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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
1 Austria 2 Belgium 3 France 4 Germany 5 Ireland 6 Italy
6.1 Political figures 6.2 Religious and communal leaders 6.3 Academics 6.4 Musicians 6.5 Writers 6.6 Artists 6.7 Business 6.8 Other
7 Luxembourg 8 Monaco 9 Netherlands
9.1 Political figures 9.2 Academics 9.3 Rabbis 9.4 Musicians 9.5 Writers (and notable Jews mentioned by them in their works) 9.6 Artists 9.7 Actors 9.8 Business 9.9 Sports people
10 Portugal 11 Spain 12 Switzerland 13 United Kingdom 14 Notes 15 See also 16 Footnotes
Austria
Belgium Chantal Akerman , director-screenwriter
Saul Akkemay , publicist-journalist
Paul Ambach (Boogie Boy ), musician and concert organizer
Zora Arkus-Duntov , father of the Chevrolet Corvette (Belgian-born)
Lt-General Louis Bernheim , WWI General
Gérard Blitz , Olympic water polo medallist, co-founder of Club Med
Gustave Cohen , essay writer
Fred Erdman , politician
Leopold Flam , philosopher
Louis Franck , politician
Diane von Furstenberg , fashion designer
André Gantman , politician
Paul Glansdorff , molecular biologist
Jean Gol , politician
Robert Goldschmidt , wetenschapper
Estelle Goldstein , journalist
Nico Gunzburg , professor
Camille Gutt , finance minister; head of the IMF
Paul Hymans , liberal leader; president of the League of Nations
Nathan Kahane , athlete
René Kalisky , writer
George Koltanowski , chess player
Baron Léon Lambert , banker
Claude Lévi-Strauss , anthropologist (Belgian-born; atheist of Jewish descent)
Alfred Lowenstein , financier (Jewish mother)
Ernest Mandel , marxist theorist
Arie Mandelbaum , painter
Stephane Mandelbaum , painter-artist
Claude Marinower , politician
Bob Mendes , writer (Jewish father)
Chaim Perelman , philosopher (Polish-born)
Maurits Polak , activist
Ilya Prigogine , chemist (Russian-born), Nobel Prize (1977)
Henry Spira , animal rights activist
Elias M. Stein , mathematician (Belgian-born)
Edna Stern , pianist (both Belgium and Israeli)
Gilbert Stork , chemist
Olivier Strelli , fashion designer
Guy Lee Thys , film director (Jewish mother)
Raymond van het Groenewoud , singer-songwriter (Jewish mother)
Ida Wasserman , actress
Sandra Wasserman , tennis player
France
Germany
Ireland William Annyas , Mayor of Youghal
Thomas John Barnardo , philanthropist (Jewish father)
Henri Bergson , philosopher (Anglo-Irish mother)
Agnes Bernelle , entertainer
Robert Briscoe , member of the Irish Republican Army during the Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War , and twice Lord Mayor of Dublin , in 1956 and 1961
Ben Briscoe T.D. , Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1988 (and son of Robert)
Daniel Day-Lewis , actor (Jewish mother)
Gerald Goldberg , lord mayor of Cork
Chaim Herzog , Israeli president
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog first Chief Rabbi of Ireland (and father of Chaim)
Sir Otto Jaffe , Lord Mayor of Belfast 1899 and 1904
Immanuel Jakobovits , Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1949 and 1958 and later British Chief Rabbi
Louis Lentin , Director - Documentary Films, Television & Theatre
David Marcus , author, editor, broadcaster and lifelong supporter of Irish-language fiction
Sam Obernik , singer
Alan Shatter , Fine Gael politician
Mervyn Taylor , former Irish Labour Party politician
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff , founder of Harland and Wolff and MP for East Belfast
Italy Political figures Religious and communal leaders Academics pedigree of Azzopardi
Faraj ben Salim , physician
Caecilius of Calacte , rhetorician
Eugenio Calabi , mathematician
Laura Capón , physicist; married to non-Jew Enrico Fermi
Guido Castelnuovo , mathematician
Federigo Enriques , mathematician
Gino Fano , mathematician
Robert Fano , physicist
Ugo Fano , physicist[1]
Guido Fubini , mathematician
Carlo Ginzburg , historian
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio , physicist (Jewish father)
Tullio Levi-Civita , mathematician
Giorgio Levi della Vida
Rita Levi-Montalcini , neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)
Cesare Lombroso , criminologist
Salvador Luria , microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1969)
Gino Luzzatto , economical historian
Samuel David Luzzatto
Franco Modigliani , economist, Nobel Prize (1985)
Arnaldo Momigliano , Italian-born historian (Jewish Year Book 1985 p188)
pedigree of Pontecorvo
Giulio Racah , physicist
Bruno Rossi , astrophysicist
Emilio Segrè , physicist, Nobel Prize (1959)
pedigree of Sforno
Piero Sraffa , economist
Ariel Toaff
Andrew Viterbi , inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
Vito Volterra , mathematician
Musicians Mario Ancona , baritone
Alvise Bassano , musician [2]
Anthony Bassano , musician [3]
Baptista Bassano , musician [4]
Jeronimo Bassano , musician [5]
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , guitar, synagogal music composer
Giacobbe Cervetto , cellist [2]
Lorenzo Da Ponte , opera librettist
Abramino dall'Arpa , harpist
Salamone Rossi , baroque composer
Victor de Sabata , conductor (Jewish mother)
Liliana Treves Alcalay , musician
Writers Enrico Castelnuovo , father of Guido
Giorgio Bassani , author
Lorenzo Da Ponte , librettist (born Jewish, raised Catholic)
Leone Ginzburg , writer (born in Ukraine)
Natalia Ginzburg (b. Levi), author (Jewish father), wife of Leone and mother of Carlo
Carlo Levi , writer, painter & physician
Primo Levi , chemist and author
Carlo Michelstaedter
Paolo Milano , author
Alberto Moravia (b.Pinchrele), author (Jewish father)
Umberto Saba , poet (single Jewish mother)
Clara Sereni , writer
Italo Svevo (b. Schmitz), author (Jewish mother)
Humbert Wolfe , poet and civil servant [3]
Artists Business Other Luxembourg Monaco Netherlands Political figures Academics Tobias Michael Carel Asser , jurist, Nobel Peace Prize (1911). Entry in the Jewish Encyclopedia
Alfred Ayer , philosopher (Dutch mother)
Kurt Baschwitz
Balthazar (Isaac) Orobio de Castro , philosopher
Samuel Goudsmit , physicist
Hendrik S. Houthakker , economist
Rita Kohnstamm
Izaak Kolthoff , chemist
Abraham Pais , historian of science
David Ricardo , economist (British with Dutch parents; rejected Jewish beliefs, became Quaker )
Samuel Sarphati , physician, city planner
Baruch Spinoza , philosopher (excommunicated from the Jewish community for apostasy )
Rabbis Musicians Writers (and notable Jews mentioned by them in their works) See also List of Dutch Jewish writers and poets
Artists Actors Business Sports people Carina Benninga , field hockey player, Olympic flag bearer
Tom Okker , tennis player (Jewish father)
Johan Neeskens , footballer
Sjaak Swart , Ajax footballer (Jewish father)
Daniël de Ridder (1984 - ) Celta de Vigo footballer[5]
Stella Blits-Agsteribbe , gymnast[7] Anna Dresden-Polak , gymnast[8] Lea Kloot-Nordheim , gymnast[9] Elka de Levie , gymnast[10] Judikje Themans-Simons , gymnast[11] Portugal
Spain
Switzerland Maurice Abravanel , conductor
Jeff Agoos , US soccer international
Ernest Bloch , composer
Felix Bloch , physicist, Nobel Prize (1952)
Alain de Botton , writer
John M. Brunswick , founder of the Brunswick Corporation
Albert Cohen , novelist
Arthur Cohn , film producer
Ruth Dreifuss , Swiss president (1999)
Camille & Henry Dreyfus , inventors of Celanese
Al Dubin , lyricist
Jean Dunand -Gotscho, sculptor, painter, lacquerer (Jewish mother)
Albert Einstein , physicist, Nobel Prize (1921)
Edmond Fischer , biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992) (Jewish father)
Robert Frank , photographer
Florence Guggenheim-Grünberg , Yiddish linguist
Meyer Guggenheim , businessman
Judith Lewish Herman
Jeanne Hersch , philosopher
Mathilde Krim , AIDS researcher (convert)
Dani Levy (1957 - ) film maker, theatrical director and actor[6]
Meret Oppenheim , surrealist artist
Rachel , stage actress (Swiss-born)
Tadeus Reichstein , chemist, Nobel Prize (1950)
Edmond Safra , banker
Jean Starobinski , literary critic
Sigismond Thalberg , pianist, composer
Regina Ullmann , poet
Charles Weissmann , biochemist
Alain & Gerard Wertheimer , owners of Chanel [12]
United Kingdom 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 .
See also Footnotes
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