List of Galician (Eastern Europe) Jews
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List of Galicia (Eastern Europe) Jews –
Austro-Hungarian
citizens.
Religious figures
- Eliezer Adler, founder of the Jewish Community in Gateshead, England
- Yosef Babad
- Josef Samuel Bloch
- Zvi Hirsch Chajes
- Elimelech of Lizhensk
- Jacob Frank, Jewish messianic claimant who combined Judaism and Christianity
- Ben Zion Halberstam, second Rebbe of Bobov
- Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
- Naftali Halberstam, fourth Rebbe of Bobov
- Shlomo Halberstam, first Rebbe of Bobov
- Arthur Hertzberg
- Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov
- Nachman Krochmal
- Hirschel Levin, Chief Rabbi at London and Berlin
- Roza Pomerantz-Meltzer (1861–1934), writer, Zionist, women's rights activist
- Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport(Shir)
- Shalom Rokeach, first Rebbe of Belz (Hasidic dynasty)
- Yehoshua Rokeach, second Rebbe of Belz
- Yissachar Dov Rokeach, third Rebbe of Belz
- Aharon Rokeach, fourth Rebbe of Belz
- Malka Rokeach, first rebbetzin of Belz
- Mordechai Rokeach, Rav of Bilgoray
- Sholom Mordechai Schwadron
- Meir Shapiro, Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva
- Dov Berish Weidenfeld
- Mendel Weinbach (1933–2012), rosh yeshiva, Yeshivas Ohr Somayach[1]
- Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome, converted to Christianity
Political figures
- Muhammad Asad, Jewish religious writer who converted to Islam, Pakistani diplomat
- Isaac Deutscher, Polish-British political activist and historian
- Abba Hushi, Israeli mayor of Haifa
- Julian Klaczko, Polish-Austrian politician
- František Kriegel, Czechoslovak politician
- Walter Krivitsky, Soviet spy
- Manfred Lachs, Polish diplomat and jurist
- Pinhas Lavon, Israeli politician
- Herman Lieberman, Polish socialist politician
- Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician
- Jakob Rosenfeld, Chinese general
- Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish foreign affairs minister
- Dov Sadan, Israeli academic and politician
- Eliot Spitzer, former Governor of New York, Attorney General of New York
- Józef Światło, Polish intelligence officer
- Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy
- Shevah Weiss, Israeli speaker of the Kneset
- Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis
- Grigory Yavlinsky, Russian politician
Academics
- Szymon Askenazy
- Herman Auerbach
- Meir Balaban
- Georges Charpak
- Józef Feldman
- Sigmund Freud, born to Galician Jewish parents in Příbor (Moravia, then Austrian Empire)
- Henryk Grossman
- Roald Hoffmann
- Leopold Infeld
- Ludwig von Mises
- Richard von Mises
- Lewis Bernstein Namier
- Jakub Karol Parnas
- Simhah Pinsker
- Isidor Isaac Rabi
- Wilhelm Reich, psychologist [2]
- Jakob Rosanes
- Manfred Sakel
- Juliusz Schauder
- Hugo Steinhaus
- Adam Ulam
- Stanisław Ulam
- Michael Zohary
Cultural figures
- Harry Abend
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
- Mordecai Ardon
- Emanuel Ax
- Erwin Axer
- Adolph Baller
- Salo Wittmayer Baron
- Chris Barron, lead singer of the Spin Doctors
- Leah Bergstein (1902–1989), choreographer
- Naftule Brandwein
- Berl Broder
- Mel Brooks
- Martin Buber
- Solomon Buber
- Michael Dorfman
- Isaac Erter
- Reuven Fahn
- Emanuel Feuermann
- Karl Emil Franzos
- Ignaz Friedman
- Mordechai Gebirtig
- Maurycy Gottlieb
- Chaim Gross
- Nina Hartley
- Marian Hemar
- Jerzy Hoffman
- Moses Horowitz
- Naftali Herz Imber
- Tadeusz Kantor
- Stanisław Jerzy Lec
- Stanisław Lem
- Janusz Morgenstern
- Soma Morgenstern
- Arthur Murray
- Andrzej Munk
- Ostap Ortwin
- Teodor Parnicki
- Erna Rosenstein
- Henry Roth
- Joseph Roth
- Samuel Roth
- Heinrich Schenker
- Bruno Schulz
- Nissan Spivak
- Lee Strasberg
- Barbra Streisand
- Julian Stryjkowski
- Leopold Unger
- Billy Wilder
- David L. Wolper
- Samuel Yellin
- Velvel Zbarjer
Chess players
- Izak Aloni, born in Lviv
- Alexander Beliavsky, born in Lviv
- Oscar Chajes, born in Brody
- Arthur Dunkelblum, born in Kraków
- Salo Flohr, born in Horodenka
- Henryk Friedman, lived in Lviv
- Edward Gerstenfeld, born in Lviv
- Max Judd, born in Kraków
- Salo Landau, born in Bochnia
- Menachem Oren, lived in Kraków
- Oskar Piotrowski, lived in Lviv
- Jakob Rosanes, born in Brody
- Leon Stolzenberg, lived in Ternopil
- Oscar Tenner, born in Lviv
- Daniel Yanofsky, born in Brody
Others
- Arthur F. Burns, American economist
- Amalia Freud, mother of Sigmund Freud
- Mikhail Fridman, Russian businessman
- Gideon Hausner, Israeli jurist
- Józef Klotz, Polish footballer (soccer)
- Hersch Lauterpacht, British judge
- Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, inventor of the transistor
- Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics industrialist
See also
- Galicia (Eastern Europe)
- Hasidic Judaism
- History of the Jews in Poland
- History of the Jews in Ukraine
- Lists of Jews
- List of Poles
- List of Polish Jews
- List of Ukrainians
- List of Ukrainian Jews
- List of people from Galicia (modern period)
References
- ^ Sever, Yechiel (13 December 2012). "NEWS: HaRav Mendel Weinbach zt"l". Dei'ah VeDibur. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
- ^ "The Wilhelm Reich Story by John-Michael Battaglia". Archived from the original on 2007-02-27. Retrieved 2007-02-07.