List of West European Jews

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Apart from France, established Jewish populations exist in the Netherlands, Belgium, 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 Switzerland) derives from post-Holocaust arrivals from Eastern Europe. Here is a list of some prominent West European Jews, arranged by country of origin.

Contents

[edit] Austria

Main article: List of Austrian Jews

[edit] Belgium

[edit] France

Main article: List of French Jews

[edit] Germany

Main article: List of German Jews

[edit] Ireland

[edit] Italy

[edit] Political figures

[edit] Academics

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Writers

[edit] Artists

[edit] Business

[edit] Other

[edit] Luxembourg

[edit] Monaco

[edit] Netherlands

[edit] Political figures

[edit] Academics

[edit] Rabbis

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Writers

[edit] Artists

[edit] Actors

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

[edit] Business

[edit] Sports people

[edit] Portugal

Main article: List of Iberian Jews

[edit] Spain

Main article: List of Iberian Jews

[edit] Switzerland

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6825/full/410164a0.html Obituary in Nature] "A member of a wealthy Italian Jewish family" Accessed 24 Nov 2006.
  2. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "an Italian Jew"
  3. ^ [1] 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."
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