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Until
the Holocaust ,
Jews were a significant part of the population of
Eastern Europe . Outside
Poland , the largest population was in the European part of the
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.
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 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