List of East European Jews
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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.
(Note: Baltic and Balkan Jews are on different lists.)
- List of Czech, Bohemian, Moravian and Slovak Jews
- List of Hungarian Jews
- List of Polish Jews
- List of Romanian Jews
- List of Jews from the Soviet Union
[edit] Moldova (formerly Bessarabia)
- Lev Simonovich Berg, geographer & zoologist
- Gary Bertini, conductor
- Bronfman family
- Samuel Bronfman, founder of Seagram
- Samuel Cohen (composer), composer of hatTiqwah
- I. A. L. Diamond, comedy writer
- Meir Dizengoff, politician
- William F. Friedman, cryptographer
- A. N. Frumkin, electrochemist
- Mikhail Gershenzon, historian
- Nahum Gutman, painter
- Idel Ianchelevici, sculptor
- Lazar Dubinovski, painter
- Boris Katz, artificial intelligence researcher
- Abba Ptachya Lerner, economist
- Avigdor Liberman, politician
- Lewis Milestone, director
- Sigmund Mogulesko, singer, actor, composer
- Sacha Moldovan, painter
- Moishe Oysher, yiddish singer
- Sir Michael Postan, historian
- Anton Rubinstein, pianist
- Andy Zaltzman, British comedian
- Meir Zorea, general in the Israel Defense Forces
[edit] Slovakia
- Joseph Goldberger, discovered cure for pellagra
- John Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab & Hertz (unconfirmed)
- Peter Lorre, actor
- Robert Maxwell, media mogul
- Ivan Reitman, film director
- Richard Réti, chess player
