List of Galician Jews
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This a list of Galician Jews - Jews born in Galicia or identifying themselves as Galitzianer
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[edit] Religious figures
- Yosef Babad
- Martin Buber
- Zvi Hirsch Chajes
- Elimelech of Lizhensk
- Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov)
- Jacob Frank, Jewish messianic claimant who combined Judaism and Christianity
- Ben Zion Halberstam (I)
- Chaim Halberstam
- Naftali Tzvi Halberstam, Hassidic Grant Rebbe of Bobov
- Shlomo Halberstam (I)
- Arthur Hertzberg
- Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov
- Nachman Krochmal
- Hirschel Levin, Chief Rabbi at London and Berlin
- Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport (Shir)
- Shalom Rokeach, first Rebbe of Belz (Hasidic dynasty)
- Yehoshua Rokeach, second Rebbe of Belz
- Yissachar Dov Rokeach (I), third Rebbe of Belz
- Aharon Rokeach, fourth Rebbe of Belz
- Meir Shapiro, Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva
- Dov Berish Weidenfeld
- Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome, converted to Christianity
[edit] Political figures
- Muhammad Asad, Jewish religious writer who converted to Islam, Pakistani diplomat
- Isaac Deutscher, Polish-British political activist and historian
- Abba Hushi, Israeli mayor of Haifa
- Julian Klaczko, Polish-Austrian politician
- Manfred Lachs, Polish diplomat and jurist
- Pinhas Lavon, Israeli politician
- Herman Lieberman, Polish socialist politician
- Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician
- Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish foreign affairs minister
- Shevah Weiss, Israeli speaker of the Kneset
- Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis
- Grigory Yavlinsky, Russian politician
[edit] Academics
- Szymon Askenazy
- Herman Auerbach
- Meir Balaban
- Georges Charpak
- Sigmund Freud
- Henryk Grossman
- Roald Hoffmann
- Leopold Infeld
- Ludwig von Mises
- Richard von Mises
- Lewis Bernstein Namier
- Jakub Karol Parnas
- Isidor Isaac Rabi
- Wilhelm Reich, psychologist [1]
- Jakob Rosanes
- Manfred Sakel
- Juliusz Schauder
- Hugo Steinhaus
- Adam Ulam
- Stanisław Ulam
[edit] Cultural figures
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
- Mordecai Ardon
- Emanuel Ax
- Adolph Baller
- Salo Wittmayer Baron
- Martin Buber
- Solomon Buber
- Michael Dorfman
- Isaac Erter
- Emanuel Feuermann
- Karl Emil Franzos
- Ignaz Friedman
- Mordechai Gebirtig
- Maurycy Gottlieb
- Chaim Gross
- Marian Hemar
- Jerzy Hoffman
- Moses Horowitz
- Naftali Herz Imber
- Tadeusz Kantor
- Stanisław Jerzy Lec
- Stanisław Lem
- Andrzej Munk
- Teodor Parnicki
- Erna Rosenstein
- Henry Roth
- Joseph Roth
- Bruno Schulz
- Nissan Spivak
- Lee Strasberg
- Julian Stryjkowski
- Billy Wilder
- Samuel Yellin
- Velvel Zbarjer
[edit] Chess players
- Izak Aloni, born in Lviv
- Alexander Beliavsky, born in Lviv
- Oscar Chajes, born in Brody
- Arthur Dunkelblum, born in Cracow
- Salo Flohr, born in Horodenka
- Henryk Friedman, lived in Lviv
- Edward Gerstenfeld, born in Lviv
- Max Judd, born in Cracow
- Salo Landau, born in Bochnia
- Menachem Oren, lived in Cracow
- Leon Stolzenberg, lived in Ternopil
- Daniel Yanofsky, born in Brody
[edit] Others
- Mikhail Fridman, Russian businessman
- Gideon Hausner, Israeli jurist
- Józef Klotz, Polish footballer (soccer)
- Hersch Lauterpacht, British judge
- Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics industrialist
[edit] See also
- History of the Jews in Poland
- History of the Jews in Ukraine
- Lists of Jews
- List of Poles
- List of Polish Jews
- List of Ukrainians