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List of North European Jews
Before the Holocaust, Jews were a significant part of the Baltic population. Around 240,000 lived in Lithuania, including 100,000 in Vilnius (45% of the city's population). A large community also existed in Latvia. The Nordic countries, meanwhile, have much smaller communities, concentrated in Denmark and Sweden. Here is a list of some prominent North European Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Denmark
- Harald Bohr, mathematician and footballer (Jewish mother)
- Niels Bohr, physicist (Jewish mother)
- Victor Borge, entertainer
- Georg Brandes, author and critic, father of Danish naturalism
- Erik Erikson, psychologist (Danish parents)
- Heinrich Hirschsprung, industrialist, art patron (Den Hirschsprungske Samling)
- Arne Jacobsen, architect & designer
- Benjamin Roy Mottelson, physicist, Nobel Prize (1975)
- Ivan Osiier , seven-time Olympic fencer
- Lee Oskar , harmonica player, member of War
- Raquel Rastenni, jazz and popular singer
- Edgar Rubin , Gestalt psychologist
- Lars von Trier, film director (Jewish father: non-biological, he later discovered)
Estonia
Finland
- Moses Pergament , composer
- Max Jakobson , diplomat
- Mauritz Stiller , director (Finnish-born)
- Ben Zyskowicz , conservative leader
Iceland
Latvia
- Elya Baskin , actor
- Isaiah Berlin, historian of ideas
- Lipman Bers , mathematician & activist
- David Bezmozgis, author
- Sergei Eisenstein, director (Jewish father)
- Morris Halle, linguist
- Philippe Halsman, photographer
- Joseph Hirshhorn , financier & philanthropist
- Mariss Jansons, conductor (Jewish mother)
- Gil Kane, comic book illustrator
- Abraham Isaac Kook, rabbi
- Gidon Kremer, violinist
- Mischa Maisky , cellist
- Aron Nimzowitsch, chess player
- Mark Rothko, painter
- Mikhail Tal, world chess champion
- Max Weinreich, linguist
Lithuania
- Elijah ben Solomon, rabbi, the Gaon of Vilna
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, reviver of Hebrew
- Bernard Berenson, art critic
- Victor David Brenner , designer of the US penny
- Abraham Cahan, writer & activist
- Vyacheslav Ganelin , jazz pioneer
- Emma Goldman, anarchist
- Nahum Goldmann, world Jewish leader
- Chaim Grade , writer
- Zvi Griliches , economist
- Laurence Harvey, actor
- Jascha Heifetz, violinist
- Sidney Hillman, labor leader
- Al Jolson, entertainer
- Aaron Klug, chemist, Nobel Prize (1982)
- Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher
- Jacques Lipchitz, cubist sculptor
- Abraham Mapu, Hebrew novelist
- Harvey Milk, gay politician (Lithuanian parents)
- Hermann Minkowski, mathematician
- Oskar Minkowski , physiologist
- Meyer Schapiro, art historian
- Alexander Schneider , violinist & conductor
- Ben Shahn, artist
- Karl Shapiro, poet (Lithuanian parents)
- Sam , Lee & Jacob Shubert , theatre managers, producers (cf. Shubert Brothers)
- Joe Slovo, ANC activist
- Helen Suzman, anti-apartheid MP (Lithuanian parents)
- Uriel Weinreich, linguist
- Emanuelis Zingeris , politician
- William Zorach, painter, sculptor & writer
- Louis Zukofsky, poet (Lithuanian parents)
Norway
- Christian B. Anfinsen, chemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (Norwegian non-Jewish parents, convert)
- Jo Benkow, parliament speaker
- Bente Kahan , Yiddish singer and actress
- Robert Levin, pianist
- Mona Levin , actress,wrighter
Sweden
- Jean-Pierre Barda & Dominika Peczynski , members of Army of Lovers
- Gerhard Bonnier and family, founders of Bonnier media house
- Josef Frank , architect & designer
- Johan Harmenberg , Olympic epée champion
- Eli Heckscher, economist
- Erland Josephson, actor & writer
- Ernst Josephson , painter
- Georg Klein , pathologist
- Oskar Klein, physicist
- Leif Pagrotsky, Minister of Commerce
- Marcel Riesz, mathematician
- Nelly Sachs, German-born poet, Nobel Prize (1966)
- Leif Silbersky , defense lawyer & writer
- Art Spiegelman, comic strip artist
- Mauritz Stiller , director
- Peter Weiss, German-born dramatist & writer
See also
Last updated: 08-27-2005 16:07:26
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