorg BrandesGeorg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture...
, author and critic, father of Danish naturalism - Marcus CholevaMarcus CholevaMarcus Choleva is the CEO of a successful Danish concern called KFI which is translated to "The Merchants' financing-institute".-Life:...
, Chief executive officer of KFI. - Meïr Aron GoldschmidtMeïr Aron GoldschmidtMeïr Aron Goldschmidt was a Danish publisher, journalist and novelist with a Jewish background. Goldschmidt was born in Vordingborg but raised in Copenhagen...
, author and editor - Heinrich HirschsprungHeinrich HirschsprungHeinrich Hirschsprung was a Danish tobacco manufacturer, arts patron and art collector, founder of the Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen, a museum dedicated to Danish art from the 19th and early 20th century....
, industrialist, art patron (Den Hirschsprungske Samling) - Arne JacobsenArne JacobsenArne Emil Jacobsen, usually known as Arne Jacobsen, was a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for contributing so much to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs.-Early life and education:Arne Jacobsen was born...
, architect & designer (Jewish mother) - Arne MelchiorArne MelchiorArne Melchior son of Marcus Melchior is a retired Danish politician of Jewish descent and supporter of Jewish causes.Melchior was active in the Social Democratic Party but left this party in 1973 to co-found the Centre Democrats....
, politician and former Transport Minister and Minister for Communication and Tourism. - Marcus MelchiorMarcus MelchiorMarcus Melchior was acting chief rabbi of Denmark in 1943 at the time of the rescue of the Danish Jews.Marcus Melchior came from a prominent Jewish family in Denmark...
, chief rabbi of Denmark, father of Arne Melchior - Michael MelchiorMichael MelchiorA renowned Jewish leader, thinker and activist, Rabbi Michael Melchior is a leading advocate for social justice in Israel, quality education for all, Jewish-Arab reconciliation and co-existence, protection of the environment, Israel-Diaspora relations and the strengthening of Civic Society as a...
, rabbi and Israeli politician - Ivan Osiier, seven-time Olympic fencer
- Lee OskarLee OskarLee Oskar is a Danish harmonica player, notable for his contributions to the sound of the rock-funk fusion group War, which he formed with Eric Burdon, his solo work, and as a harmonica manufacturer...
, harmonica player, member of WarWar (band)War is an American funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider", "Spill the Wine", "The Cisco Kid" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae... - Herbert PundikHerbert PundikHerbert Pundik or Nahum Pundak is a Danish Jewish journalist and author. He has worked for the newspaper Information and as a correspondent for Danmarks Radio. Since 1965 he has worked for the newspaper Politiken, from 1970 to 1993 as executive editor...
, journalist - Raquel RastenniRaquel RastenniRaquel Rastenni , born Anna Rachel Rastén, was a popular Danish singer. She was born in Copenhagen, and grew up in a little apartment in the poor central part of the city. Her Jewish parents had immigrated to Denmark from Russia at the start of the 1900s...
, jazz and popular singer - Edgar RubinEdgar RubinEdgar John Rubin was a Danish psychologist/phenomenologist, remembered for his work on figure-ground perception as seen in such optical illusions like the Rubin vase. He once worked as a research associate for Georg Elias Müller.-External links:*...
, Gestalt psychologist
Estonia
- Eino Baskin, actor and theatre director
- Gunnar FriedemannGunnar Friedemann-Biography:Friedemann played several times in Estonian championships at Tallinn. In 1932, he tied for 3rd-4th with Johannes Türn . In 1933, he won the 5th EST–ch. In 1934, he took 3rd, behind Ilmar Raud and Paul Felix Schmidt, at the 6th EST–ch. In 1935, he took 2nd, behind Paul Keres, at the 7th...
, chess player - Louis I. Kahn, architect
- Eri KlasEri KlasEri Klas, is an Estonian conductor.Klas is of Jewish ancestry. Klas graduated as an opera and concert conductor in both Tallinn and Leningrad , beginning his conducting career at the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow...
, conductor - Yuri LotmanYuri LotmanYuri Mikhailovich Lotman – a prominent Soviet literary scholar, semiotician, and cultural historian. Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences...
, semiotician
Finland
- Max JakobsonMax JakobsonMax Jakobson is a retired Finnish Jewish diplomat and journalist.Jakobson began his career as a journalist. He worked at the BBC. From 1953 to 1974 he was employed by the Finnish foreign ministry, eventually acting as Finland's ambassador to the United Nations and Sweden...
, diplomat http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Finland.html - Gunnar K. A. Njalsson, CEO, administrative scientist (conservative), local politician (1998-2004) in city of EspooEspooEspoo is the second largest city and municipality in Finland. The population of the city of Espoo is . It is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area along with the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen....
- Moses Pergament, composer http://www.kilpinen.org/PERGAMENT-S.htm
- Roni PorokaraRoni PorokaraRoni Porokara is a Finnish international football player, who currently plays for Beerschot AC in the Belgium Jupiler Pro League. Porokara is the first Jewish player on the Finnish national team since 1949.- FC Hämeenlinna :...
, football player - Marion RungMarion RungMarion Rung is a Finnish pop singer. She is known to have represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 and 1973. Her 1962 Eurovision song placed 7th and in 1973, she managed to bring Finland's second best result ever in this contest, placing 6th...
, pop singer - Seela SellaSeela SellaSeela Maini Marjatta Sella is a Finnish film actress. She was born in Tampere, Finland.During her career, which has spanned more than 40 years to date, Seela Sella has had roles in productions at the Finnish National Theatre, the TTT-Theatre, the Tampere Comedy Theatre, etc and has made almost 35...
, actress - Mauritz StillerMauritz StillerMauritz Stiller was a Finnish-Swedish actor, screenwriter and silent film director, who was mostly active in Sweden.-Life:...
, director - Ruben Stiller, talk-show host
- Ben ZyskowiczBen ZyskowiczBen Berl Zyskowicz is a Finnish politician and member of parliament. Zyskowicz was chairman of the Finnish National Coalition Party's parliamentary group from 1993 to 2006 and has been a member of parliament for the National Coalition Party since 1979...
, conservative leader
Iceland
- Vladimir AshkenazyVladimir AshkenazyVladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since 1978, because of his many obligations in Europe, he and his family have resided in Meggen, near Lucerne in Switzerland...
, pianist - Elías Davíðsson, composer & human rights activist
- Bobby FischerBobby FischerRobert James "Bobby" Fischer was an American chess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Fischer was also a best-selling chess author...
,(deceased) chess player (Jewish mother, but did not self-identify as a Jew; American expatriate, Icelandic citizen) - Max Goldberg, international banker
- Dorrit MoussaieffDorrit MoussaieffDorrit Moussaieff is an Israeli-born British jewellery designer, editor and businesswoman. She is the First Lady of Iceland, married to Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president of Iceland.-Biography:...
, First Lady of IcelandFirst Lady of IcelandWives and husbands of the presidents:*Georgia Björnsson wife of Sveinn Björnsson*Dóra Þórhallsdóttir wife of Ásgeir Ásgeirsson*Halldóra Eldjárn wife of Kristján Eldjárn*Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was not married... - Sruli RechtSruli RechtSruli Recht is an award-winning Designer, . He is a citizen of Australia and is currently based in Reykjavik Iceland. Recht studied Fashion Design at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia, the city where he spent the majority of his life...
, An award-winning Designer
Latvia
- Elya Baskin, actor
- Isaiah BerlinIsaiah BerlinSir Isaiah Berlin OM, FBA was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and a dominant liberal scholar of his generation...
, historian of ideas - Lipman BersLipman BersLipman Bers was an American mathematician born in Riga who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups.-Biography:...
, mathematician & activist http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Bers.html - David BezmozgisDavid BezmozgisDavid Bezmozgis is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.Born in Riga, Latvia, he came to Canada with his family when he was six. He graduated with a B.A. in English literature from McGill University. Bezmozgis received an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television....
, author - Boris BrutskusBoris BrutskusBoris Davydovich Brutskus, ', Latvian: Boriss Bruckus, , German: Boris Brutzkus Boris (Ber) Davydovich Brutskus, ', Latvian: Boriss Bruckus, , German: Boris Brutzkus Boris (Ber) Davydovich Brutskus, ', Latvian: Boriss Bruckus, , German: Boris Brutzkus (October 15/October 3 (Russian information),...
- Movsas FeiginsMovsas FeiginsMovsas Feigins or Movša Feigins was a Latvian chess master.-Biography:Movsas Feigins was born in Dvinsk, . He won at Riga 1930, and was Latvian Champion in 1932 . In 1932, he tied for 3rd–5th at Riga. The event was won by Vladimirs Petrovs...
, chess player - Morris HalleMorris HalleMorris Halle , is a Latvian-American Jewish linguist and an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
, linguist - Philippe HalsmanPhilippe HalsmanPhilippe Halsman was an American portrait photographer.-Life and work:Born to a Jewish family of Morduch Halsman, a dentist, and Ita Grintuch, a grammar school principal, in Riga, Halsman studied electrical engineering in Dresden....
, photographer - Joseph HirshhornJoseph Hirshhorn]Joseph Herman Hirshhorn was an entrepreneur, financier and art collector. Born in Mitau, Latvia, the twelfth of thirteen children, Hirshhorn emigrated to the United States with his widowed mother at the age of six....
, financier & philanthropist - Abraham Zevi IdelsohnAbraham Zevi IdelsohnAbraham Zevi Idelsohn was a prominent Jewish ethnologist and musicologist, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world....
, Jewish musicJewish musicJewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish People which have evolved over time throughout the long course of Jewish History. In some instances Jewish Music is of a religious nature, spiritual songs and refrains are common in Jewish Services throughout the world, while other times, it is...
ologist - Hermann Jadlowker, musician (born at Riga)
- Mariss JansonsMariss JansonsMariss Ivars Georgs Jansons is a Latvian conductor, the son of conductor Arvīds Jansons. His mother, the singer Iraida Jansons, who was Jewish, gave birth to him in hiding in Riga, Latvia, after her father and brother were killed in the Riga Ghetto...
, conductor (Jewish mother) - Gil KaneGil KaneEli Katz who worked under the name Gil Kane and in one instance Scott Edward, was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics company and character.Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and...
, comic book illustrator - Alexander KoblencsAlexander KoblencsAlexander Koblents was a Latvian chess International Master, trainer, and writer.In 1935, he took 4th place in Rosas . In 1936, he took 5th in Reus . In 1937, he won, ahead of Lajos Steiner, in Brno with 9/11. In 1938, he took 5th in Milan...
, chess player - Abraham Isaac KookAbraham Isaac KookAbraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halachist, Kabbalist and a renowned Torah scholar...
, rabbi - Gidon KremerGidon KremerGidon Kremer is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.-Biography:Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish and Latvian-Swedish origins. He began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather,...
, violinist Kremer's father was a Jewish Holocaust survivor http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4094468,00.html. - Nechama LeibowitzNechama LeibowitzNechama Leibowitz was a noted Israeli Bible scholar and commentator who rekindled interest in Bible study.-Biography:Nechama Leibowitz was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Riga two years after her elder brother, the philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz. The family moved to Berlin in 1919...
- Yeshayahu LeibowitzYeshayahu LeibowitzYeshayahu Leibowitz was an Israeli public intellectual and polymath known for his outspoken opinions on Judaism, ethics, religion and politics.- Biography :...
- Armands Leimanis, singer
- Hermanis MatisonsHermanis MatisonsHermanis Matisons , , was a Latvian chess player and one of world's most highly regarded chess masters in the early 1930s. He was also a leading endgame composer...
, chess player - Mischa MaiskyMischa MaiskyMischa Maisky is a Latvian cellist.Maisky began studies at the Leningrad Conservatory and later with Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory whilst pursuing a concert career throughout the Soviet Union. In 1966 he won 6th Prize at the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition. In 1970,...
, cellist - Solomon MikhoelsSolomon MikhoelsSolomon Mikhoels ; was a Soviet Jewish actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. Mikhoels served as the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during the Second World War...
, actor - Aron NimzowitschAron NimzowitschAron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born Danish unofficial chess grandmaster and a very influential chess writer...
, chess player - Arkady RaikinArkady RaikinArkady Isaakovich Raikin was a Soviet stand-up comedian. He led the school of Soviet and Russian humorists for about half a century.Raikin was born into a Jewish family in Riga , then part of the Russian Empire. He graduated from the Leningrad Theatrical Technicum in 1935 and worked in both state...
*, performing artist - Mark RothkoMark RothkoMark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".- Childhood :Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian...
, painter - Yosef Rosen, der Rogatchover GaonRogatchover GaonJoseph Rosen known as the Rogatchover Gaon, , and also often referred to by the title of his main work Tzofnath Paneach , , was a rabbi and one of the most prominent talmudic scholars of the early 20th-century, known as a genius because of...
- Elizabeth Shammash, US singer (Latvian mother, Iraqi father)
- Meir Simcha of DvinskMeir Simcha of DvinskMeir Simcha of Dvinsk was a rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. He was a kohen, and is therefore often referred to as Meir Simcha ha-Kohen...
, rabbi - Mikhail TalMikhail TalMikhail Tal was a Soviet–Latvian chess player, a Grandmaster, and the eighth World Chess Champion.Widely regarded as a creative genius, and the best attacking player of all time, he played a daring, combinatorial style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability....
, world chess champion - Max WeinreichMax WeinreichMax Weinreich was a linguist, specializing in the Yiddish language, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary.- Biography :Max Weinreich began his studies in a German school in Kuldiga,...
, linguist - Mikhail Alexandrovich Famous cantor and singer(1914-2002)
- Oscar Strok Composer(1893-1975)
Lithuania
- Semyon AlapinSemyon AlapinSemyon Zinovyevich Alapin was a Russian and Lithuanian chess master, openings analyst, and puzzle composer. He was a linguist, railway engineer and merchant .-Biography:...
, chess player - Mark Antokolsky, sculptor to Czar Alexander II of RussiaAlexander II of RussiaAlexander II , also known as Alexander the Liberator was the Emperor of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881...
- Moshe ArensMoshe ArensMoshe Arens is an Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher and former diplomat and politician. A member of the Knesset between 1973 and 1992 and again from 1999 until 2003, he served as Minister of Defense three times and once as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Arens has also served as the Israeli...
, former Minister of Defence and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel - Aaron Barak, President of the Supreme Court of Israel
- Eliezer Ben-YehudaEliezer Ben-YehudaEliezer Ben‑Yehuda was a Jewish lexicographer and newspaper editor. He was the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era.-Biography:...
, reviver of HebrewHebrew languageHebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such... - Bernard BerensonBernard BerensonBernard Berenson was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. He was a major figure in pioneering art attribution and therefore establishing the market for paintings by the "Old Masters".-Personal life:...
, art critic - Victor David BrennerVictor David BrennerVictor David Brenner born as Viktoras Barnauskas was an Lithuanian-American sculptor, engraver, and medalist known primarily as the designer of the United States Lincoln Cent.-Biography:...
, designer of the US penny - Eli BroadEli BroadEli Broad is an American businessman from Detroit, Michigan who resides in Los Angeles, California.-Life and career:An only child, Broad was born in the Bronx to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents. His father was a housepainter, his mother was a dressmaker. His family moved to Detroit when he...
, American philanthropist and investor; founder of KB HomeKB HomeKB Home is a homebuilding company based in the United States, founded in 1957 as Kaufman & Broad in Detroit, Michigan. It was the first company to be traded on the NYSE as a home builder and is a Fortune 500 company... - Sir Montague BurtonMontague BurtonSir Montague Maurice Burton founded Burton, one of Great Britain's largest chains of clothes shops....
, British retailer - Abraham CahanAbraham CahanAbraham "Abe" Cahan was a Lithuanian-born American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician.-Early years:...
, writer & activist - Eliyahu Eliezer DesslerEliyahu Eliezer DesslerEliyahu Eliezer Dessler was an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Jewish philosopher of the 20th century. He is known as mashgiach ruchani of the Ponevezh yeshiva in Israel and through collections of his writings published posthumously by his pupils.-Lithuania:Eliyahu Dessler Eliyahu Eliezer...
- Simeon Dimanstein, Soviet Commissar of Nationalities
- Nosson Tzvi Finkel, famous rosh yeshivaRosh yeshivaRosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the dean of a Talmudical academy . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh — meaning head, and yeshiva — a school of religious Jewish education...
of the Slabodka yeshivaSlabodka yeshivaHebron Yeshiva, also known as Yeshivas Hevron, or Knesses Yisroel, and originally as Slabodka Yeshiva, is known colloquially as the "mother of yeshivas" and was devoted to high=level study of the Talmud. The yeshiva was located in the Lithuanian town of Slabodka, adjacent to Kovno , now... - Vyacheslav GanelinVyacheslav GanelinVyacheslav "Slava" Ganelin is a Lithuanian Jewish jazz musician and composer. Primarily a pianist, he also plays other keyboards as well as bass, guitar, and percussions...
, jazz pioneer - Morris GinsbergMorris GinsbergMorris Ginsberg was a UK sociologist. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943. Ginsberg helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled The Race Question...
, sociologist (Jewish Year BookJewish Year BookThe Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W...
1975 p213) - Louis GinzbergLouis GinzbergRabbi Louis Ginzberg was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City.-Biographical background:...
- Itamar Golan, pianist
- Leah GoldbergLeah GoldbergLeah Goldberg was a prolific Hebrew poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher. Her writings are considered classics of Israeli literature and remain very popular among Hebrew speaking Israelis.-Biography:...
, poet - Emma GoldmanEmma GoldmanEmma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....
, anarchist - Nahum GoldmannNahum GoldmannNahum Goldmann was a leading Zionist and the founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress.-Biography:...
, world Jewish leader - Chaim GradeChaim GradeChaim Grade was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century....
, writer - Iosif Romualdovich GrigulevichIosif Romualdovich GrigulevichIosif Romualdovich Grigulevich was one of the most remarkable Soviet illegal operatives during the 1930s and 1940s, when he took a leading role in assassinating leftists who were not loyal to Joseph Stalin. Under a false identity as Teodoro B...
- Zvi GrilichesZvi GrilichesHirsh Zvi Griliches was an economist at Harvard University. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in an assimilated Jewish family that spoke Russian at home. During World War II he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp...
, economist - Shira GorshmanShira GorshmanShira Gorshman was a Yiddish language short story writer and memoirist. She was born in the small town of Krakės, Lithuania to an extremely poor family and began working at a young age. She was able to achieve a basic education, and like many Eastern European Jews was multi-lingual...
, Zionist pioneer, writer - Aryeh Leib ben Asher GunzbergAryeh Leib ben Asher GunzbergAryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg , also known as the Shaagas Aryeh , was an Ashkenazi rabbi and author....
, rabbi - Aron GurwitschAron GurwitschAron Gurwitsch was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American philosopher working in the field of phenomenology. He wrote on the relations between phenomenology and Gestalt psychology...
, philosopher - Laurence HarveyLaurence HarveyLaurence Harvey was a Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films.- Early life :Harvey maintained throughout his life that his birth name was Laruschka Mischa Skikne. However, his legal name was Zvi Mosheh Skikne. He was the youngest of three boys born to Ber "Boris" and...
, actor - Jascha HeifetzJascha HeifetzJascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...
(1901 - 1987) violinist, widely regarded as the greatest violinist of the 20th Century - Sidney HillmanSidney HillmanSidney Hillman was an American labor leader. Head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, he was a key figure in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and in marshaling labor's support for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party.-Early years:Sidney Hillman was...
, labor leader - Jay M. IpsonJay M. IpsonJay M. Ipson is a Lithuanian-American Holocaust survivor and co-founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia.-World War II and immigration:...
, founder of Virginia Holocaust MuseumVirginia Holocaust MuseumThe Virginia Holocaust Museum is a Virginia museum dedicated to depicting the Holocaust as experienced by its victims. A main part of the exhibition is about the family story of Holocaust survivor Jay M. Ipson.-History:... - Leo JogichesLeo JogichesLeo Jogiches , also known by his party name of Leon Tyszka was a Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany....
- Al JolsonAl JolsonAl Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
, entertainer - Jakob Jocz
- Berek JoselewiczBerek JoselewiczBerek Joselewicz was a Jewish-Polish merchant and a colonel of the Polish Army during the Kościuszko Uprising. Joselewicz commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history.-Life:...
- Joseph Kagan, Baron KaganJoseph Kagan, Baron KaganJoseph Kagan, Baron Kagan was a British industrialist and the founder of Kagan Textiles, of Elland, which made raincoats from the waterproof Gannex fabric he had invented. Gannex raincoats were most famously worn by Harold Wilson...
, clothes manufacturer - Yisrael Meir KaganYisrael Meir KaganYisrael Meir Poupko , known popularly as The Chofetz Chaim, was an influential Eastern European rabbi, Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works continue to be widely influential in Jewish life...
, rabbi - Mordechai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist JudaismReconstructionist JudaismReconstructionist Judaism is a modern American-based Jewish movement based on the ideas of Mordecai Kaplan . The movement views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization. It originated as a branch of Conservative Judaism, before it splintered...
- Shlomo KleitShlomo KleitShlomo Kleit was a leader of the Yiddishist/Socialist movement in Lithuania.Kleit was active in the anti-Tsarist revolutionary movement, and the anti-German underground between 1915 and 1918. After the World War I he was elected as the Socialist vice-president of the Vilna Kehilla...
- Aaron KlugAaron KlugSir Aaron Klug, OM, PRS is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.-Biography:Klug was...
, chemist, Nobel Prize (1982) - Lazare KopelmanasLazare KopelmanasLazare Kopelmanas was an international jurist and diplomat....
, international law scholar - Jacob Koslowsky, painter
- Abba KovnerAbba KovnerAbba Kovner was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader. He became one of the great poets of modern Israel. He was a cousin of the Israeli Communist Party leader Meir Vilner.-Biography:...
- Abraham Dob Bär LebensohnAbraham Dob Bär LebensohnAbraham Dob Bär Lebensohn was a Russian Hebraist, poet, and grammarian.-Life:...
, Hebrew writer - Micah Joseph LebensohnMicah Joseph LebensohnMicah Joseph Lebensohn Russian Hebrew poet.His father, the poet Abraham Bär Lebensohn, implanted in him the love of Hebrew poetry, and Micah Joseph began very early to translate and to compose Hebrew songs. He suffered from consumption during the last five or six years of his short life...
, Hebrew writer - Phoebus LevenePhoebus LevenePhoebus Aaron Theodore Levene, M.D. was a Russian-American biochemist who studied the structure and function of nucleic acids...
- Emmanuel LevinasEmmanuel LévinasEmmanuel Levinas was a Lithuanian-born French Jewish philosopher and Talmudic commentator.-Life:Emanuelis Levinas received a traditional Jewish education in Lithuania...
, philosopher - Isaac LevitanIsaac LevitanIsaac Ilyich Levitan was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".-Youth:...
, artist - Morris LichtensteinMorris LichtensteinMorris Lichtenstein was the founder of the Society of Jewish Science. Born in Lithuania, he later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he was ordained by the Reform Hebrew Union College in 1916, becoming the first Eastern European student to ever study at the institution.Lichtenstein served as a Rabbi...
, rabbi, founder of the Jewish ScienceJewish ScienceJewish Science is a Judaic spiritual movement comparable with the New Thought Movement. Many of its members also attend services at conventional synagogues.... - Jacques LipchitzJacques LipchitzJacques Lipchitz was a Cubist sculptor.Jacques Lipchitz was born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, son of a building contractor in Druskininkai, Lithuania, then within the Russian Empire...
, cubist sculptor - Jay LovestoneJay LovestoneJay Lovestone was at various times a member of the Socialist Party of America, a leader of the Communist Party USA, leader of a small oppositionist party, an anti-Communist and Central Intelligence Agency helper, and foreign policy advisor to the leadership of the AFL-CIO and various unions...
- Alexander Ziskind MaimonAlexander Ziskind MaimonAlexander Ziskind Maimon was a Jewish author and scholar of the Talmud and Mishnah.Maimon was born in Seirijai, Lithuania. His commentaries on biblical literature, Mishanah, Talmud and Halacha were publicized from his younger years and throughout his life...
- Abraham MapuAbraham MapuAbraham Mapu was a Lithuanian-born Hebrew novelist of the Haskalah movement. His novels later served as a basis for the Zionist movement.-Biography:...
, Hebrew novelist - Osip MandelstamOsip MandelstamOsip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets...
, poet librettist - Isser Zalman MeltzerIsser Zalman MeltzerIsser Zalman Meltzer, , was a famous Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi, rosh yeshiva and posek. He is also known as the "Even HaEzel" - the title of his commentary on Rambam's Mishne Torah....
- Harvey MilkHarvey MilkHarvey Bernard Milk was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors...
, USA gay politician - Hermann MinkowskiHermann MinkowskiHermann Minkowski was a German mathematician of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.- Life and work :Hermann Minkowski was born...
, mathematician - Oskar MinkowskiOskar MinkowskiOskar Minkowski He held a professor at at the University of Breslau and is most famous for his research on diabetes...
, physiologist - Mitchell ParishMitchell ParishMitchell Parish was an American lyricist.-Early life:Parish was born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States, arriving on February 3, 1901 on the SS Dresden when he was less than a year old...
(1900 – 1993) Lithuanian-born American lyricist - Abram RabinovichAbram RabinovichAbram Rabinovich was a Lithuanian–Russian chess master.-Biography:...
, chess player - Eduardas RozentalisEduardas RozentalisEduardas Rozentalis is a Lithuanian chess grandmaster.He played for the Lithuanian team at first board in seven Chess Olympiads in 1992–98, and 2002–06....
, chess player - Meyer SchapiroMeyer SchapiroMeyer Schapiro was a Lithuanian-born American art historian known for forging new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art...
, art historian - Alexander SchneiderAlexander SchneiderAlexander Schneider was a violinist, conductor, and educator. Born in Vilna, Lithuania, he later moved to the United States as a member of the Budapest Quartet.- Biography :...
, violinist & conductor - Ben ShahnBen ShahnBen Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.-Biography:...
, artist - Andrew W. Schally medicine Nobel Prize (1977)
- Lasar SegallLasar SegallThe artist Lasar Segall was a Brazilian Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor born in Lithuania. Segall's work is derived from impressionism, expressionism and modernism...
- Karl ShapiroKarl ShapiroKarl Jay Shapiro was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.-Biography:...
, poet (Lithuanian parents) - Yacov Shmuskevich Commander of Soviet Air Force
- Sam, LeeLee ShubertLevi "Lee" Shubert was a Polish-born American theatre owner/operator and producer and the oldest of seven siblings of the theatrical Shubert family....
& Jacob Shubert, theatre managers, producers (cf. Shubert Brothers) - Joe SlovoJoe SlovoFor Joe Slovo Informal Settlement in Cape Town, see: Joe Slovo .Joe Slovo was a South African politician, long-time leader of the South African Communist Party , and leading member of the African National Congress.-Life:Slovo was born in Obeliai, Lithuania to a Jewish family who emigrated to South...
, ANCAfrican National CongressThe African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...
activist - Elijah ben Solomon, rabbi, The Gaon of Vilna
- Helen SuzmanHelen SuzmanHelen Suzman, DBE was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician.-Biography:Helen Suzman, a life-long citizen of South Africa, was born as Helen Gavronsky in 1917 to Jewish immigrants....
, anti-apartheid MP (Lithuanian parents) - Arkadijus Vinokuras, writer, journalist, publicist, actor
- Isakas VistaneckisIsakas VistaneckisIsakas Vistaneckis , a Jewish chess master from Lithuania.-Biography:...
, chess player - Louis WashkanskyLouis WashkanskyLouis Washkansky was the recipient of the world's first human heart transplant.-Biography:Washkansky was a Lithuanian Jew who migrated with his friends to South Africa in 1922, aged nine, and became a grocer in Cape Town. Washkansky saw active service in World War II in East and North Africa and...
- Uriel WeinreichUriel WeinreichUriel Weinreich was a linguist at Columbia University. Born in Vilnius , he earned his Ph.D. from Columbia, and went on to teach there, specializing in Yiddish studies, sociolinguistics, and dialectology...
, linguist - David Wolfsohn Second President of World Zionist Organization
- Bluma ZeigarnikBluma ZeigarnikBluma Wulfovna Zeigarnik was a Soviet psychologist and psychiatrist, a member of Berlin School of experimental psychology and Vygotsky Circle...
- Emanuelis ZingerisEmanuelis ZingerisEmanuelis Zingeris is a Lithuanian philologist, museum director, politician, signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, currently serving as a Member of the Seimas , chairman of its foreign affairs committee , and Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of...
, politician - William ZorachWilliam ZorachWilliam Zorach was a Lithuanian-born American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer. He won the Logan Medal of the arts.-Life and career:...
, painter, sculptor & writer - Louis ZukofskyLouis ZukofskyLouis Zukofsky was an American poet. He was one of the founders and the primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets and thus an important influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.-Life:...
, poet (Lithuanian parents)
- See also LitvakLitvakLitvak may refer to:* Lithuanian Jews* Lithuanian Yiddish dialectPeople:* Anatole Litvak* Lydia Litvak...
/Littauer, Lithuanian JewsLithuanian JewsLithuanian Jews or Litvaks are Jews with roots in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania:...
, Kovno kollelKovno kollelThe Kovno Kollel also known as Kollel Perushim of Kovno or Kollel Knesses Beis Yitzchok, was a kollel located in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was founded in 1877 by Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter when he was 67....
Norway
- Christian B. AnfinsenChristian B. AnfinsenChristian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. was an American biochemist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation...
, chemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (Norwegian parents, convert) - Jo BenkowJo BenkowJo Benkow is a Norwegian politician and writer, notable for being an important person in the Conservative Party of Norway, and the President of the Parliament 1985-1993....
, parliament speaker - Leo EitingerLeo EitingerLeo Eitinger was a Holocaust survivor and Norwegian Psychiatrist who studied the late-onset psychological trauma experienced by people who went through separation and psychological pain early in life only to show traumatic experience decades later...
(b. in SlovakiaSlovakiaThe Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
), professor of Psychiatry at University of OsloUniversity of OsloThe University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...
and Holocaust survivor, known mainly for his work on late-onset psychological trauma amongst Holocaust survivors - Bente KahanBente KahanBente Kahan is a Norwegian solo vocalist best known for her renditions and productions of Yiddish folk music and plays....
, Yiddish singer and actress - Robert LevinRobert Levin (Norwegian pianist)Robert Levin was a Norwegian classical pianist and composer. Although he was an accomplished solo pianist and composer in his own right, Levin received international acclaim for his work as an accompanist with several of the world's most celebrated vocal and instrumental...
, 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 shtetlShtetlA shtetl was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in Central and Eastern Europe until The Holocaust. Shtetls were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and Romania...
environment - Berthold GrünfeldBerthold GrünfeldBerthold Grünfeld was a Norwegian psychiatrist, sexologist, and professor of social medicine at the University of Oslo. He was also a recognized expert in forensic psychiatry, often employed by Norwegian courts to examine insanity defense pleas.-Biography:Grünfeld was born in Bratislava in what...
, specialist in psychiatry, and professor in social medicine until 1993 - Joakim Krøvel, fashion photographer
Sweden
- Olof AschbergOlof AschbergOlof Aschberg was a Swedish banker and businessman. Aschberg was a leftist sympathizer and helped finance the Bolsheviks in Russia. In gratitude, the Bolshevik government allowed Aschberg to do business with Soviet Union during the 1920s...
, businessman - Robert AschbergRobert AschbergRobert Aschberg is a Swedish journalist and TV personality on TV3. Robert is the grandson of Olof Aschberg.-External links:...
, journalist - Amalia AssurAmalia AssurAmalia Assur was the first female dentist in Sweden.Amalia Assur was the daughter of the Jewish dentist Joel Assur, "one of the first dentists in Sweden". Assur was active as her fathers assistant, and her brother was also a dentist. In 1852, she was given special permission from the Royal Board...
, the first female dentist in Sweden - Lovisa AugustiLovisa AugustiLovisa Sofia Augusti, , was a Swedish opera singer. She was a court singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.- Biography :...
, opera singer - Jean-Pierre BardaJean-Pierre BardaJean-Pierre Barda is a Swedish singer, actor, make up artist and hair dresser of Algerian descent. He is most notable for being one of the founding members of the pop group Army of Lovers.- Early life :...
, musician - Mathilda BerwaldMathilda BerwaldMathilda Charlotta Berwald, née Cohn Mathilda Charlotta Berwald, née Cohn Mathilda Charlotta Berwald, née Cohn (9 March 1798 in Helsinki in Finland - 3 May 1877 in Stockholm, was a Finnish and Swedish concert singer. She was later appointed official singer (Hovsångare) of the Swedish royal court....
, née Cohn, musician - Sharon BezalySharon BezalySharon Bezaly is a flutist.Bezaly was born in Israel, but lives presently in Sweden. Her virtuosity has drawn comparisons to David Oistrakh and Vladimir Horowitz. She has been an international star since 1997, when she began her solo flute career. She made her solo debut at 14 with Zubin Mehta...
, flute soloist - Cordelia Edvardson, journalist
- Jerzy EinhornJerzy EinhornJerzy Einhorn was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician . His Hebrew name was Chil Josef, after his paternal grandfather....
, pathologist & politician - Herbert FelixHerbert FelixHerbert Felix was a Swedish entrepreneur of Austrian-Jewish descent and the founder of the food companies AB Felix and Felix Austria....
, entrepreneur - Josef FrankJosef Frank (architect)Josef Frank was an Austrian-born architect, artist, and designer who adopted Swedish citizenship in the latter half of his life. Together with Oskar Strnad, he created the Vienna School of Architecture, and its concept of Modern houses, housing and interiors.- Life :Josef Frank was of Jewish...
, architect & designer - Isaac GrünewaldIsaac GrünewaldIsaac Grünewald was a Swedish-Jewish expressionist painter born in Stockholm. He was the leading and central name in the first generation of Swedish modernists from 1910 up until his death in 1946, in other words during almost his entire career spanning four decades...
, artist - Lars GustafssonLars GustafssonLars Gustafsson is a Swedish, poet, novelist and scholar. He was born in Västerås, completed his secondary education at the Västerås gymnasium and continued to Uppsala University; he received his Licentiate degree in 1960 and was awarded his Ph.D. in Theoretical Philosophy in 1978. He lived in...
, writer & scholar - Johan HarmenbergJohan HarmenbergJohan Harmenberg is a Swedish epee fencer. Harmenberg completed two years of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, leaving his course early before returning to Sweden to pursue his fencing career.-Fencing career:He has won eight individual and/or team epee gold medals at...
, épée fencer - Eli HeckscherEli HeckscherEli Filip Heckscher was a Swedish political economist and economic historian.-Biography:...
, economist - Anya Jordanova, model. French/Swedish
- Erland JosephsonErland JosephsonErland Josephson is a Swedish actor and author. He is best known to international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Theodoros Angelopoulos.-Biography:...
, actor & writer - Ernst JosephsonErnst JosephsonErnst Josephson was a Swedish painter from a prominent Jewish family, whose main work was done on portraits and paintings of folk life....
, painter - Ragnar JosephsonRagnar JosephsonRagnar Josephson was a Swedish art historian and writer.Josephson was professor of art history at Lund University 1929-1957 and founder of the Archive for Decorative Art there...
, writer & art historian - Ernst Klein, publicist & politician
- Georg KleinGeorg KleinGeorg Klein is a composer, sound and video artist. He lives in Berlin.The artist Georg Klein mainly works in site-specific art in public space with sound, including light, texts and later also video...
, pathologist & writer - Oskar KleinOskar KleinOskar Benjamin Klein was a Swedish theoretical physicist.Klein was born in Danderyd outside Stockholm, son of the chief rabbi of Stockholm, Dr. Gottlieb Klein from Homonna in Hungary and Antonie Levy...
, physicist - Lennart Levi, biomedical researcher
- Oscar LevertinOscar LevertinOscar Ivar Levertin was a Swedish poet, critic and literary historian. Levertin was a dominant voice of the Swedish cultural scene from 1897, when he started writing influential high-profile essays and reviews in the daily paper Svenska Dagbladet...
, poet & literary historian - Jerzy SarneckiJerzy SarneckiJerzy Sarnecki is a professor in criminology at Stockholm University, Sweden.Sarnecki was born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, Poland. He is a trained surveyor in Poland and came to Sweden together with his family in 1968, following the 1968 antisemitic purges. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology at...
, journalist - Rudolf MeidnerRudolf MeidnerRudolf Alfred Meidner was a Swedish economist.Son of Alfred Meidner and Elise Bandmann. Being Jewish and a Socialist he was forced to flee Nazi Germany after the Reichstag fire in Berlin 1933. In 1937 he was married to Ella Jörgenssen...
, economist - David Muhlrad, male model
- Hanna Pauli, painter
- Dominika PeczynskiDominika PeczynskiDominika Peczynski is a Swedish singer, model and television host.- Early life :Dominika Maria Peczynski was born September 20, 1970 in Warsaw, Poland, to Russian Jewish mother Tina and Polish father. She lived in Poland until she was seven years old and moved to Stockholm. Dominika has a...
, musician - Alexandra RapaportAlexandra RapaportAlexandra Rapaport is a Swedish film and stage actress born in Bromma. She has studied at Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm from where she graduated in 1997.Her parents are from Poland.-Filmography :*Ellinors bröllop...
, actress - Marcel RieszMarcel RieszMarcel Riesz was a Hungarian mathematician who was born in Győr, Hungary . He moved to Sweden in 1908 and spent the rest of his life there, dying in Lund, where he was a professor from 1926 at Lund University...
, mathematician - Göran Rosenberg, journalist
- Nelly SachsNelly SachsNelly Sachs was a Jewish German poet and playwright whose experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokeswoman for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews...
, poet, Nobel Prize (1966) - Harry ScheinHarry ScheinHarry Schein was an Austrian born Swedish writer and a major figure in Swedish culture. Schein was a founder of the Swedish Film Institute and acted as its first Managing Director from 1963 to 1978....
, writer & culture personality - Leif SilberskyLeif SilberskyLeif Silbersky is a well-known Swedish lawyer and author, living in Stockholm.He is notable for taking many high-profile cases which have enjoyed large media attention, making him one of the most noted lawyers in Sweden....
, lawyer & author - Sara SommerfeldSara SommerfeldSara Anita Sommerfeld is a Swedish actress.Sara Sommerfeld was born in Sollentuna north of Stockholm. Her parents are Polish-Jewish immigrants who came to Sweden in 1968. Sara Sommerfeld started as a child actress at the age of ten...
, actress - Mauritz StillerMauritz StillerMauritz Stiller was a Finnish-Swedish actor, screenwriter and silent film director, who was mostly active in Sweden.-Life:...
, director - Marcus StorchMarcus StorchMarcus Storch is a Swedish industrialist. He received an engineering degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm....
, industrialist - Peter WeissPeter WeissPeter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance....
, dramatist & writer
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 ScotlandHistory of the Jews in ScotlandThe earliest date at which Jews arrived in Scotland is not known. It is possible that some arrived, or at least visited, as a result of the Roman Empire's conquest of southern Great Britain, but there is no direct evidence for this...