List of East European Jews
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Until
USSR, especially Ukraine (1.5 million in the 1930s), but major populations also existed in Hungary, Romania, and Czechoslovakia
. Here are lists of some prominent East European Jews, arranged by country of origin.
- List of Czech, Bohemian, Moravian, and Slovak Jews
- List of Hungarian Jews
- List of Polish Jews
- List of Romanian Jews
- List of Belarusian Jews
- List of Ukrainian Jews
- List of Jews born in the former Russian Empire (and the former Soviet Union)
Azerbaijan
- Max Black, philosopher
- Misha Black, designer; brother of Max Black
- Bella Davidovich, pianist
- Gavril Abramovich Ilizarov, Soviet physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus
- Garry Kasparov, world chess champion of Jewish-Armenian descent
- Lev Landau, physicist, Nobel Prize (1962)
- Lev Nussimbaum, writer (a.k.a. Kurban Said)
- Vladimir Rokhlin, mathematician
Moldova (formerly Bessarabia)
- Lev Simonovich Berg, geographer & zoologist
- Jacob Bernstein-Kogan
- Gary Bertini, conductor
- Bronfman family
- Samuel Bronfman, founder of Seagram
- Samuel Cohen, composer of Hatikvah
- I. A. L. Diamond, comedy writer
- Meir Dizengoff, politician
- Giora Feidman, musician
- William F. Friedman, cryptographer
- A. N. Frumkin, electrochemist
- Mikhail Gershenzon, historian
- Bianna Golodryga, journalist
- Nachum Gutman, painter
- Idel Ianchelevici, sculptor
- Mona May Karff, chess player
- Boris Katz, artificial intelligence researcher
- Gary Koshnitsky, chess player
- Abba Ptachya Lerner, economist
- Avigdor Lieberman, politician
- Oleg Maisenberg, concert pianist
- Lewis Milestone, director
- Sigmund Mogulesko, singer, actor, composer
- Sacha Moldovan, painter
- Moishe Oysher, Yiddish singer
- Boris Polak (born 1954), Israeli world champion and Olympic sport shooter
- Mendel Portugali, An Hashomer founder
- Sir Michael Postan, historian
- Anton Rubinstein, pianist
- Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick, rabbi
- Volodia Teitelboim
- Andy Zaltzman, British comedian
- Mark Zeltser, concert pianist
- Meir Zorea, general in the Israel Defense Forces
Slovakia
- Joseph Goldberger, discovered cure for pellagra
- Juraj Herz, actor and film director
- Ignác Kolisch, chess player
- Peter Lorre, actor
- Robert Maxwell, media mogul
- Ivan Reitman, film director
- Richard Réti, chess player
- Herman Steiner, chess player
- Rudolf Vrba, coauthor of the Vrba–Wetzler report, chemist
- Alfred Wetzler, writer
See also
- List of Galician Jews
- List of Sephardic Jews