List of German Jews

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The Jewish presence in Germany, at over 1600 years old, is almost as old as Christianity. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the appearance of Yiddish and an overall move eastwards (though Jews never fully abandoned Germany). A change of status in the 17th century, combined with the Jewish Enlightenment – the Haskalah – meant that by the 1920s Germany had one of the most integrated Jewish populations in Europe, comprising over 500,000 people, and contributing prominently to German culture and society. The vast majority either left the country or were killed in the Holocaust, and the current German Jewish population consists primarily of immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

The following is a list of some famous German Jews. Note that the list includes people of Jewish faith, Ashkenazi culture, and/or Jewish ancestry. Also note that the idea of German nationality, is rather broad, due to the many Germanic tribes, Jewish assimilation into Germany, and separate German ruled states through the history of Europe. Therefore, the same set of people could at times be referred to as Germans, Jews, or German Jews alike.

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[edit] Historical figures

[edit] Politicians

[edit] Activists

[edit] Religious figures

[edit] Rabbis

[edit] Scholars

[edit] Other

[edit] Scientists

[edit] Physicists

[edit] Chemists

[edit] Biologists, physicians

[edit] Mathematicians

[edit] Computer scientists

[edit] Engineers

[edit] Psychologists

[edit] Academic figures

[edit] Philosophers

[edit] Social Scientists

[edit] Historians

[edit] Jurists

[edit] Linguists

[edit] Cultural figures

[edit] Showbusiness

[edit] Composers

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Artists

[edit] Writers

[edit] Media

Gerhardt Löwenthal important right-wing TV personality

Josef Joffe co-publisher of Die Zeit

[edit] Entrepreneurs

See also Court Jews

[edit] Sports

[edit] Literature

  • Walter Tetzlaff, ed. "2000 Kurzbiographien bedeutender deutscher Juden des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Lindhorst: Askania, 1982).

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Jewish Encyclopedia
  2. ^ [1] "Grothendieck's father was a Russian Jew surnamed Shapiro and his mother a German Jewish woman named Hanka Grothendieck" but it quotes a source that says "...and that his mother was Johanna (Hanka) Grothendieck, a German Lutheran from Hamburg."
  3. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica art. Sternberg, Kurt
  4. ^ "Portrait of Balder's family in German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost, in German", [2] "Hugo Egon's mother was a Jewess. And since according to Jewish law each child of a Jewess is also Jewish, Hugo Egon was naturally Jewish, although his father was Catholic." (translated)
  5. ^ [3][4][5];
    Jewish Chronicle October 8, 1999 p.1 "Boris Becker has spoken publicly for the first time about his Jewish background. The former World number one told Inside Tennis magazine that his Jewish mother had lived in a tent after the Second World War"
    "The Half-Jewish Book: A Celebration" by Daniel Klein and Freke Vuijst, reviewed at Amazon (review accessed 27 october 2006).
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