LIST OF WEST EUROPEAN JEWS

Apart from France, established Jewish populations exist in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. With the original medieval populations wiped out by the Black Death and the pogroms that followed it, the current Dutch and Belgian communities originate in the Jewish expulsion from Spain and Portugal, while a Swiss community was only established after emancipation in 1874. However, the vast majority of the population in the Netherlands and a large proportion of the one in Belgium were killed in the Holocaust, and much of the modern Jewish population of these countries (as well as of Germany and Switzerland) derives from post-Holocaust arrivals from Eastern Europe, Germany with an estimated Jewish population of more than half a million, 100 000 of which are officially affiliated with orthodox synagogues, 20 000 with "liberal Judaism", and the rest unaffiliated, is, due to recent immigration from Russia, now the fastest growing Jewish community in the world besides the State of Israel. Here is a list of some prominent West European Jews, arranged by country of origin.

Contents

Austria

Belgium

France

Germany

Ireland

Italy

Political figures

Religious and communal leaders

Academics

Musicians

Writers

Artists

Business

Other

Luxembourg

Monaco

Netherlands

Political figures

Academics

Rabbis

Musicians

Writers (and notable Jews mentioned by them in their works)

Artists

Actors

Business

Sports people

Portugal

Spain

Switzerland

United Kingdom

Notes

See also

Footnotes

Austria

Main articles: List of Austrian Jews

Belgium

★ Chantal Akerman, director-screenwriter

★ Saul Akkemay, publicist-journalist

★ Paul Ambach (''Boogie Boy''), musician and concert organizer

★ Zora Arkus-Duntov, father of the Chevrolet Corvette (Belgian-born)

★ Lt-General Louis Bernheim, WWI General

★ Gérard Blitz, Olympic water polo medallist, co-founder of Club Med

★ Gustave Cohen, essay writer

★ Fred Erdman, politician

★ Leopold Flam, philosopher

★ Louis Franck, politician

★ Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer

★ André Gantman, politician

★ Paul Glansdorff, molecular biologist

★ Jean Gol, politician

★ Robert Goldschmidt, wetenschapper

★ Estelle Goldstein, journalist

★ Nico Gunzburg, professor

★ Camille Gutt, finance minister; head of the IMF

★ Paul Hymans, liberal leader; president of the League of Nations

★ Nathan Kahane, athlete

★ René Kalisky, writer

★ George Koltanowski, chess player

★ Baron Léon Lambert, banker

★ Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist (Belgian-born; atheist of Jewish descent)

★ Alfred Lowenstein, financier (Jewish mother)

★ Ernest Mandel, marxist theorist

★ Arie Mandelbaum, painter

★ Stephane Mandelbaum, painter-artist

★ Claude Marinower, politician

★ Bob Mendes, writer (Jewish father)

★ Ralph Miliband, political scientist [1]

★ Chaim Perelman, philosopher (Polish-born)

★ Maurits Polak, activist

★ Ilya Prigogine, chemist (Russian-born), Nobel Prize (1977)

★ Henry Spira, animal rights activist

★ Elias M. Stein, mathematician (Belgian-born)

★ Edna Stern, pianist (both Belgium and Israeli)

★ Gilbert Stork, chemist

★ Olivier Strelli, fashion designer

★ Guy Lee Thys, film director (Jewish mother)

★ Raymond van het Groenewoud, singer-songwriter (Jewish mother)

★ Ida Wasserman, actress

★ Sandra Wasserman, tennis player

France

Main articles: List of French Jews

Germany

Main articles: List of German Jews

Ireland

★ William Annyas, Mayor of Youghal

★ Thomas John Barnardo, philanthropist (Jewish father)

★ Henri Bergson, philosopher (Anglo-Irish mother)

★ Agnes Bernelle, entertainer

★ Robert Briscoe, member of the Irish Republican Army during the Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War, and twice Lord Mayor of Dublin, in 1956 and 1961

★ Ben Briscoe T.D., Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1988 (and son of Robert)

★ Daniel Day-Lewis, actor (Jewish mother)

★ Gerald Goldberg, lord mayor of Cork

★ Chaim Herzog, Israeli president

★ Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog first Chief Rabbi of Ireland (and father of Chaim)

★ Sir Otto Jaffe, Lord Mayor of Belfast 1899 and 1904

★ Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1949 and 1958 and later British Chief Rabbi

★ Isaac Leon Kandel

★ Louis Lentin, Director - Documentary Films, Television & Theatre

★ David Marcus, author, editor, broadcaster and lifelong supporter of Irish-language fiction

★ Sam Obernik, singer

★ Alan Shatter, Fine Gael politician

★ Mervyn Taylor, former Irish Labour Party politician

★ Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, founder of Harland and Wolff and MP for East Belfast

Italy

Political figures

★ Anna Kuliscioff, revolutionary feminist

★ Luigi Luzzatti, Italian Prime Minister (1910-1911)

★ Daniele Manin, President of the Venetian republic (1848) (Jewish father convert)

★ Margherita Sarfatti, journalist & mistress of Mussolini

★ Sydney Sonnino, Italian Prime Minister (1906 1909-10) (Jewish father)

★ Vittorio Foa, socialist trade unionist

Religious and communal leaders

★ Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain

★ Umberto Cassuto, rabbi

★ Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, rabbi, scholar, mystic

★ Raphael Meldola, rabbi

★ David Nieto, rabbi

★ Riccardo Pacifici, rabbi

★ Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, rabbi, philosopher

★ Elio Toaff, rabbi and chief of Italian Jews Community

★ Tobia Zevi, president of Young Italian Jews association

Academics

★ pedigree of Azzopardi

★ Faraj ben Salim, physician

★ Caecilius of Calacte, rhetorician

★ Eugenio Calabi, mathematician

★ Laura Capón, physicist; married to non-Jew Enrico Fermi

★ Guido Castelnuovo, mathematician

★ Federigo Enriques, mathematician

★ Gino Fano, mathematician

★ Robert Fano, physicist

★ Ugo Fano, physicist^[1]

★ Guido Fubini, mathematician

★ Carlo Ginzburg, historian

★ Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, physicist (Jewish father)

★ Tullio Levi-Civita, mathematician

★ Giorgio Levi della Vida

★ Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)

★ Cesare Lombroso, criminologist

★ Salvador Luria, microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1969)

★ Gino Luzzatto, economical historian

★ Samuel David Luzzatto

★ Franco Modigliani, economist, Nobel Prize (1985)

★ Arnaldo Momigliano, Italian-born historian (Jewish Year Book 1985 p188)

★ pedigree of Pontecorvo

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★ Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist

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★ Guido Pontecorvo, geneticist

★ Giulio Racah, physicist

★ Bruno Rossi, astrophysicist

★ Emilio Segrè, physicist, Nobel Prize (1959)

★ pedigree of Sforno

★ Piero Sraffa, economist

★ Ariel Toaff

★ Andrew Viterbi, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm

★ Vito Volterra, mathematician

Musicians

★ Mario Ancona, baritone

★ Alvise Bassano, musician [2]

★ Anthony Bassano, musician [3]

★ Baptista Bassano, musician [4]

★ Jeronimo Bassano, musician [5]

★ Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, guitar, synagogal music composer

★ Giacobbe Cervetto, cellist ^[2]

★ Lorenzo Da Ponte, opera librettist

★ Abramino dall'Arpa, harpist

★ Salamone Rossi, baroque composer

★ Victor de Sabata, conductor (Jewish mother)

★ Liliana Treves Alcalay, musician

Writers

★ Enrico Castelnuovo, father of Guido

★ Giorgio Bassani, author

★ Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist (born Jewish, raised Catholic)

★ Alain Elkann, writer and journalist, father of John and Lapo

★ Leone Ginzburg, writer (born in Ukraine)

★ Natalia Ginzburg (b. Levi), author (Jewish father), wife of Leone and mother of Carlo

★ Carlo Levi, writer, painter & physician

★ Primo Levi, chemist and author

★ Carlo Michelstaedter

★ Paolo Milano, author

★ Alberto Moravia (b.Pinchrele), author (Jewish father)

★ Umberto Saba, poet (single Jewish mother)

★ Clara Sereni, writer

★ Italo Svevo (b. Schmitz), author (Jewish mother)

★ Humbert Wolfe, poet and civil servant ^[3]

Artists

★ Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor

★ Frank Horvat, fashion photographer

★ Carlo Levi, painter and writer

★ Gabriele Levy, sculptor. painter and writer

★ Leo Lionni

★ Moni Ovadia, theatre figure

★ Gillo Pontecorvo, director

★ Bruno Zevi, architect

Business

★ Nancy Dell'Olio, lawyer and partner of Sven Goran Eriksson ^[4]

★ the pedigree of Elkann

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★ John & Lapo Elkann, Vice Chairman of Fiat (Jewish father)

★ Armand, Georges, Maurice & Paul Marciano, founders of GUESS [6]

★ Moses Haim Montefiore, financier & philanthropist

★ Adriano Olivetti, son of Camillo, industrialist and social activist

★ Camillo Olivetti, founder of Olivetti typewriters

Other

★ Edgardo Mortara, boy kidnapped by Catholic Papal authorities

★ pedigree of Rappaport

★ pedigree of Castelnuovo

★ Enzo Sereni

★ Eugenio Calò, a Jewish partisan awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valour

Luxembourg

★ Hugo Gernsback, science-fiction pioneer (''unconfirmed'')

★ Emil Hirsch, reform rabbi

★ Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist (Luxembourg-born)

★ Arno Joseph Mayer, historian

Monaco

★ Franz Schreker, composer (Jewish father)

Netherlands

Political figures

★ Job Cohen, mayor of Amsterdam

★ Samuel Gompers, labor union leader (Dutch parents)

★ Ed van Thijn, former mayor of Amsterdam, senator

★ Henri Polak, founder of diamond workers' trade union

★ Wim Polak, former mayor of Amsterdam

★ Ivo Samkalden, former mayor of Amsterdam (Jewish father)

Academics

★ Tobias Michael Carel Asser, jurist, Nobel Peace Prize (1911). Entry in the Jewish Encyclopedia

★ Alfred Ayer, philosopher (Dutch mother)

★ Kurt Baschwitz

★ Balthazar (Isaac) Orobio de Castro, philosopher

★ Samuel Goudsmit, physicist

★ Hendrik S. Houthakker, economist [7]

★ Rita Kohnstamm

★ Izaak Kolthoff, chemist

★ Abraham Pais, historian of science

★ David Ricardo, economist (British with Dutch parents; rejected Jewish beliefs, became Quaker)

★ Samuel Sarphati, physician, city planner

★ Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (excommunicated from the Jewish community for apostasy

★ Bob Pinedo, oncologist

Rabbis

★ Jacob Abendana, rabbi and scholar

★ Rabbi Naftali Hertz Ben Ya’acov Elchanon

★ Manasseh ben Israel, rabbi and influential scholar

Musicians

★ Frieda Belinfante, conductor (Jewish father)

★ Bart Berman, pianist (Jewish mother)

★ Henriëtte Bosmans, composer (Jewish mother)

★ Julia Culp, mezzosoprano

★ Lenny Kuhr, singer/composer (converted)

★ Bertus van Lier, composer (Jewish father)

★ Leo Smit, composer

★ Rosa Spier, harpist

★ Marjo Tal, composer

Writers (and notable Jews mentioned by them in their works)

''See also List of Dutch Jewish writers and poets''

★ Anne Frank, diarist (de facto Netherlands, de jure stateless, born in Germany)

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★ Anne Frank mentioned the following who were in hiding with her: Otto Frank, Peter van Pels, Hermann van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Edith Frank, Fritz Pfeffer, and Margot Frank.

★ Jacob Israël de Haan, poet

★ Etty Hillesum, writer

★ Harry Mulisch, author (Jewish mother)

★ Leon de Winter, author

★ Arnon Grunberg, author

★ Marga Minco, author

★ Carry van Bruggen, author

★ Josepha Mendels, author

★ Hanny Michaelis, poet

★ Jessica Durlacher, author

★ Gerard Durlacher, author

★ Jona Oberski, author

Artists

★ Jozef Israëls, painter

★ Isaac Israëls, painter

★ Monnickendam, painter

★ Max Bueno de Mesquita, painter

★ Mendes da Costa, sculptor

Actors

★ Julia Levy-Boeken, actress (Dutch father, French mother of distant German ancestry)

★ Sarah Bernardt, actress

Business

★ Solomon de Medina, Army contractor

★ Van den Bergh family, founders of Unilever

Sports people

★ Carina Benninga, field hockey player, Olympic flag bearer

★ Tom Okker, tennis player (Jewish father)

★ Sjaak Swart, Ajax footballer (Jewish father)

★ Bennie Muller, Ajax footballer 60s (Jewish father)

★ Daniël de Ridder (1984 - ) Celta de Vigo footballer^[5] (Jewish mother)

★ Stella Blits-Agsteribbe, gymnast

★ Anna Dresden-Polak, gymnast

★ Lea Kloot-Nordheim, gymnast

★ Elka de Levie, gymnast

★ Judikje Themans-Simons, gymnast

Portugal

Main articles: List of Iberian Jews

Spain

Main articles: List of Iberian Jews

Switzerland

★ Maurice Abravanel, conductor

★ Jeff Agoos, US soccer international

★ Ernest Bloch, composer

★ Felix Bloch, physicist, Nobel Prize (1952)

★ Alain de Botton, writer

★ John M. Brunswick, founder of the Brunswick Corporation

★ Albert Cohen, novelist

★ Arthur Cohn, film producer

★ Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss president (1999)

★ Camille & Henry Dreyfus, inventors of Celanese

★ Al Dubin, lyricist

★ Jean Dunand-Gotscho, sculptor, painter, lacquerer (Jewish mother)

★ Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize (1921)

★ Edmond Fischer, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992) (Jewish father)

★ Robert Frank, photographer

★ Florence Guggenheim-Grünberg, Yiddish linguist

★ Meyer Guggenheim, businessman

★ Judith Lewish Herman

★ Jeanne Hersch, philosopher

★ Mathilde Krim, AIDS researcher (convert)

★ Dani Levy (1957 - ) film maker, theatrical director and actor^[6]

★ Meret Oppenheim, surrealist artist

★ Rachel, stage actress (Swiss-born)

★ Tadeus Reichstein, chemist, Nobel Prize (1950)

★ Edmond Safra, banker

★ Jean Starobinski, literary critic

★ Sigismond Thalberg, pianist, composer

★ Regina Ullmann, poet

★ Charles Weissmann, biochemist

★ Alain & Gerard Wertheimer, owners of Chanel [9]

United Kingdom

★ List of British Jews

★ List of Scottish Jews

Notes

Of the 12 members of the 1928 Olympics Dutch Women's Gymnastics Team – the first ever women's gymnastics gold medalists – 5 were Jewish. All but Levie were murdered in the Holocaust.

See also

★ List of Jews

★ List of Belgians

★ List of Dutch people

★ List of Irish people

★ List of Luxembourgeois

★ List of Monegasque people

★ List of Swiss people

Footnotes

1. Obituary class=wikiexternal target=_blank>in ''Nature'' "A member of a wealthy Italian Jewish family" Accessed 24 Nov 2006.
2. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "an Italian Jew"
3. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born Umberto Wolff in Milan of Jewish parentage"
4. Jewish Chronicle, March 16, 2007 p.36: "Nancy Dell'Olio is the ultimate Jewish princess"
5. [8]' de Ridder' - "he netted a Ajax's only goal in the Champions League game at Maccabi Tel Aviv, which Ajax lost in dramatic fashion. That fixture was a special one for De Ridder, who is Jewish and has an Israeli mother."
6. A farcical attack on Hitler taboos Jeffrey Fleishman