List of Jews from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
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- This List of Jews contains individuals who, in accordance with Wikipedia's verifiability and no original research policies, have been identified as Jews by reliable sources.
The following is a list of Jews born in the territory of the former Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
. It is geographically defined, so it also includes people born after the dissolution
Dissolution (law)
In law, dissolution has multiple meanings.Dissolution is the last stage of liquidation, the process by which a company is brought to an end, and the assets and property of the company redistributed....
of the Russian Empire in 1922 and its successor the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
in 1991.
A few years before The Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
, the Jewish population of the Soviet Union (excluding Western Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
and the Baltic states
Baltic states
The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...
who were not part of the Soviet Union then) stood at over 5 million, most of whom were Ashkenazic
Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim , are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north. Ashkenaz is the medieval Hebrew name for this region and thus for Germany...
as opposed to Sephardic
Sephardi Jews
Sephardi Jews is a general term referring to the descendants of the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula before their expulsion in the Spanish Inquisition. It can also refer to those who use a Sephardic style of liturgy or would otherwise define themselves in terms of the Jewish customs and...
, with some Karaite
Karaite Judaism
Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish movement characterized by the recognition of the Tanakh alone as its supreme legal authority in Halakhah, as well as in theology...
minorities. It is estimated that over half died directly as a result of the Shoah. Many more emigrated to Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, and Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, though Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
still have among the larger Jewish populations in the world today (440,000 in Russia, 300,000 in Ukraine).
Politicians
- Georgy ArbatovGeorgy ArbatovGeorgy Arkadevich Arbatov was a Soviet and Russian political scientist who served as an adviser to five General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was best known in the West during the Cold War era as a representative for the policies of the Soviet Union in the United...
, Soviet politician, academic & political advisor - Dimitri Bogrov, Soviet politician
- Anatoly ChubaisAnatoly ChubaisAnatoly Borisovich Chubais is a Russian politician and business manager who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration. From 1998 to 2008 he was the head of the state owned electrical power monopoly RAO UES. The 2004 survey by...
, Deputy Prime Minister, now Chairman of UES - Mikhail FradkovMikhail FradkovMikhail Yefimovich Fradkov is a Russian politician and statesman who was the Prime Minister of Russia from March 2004 to September 2007. Fradkov has been the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service since 2007.-Early life:...
, Prime Minister - Adolph JoffeAdolph JoffeAdolph Abramovich Joffe was a Communist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat of Karaim descent.-Revolutionary career:...
, Bolshevik diplomat - Lazar KaganovichLazar KaganovichLazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was a Soviet politician and administrator and one of the main associates of Joseph Stalin.-Early life:Kaganovich was born in 1893 to Jewish parents in the village of Kabany, Radomyshl uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire...
, Soviet politician - Lev KamenevLev KamenevLev Borisovich Kamenev , born Rozenfeld , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly head of state of the new republic in 1917, and from 1923-24 the acting Premier in the last year of Lenin's life....
, Bolshevik leader (Jewish father) - Maxim LitvinovMaxim LitvinovMaxim Maximovich Litvinov was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet diplomat.- Early life and first exile :...
, Soviet ambassador and Minister of Foreign Affairs - Julius MartovJulius MartovJulius Martov or L. Martov was born in Constantinople in 1873...
, Menshevik leader - Boris NemtsovBoris NemtsovBoris Efimovich Nemtsov is a Russian politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 1997 to 1998. He was a co-founder of the Russian political party Union of Right Forces and is an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.-Early life:...
, Deputy Prime Minister - Karl RadekKarl RadekKarl Bernhardovic Radek was a socialist active in the Polish and German movements before World War I and an international Communist leader after the Russian Revolution....
, Soviet politician - Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik politician
- Yakov SverdlovYakov SverdlovYakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov ; known under pseudonyms "Andrei", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov" — 16 March 1919) was a Bolshevik party leader and an official of the Russian Soviet Republic.-Early life:...
, Bolshevik leader, the first head of state of the Russian SFSRRussian Soviet Federative Socialist RepublicThe Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , commonly referred to as Soviet Russia, Bolshevik Russia, or simply Russia, was the largest, most populous and economically developed republic in the former Soviet Union.... - Leon TrotskyLeon TrotskyLeon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....
, Bolshevik politician, the founder of the Red ArmyRed ArmyThe Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to... - Moisei UritskyMoisei UritskyMoisei Solomonovich Uritsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia.He was born in the city of Cherkasy, Kiev Governorate, to a Jewish family. His father, a merchant, died when Moisei was little and his mother raised her son by herself.Moisei studied law at the University of Kiev...
, Soviet politician - Genrikh YagodaGenrikh YagodaGenrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda , born Enokh Gershevich Ieguda , was a Soviet state security official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's Stalin-era security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936...
, head of Secret Police in the Stalin era (1934–1936) - Grigory ZinovievGrigory ZinovievGrigory Yevseevich Zinoviev , born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician...
, Soviet politician - Vladimir ZhirinovskyVladimir ZhirinovskyVladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a Russian politician, colonel of the Russian Army, founder and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia , Vice-Chairman of the State Duma, and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe....
- a Russian politician, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Vice-Chairman of the State Duma, and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe."
Israeli politicians
- Menachem BeginMenachem Begin' was a politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944,...
, Israeli Prime Minister, Nobel Prize (1978) - Yitzhak Ben-ZviYitzhak Ben-ZviYitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, the second and longest-serving President of Israel.-Biography:...
, second President of Israel (1952–63) - Shmuel DayanShmuel DayanShmuel Dayan was a Zionist activist during the British Mandate of Palestine and an Israeli politician who served in the first three Knessets.-Biography:...
, Zionist activist, Israeli politician - Levi EshkolLevi Eshkol' served as the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office.-Biography:...
, Israeli Prime Minister (1963–69) - Ephraim KatzirEphraim KatzirEphraim Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and former Israeli Labor Party politician. He was the fourth President of Israel from 1973 until 1978.-Biography:...
, fourth President of Israel (1973–78) - Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs (2006–2008)
- Golda MeirGolda MeirGolda Meir ; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was a teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel....
, Israeli Prime Minister (1969–74) - Shimon PeresShimon PeresGCMG is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years...
, Israeli Prime Minister (1984–86), Nobel Prize (1994) - Yitzhak ShamirYitzhak Shamir' is a former Israeli politician, the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, in 1983–84 and 1986–92.-Biography:Icchak Jeziernicky was born in Ruzhany , Russian Empire . He studied at a Hebrew High School in Białystok, Poland. As a youth he joined Betar, the Revisionist Zionist youth movement...
, Israeli Prime Minister (1983–84, 1986–92) - Natan SharanskyNatan SharanskyNatan Sharansky was born in Stalino, Soviet Union on 20 January 1948 to a Jewish family. He graduated with a degree in applied mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. As a child, he was a chess prodigy. He performed in simultaneous and blindfold displays, usually against...
, Israeli politician - Moshe SharettMoshe SharettMoshe Sharett on 15 October 1894, died 7 July 1965) was the second Prime Minister of Israel , serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms.-Early life:...
, Israeli Prime Minister (1954–55) - Zalman ShazarZalman ShazarZalman Shazar was an Israeli politician, author. and poet. Shazar served as the third President of Israel from 1963 to 1973.-Biography:...
, third President of Israel (1963–73) - Chaim WeizmannChaim WeizmannChaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
, first President of Israel (1949–52)
Israeli military persons
- Yaakov DoriYaakov DoriYaakov Dori was the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces .Born in the present day Ukraine as Yakov Dostrovsky , son of Tzvi and Myriam, his family emigrated to Ottoman Palestine following the anti-Jewish pogrom in Odessa in 1905...
, the first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense ForcesIsrael Defense ForcesThe Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym Tzahal , are the military forces of the State of Israel. They consist of the ground forces, air force and navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, and has no civilian jurisdiction within Israel...
(IDF) (1948–1949) - Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of British Jewish Legion
- Haim Laskov, the fifth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1958–1961)
- Yitzhak SadehYitzhak SadehYitzhak Sadeh , was the commander of the Palmach, one of the founders of the Israel Defense Forces at the time of the establishment of the State of Israel and a cousin of British philosopher Isaiah Berlin.-Biography:...
, PalmachPalmachThe Palmach was the elite fighting force of the Haganah, the underground army of the Yishuv during the period of the British Mandate of Palestine. The Palmach was established on May 15, 1941...
commander and one of the IDFIsrael Defense ForcesThe Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym Tzahal , are the military forces of the State of Israel. They consist of the ground forces, air force and navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, and has no civilian jurisdiction within Israel...
founders. - Joseph TrumpeldorJoseph TrumpeldorJoseph Trumpeldor , was an early Zionist activist. He helped organize the Zion Mule Corps and bring Jewish immigrants to the Land of Israel. Trumpeldor died defending the settlement of Tel Hai in 1920 and subsequently became a Zionist national hero...
, founder of British Jewish Legion and early pioneer-settler in Israel (born in PyatigorskPyatigorskPyatigorsk is a city in Stavropol Krai on the Podkumok River, about from Mineralnye Vody. Since January 19, 2010 it has been the administrative center of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia...
) - Tzvi TzurTzvi TzurAfter his retirement Tzur was appointed as the general manager of Mekorot, Israel's national water company. Under pressure from Moshe Dayan to enter the political fray, in the 1965 elections he was elected to the Knesset on the Rafi list, David Ben-Gurion's party...
, the sixth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1961–1964)
Soviet Soldiers and Revolutionaries
- Osip AptekmanOsip AptekmanOsip Vasiliyevich Aptekman was a Russian revolutionary, member of the Land and Liberty, and one of the founders of the Black Repartition....
, revolutionary - Pavel AxelrodPavel AxelrodPavel Borisovich Axelrod was a Russian Menshevik.- Early life and career :Born Pinches Borutsch in Potscheff near Chernigov and raised to Shklov, a small provincial town in and Mogilev, the biggest town of the three in the Russian Empire , Axelrod was the son of a Jewish innkeeper.In 1875 in...
, Menshevik, Marxist revolutionary - Yevno Azef, revolutionary
- Tuvie BielskiTuvie BielskiTuvia Bielski was the leader of the partisan group the Bielski partisans who were situated in the Naliboki forest in pre-war Poland during World War II.-Life:...
, Belarusian partisan - Yakov BlumkinYakov BlumkinYakov Grigoryevich Blumkin was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary, assassin, Bolshevik, Cheka agent, State Political Directorate spy, and adventurer, executed as Trotskyist.-Early life :...
, Soviet spy - Ivan ChernyakhovskyIvan ChernyakhovskyIvan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky, also Cherniakhovsky, ; Oksanina, Uman, Russian Empire , - Mehlsack, today Pieniężno, Poland, 18 February 1945) was a Soviet General of the Army , twice Hero of the Soviet Union, commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front, who died from wounds received outside...
, Soviet Front Commander, WWII - Fedor DanFedor DanFyodor Ilyich Dan was one of the leaders of Menshevism.Fyodor Dan was born to a Jewish family in St. Petersburg. His original surname was Gurvitch. While still a young man he joined the Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. He was arrested in 1896 and exiled in Oryol for...
, revolutionary - Leo DeutschLeo DeutschLev Grigorievich Deutsch, also known as Leo Deutsch was a Russian revolutionary who was an early member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and one of the leaders of that organization's Menshevik factions.-Early years:...
, revolutionary - David DragunskyDavid DragunskyDavid Abramovich Dragunsky was born to a Jewish family and became a Colonel General in the Soviet Army. Twice he was decorated as a Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1938, he commanded a tank company during combat operations near Khasan Lake and was awarded an Order of the Red Banner...
, Soviet tank brigade commander, WWII - Raya DunayevskayaRaya DunayevskayaRaya Dunayevskaya was the founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism in the United States of America. At one time Leon Trotsky's secretary, she later split with him and ultimately founded the organization News and Letters Committees and was its leader until her death.-Biography:Of Jewish...
, founder of Marxist humanismMarxist humanismMarxist humanism is a branch of Marxism that primarily focuses on Marx's earlier writings, especially the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 in which Marx espoused his theory of alienation, as opposed to his later works, which are considered to be concerned more with his structural...
in the U.S. - Gesya GelfmanGesya GelfmanGesya Mirokhovna Gelfman ; , Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya,...
, revolutionary - Grigory GershuniGrigory GershuniGrigory Andreyevich Gershuni was a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.-Early life:Born in Kovno, Russia 1870 to Jewish peasants....
, revolutionary - Moshe Gildenman, known as Dyadya ("Uncle") Misha, partisan commander
- Grigory GoldenbergGrigory GoldenbergGrigory Goldenberg was a Russian revolutionary and member of the «Narodnaya Volya» organisation.-Revolutionary life:...
, revolutionary - Olga KamenevaOlga KamenevaOlga Davidovna Kameneva was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. She was the sister of Leon Trotsky and the first wife of Lev Kamenev.-Childhood and Revolutionary Career :...
, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician (sister of Leon TrotskyLeon TrotskyLeon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....
) - Walter KrivitskyWalter KrivitskyWalter Germanovich Krivitsky was a Soviet intelligence officer who revealed plans of signing Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact before defecting weeks before the outbreak of World War II....
, Soviet spy - Semyon KrivosheinSemyon KrivosheinSemyon Moiseevich Krivoshein was a Soviet tank commander, who played a vital part in the World War II reform of the Red Army tank forces and in momentous defeat of German Panzers in the Battle of Kursk.-Early life and Russian Civil War:...
, Soviet mechanized corps commander, WWII
- Rodion MalinovskyRodion MalinovskyRodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky was a Soviet military commander in World War II and Defense Minister of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and 1960s. He contributed to the major defeat of Nazi Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Budapest...
, Soviet front commander, WWII, Minister of Defence (Jewish origin is disputed) - Mark NatansonMark NatansonMark Andreyevich Natanson was a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Circle of Tchaikovsky, Land and Liberty, and the Socialist-Revolutionary Party...
, revolutionary - Alexander ParvusAlexander ParvusAlexander Lvovich Parvus , born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand , was a Marxist theoretician, a Russian revolutionary, and a controversial activist in the Social Democratic Party of Germany...
, revolutionary - Sidney ReillySidney ReillyLieutenant Sidney George Reilly, MC , famously known as the Ace of Spies, was a Jewish Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard, the British Secret Service Bureau and later the Secret Intelligence Service . He is alleged to have spied for at least four nations...
,(Born Shlomo Rosenblum) a Ukrainian-born adventurer and Secret Intelligence Service agent - Theodore RothsteinTheodore RothsteinTheodore Aronovich Rothstein was a journalist, writer and communist. He served as a Soviet ambassador in the 1920s.- Life :Theodore Aronovich Rothstein was born 1871 in the Imperial Russian city of Kovno , the son of a Jewish family.Rothstein left Russia in 1890 for political reasons and settled...
, Russian-British communist - Pinhas RutenbergPinhas RutenbergPinhas Rutenberg was a prominent engineer and a businessman, a Russian socialist and a Zionist leader. He played an active role in two Russian revolutions, in 1905 and 1917. During World War I, he was among the founders of the Jewish Legion and of the American Jewish Congress...
, Zionist, Social revolutionary - IsraelIsrael ShochatIsrael Shochat was a founder of and a key figure in "Bar-Giora" and Hashomer, one of the precursors of the IDF. He was married to Manya Shochat.- Biography :...
and Manya ShochatManya ShochatManya Shochat , née Wilbushewich / Wilbuszewicz, was Russian Jewish politician and the "mother" of the collective settlement in Palestine, the forerunner of the kibbutz movement.-Russia and early days in Palestine:...
, fonders of the HashomerHashomerHashomer was a Jewish defense organization in Palestine founded out of Bar-Giora in April 1909. It ceased to operate after the founding of the Haganah in 1920. The purpose of Hashomer was to provide guard services for Jewish settlements in the Yishuv, freeing Jewish communities from dependence...
movement - Moisei UritskyMoisei UritskyMoisei Solomonovich Uritsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia.He was born in the city of Cherkasy, Kiev Governorate, to a Jewish family. His father, a merchant, died when Moisei was little and his mother raised her son by herself.Moisei studied law at the University of Kiev...
, communist revolutionary - V. VolodarskyV. VolodarskyV. Volodarsky was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918.-Early years:Moisei Markovich Goldstein V. Volodarsky was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918.-Early years:Moisei Markovich Goldstein V. Volodarsky was...
, communist revolutionary - Iona YakirIona YakirIona Emmanuilovich Yakir was the Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II.-Early years:...
, Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II
Others
- Michael DorfmanMichael DorfmanMichael Dorfman is a Jewish writer, essayist, journalist, and human rights activist. Revivalist of the Yiddish culture among the Russian Jews....
, Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist - Yisroel ben Eliezer (The Baal Shem Tov), Rabbi, founder of Hasidic JudaismHasidic JudaismHasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith...
- David DubinskyDavid DubinskyDavid Dubinsky was an American labor leader...
, American labor leader - Shlomo GanzfriedShlomo GanzfriedShlomo Ganzfried was an Orthodox rabbi and posek best known as author of the work of Halakha , the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch , by which title he is also known.- Biography :Ganzfried was born in the year 1804 in Uzhhorod in the Carpathian region of the...
, Rabbi - Fanny KaplanFanny KaplanFanny Yefimovna Kaplan , also known as Fanya Kaplan and as Dora Kaplan), was a Russian political revolutionary and an attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin.-Biography:...
, would-be assassin of Lenin - Menachem Mendel SchneersonMenachem Mendel SchneersonMenachem Mendel Schneerson , known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or just the Rebbe among his followers, was a prominent Hasidic rabbi who was the seventh and last Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. He was fifth in a direct paternal line to the third Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Menachem Mendel...
, RebbeRebbeRebbe , which means master, teacher, or mentor, is a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word Rabbi. It often refers to the leader of a Hasidic Jewish movement...
of the Chabad-LubavitchChabadChabad or Chabad-Lubavitch is a major branch of Hasidic Judaism.Chabad may also refer to:*Chabad-Strashelye, a defunct branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism*Chabad-Kapust or Kapust, a defunct branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism...
branch of Hasidic JudaismHasidic JudaismHasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the Hebrew —Ḥasidut in Sephardi, Chasidus in Ashkenazi, meaning "piety" , is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith... - Boris VolynovBoris VolynovBoris Valentinovich Volynov is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. He was the first Jewish cosmonaut.-Biography:...
, Soviet Astronaut; the first Jew in space (Jewish mother) - Natasha Epstein, beauty queen and a graduate of Harvard University
- Anatoliy Kravets, Soviet scientist, microbiologist,Head of the Laboratory of Genetics of Microorganisms(KRIEID)
Business figures
- Roman AbramovichRoman AbramovichRoman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian businessman and the main owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC.In 2003, Abramovich was named Person of the Year by Expert, a Russian business magazine. He shared this title with Mikhail Khodorkovsky...
, businessman, owner of Chelsea F.C.Chelsea F.C.Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four... - Pyotr AvenPyotr AvenPetr Olegovich Aven is a Russian businessman and politician. Petr Aven graduated from Moscow State University in 1977 and holds PhD in Economics...
, businessman - Leon BagritLeon BagritSir Leon Bagrit was a leading British industrialist and pioneer of automation.Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Kiev, Ukraine , Sir Leon studied law at Birkbeck College in the University of London, formed his own company in 1935, and for many years headed the revamped firm of Elliott-Automation...
, pioneer of automation - Bernhard BaronBernhard BaronBernhard Baron was a Jewish cigarette-manufacturer and philanthropist. He was born at Brest-Litovsk , in poor circumstances, and brought up among the Don Cossacks at Rostov. His father took him to the United States when young; and there, after working at a tobacco factory, he began making the...
, cigarette maker and philanthropist - Sergey BrinSergey BrinSergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the largest internet companies. , his personal wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billion....
, co-founder of GoogleGoogleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... - Zino Davidoff
- Bernard DelfontBernard DelfontBernard Delfont, Baron Delfont , born Boris Winogradsky, was a leading Russian-born British theatrical impresario....
, impresario - Mikhail FridmanMikhail FridmanMikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Jewish Russian businessman. Mr. Fridman graduated from Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1986. In 1988 Fridman started his career in trading and financial services before founding Alfa Group Consortium in 1989...
, businessman - Arcadi GaydamakArcadi GaydamakArcadi Aleksandrovich Gaydamak, is a Russian-Israeli businessman, who was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honour. On April 29, 2011 the Court of Appeal in Paris acquitted him of charges of arms dealing...
, owner of Portsmouth F.C.Portsmouth F.C.Portsmouth Football Club is an English football club based in the city of Portsmouth. The club is nicknamed Pompey. Portsmouth's home matches have been played at Fratton Park since the club's formation in 1898. The team currently play in the Football League Championship after being relegated from...
, AJ AuxerreAJ AuxerreAssociation de la Jeunesse Auxerroise is a French association football club based in the commune of Auxerre in Burgundy. The club was founded in 1905 and currently play in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. Auxerre plays its home matches at the Stade l'Abbé-Deschamps on the banks of the...
, and Bnei Sakhnin F.C. - Leslie GradeLeslie GradeLeslie Grade was a British talent agent and executive with The Grade Organisation. He was born Laszlo Winogradsky in Tokmak, Ukraine, Russian Empire...
, executive - Lew GradeLew GradeLew Grade, Baron Grade , born Lev Winogradsky, was an influential Russian-born English impresario and media mogul.-Early years:...
, impressario, Chairman of ATVAssociated TeleVisionAssociated Television, often referred to as ATV, was a British television company, holder of various licences to broadcast on the ITV network from 24 September 1955 until 00:34 on 1 January 1982...
from 1962 - Vladimir GusinskyVladimir GusinskyVladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky is a Russian media baron, is known as the founder of Media-Most holding that included Most Bank, the NTV channel, the newspaper Segodnya and magazines.-Life and career:Gusinsky was born in Moscow....
, exile, former media tycoon - Boris Khait, businessman and vice-president of the Russian Jewish Congress
- Max LevchinMax LevchinMax Rafael Levchin is a Ukrainian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur widely known as one of the co-founders and for his role as the former chief technology officer of PayPal....
, co-founder of PayPalPayPalPayPal is an American-based global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders.... - Morris MarkinMorris MarkinMorris Markin was a Russian-born American entrepreneur and businessman who founded the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company .-Early years:...
, founder of Checker CabChecker TaxiChecker Taxi was an American taxi company. It used the Checker Taxi Cab produced by the Checker Motors Corporation of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Both Checker Taxi and its parent company Checker Motors Corporation were owned by Morris Markin.... - Michael MarksMichael MarksMichael Marks, , was one of the two co-founders of the retail chain Marks & Spencer.-Biography:...
, co-founder of Marks & SpencerMarks & SpencerMarks and Spencer plc is a British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, with over 700 stores in the United Kingdom and over 300 stores spread across more than 40 countries. It specialises in the selling of clothing and luxury food products... - Alexander Mashkevich, businessman
- Louis B. MayerLouis B. MayerLouis Burt Mayer born Lazar Meir was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B...
, co-founder MGMMetro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer... - Leonid NevzlinLeonid NevzlinLeonid Borisovich Nevzlin is a Russian-Israeli businessman. Nevzlin was a high ranking executive at Yukos, once a Russian oil firm before it was extinguished by the Russian government. That government is requesting his extradition due to hotly disputed criminal allegations against him and other...
, businessman - Ida RosenthalIda RosenthalIda Rosenthal was a Russian-born American dressmaker and businesswoman who is often credited as the inventor of the brassiere. At the age of 18, she emigrated to the United States, following her fiancé William Rosenthal, and Americanized her name to Cohen...
, founder of Maidenform BrassieresMaidenformMaidenform Brands is a manufacturer of women's underwear, founded in 1922 by three people: seamstress Ida Rosenthal; Enid Bissett, who owned the shop that employed her; and Ida's husband, William Rosenthal... - David SarnoffDavid SarnoffDavid Sarnoff was an American businessman and pioneer of American commercial radio and television. He founded the National Broadcasting Company and throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his...
, head of RCARCARCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...
Natural scientists
- Anatole AbragamAnatole AbragamAnatole Abragam was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and has made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Originally from Russia, Abragam and his family emigrated to France in 1925.After being educated at the University of Paris, , he...
, physicist - Alexei Alexeyevich AbrikosovAlexei Alexeyevich AbrikosovAlexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov is a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003.- Biography :...
, physicist, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
(2003) - Zhores Alferov, physicist, Nobel Prize (2000)
- Gersh BudkerGersh BudkerGersh Itskovich Budker , also named Alexander Mikhailovich Budker, was a Soviet nuclear physicist....
, nuclear physicist
- Ilya FrankIlya FrankIlya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation...
, physicist, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
(1958) - Yakov FrenkelYakov FrenkelYakov Il'ich Frenkel, was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of solid-state physics. He is also known as Jacov Frenkel....
, physicist
- Vitaly GinzburgVitaly GinzburgVitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS was a Soviet theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb...
, physicist, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
(2003)
- Emanuel GoldbergEmanuel GoldbergEmanuel Goldberg was born in Moscow and moved first to Germany and later to Israel...
(1881–1970), pioneered MicrodotMicrodotA microdot is text or an image substantially reduced in size onto a 1mm disc to prevent detection by unintended recipients. Microdots are normally circular around one millimetre in diameter but can be made into different shapes and sizes and made from various materials such as polyester...
s and microfilm retrieval technologyhttp://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/goldberg.html - Vladimir GribovVladimir GribovVladimir Naumovich Gribov was a prominent Russian theoretical physicist, who worked on high-energy physics, quantum field theory and the Regge theory of the strong interactions.His best known contributions are the pomeron, the DGLAP equations, and the Gribov copies.-Life:Gribov completed his...
, physicist
- Mikhail Gurevich, co-founder of the Mikoyan Gurevich (MiG) aircraft design bureau
- Waldemar HaffkineWaldemar HaffkineWaldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine, CIE was a Russian Jewish bacteriologist, whose career was blighted in Russia because "he refused to convert to Russian Orthodoxy." He emigrated and worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he developed an anti-cholera vaccine that he tried out successfully...
, biologist, vaccine against colera and plague - Boris HessenBoris HessenBoris Mikhailovich Hessen , also Gessen was a Soviet physicist, philosopher and historian of science...
, physicist
- Abram Ioffe, nuclear scientist
- Vladimir Keilis-BorokVladimir Keilis-BorokVladimir Keilis-Borok was born in Moscow, Russia on July 31, 1921. He is a mathematical geophysicist.- Biography :In 1948, he received a Ph.D. in mathematical geophysics from the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He was the founder, and is the Director Emeritus, of the International Institute of...
, physicist
- Yuli Khariton, physicist
- Semyon KosbergSemyon KosbergSemyon Ariyevich Kosberg was a Jewish Soviet engineer, expert in the field of aircraft and rocket engines, Doctor of Technical Sciences , Hero of Socialist Labor .In 1931, Semyon Kosberg graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute...
, engineer - Lev LandauLev LandauLev Davidovich Landau was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics...
, physicist, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
(1962)
- Semyon LavochkinSemyon LavochkinSemyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin , a Soviet aerospace engineer, Soviet aircraft designer who founded the Lavochkin aircraft design bureau. Many of his fighter designs were produced in large numbers for Soviet forces during World War II.-Biography:...
, engineer - Veniamin LevichVeniamin LevichVeniamin Grigorievich Levich was a physicist, an expert in the field of electrochemical hydrodynamics. His research activities also included gas-phase collision reactions, the quantum mechanics of electron transfer...
, electrochemist
- Alexander VilenkinAlexander VilenkinAlexander Vilenkin is Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 150 papers and is responsible for introducing the ideas of eternal inflation and...
, cosmologist
- Selman WaksmanSelman WaksmanSelman Abraham Waksman was an American biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances—largely into organisms that live in soil—and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics...
, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)
- Anatoliy Kravets, Soviet scientist, microbiologist,Head of the Laboratory of Genetics of Microorganisms(KRIEID)
Mathematicians
- Georgy Adelson-VelskyGeorgy Adelson-VelskyGeorgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky , is a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist. Along with E.M. Landis, he invented the AVL tree in 1962....
, mathematician
- Vladimir ArnoldVladimir ArnoldVladimir Igorevich Arnold was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable Hamiltonian systems, he made important contributions in several areas including dynamical systems theory, catastrophe theory,...
, mathematician
- Joseph BernsteinJoseph BernsteinJoseph Bernstein is an Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory....
, mathematician
- Alexander BrudnoAlexander BrudnoAlexander Brudno was a Russian Jewish computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta search algorithm...
, mathematician - Chudnovsky brothersChudnovsky brothersThe Chudnovsky brothers are American mathematicians known for their wide mathematical ability, their home-built supercomputers, and their close working relationship....
, amateur mathematicians - Vladimir Drinfeld, mathematician, Fields MedalFields MedalThe Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
(1990) - Eugene DynkinEugene DynkinEugene Borisovich Dynkin is a Soviet and American mathematician. He has made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes...
, mathematician - Paul Sophus EpsteinPaul Sophus EpsteinPaul Sophus Epstein was a Russian-American mathematical physicist...
, mathematician - Israel GelfandIsrael GelfandIsrael Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand was a Soviet mathematician who made major contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and functional analysis...
, mathematician, - Alexander GelfondAlexander GelfondAlexander Osipovich Gelfond was a Soviet mathematician, author of Gelfond's theorem.-Biography:Alexander Gelfond was born in St Petersburg, Russian Empire in the family of a professional physician and amateur philosopher Osip Isaakovich Gelfond. He entered the Moscow State University in 1924,...
, mathematician - Semyon Aranovich GershgorinSemyon Aranovich GershgorinSemyon Aranovich Gershgorin was a Soviet mathematician. He began as a student at the Petrograd Technological Institute in 1923, became a Professor in 1930, and was given an appointment at the Leningrad Mechanical Engineering Institute in the same year...
, mathematician - Victor KacVictor KacVictor G. Kac is a Soviet and American mathematician at MIT, known for his work in representation theory. He discovered Kac–Moody algebras, and used the Weyl–Kac character formula for them to reprove the Macdonald identities...
, mathematician - David KazhdanDavid KazhdanDavid Kazhdan or Každan, Kazhdan, formerly named Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan , is a Soviet and Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory.-Life:...
, mathematician - Aleksandr Khinchin, mathematician
- Mark KrasnoselskyMark Krasnosel'skiiMark Alexandrovich Krasnosel'skii was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian mathematician renowned for his work on nonlinear functional analysis and its applications.- Early years :...
, mathematician - Mark Krein, mathematician,
- Alexander KronrodAlexander KronrodAleksandr Semenovich Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, best known for the Gauss-Kronrod quadrature formula which he published in 1964. Earlier his computations informed theoretical physics...
, mathematician - Yevgeniy LandisYevgeniy LandisEvgenii Mikhailovich Landis was a Soviet mathematician who worked mainly on partial differential equations.-Life:Landis was born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He studied and worked at the Moscow State University, where his advisor was Alexander Kronrod, and later Ivan Petrovsky...
, mathematician - Solomon LefschetzSolomon LefschetzSolomon Lefschetz was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.-Life:...
, mathematician - Vladimir LevenshteinVladimir LevenshteinVladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein is a Russian scientist who did research in information theory and error-correcting codes. Among other contributions, he is known for the Levenshtein distance algorithm, which he developed in 1965....
, mathematician - Leonid LevinLeonid Levin-External links:* at Boston University....
, mathematician, computational complexity theory - Jacob LevitzkiJacob LevitzkiJacob Levitzki, also known as Yaakov Levitsky was an Israeli mathematician.-Biography:Levitzki was born in 1904 in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, and emigrated to then Ottoman-ruled Palestine in 1912...
, Ukrainian-Israeli mathematician - Grigory MargulisGrigory MargulisGregori Aleksandrovich Margulis is a Russian mathematician known for his far-reaching work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978 and a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, becoming the...
, mathematician, Fields MedalFields MedalThe Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
(1978) - David MilmanDavid MilmanDavid Pinhusovich Milman was a Soviet and later Israeli mathematician specializing in functional analysis. He was one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis...
, mathematician - Mark NaimarkMark NaimarkMark Aronovich Naimark was a Soviet mathematician.He was born in Odessa, Russian Empire into a Jewish family and died in Moscow, USSR...
, mathematician - Grigori PerelmanGrigori PerelmanGrigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology.In 1992, Perelman proved the soul conjecture. In 2002, he proved Thurston's geometrization conjecture...
, mathematician - Vladimir Rokhlin, mathematician
- Jakob RosanesJakob RosanesJakob Rosanes was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He was also a chess master....
, mathematician - Lev SchnirelmannLev SchnirelmannLev Genrikhovich Schnirelmann , also Shnirelman, Shnirel'man was a Soviet mathematician who sought to prove Goldbach's conjecture...
, mathematician - Zvi Hermann SchapiraZvi Hermann SchapiraZvi Hermann Schapira was a Russian mathematician and Zionist. He was the first to suggest the idea of founding a Jewish National Fund to buy land in Palestine.-Biography:...
, mathematician - Moses SchönfinkelMoses SchönfinkelMoses Ilyich Schönfinkel, also known as Moisei Isai'evich Sheinfinkel , was a Russian logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic.- Life :Schönfinkel attended the Novorossiysk University of Odessa, studying mathematics under Samuil Osipovich...
, logician - Samuil ShatunovskySamuil ShatunovskySamuil Shatunovsky was a Russian mathematician. He was born in Velyka Znamianka, Ukraine in a poor Jewish family as the 9th child. He completed secondary education in Kherson, Ukraine; then studied for a year in Rostov, Russia and moved to Saint Petersburg seeking university degree. There he...
, mathematician - Yakov G. SinaiYakov G. SinaiYakov Grigorevich Sinai is an influential mathematician working in the theory of dynamical systems, in mathematical physics and in probability theory. His work has shaped the modern metric theory of dynamical systems...
, applied mathematician - Pavel Urysohn, mathematician
- Boris WeisfeilerBoris WeisfeilerBoris Weisfeiler is a Russian-born mathematician who lived in the United States before going missing in Chile in 1985, aged 43. The Chilean government claimed that he drowned, but his family believes he was forced to disappear near Colonia Dignidad, an enclave led by ex-Nazi Paul Schäfer.-...
, mathematician - Victor ZalgallerVictor ZalgallerVictor Abramovich Zalgaller is a mathematician in the fields of geometry and optimization. He is best known for his results on convex polyhedra, linear and dynamic programming, isoperimetry, and differential geometry....
, mathematician - Oscar ZariskiOscar ZariskiOscar Zariski was a Russian mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.-Education:...
, mathematician - Efim ZelmanovEfim ZelmanovEfim Isaakovich Zelmanov is a Russian mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory, including his solution of the restricted Burnside problem. He was awarded a Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich in...
, mathematician, Fields MedalFields MedalThe Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
(1994)
Social scientists
- Urie BronfenbrennerUrie BronfenbrennerUrie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian American psychologist, known for developing his Ecological Systems Theory, and as a co-founder of the Head Start program in the United States for disadvantaged pre-school children....
, developmental psychologist - Allen Krivolapov, Teaologist, Nobel Prize (2011)
- Solomon BuberSolomon BuberSolomon Buber was a Jewish Galician scholar and editor of Hebrew works. He is especially remembered for his editions of Midrash and other medieval Jewish manuscripts, and for the pioneering research surrounding those texts....
, Hebraist - Ariel DurantAriel DurantAriel Durant was the co-author of The Story of Civilization.-Biography:Durant was born in Proskurov as Chaya Kaufman to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met her future husband, Will Durant, while a student at Ferrer Modern School in...
, historian, - Boris EichenbaumBoris EichenbaumBoris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, or Eichenbaum was a Russian and Soviet literary scholar, and historian of Russian literature. He is a representative of Russian formalism.- Biography :...
, historian - Mikhail EpsteinMikhail EpsteinMikhail Naumovich Epstein is an American literary theorist and critical thinker. He is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia...
, literary theorist - Moshe FeldenkraisMoshé FeldenkraisMoshé Pinchas Feldenkrais was an Israeli physicist and the founder of the Feldenkrais Method, designed to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement.-Biography:...
, inventor of the Feldenkrais methodFeldenkrais methodThe Feldenkrais Method is a somatic educational system designed by Moshé Feldenkrais . The Feldenkrais method aims to improve movement repertoire, aiming to expand and refine the use of the self through awareness, in order to reduce pain or limitations in movement, and promote general well-being... - Alexander GerschenkronAlexander GerschenkronAlexander Gerschenkron was a Russian-born American Jewish economic historian and professor in Harvard, trained in the Austrian School of economics.Gerschenkron kept to his roots - in his economics, history and as a critic of Russian literature...
, economic historian - Jean GottmannJean GottmannJean Gottmann FRS was a French geographer who was most widely known for his seminal study on the urban region of the Northeast Megalopolis. His main contributions to human geography were in the sub-fields of urban, political, economic, historical and regional geography...
, geographer - Lazar GulkowitschLazar GulkowitschLazar Gulkowitsch was an eminent Jewish Studies scholar.-Life:Born in Zirin , Belarus as the son of a merchant, he attended school in Baranavichy and then the famous Mir Yeshiva...
, Jewish Studies scholar - Abraham HarkavyAbraham HarkavyAvraam/Albert Yakovlevich Harkavy , or Avraham Eliyahu ben Yaakov Harkavy was a Russian-Jewish historian and orientalist.-Biography:...
, historian - Zellig HarrisZellig HarrisZellig Sabbettai Harris was a renowned American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science. Originally a Semiticist, he is best known for his work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis and for the discovery of transformational structure in language...
, linguist - Roman JakobsonRoman JakobsonRoman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.As a pioneer of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend of twentieth-century linguistics, Jakobson was among the most influential linguists of the century...
, Russian/American linguist - Naum KrasnerNaum KrasnerNaum Krasner, 21 February 1924 - 5 March 1999, was a Russian mathematician and economist.A former colonel in the Soviet Army, he joined Voronezh State University as a student in 1957 and, on graduating in 1961, joined the faculty there...
, economist - Leonid HurwiczLeonid HurwiczLeonid "Leo" Hurwicz was a Russian-born American economist and mathematician. His nationality of origin was Polish. He was Jewish. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science...
, economist, Nobel Prize (2007) - Simon KuznetsSimon KuznetsSimon Smith Kuznets was a Russian American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and...
, economist, Nobel Prize (1971) - Yuri LotmanYuri LotmanYuri Mikhailovich Lotman – a prominent Soviet literary scholar, semiotician, and cultural historian. Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences...
, prominent linguist and historian of culture - Seymour LubetzkySeymour LubetzkySeymour Lubetzky was a major cataloging theorist and a prominent librarian. Born in Belarus as Shmaryahu Lubetzky, he worked for years at the Library of Congress. He worked as a teacher before he immigrated to the United States in 1927. He earned his BA from UCLA in 1931, and his MA from UC...
, cataloging theorist - Jacob MarschakJacob MarschakJacob Marschak was an American economist of Ukrainian Jewish origin.- Life :...
, economist - Alexander LuriaAlexander LuriaAlexander Romanovich Luria was a famous Soviet neuropsychologist and developmental psychologist. He was one of the founders of neuropsychology and the jointly led the Vygotsky Circle.- Biography :...
, neuropsychologist - Alexander NoveAlexander NoveAlexander Nove , FRSE, FBA was a Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history. According to Ian D...
, economist - Jacob RabinowJacob RabinowJacob Rabinow was an engineer who led a truly prolific career as an inventor. He earned a total of 230 U.S. patents on a variety of mechanical, optical and electrical devices....
, inventor - Ayn RandAyn RandAyn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism....
, philosopher - Anatol RapoportAnatol RapoportAnatol Rapoport was a Russian-born American Jewish mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.-Biography:...
, game theorist - Dietmar RosenthalDietmar RosenthalDietmar Elyashevich Rosenthal was a Russian linguist....
, linguist - Leonid RoshalLeonid RoshalLeonid Mikhailovich Roshal is a noted pediatrician from Moscow, Russia, expert for World Health Organization, chairman of International Charity Fund to Help Children in Disasters and Wars....
, pediatrician, negotiator - Isaak RussmanIsaak RussmanIsaak Borisovich Russman was a Russian mathematician and economist. He studied and worked at Voronezh State University.Isaak Borisovich Russman was born on March 7, 1938 in Voronezh. Although his childhood dream was studying astronomy, in 1955 he entered Voronezh State University where he studied...
, historian - Max SeligsohnMax SeligsohnMax Seligsohn was a Russian-American Orientalist.Having received his rabbinical training at Slutsk, government of Minsk, he went in 1888 to New York, where he studied modern languages till 1894, in which year he went to Paris to study Oriental languages, especially Semitic studies Max Seligsohn...
, Orientalist - Lev ShestovLev ShestovLev Isaakovich Shestov , born Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann , was a Ukrainian/Russian existentialist philosopher. Born in Kiev on , he emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the October Revolution. He lived in Paris until his death on November 19, 1938.- Life :Shestov was born Lev...
, philosopher
Musicians
Chazzan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Hershman- Joseph AchronJoseph AchronJoseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian composer and violinist of Jewish origin, settled in USA. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develop a 'Jewish' harmonic and contrapuntal idiom, underscored and informed much of his work...
, composer - Lera AuerbachLera AuerbachLera Auerbach is a Russian-born American composer and pianist.-Early life & education:Auerbach was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. She holds degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and composition...
, composer/pianist - Vladimir Ashkenazi, pianist (Jewish father)
- Yefim BronfmanYefim BronfmanYefim "Fima" Naumovich Bronfman is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist.-Biography:He was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, and emigrated to Israel at the age of 15...
, pianist - Simon BarereSimon BarereSimon Barere was a renowned Russian pianist. His Russian surname Барер is transliterated Barer, however, as an adult he changed the spelling to Barere in order to reduce the frequency of mispronunciation.-Biography:...
, pianist - Rudolf BarshaiRudolf BarshaiRudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet/Russian conductor and violist.Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Tseitlin and Vadim Borisovsky. He performed as a soloist as well as together with Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, and...
, conductor - Dimitri BashkirowDimitri BashkirowDmitri Bashkirov is a Russian pianist and educator.Bashkirov became an Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1968 and aPeople's Artist of the RSFSR in 1990.-References:...
, pianist - Yuri BashmetYuri BashmetYuri Abramovich Bashmet is a Russian conductor and violist.Direct patrilineal descendant of Besht.-Biography:Yuri Bashmet was born on 24 January 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in the family of Abram Borisovich Bashmet and Maya Zinovyeva Bashmet . "Father's mother, Tsilya Efimovna, studied singing at the...
, violist - Irving BerlinIrving BerlinIrving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
composer and lyricist - Lazar BermanLazar BermanLazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian classical pianist. As a technician, Berman was extraordinary in terms of sheer evenness, control, and rhythmic panache, yet he always channeled his considerable craft toward musical ends....
, pianist - Matvei Blanter, composer, KatyushaKatyusha (song)Katyusha, Katusha or Katjusha is a Soviet wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service. The music was composed in 1938 by Matvei Blanter and the lyrics were written by Mikhail Isakovsky. It was first performed by Valentina Batishcheva in the Column Hall of...
- Felix BlumenfeldFelix BlumenfeldFelix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld was a Russian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher.He was born in Kovalevka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire , the son of Austrian Mikhail Frantsevich Blumenfeld and the Polish Marie Szymanowska, and studied composition at the St...
, pianist - Shura CherkasskyShura CherkasskyShura Cherkassky was an American classical pianist known for his performances of the romantic repertoire. His playing was characterized by a virtuoso technique and singing piano tone...
, pianist - Bella DavidovichBella DavidovichBella Mikhaylovna Davidovich is a Jewish Soviet-born American pianist.Davidovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, into a family of musicians and began studying piano when she was six. Three years later, she was the soloist for a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. In 1939, she moved to...
, pianist - Issay DobrowenIssay DobrowenIssay Alexandrovich Dobrowen was a Russian-Norwegian pianist, composer and conductor.He was born Itschok Zorachovitch Barabeitchik in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire of Jewish parents. He left the Soviet Union in 1922, and became a Norwegian citizen in 1929.He once played Beethoven's Sonata...
, pianist and composer - Isaak DunayevskyIsaak DunayevskyIsaak Osipovich Dunayevsky was the biggest Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who achieved huge success in music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov...
, composer - Mischa Elman, violinist
- Mark ErmlerMark ErmlerMark Fridrikhovich Ermler was a Russian conductor.-Biography:Mark Ermler was born in Leningrad in 1932. His parents were Vera Bakun, a film set designer, and Friedrich Ermler, a film director. He began to study piano at age 5....
, conductor - Anthony FedorovAnthony FedorovAnatoliy Vladimirovich "Anthony" Fedorov is an American singer who was the fourth place finalist on the fourth season of the American Idol.- Biography :...
, singer, American IdolAmerican IdolAmerican Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
finalist - Samuil FeinbergSamuil FeinbergSamuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist. Raised in Moscow, he entered the Moscow Conservatory and studied under Alexander Goldenweiser. He is most remembered today for his complete recording of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier and many transcriptions. Feinberg...
, composer - Vladimir FeltsmanVladimir FeltsmanVladimir Feltsman is a Russian American classical pianist.Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky, Moscow, and Leningrad Vladimir Feltsman is a Russian American classical pianist.Feltsman debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. He...
, pianist - Veniamin FleishmanVeniamin FleishmanVeniamin Iosifovich Fleishman, was a Soviet composer.While studying under Dmitri Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory , he began a one-act opera Rothschild's Violin based on Anton Chekhov’s short story about Bronza, a Russian country coffin-maker and violinist, and his combative relationship...
, composer - Grigory FridGrigory FridGrigory Samuilovich Frid also Grigori Fried is a Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera.Born in Petrograd, now St. Petersburg, Frid studied in the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Litinsky and Vissarion Shebalin. He was a soldier in the Second World War...
, songwriter - Artur Friedheim, composer
- Kirill GersteinKirill GersteinKirill Gerstein , is an American and Russian pianist. He was the First Prize winner at the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. He was chosen to receive a 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award, and was selected as Carnegie Hall's "Rising Star" for the 2005–2006 season...
, pianist - Josef GingoldJosef GingoldJosef Gingold was a Russian-Jewish-born classical violinist and teacher, who lived most of his life in the United States...
(1909–1995) violinist - Grigory Ginsburg, pianist
- Emil GilelsEmil GilelsEmil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet pianist, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels.-Biography:...
, pianist - Grigory GinzburgGrigory GinzburgGrigory Romanovich Ginzburg was a Jewish-born, Russian pianist.-Biography:Ginzburg first studied with his mother before being accepted as a student in Alexander Goldenweiser's class at Moscow Conservatory. In 1927 he gained fourth prize in the Warsaw International Frederick Chopin Competition...
, conductor - Mark GorensteinMark GorensteinMark Borisovich Gorenstein is a Russian conductor. He grew up in Odessa and studied at the conservatory in Kishinev. He later played violin in the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the then USSR....
, conductor - Riva Gorohovskaya,pianist
- Maria GrinbergMaria GrinbergMaria Grinberg , was a Ukrainian pianist and teacher....
, pianist - Natalia GutmanNatalia GutmanNatalia Gutman is a Russian cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Sapozhnikov. She was later admitted to the Moscow Conservatory, where she was taught by Rostropovich, amongst others....
, cellist - Jascha HeifetzJascha HeifetzJascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...
, violinist - Jascha HorensteinJascha HorensteinJascha Horenstein was an American conductor.Horenstein was born in Kiev, Russian Empire , into a well-to-do Jewish family; his mother came from an Austrian rabbinical family and his father was Russian....
, conductor - Vladimir HorowitzVladimir HorowitzVladimir Samoylovich Horowitz was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...
, pianist - Oleg KaganOleg KaganOleg Moiseyevich Kagan was a Soviet violinist, known for his chamber partnerships with the likes of pianist Sviatoslav Richter and cellist Natalia Gutman. He was also a significant proponent of modern music, in particular Berg's Violin Concerto...
, violinist - Ilya KalerIlya KalerIlya Kaler is a Russian violinist. He was born in Moscow.Kaler is the only violinist to win Gold Medals at these three highly prestigious competitions: the International Tchaikovsky Competition ; the Sibelius ; and the Paganini .- Education :Born into a family of an orchestral musician, Ilya Kaler...
, violinist - Tina KarolTina KarolTina Karol , born Tatiana Grigorievna Liberman , is a Ukrainian singer. Karol represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006.- Biography :...
, singer - Boris Khaykin, conductor
- Evgeny KissinEvgeny KissinEvgeny Igorevitch Kissin is a Russian classical pianist and former child prodigy. He has been a British citizen since 2002. He is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic repertoire, particularly Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt.-Biography:Kissin was born in Moscow to...
, pianist - Alexander Knaifel, composer
- Leonid Kogan, violinist
- Mikhail KopelmanMikhail KopelmanMikhail Kopelman is a Ukrainian violinist.He was born in 1947 in the Transkarpathian city of Mikhail Kopelman is a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[violin]]ist.He was born in 1947 in the Transkarpathian city of...
, violinist - Yakov KreizbergYakov Kreizberg- In the Soviet Union :Yakov Kreizberg was born in Leningrad. He began studying piano at age 5. He attended the Glinka Choir School, where he began composing at age 13 and studied conducting with Ilya Musin. "Musin had an incredible system" Kreizberg recalled...
, conductor - Josef LhévinneJosef LhévinneJosef Lhévinne was a Russian pianist and piano teacher.Joseph Arkadievich Levin was born into a family of musicians in Oryol and studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Moscow under Vasily Safonov...
, pianist - Alexander LokshinAlexander LokshinAlexander Lazarevich Lokshin was a Russian composer of classical music. He was born on September 19, 1920, in the town of Biysk, in the Altai Region, Western Siberia, and died in Moscow on June 11, 1987....
, composer (Jewish father) - Arthur LouriéArthur LouriéArthur-Vincent Lourié, born Naum Izrailevich Luria , later changed his name to Artur Sergeyevich Luriye was a significant Russian composer. Lourié played an important role in the earliest stages of the organization of Soviet music after the 1917 Revolution but later went into exile...
, composer - Oleg MaisenbergOleg Maisenberg-Early life and career:Born 29 April 1945 to a Jewish family in Odessa, Oleg Maisenberg received his first piano lessons from his mother at the age of five. He completed his studies at the Central Music School Kishinev and at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow with Professor Jocheles...
, pianist - Samuel MaykaparSamuel MaykaparSamuil Moiseevich Maykapar was a Russian romantic composer, pianist, professor of music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and author of outstanding piano practice pieces that became international grand classics....
, composer/pianist - Nathan MilsteinNathan MilsteinNathan Mironovich Milstein was a Russian-born American virtuoso violinist.Widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, Milstein was known for his interpretations of Bach's solo violin works and for works from the Romantic period...
, violinist - Shlomo MintzShlomo MintzShlomo Mintz is an Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor. He regularly appears with orchestras and conductors on the international scene and is heard in recitals and chamber music concerts around the world.- Awards :...
, violinist - Boris MoiseevBoris MoiseevBoris Mikhaylovich Moiseev is a Russian singer, choreographer, dancer, writer, actor, head of dance group and author of popular shows in Russia.-Biography:...
, dancer, showmaker - Benno MoiseiwitschBenno MoiseiwitschBenno Moiseiwitsch CBE was a Ukrainian-born British pianist.-Biography:Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Moiseiwitsch began his studies at age seven at the Odessa Music Academy. He won the Anton Rubinstein Prize when he was just nine years old. He later took lessons from Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna...
, pianist - David OistrakhDavid OistrakhDavid Fyodorovich Oistrakh , , David Fiodorović Ojstrakh, ; – October 24, 1974, was a Soviet violinist....
, violinist- Igor OistrakhIgor OistrakhIgor Oistrakh is a Russian violinist.He was born in Odessa, Ukraine and is the son of violinist David Oistrakh. He attended the Central Music School in Moscow and made his concert debut in 1948. From 1949 to 1955 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, winning first prizes and international...
, violinist (Jewish father)
- Igor Oistrakh
- Leo OrnsteinLeo OrnsteinLeo Ornstein was a leading American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century...
, composer - Gregor PiatigorskyGregor PiatigorskyGregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.-Early life:...
, cellist - Pokrass brothers, composers
- Alexander RosenbaumAlexander RosenbaumAlexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum is a Soviet and Russian bard from Saint Petersburg. He is best known as an interpreter of the blatnaya pesnya genre...
, singer/songwriter - Anton RubinsteinAnton RubinsteinAnton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...
, pianist/composer - Nikolai Rubinstein, pianist/composer
- Samuil SamosudSamuil SamosudSamuil Abramovich Samosud |Georgia]], — Moscow, 6 November 1964) was a Russian conductor. He started his musical career on the cello, before conducting in the Mariinsky Theater, Petrograd in 1917. From 1918 to 1936 he conducted at the Maly Operny, Leningrad. In 1936 he became musical...
, conductor - Alfred SchnittkeAlfred SchnittkeAlfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso...
, composer (Jewish father) - Joseph SchillingerJoseph SchillingerJoseph Schillinger was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher. He was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine and died in New York City.-Life and career:...
, composer, music theorist, and composition teacher - Daniil ShafranDaniil Shafran-Early years:Daniil Shafran was born in Petrograd in 1923. Even from before his birth he was surrounded by music. His mother and father were music students when he was born. His father, Boris Shafran, went on to be principal cellist of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and his mother, Frida...
, cellist - Leo SirotaLeo SirotaLeo Sirota was a Jewish pianist born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolskaya Guberniya, Russian Empire, now Ukraine....
, pianist - Regina SpektorRegina SpektorRegina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered in New York City's East Village.-Early life:...
, singer-songwriter and pianist - Isaac SternIsaac SternIsaac Stern was a Ukrainian-born violinist. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.-Biography:Isaac Stern was born into a Jewish family in Kremenets, Ukraine. He was fourteen months old when his family moved to San Francisco...
, violinist - Sophie TuckerSophie TuckerSophie Tucker was a Russian/Ukrainian-born American singer and actress. Known for her stentorian delivery of comical and risqué songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first half of the 20th century...
, singer - Efrem ZimbalistEfrem ZimbalistEfrem Zimbalist, Sr. was one of the world's most prominent concert violinists, as well as a composer, teacher, conductor and a long-time director of the Curtis Institute of Music.-Early life:...
, Russian-born American violinist - Maxim VengerovMaxim VengerovMaxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a violinist, violist, and conductor who was born in the Soviet Union.-Youth:Born on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Russia, to a family with musical tradition....
, prominent violinist - Alexander VeprikAlexander VeprikAlexander Moiseyevich Veprik, also Weprik, was a Russian composer and music educator. Veprik is considered one of the greatest composers of the "Jewish school" in Soviet music.-Life:...
, composer - Maria YudinaMaria YudinaMaria Veniaminovna Yudina was an influential Soviet pianist.Yudina was born to a Jewish family in Nevel, Russia. She studied at the Petrograd Conservatory under Anna Yesipova and Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev. She also briefly studied privately with Felix Blumenfeld. Her classmates included...
, pianist - Yakov ZakYakov ZakYakov Izrailevich Zak , , Jiakov Israilevič Sak; Odessa, - Moscow, June 28, 1976) was a Soviet pianist and teacher of Jewish extraction.Born in Odessa, Zak studied piano at the Odessa Conservatory with Maria Starkhova, took classes on special harmony with Mykola Vilinsky, and later studied with...
, pianist - Mikhael RauchvergerMikhael RauchvergerMikhael Rafailovich Raukhverger was a Jewish–Soviet pianist and composer. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under Felix Blumenfeld in 1927 and in 1929–1941 taught there...
,pianist and composer - Aleksey IgudesmanAleksey IgudesmanAleksey Igudesman is a Russian violinist, composer, conductor and actor. He performs in the duo Igudesman & Joo.- Biography :Igudesman was born in Leningrad, Russia. At the age of 12 he was accepted at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England...
,violinist
Performing and fine artists
- Eugene AbeshausEugene AbeshausEugene Abeshaus was a Jewish artist who worked in Russia and Israel....
, painter - Jacob AdlerJacob Pavlovich AdlerJacob Pavlovich Adler , born Yankev P. Adler, was a Jewish actor and star of Yiddish theater, first in Odessa, and later in London and New York City....
, actor - Meer AkselrodMeer AkselrodMeer Moiseevich Akselrod, also Meyer Axelrod was a Russian painter best known for his watercolor paintings of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union....
, painter - Benish MininbergBenish MininbergBenish Mininberg was an Israeli painter.-Life:Benish was one of seven siblings of Yehuda and Leba Mininberg. His parents were members of the First Aliyah, having migrated in 1900 to the small village of Neve Shalom, near the town of Jaffa, then part of Palestine. The Mininberg family resided in...
, painter - Nathan AltmanNathan AltmanNathan Isaevich Altman was a Jewish, Russian and Soviet avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator who was born, grew up and began his art studies in Ukraine, Russian Empire.-Early life:He was born in Vinnytsia, Russian Empire to a family of Russian...
, painter and stage designer from VinnytsiaVinnytsiaVinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Bug, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast.-Names:... - Boris AronsonBoris AronsonBoris Aronson was an American scenic designer for Broadway and Yiddish theatre. He won the Tony Award for Scenic Design six times in his career.-Biography:...
, painter & designer - Mordechai AvnielMordechai AvnielMordechai Avniel , variant name Mordecai Avniel, was an Israeli painter and sculptor.- Biography :Avniel was born in 1900 in Minsk, present-day Belarus. He studied fine arts in Yekaterinburg, Russia and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem...
, painter - Leon BakstLéon BakstLéon Samoilovitch Bakst was a Russian painter and scene- and costume designer. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes...
, painter & costume designer - Eugène BermanEugène BermanEugène Berman and his brother Leonid Berman were Russian Neo-romantic painters and theater and opera designers.-Early years:Born in Russia, they fled the Russian revolution in 1918...
, painter- Leonid Berman, painter
- Isaak Brodskiy, painter
- Marc ChagallMarc ChagallMarc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...
, painter from VitebskVitebskVitebsk, also known as Viciebsk or Vitsyebsk , is a city in Belarus, near the border with Russia. The capital of the Vitebsk Oblast, in 2004 it had 342,381 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth largest city...
- Bella Chagall, the wife of Marc ChagallMarc ChagallMarc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...
- Bella Chagall, the wife of Marc Chagall
- Joseph ChaikovJoseph ChaikovJoseph Moisevich Chaikov was a Russian Jewish sculptor, graphic designer and teacher, active both before the revolution and as a Soviet artist....
, sculptor - Ilya ChashnikIlya ChashnikIlya Grigorevich Chashnik was a suprematist artist, a pupil of Kazimir Malevich and a founding member of the UNOVIS school.Chashnik was notably able in a variety of media...
, painter - Nudie CohnNudie CohnNudie Cohn was a Russian-born American tailor who designed decorative rhinestone-covered suits, known popularly as "Nudie Suits", and other elaborate outfits for some of the most famous celebrities of his era. He also became famous for his outrageous customized automobiles.-Early life:Cohn was...
, fashion designer - Sonia DelaunaySonia DelaunaySonia Delaunay was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design...
, painter - Maya DerenMaya DerenMaya Deren , born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s...
, filmmaker - Boris EfimovBoris EfimovBoris Yefimovich Yefimov was a Soviet political cartoonist best known for his critical political caricatures of Adolf Hitler and other Nazis produced before and during the Second World War, and was the chief illustrator of the newspaper Izvestia...
, cartoonist - Fridrikh ErmlerFridrikh ErmlerFridrikh Markovich Ermler , was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter...
, film director - Aleksandr FaintsimmerAleksandr Faintsimmer- Filmography :*Proshchalnaya gastrol' 'Artista *Traktir na Pyatnitskoy *Bez prava na oshibku *Pyatdesyat na pyatdesyat *Daleko na zapade *Devushka s gitaroy *The Gadfly...
, cinematographer - Robert FalkRobert FalkRobert Rafailovich Falk was a Russian painter.-Biography:Falk was born in Moscow in 1886. In 1903 to 1904 he studied art in the studios of Konstantin Yuon and Ilya Mashkov, in 1905 to 1909 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Konstantin Korovin and Valentin...
, painter - Aleksandr Gelman, playwright
- Aleksei GermanAleksei GermanAleksei Yuryevich German is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, most active as a director and screenwriter. His last name is pronounced with a hard "g" and in English is frequently spelled Guerman or Gherman to avoid confusion.Almost all of German's films have been set during the Stalin era and have...
, cinematographer - Moisei GinzburgMoisei GinzburgMoisei Yakovlevich Ginzburg was a Soviet constructivist architect, best known for his 1929 Narkomfin Building in Moscow.-Education:Ginzburg was born in Minsk in a Jewish real estate developer's family. He graduated from Milano Academy and Riga polytechnic institute . During Russian Civil War he...
, architect - Michail GrobmanMichail GrobmanMichail Grobman is a painter and a poet working in Israel and Russia. He is father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman and Israeli Architect Yasha Jacob Grobman.-Notable Footnotes:* 1939 - Born in Moscow....
, painter - Abraham GoldfadenAbraham GoldfadenAbraham Goldfaden ; was an Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays.Goldfaden is considered the father of the Jewish modern theatre.In 1876 he founded in...
(1840–1908), playwright and theatre director - Yuli GusmanYuli GusmanYuli Solomonovich Gusman is a Soviet, Russian and Azerbaijani film director and actor. He is the founder and CEO of the prestigious Nika Award.- Life and career :...
, director - Boris IofanBoris IofanBoris Mihailovich Iofan was a Russian Soviet architect, known for his Stalinist architecture buildings like 1931 House on Embankment and the 1931-1933 winning draft of the Palace of Soviets.- Background :...
, architect - Ilya KabakovIlya KabakovIlya Kabakov, Russian Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в , is a Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish descent, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island...
, conceptual artist (Jewish father) - Yevgeny KhaldeiYevgeny KhaldeiYevgeny Khaldei was a Red Army photographer, best known for his World War II photograph of a Soviet soldier Raising a flag over the Reichstag, in Berlin, capital of the vanquished Nazi Germany .-Life:...
, photographer - Iosif KheifitsIosif KheifitsIosif Kheifits was a Soviet film director, winner of two Stalin Prizes , People's Artist of USSR , Hero of Socialist Labor . Member of the Communist Party of Soviet Union since 1945....
, film director - Roman Abelevich KachanovRoman Abelevich KachanovRoman Abelevich Kachanov was a Russian animator, one of the founders and leaders of Russian stop-motion animation.Kachanov was the director and screenwriter of the trilogy about Cheburashka, Gena the Crocodile and Shapoklyak.- Early years :...
, animator - Aleksei KaplerAleksei KaplerAleksei Yakovlevich Kapler ;Kiev, was a Soviet filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, and writer. He was known as an anchor and director of the TV program Kinopanorama...
, film artist - Roman Kartsev, actor
- Boris KaufmanBoris KaufmanBoris Abelevich Kaufman, A.S.C. was a cinematographer. He was the younger brother of famous filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman....
, cinematographer - Mikhail KaufmanMikhail KaufmanMikhail Abramovich Kaufman ; ) was a Russian cinematographer and photographer. He was the younger brother of filmmaker Dziga Vertov and the older brother of cinematographer Boris Kaufman....
, cinematographer - Gennady Khazanov, comedian
- Michel KikoineMichel KikoineMichel Kikoine , was a French painter of Jewish-Belarusian origin.- Life :Kikoine was born in Rechytsa, Belarus. The son of a Jewish banker in the small southeastern town of Gomel, he was barely into his teens when he began studying at "Kruger's School of Drawing" in Minsk. There he met Chaim...
, painter - Komar and MelamidKomar and MelamidKomar and Melamid is an artistic team made up of Russian-born American graphic artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid . In an artists’ statement they said that “Even if only one of us creates some of the projects and works, we usually sign them together...
, art-duo - Jacob KramerJacob KramerJacob Kramer was a Ukrainian-born painter who spent all of his working life in England.-Life and work:...
, painter - Pinchus KremegnePinchus KremegnePinchus Krémègne, aka Pinchus Kremegne , was a French artist of Jewish-Russian origin, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer....
, painter - Mila KunisMila KunisMilena "Mila" Kunis is an American actress. Her work includes the role of Jackie Burkhart on the TV series That '70s Show and the voice of Meg Griffin on the animated series Family Guy...
, television actress - Morris LapidusMorris LapidusMorris Lapidus was the architect of Neo-baroque Miami Modern hotels that has since come to define the 1950s resort-hotel style synonymous with Miami and Miami Beach....
, architect - Isaac LevitanIsaac LevitanIsaac Ilyich Levitan was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".-Youth:...
, painter - El LissitzkyEl Lissitzky, better known as El Lissitzky , was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works...
, designer - Anatole LitvakAnatole LitvakAnatole Litvak was a Ukrainian-born filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in a various countries and languages...
, director - Abram Manevich, painter
- Solomon MikhoelsSolomon MikhoelsSolomon Mikhoels ; was a Soviet Jewish actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. Mikhoels served as the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during the Second World War...
, actor & director - Lew Milinder, actor
- Alexander MittaAlexander MittaAlexander Naumovich Mitta is a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor.Mitta's birth name was Alexander Naumovich Rabinovich . He studied engineering , then worked as a cartoonist in art and humour magazines...
, film director - Alla NazimovaAlla NazimovaAlla Nazimova , was a Russian American film and theatre actress, a screenwriter and film producer. She is perhaps best known as simply Nazimova, but also went under the name Alia Nasimoff.-Early life:...
, actress - Louise Nevelson, sculptor
- Ernst NeizvestnyErnst NeizvestnyErnst Iosifovich Neizvestny is a Russian sculptor. He currently lives and works in New York City. His last name in Russian literally means "unknown"....
, sculptor - Solomon NikritinSolomon NikritinSolomon Nikritin was a Ukrainian painter, avant-garde artist , graphic artist, designer, and author.- Biography :Solomon Nikritin was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine.In 1909–1914 he attended Kiev Art School ....
, painter - Yuri Norstein, animator
- Jules OlitskiJules OlitskiJules Olitski was an American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.-Early life:Olitski was born Jevel Demikovski in Snovsk, in the Russian SFSR , a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Russian government...
, painter - Leonid PasternakLeonid PasternakLeonid Osipovich Pasternak was a Russian post-impressionist painter. He was the father of the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak.-Biography:...
, painter - Antoine PevsnerAntoine PevsnerAntoine Pevsner was a Belarusian and Russian sculptor and the older brother of Alexii Pevsner and Naum Gabo. Both Antoine and Naum are considered pioneers of twentieth-century sculpture.Pevsner was born in Klimavichy, Belarus...
, sculptor- Naum GaboNaum GaboNaum Gabo KBE, born Naum Neemia Pevsner was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of Kinetic Art.-Early life:...
, sculptor
- Naum Gabo
- Maya PlisetskayaMaya PlisetskayaMaya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya , born is a Russian ballet dancer, frequently cited as one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century. Maya danced during the Soviet era at the same time as the great Galina Ulanova, and took over from her as prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi in 1960...
, ballerina - Iosif PrutIosif PrutIosif Leonidovich Prut was a Russian playwright and the first Soviet screenwriter. Prut was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR .-Biography:...
, playwright - Elena RalphElena RalphElena Ralph is a beauty queen who has represented Israel in the Miss Universe pageant.Ralph won the Miss Israel 2005 title and went on to represent Israel in the Miss Universe 2005 beauty pageant held in Bangkok, Thailand. She made the top ten in the internationally televised pageant, which was...
, model - Faina RanevskayaFaina RanevskayaFaina Georgievna Ranevskaya is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet Russian actors in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms....
, comedian - Arkady RaikinArkady RaikinArkady Isaakovich Raikin was a Soviet stand-up comedian. He led the school of Soviet and Russian humorists for about half a century.Raikin was born into a Jewish family in Riga , then part of the Russian Empire. He graduated from the Leningrad Theatrical Technicum in 1935 and worked in both state...
, humorist - Mikhail RommMikhail RommMikhail Ilych Romm was a Soviet film director.He was born in Irkutsk. His father was a social democrat of Jewish descent who had been exiled there. He graduated from gymnasium in 1917 and entered the Moscow College for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture...
, director (Jewish father) - Abram RoomAbram RoomAbram Room was aRussian film director.Room's best known film is Bed and Sofa . In the film, a woman who is married to a construction worker has an affair with their lodger. The film tracks the evolution of a housewife into a strong liberated woman, which was very unusual for its time...
, film artist - Hanna RovinaHanna RovinaHanna Rovina , written also Hannah, Hana, or Chana Rovina or Robina, Israeli actress, is recognised as the original "First Lady of Hebrew Theatre".-Biography:Born in Belarus in the Russian Empire, she originally trained as a kindergarten teacher, at a course for...
, actress - Ida RubinsteinIda RubinsteinIda Lvovna Rubinstein was a Russian ballerina, actress, patron and Belle Époque figure.- Early life :Born in Kharkov, or possibly St. Petersburg,p408 into a wealthy Jewish family, Rubinstein was orphaned at an early age. She had, by the standard of Russian ballet, little formal training. Tutored...
, dancer - Issachar Rybak, painter from Yelizavetgrad
- Mikhail Schweitzer, screenwriter
- Yefim Shifrin, comedian
- Viktor Shenderovich, humorist
- David ShterenbergDavid ShterenbergDavid Petrovich Shterenberg was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter and graphic artist.Born to a Jewish family in Zhitomir, Ukraine, Shterenberg studied art in Odessa and then from 1906-1912 based himself in Paris where he studied with, amongst others, Kees van Dongen...
, painter from Zhitomir - Yakov SmirnoffYakov SmirnoffYakov Naumovich Pokhis , better known as Yakov Smirnoff, is a Ukrainian-born American comedian, painter and teacher. He was popular in the 1980s for comedy performances in which he used irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist regime in his native Soviet Union with life in the...
, American comedian - Chaim SoutineChaim SoutineChaïm Soutine was a Jewish painter from Belarus. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris....
, painter from MinskMinsk- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened... - Raphael SoyerRaphael SoyerRaphael Soyer was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter...
, American painter - Lee StrasbergLee StrasbergLee Strasberg was an American actor, director and acting teacher. He cofounded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective"...
, acting teacher - Leonid TraubergLeonid TraubergLeonid Zakharovich Trauberg was a Jewish Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941.-Filmography:* The Adventures of Oktyabrina ...
, cinematographer - Dziga VertovDziga VertovDavid Abelevich Kaufman , better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov , was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist...
, director - Anton YelchinAnton YelchinAnton Viktorovich Yelchin is an American film and television actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles, as well as the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis...
, Russian-born American film/television actor - Ossip ZadkineOssip ZadkineOssip Zadkine was a Belarusian-born artist who lived in France. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs.-Early years and career:...
, sculptor (Jewish father) - Genndy TartakovskyGenndy TartakovskyGenndy Borisovich Tartakovsky is a Russian-American television animator, director and producer. His best-known creations are Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and Sym-Bionic Titan...
, Russian-born American animation director - Vladimir Galperin, journalist and writer, literature professor
Writers and poets
- David AizmanDavid Aizman-Biography:David Aizman was born in Nikolayev, a coastal city in what is now Ukraine. His older brothers were revolutionary activists. He went to Paris in 1896 to study painting. In 1898 he and his wife, a Russian-Jewish physician, moved to the French countryside. While living in France, he made...
, writer and playwright - Vasily AksyonovVasily AksyonovVasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He is known in the West as the author of The Burn and Generations of Winter , a family saga depicting three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.-Early life:Vasily Aksyonov was...
, writer (Jewish mother) - Sholom AleichemSholom AleichemSholem Aleichem was the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, a leading Yiddish author and playwright...
, Yiddish-language writer - Isaac AsimovIsaac AsimovIsaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...
, science fiction writer - Isaac BabelIsaac BabelIsaak Emmanuilovich Babel was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of My Dovecote, and Tales of Odessa, all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature...
, writer - Eduard BagritskyEduard BagritskyEduard Bagritsky , real name Dzyubin , was an important Russian and Soviet poet of the Constructivist School.He was a Neo-Romantic early in his poetic career; he was also a part of the so-called Odessa School of Russian writers...
, poet - Eliezer Ben-YehudaEliezer Ben-YehudaEliezer Ben‑Yehuda was a Jewish lexicographer and newspaper editor. He was the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language in the modern era.-Biography:...
, Hebrew-language writer - Isaac Dov BerkowitzIsaac Dov BerkowitzIsaac Dov Berkowitz , a Jewish and Israeli author, born in Slutsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus. He emigrated to and settled in the British Mandate of Palestine, today Israel, in 1928.-Works:...
, writer - Hayyim Nahman BialikHayyim Nahman BialikHayim Nahman Bialik , also Chaim or Haim, was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poets and came to be recognized as Israel's national poet.-Biography:...
, poet - Rachel BluwsteinRachel BluwsteinSela was a Hebrew poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909. She is known by her first name, Rachel, or as Rachel the poetess .-Biography:...
, poet - Yosef Haim BrennerYosef Haim BrennerYosef Haim Brenner was a Russian-born Hebrew-language author, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature.-Biography:Brenner was born to a poor Jewish family in Novi Mlini, Russian Empire...
, Hebrew-language writer - Osip BrikOsip BrikOsip Maksimovich Brik , , Russian avant garde writer and literary critic, was one of the most important members of the Russian formalist school, though he also identified himself as one of the Futurists....
, author - Joseph BrodskyJoseph BrodskyIosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
, Russian-language poet, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
(1987) - Sasha ChernySasha ChernySasha Chorny , real name Alexander Mikhailovich Glickberg, was a Russian poet, satirist and children's writer.-Early years:...
, poet - Yuli DanielYuli DanielYuli Markovich Daniel was a Soviet dissident writer, poet, translator and political prisoner.He frequently wrote under the pseudonyms Nikolay Arzhak and Yu. Petrov .-Early life and World War II:...
, writer - Michael DorfmanMichael DorfmanMichael Dorfman is a Jewish writer, essayist, journalist, and human rights activist. Revivalist of the Yiddish culture among the Russian Jews....
, journalist and esseyst - David EdelstadtDavid EdelstadtDavid Edelstadt was a Jewish-Russian-American anarchist poet of Yiddish language.- Biography :...
, Yiddish-language anarchist poet - Ilya EhrenburgIlya EhrenburgIlya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg was a Soviet writer, journalist, translator, and cultural figure.Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist - in particular, as a...
, writer - Natan EidelmanNatan EidelmanNatan Eidelman , was a Russian author and historian. He wrote several books on about the life and work of Alexander Pushkin, Decembrists Sergey Muravyov-Apostol and Mikhail Lunin, and historian Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin.-Bibliography:*Conspiracy Against the Tsar. A Portrait of the Decembrists...
, writer - Alter EsselinAlter EsselinAlter Esselin, was a Russian-born American poet who wrote in the Yiddish language. He was born in Tchernigov, Russia on April 23, 1889 and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on November 22, 1974...
, poet, carpenter - Alexander Galich, playwright poet
- Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'Am), Hebrew-language writer
- Lydia GinzburgLydia GinzburgLidiya Yakovlevna Ginzburg was a major Soviet literary critic and historian and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad.She was born in Odessa in 1902 and moved to Leningrad in 1922...
, writer - Yevgenia GinzburgYevgenia GinzburgYevgenia Ginzburg was a Russian author who served an 18-year sentence in the Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia.-Family and early career:...
, writer - Jacob Gordin, American playwright
- Leon Gordon, writer
- Vasily GrossmanVasily GrossmanVasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Grossman trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels...
, writer - Igor GubermanIgor GubermanIgor Guberman - Игорь Миронович Губерман is a Russian writer and poet of Jewish ancestry; since 1988 he has lived in Israel. His poetry has received a great deal of acclaim primarily because of his signature aphoristic and satiric quatrains, called "gariki" in Russian ....
, writer - Peretz HirshbeinPeretz HirshbeinPeretz Hirshbein was a Yiddish-language playwright, instrumental in the revival of Yiddish theater in Russia shortly after the 1904 lifting of the 1883 ban on theatrical performances in that language...
, playwright - Ilya IlfIlya IlfIlya Ilf was an extremely popular Soviet author of the 1920s and 1930s, who worked in collaboration with Yevgeni Petrov. See Ilf and Petrov for more info....
, writer - Vera InberVera InberVera Mikhailovna Inber, born Shpenzer, was a Russian-Soviet poet and writer.-Biography:...
, poet - Lev KassilLev KassilLev Abramovich Kassil was a Soviet writer of juvenile and young adult literature, depicting Soviet life, teenagers and their world, school, sports, cultural life, and war....
, writer - Veniamin KaverinVeniamin KaverinVeniamin Alexandrovich Kaverin was a Soviet writer associated with the early 1920s movement of the Serapion Brothers. The immunologist Lev Zilber was his older brother, and the critic Yury Tynyanov was his brother-in-law....
, writer (Jewish father) - A.M. Klein, poet
- Pavel Kogan, poet
- Lev KopelevLev KopelevLev Zalmanovich Kopelev was a Soviet author and a dissident.- Biography :...
, author and dissident - Arkady Kotz, poet
- Lazar LaginLazar LaginLazar Yosifovych Lagin was the pen name of Lazar Ginzburg , a Soviet satirist and children's writer....
, writer - Vladimir LantsbergVladimir LantsbergVladimir Isaakovich Lantsberg was a Russian poet, songwriter, bard, and teacher.Vladimir Lantsberg was born on June 22, 1948 in the city of Saratov. In 1971, he graduated from Saratov Polytechnical Institute. He worked as a mechanical engineer until 1979, when he moved to Tuapse...
, writer - H. LeivickH. LeivickH. Leivick was a Yiddish language writer, known for his 1921 "dramatic poem in eight scenes" The Golem...
, dramatist - Benedikt LivshitsBenedikt LivshitsBenedikt Konstantinovich Livshits /January 6, 1887 — September 21, 1938) was a poet and writer of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, a French–Russian poetry translator....
, writer - Nadezhda MandelstamNadezhda MandelstamNadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam was a Russian writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the gulag of Siberia...
, writer - Osip MandelstamOsip MandelstamOsip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets...
, poet - Samuil MarshakSamuil MarshakSamuil Yakovlevich Marshak was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of [Russia's ]...
, poet - Yunna MoritsYunna MoritsYunna Morits , is a Soviet and Russian artist of many talents primarily known as a poet, was born in Kiev, USSR in a Jewish family. Her father Pinchas Moritz, was imprisoned under Stalin, she suffered from tuberculosis in her childhood, and spent years of hardship in the Urals during WWII...
, poet - Semen NadsonSemen NadsonSemyon Yakovlevich Nadson was a Russian poet.Nadson's grandfather was a Jew who converted to the Greek Orthodox religion, his father was an official in St. Petersburg...
, poet (Jewish father) - Boris PasternakBoris PasternakBoris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian language poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russia, Pasternak's anthology My Sister Life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language...
, writer, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
(1958) - Yakov Perelman, writer
- David PinskiDavid PinskiDavid Pinski was a Yiddish language writer, probably best known as a playwright. At a time when Eastern Europe was only beginning to experience the industrial revolution, Pinski was the first to introduce to its stage a drama about urban Jewish workers; a dramatist of ideas, he was notable also...
, writer - Lev RazgonLev RazgonLev Emmanuilovich Razgon was a Soviet and Russian writer, detainee of the Gulag, human rights activist....
, writer, gulagGulagThe Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...
inmate for 17 years - Yevgeny ReinYevgeny ReinYevgeny Borisovich Rein is a Russian poet and writer. His poetry won the State Prize of Russia , Pushkin Prize of Russia, and Tsarskoe Selo Art Prize ....
, poet - Ayn RandAyn RandAyn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism....
, writer (born Alisa Rosenbaum) - Anatoli Rybakov, writer
- David SamoylovDavid SamoylovDavid Samoylov , pseudonym of David Samuilovich Kaufman . He is a notable poet of War generation of Russian poets, and considered one of the most important Russian poets of the post-World War II era.-External links:* * *...
, poet - Mendele Mocher SforimMendele Mocher SforimMendele Mocher Sforim , December 21, 1835 = January 2, 1836 , Kapyl — November 25, 1917 = December 8, 1917...
, founder of modern Yiddish and modern HebrewModern HebrewModern Hebrew , also known as Israeli Hebrew or Modern Israeli Hebrew, is the language spoken in Israel and in some Jewish communities worldwide, from the early 20th century to the present....
literature - Viktor ShklovskyViktor ShklovskyViktor Borisovich Shklovsky was a Russian and Soviet critic, writer, and pamphleteer.-Life:...
, writer and critic (Jewish father) - Ilia ShtemlerIlia Shtemler- Biography :Shtemler was born in Baku, graduated from the Baku Industrial Institute in 1957 and then worked as an engineer, first in the oil industry in the Volga region and then on the "Geologorazvedka" factory in Leningrad, city which eventually became his second home...
, writer - Gary ShteyngartGary ShteyngartGary Shteyngart is an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR. Much of his work is satirical and relies on the invention of elaborately fictitious yet somehow familiar places and times.-Life:...
(Steinhart), writer - Boris SlutskyBoris SlutskyBoris Slutsky was a Soviet poet of Russian language.Lived his childhood and youth in Harkov. In the year 1937 entered the law institute of Moscow, and since1939 studied also at the Institute of literature "Maxim Gorky" till 1941....
, war-time poet - Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, science fiction writers (Jewish father)
- Mikhail SvetlovMikhail Arkadyevich SvetlovMikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov , born Scheinkman , was a Soviet Russian poet.-Biography:Svetlov was born into a poor Jewish family. He has been published since 1917. A member of Komsomol since 1919, Svetlov was sent to the First Congress of Proletarian Writers in Moscow in 1920 and took part in the...
, poet - Shaul TchernichovskyShaul TchernichovskyShaul Tchernichovsky , was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and as a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece.- Life :...
, poet and translator - Yuri Tynyanov, writer
Chess
- Lev AlburtLev AlburtLev Osipovich Alburt is a chess Grandmaster and a well-respected chess writer. He was three-time Ukrainian Champion, and after defecting to the United States in 1979, became three-time U.S. Champion.-Career:...
- Yuri AverbakhYuri AverbakhYuri Lvovich Averbakh is a Soviet and Russian chess player and author. He is currently the oldest living chess grandmaster.-Life and career:...
- Alexander BeliavskyAlexander Beliavsky-External links:...
- Ossip BernsteinOssip BernsteinOssip Samoilovich Bernstein was a Russian chess grandmaster and a financial lawyer.-Biography:...
- Benjamin BlumenfeldBenjamin BlumenfeldBenjamin Blumenfeld was a Russian chess master.Born in Volkovysk, Belarus , then Russia. In 1905/06, he tied for second/third with Akiba Rubinstein, behind Gersz Salwe, in St. Petersburg...
- Isaac BoleslavskyIsaac BoleslavskyIsaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky was a Soviet–Jewish chess Grandmaster.-Early career:Boleslavsky taught himself chess at age 9...
- Mikhail BotvinnikMikhail BotvinnikMikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik, Ph.D. was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion. Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few famous chess players who achieved distinction in another career while...
, World Champion - David BronsteinDavid BronsteinDavid Ionovich Bronstein was a Soviet chess grandmaster, who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was described by his peers as a creative genius and master of tactics...
, World Championship challenger - Maxim DlugyMaxim DlugyMaxim Dlugy is a Grandmaster of chess. He was born on January 29, 1966 in Moscow, USSR. He arrived with his family in the United States in about 1979. He was a late developer and was only an average player for his age until he shot up in strength in the early 1980s. He was awarded the International...
- Iossif Dorfman
- Mark DvoretskyMark DvoretskyMark Izrailovich Dvoretsky is a world-renowned Russian chess trainer, writer and International Master.He was awarded the International Master title in 1975 and for a while, was widely regarded as the strongest IM in the world...
- Louis EisenbergLouis EisenbergLouis R. Eisenberg was a Ukrainian-American chess master.He was born in Odessa in 1876. After graduating from Nicholas College, he pursued journalism until, in 1901-1902, he won a chess tournament at Odessa 1901, and journeyed to Monte Carlo to participate in the international masters’ tournament...
- Yakov EstrinYakov EstrinYakov Borisovich Estrin was a Russian chess International Master, theoretician, and writer.After a brief foray into "over-the-board" play, he turned to correspondence chess in the early 1960s with immediate success Yakov Borisovich Estrin (April 21, 1923 – February 2, 1987) was a Russian chess...
- Alexander EvensohnAlexander EvensohnAlexandr Moyseyevich Evensohn was a Russian chess master.-Biography:In 1909, Evensohn took 7th at Kiev. The event was won by Nikolaev. In 1911, he took 3rd, behind Efim Bogoljubow and Izbinsky, at Kiev. In 1911, he took 4th at Kiev. The event was won by Fedor Bohatirchuk...
- Salo FlohrSalo FlohrSalomon Mikhailovich Flohr was a leading Czech and later Soviet chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. His name was used to sell many of the luxury products of the time, including Salo Flohr cigarettes, slippers and eau-de-cologne...
- Semen Furman
- Boris GelfandBoris GelfandBoris Abramovich Gelfand is a Belarus-born Israeli chess Grandmaster. He won the 2011 Candidates Tournament and will challenge Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess Championship 2012.-Biography:...
- Efim GellerEfim GellerEfim Petrovich Geller was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice and was a Candidate for the World Championship on six occasions...
- Eduard GufeldEduard GufeldEduard Yefimovich Gufeld was a Soviet International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess author.By the late 1950s he established himself as one of the strongest players in the world...
- Boris Gulko
- Dmitry GurevichDmitry GurevichDmitry Gurevich is a Russian-American chess grandmaster.Gurevich emigrated to New York in 1980 and earned the grandmaster title three years later. Dmitry has won the U.S. Open three times . Also, Gurevich has had especially good results at the National Open in Las Vegas, sharing first place on...
- Ilya GurevichIlya GurevichIlya Gurevich is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster.He became a chess master at 12 years, 3 months. He was a student at Yeshiva Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts.In 1983, he won the U.S...
- Mikhail GurevichMikhail Gurevich (chess player)Mikhail Naumovich Gurevich is a Soviet chess player. He lived in Belgium from 1991 to 2005 and since then resides in Turkey....
- Nicolai JasnogrodskyNicolai JasnogrodskyNicolai Jasnogrodsky was a Russian–born American chess master.Jasnogrodsky started to play competitive chess around 1885 in Vienna, and moved to England in the 1880s. He tied for 4-5th at Amsterdam 1889 Nicolai Jasnogrodsky (6 August 1859, Lubny – 23 April 1914, New York) was a Russian–born...
- Gregory KaidanovGregory KaidanovGregory Kaidanov is a Grandmaster of chess.As of April 2007, his Elo rating was 2587, making him the #9 player in the US and the 179th-highest rated player in the world. His peak rating was 2646 in 2002....
- Ilya KanIlya KanIlya Abramovich Kan , was a Russian / Soviet International Master of Chess.He played ten times in Soviet Championships. In 1929, he took 3rd in Odessa . In 1931, he took 7th in Moscow . In 1933, he took 9th in Leningrad...
- Garry KasparovGarry KasparovGarry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time....
, World Champion - Alexander KhalifmanAlexander KhalifmanAlexander Valeryevich Khalifman is a Soviet and Russian chess Grandmaster of Jewish descent; he is also a former FIDE champion.When Khalifman was 6 years old, he was taught chess by his father....
, FIDE World Champion - Alexander KonstantinopolskyAlexander KonstantinopolskyAlexander Markovich Konstantinopolsky was a Soviet International Master of chess, chess coach and trainer, and a chess author. He was a five-time Kiev champion, and trained the world title challenger David Bronstein from a young age...
- Viktor KorchnoiViktor KorchnoiViktor Lvovich Korchnoi ; pronounced in the original Russian as "karch NOY"; Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, born March 23, 1931 is a professional chess player, author and currently the oldest active grandmaster on the tournament circuit...
, World Championship challenger - Ljuba KristolLjuba KristolLjuba Danielovna Kristol is a Russian-born Israeli International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and Woman International Master.She is best known for winning the ICCF Women's World Championship in correspondence chess on two occasions: between 1978 and 1984, and between 1993 and 1998.She grew up...
- Alla KushnirAlla KushnirAlla Shulimovna Kushnir is a Russian–born Israeli chess Woman Grandmaster.Kushnir was thrice Women's World Chess Championship Challenger. She lost matches for the title to Nona Gaprindashvili:* +3 –7 =3 at Riga 1965;* +2 –6 =5 at Tbilisi–Moscow 1969;...
, Women's World Championship challenger - Anatoly LeinAnatoly LeinAnatoly Yakovlevich Lein is a Soviet-born American chess Grandmaster.FIDE awarded him the International Master title in 1964 and the Grandmaster title in 1968.He won the 1971 Moscow championship after a play-off...
- Konstantin LernerKonstantin LernerKonstantin Zaivelevich Lerner was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster...
- Grigory LevenfishGrigory LevenfishGrigory Yakovlevich Levenfish was a leading Jewish Russian chess grandmaster of the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion - in 1934 and 1937. In 1937 he tied a match against future world champion Mikhail Botvinnik...
- Irina LevitinaIrina LevitinaIrina Solomonovna Levitina is a Russian-American chess and bridge player. In chess, she has been a World Championship Candidate and gained the title Woman Grandmaster. In contract bridge she has been five times the World Champion.-Chess career:In 1973, she tied for 2nd-5th in Menorca...
- Vladimir LiberzonVladimir LiberzonVladimir Mikhailovich Liberzon was a Russian–born Israeli chess grandmaster.-Biography:Liberzon played in several Soviet championships, his best result being fourth at the 36th Championship, Alma-Ata 1968/69...
- Andor LilienthalAndor LilienthalAndor Arnoldovich Lilienthal was a Hungarian and Soviet chess Grandmaster. In his long career, he played against ten male and female world champions, beating Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik...
- Moishe LowtzkyMoishe Lowtzky-Biography:He was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine. In 1903, Lowtzky tied for 6-7th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in Kiev . The event was won by Mikhail Chigorin. In 1903, he took 4th in Dresden . In 1904, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Coburg . In 1910, he tied for 1st with Thoenes in Hamburg...
- Vladimir MalaniukVladimir MalaniukVladimir Pavlovich Malaniuk is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster....
- Sam PalatnikSam PalatnikSemon Alexandrovich Palatnik is a Ukrainian-American chess Grandmaster, born in Odessa.He won four team and individual gold medals at the 20th World Student Team Chess Championship at Teesside 1974, and 21st World Student Team Championship at Caracas 1976.Some of his tournament results include...
- Ernest PogosyantsErnest PogosyantsErnest Levonovich Pogosyants was a Soviet composer of chess problems and endgame studies. He composed about 6,000 problems and studies, almost as many chess puzzles as the 6,500 created by T. R. Dawson...
- Iosif PogrebysskyIosif PogrebysskyIosif Benediktovich Pogrebyssky was a Ukrainian chess master.He played several times in Ukrainian Chess Championship, and took 3rd at Poltava 1927 , took 5th at Odessa 1928 , shared 1st at Kiev 1936, took 2nd, behind Fedor Bogatyrchuk, at Kiev 1937, and tied for 2nd-3rd...
- Lev PolugaevskyLev PolugaevskyLev Abramovich Polugaevsky was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the world chess championship, although he never achieved that title...
- Lev PsakhisLev PsakhisLev Borisovich Psakhis is a naturalised Israeli chess grandmaster, trainer and author. Born in Siberia, he is also a two-time former champion of the Soviet Union.-Biography:...
- Abram RabinovichAbram RabinovichAbram Rabinovich was a Lithuanian–Russian chess master.-Biography:...
- Ilya RabinovichIlya RabinovichIlya Rabinovich was a Russian chess master.-Biography:In 1911 Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich tied for 1st with Platz in Saint Petersburg...
- Leonid ShamkovichLeonid ShamkovichLeonid Aleksandrovich Shamkovich was a chess Grandmaster, and chess writer.He was born in a Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don in Russia...
- Ilya SmirinIlya SmirinIlya Yulievich Smirin is a Soviet-Israeli chess Grandmaster., his Elo rating was 2650, making him the 59th-highest rated player in the world...
- Gennadi SosonkoGennadi SosonkoGennadi Borisovich Sosonko is a Dutch chess Grandmaster .At the beginning of his career, in 1958, he won in the Leningrad juniors championship.Sosonko moved from the Soviet Union to the Netherlands via Israel in 1972...
- Leonid SteinLeonid SteinLeonid Zakharovich Stein was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine. He won three USSR Chess Championships in the 1960s , and was among the world's top ten players during that era.- Early life :...
- Peter SvidlerPeter SvidlerPeter Veniaminovich Svidler is a Russian chess grandmaster.He is six-time Russian champion ....
- Mark TaimanovMark TaimanovMark Evgenievich Taimanov is a leading Soviet and Russian chess player and concert pianist.-Chess:He was awarded the International Grandmaster title in 1952 and played in the Candidates Tournament in Zurich in 1953, where he tied for eighth place. From 1946 to 1956, he was among the world's top...
- Boris VerlinskyBoris VerlinskyBoris Markovich Verlinsky was a Ukrainian-Russian International Master of chess. He was one of the top Soviet players of the 1920s, and was in the top 20 in the world in 1926, clearly of Grandmaster strength at that time...
- Yakov VilnerYakov VilnerYakov Vilner was a Ukrainian chess master.-Biography:Vilner won the Odessa chess championships four times . He won the Ukrainian championships three times; at Kiev 1924 , at Kharkov 1925 , and at Odessa 1928...
- Leonid YudasinLeonid YudasinLeonid Grigoryevich Yudasin is a prominent chess grandmaster and trainer, now living in New York City.Awarded the International Master title in 1982, he secured the International Grandmaster title in 1984, the year he became Leningrad Champion...
Boxing
- Yuri ForemanYuri ForemanYuri Foreman is a Belarusian-born Israeli-American professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association super welterweight champion...
, Belarusian-born Israeli US middleweightMiddleweightMiddleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...
and World Boxing AssociationWorld Boxing AssociationThe World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title at the professional level. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...
champion super welterweight - Louis Kaplan ("Kid Kaplan"), Russian-born US, world champion featherweight, Hall of Fame
- Shamil SabirovShamil SabirovShamil Altaevich Sabirov is a retired boxer.-Career:He won the gold medal for the USSR in the light flyweight division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he defeated Cuba's Hipólito Ramos on points .A light flyweight, Sabirov was one of the best amateur boxers in the world in...
, Russia, Olympic champion light flyweight
Canoeing
- Leonid GeishtorLeonid GeishtorLeonid Grigorievich Geishtor is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.-Life and career:...
, USSR (Belarus), sprint canoer, Olympic champion (Canadian pairs 1,000-meter) - Michael KolganovMichael KolganovMichael Kolganov is a Soviet-born, Israeli sprint canoer and former world champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at Sydney in 2000...
, Soviet (Uzbek)-born Israeli, sprint canoer, world champion, Olympic bronze (K-1 500-meter) - Naum ProkupetsNaum ProkupetsNaum Leybovich Prokupets is a Basarabeasca, Moldovan-born Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. He is Jewish.-Career:At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, he won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event....
, Moldovan-born Soviet, sprint canoer, Olympic bronze (C-2 1,000-meter), gold (C-2 10,000-meter) at ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Fencing
- Sergei CharikovSergei CharikovSergey Aleksandrovich Sharikov , also known as Serguei/Sergei Charikov, is a left-handed Russian sabre fencer...
, Russia (saber), 2x Olympic champion, silver, bronze - Vadim GutzeitVadim GutzeitVadim Gutzeit is an Ukrainian Olympic sabre fencer.-World Championships:...
, Ukraine (saber), Olympic champion - Grigory KrissGrigory KrissGrigori Yakovlevich Kriss was a Soviet Russian world champion epee fencer.-Fencing career:He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Kiev...
, Soviet (épée), Olympic champion, 2x silver - Maria MazinaMaria MazinaMaria Mazina is a Russian women's épée fencer.-Fencing career:Mazina began fencing at the age of 12.Mazina, who is Jewish, is a 5-time world women's épée champion.-Olympics:She won a team bronze medal in the 1996 Olympics...
, Russia (épée), Olympic champion, bronze - Mark MidlerMark MidlerMark Petrovich Midler was a Soviet Russian foil fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games.-Fencing career:Midler was a member of the USSR National Fencing Team between 1951 and 1967...
, Soviet (foil), 2x Olympic champion - Mark RakitaMark RakitaMark Semenovich Rakita is a famed Russian sabreur and coach from the Soviet era.-Fencing career:Rakita started fencing at 14. He practiced daily for between three – six hours a day. A 1969 graduate of The Daghestan State Pedagogical Institute, Rakita earned the title of Master of the Sport in...
, Soviet (saber), 2x Olympic champion, 2x silver - Yakov RylskyYakov RylskyYakov Anufrievich Rylsky was a Jewish sabre fencer of the Soviet Union. He competed in three Olympiads, and won two medals for the Soviet Union's fencing team.-Fencing career:Rylsky began fencing in 1950...
, Soviet (saber), Olympic champion - David TyshlerDavid TyshlerDavid Abramovich Tyshler is a former competitive sabreur, part of the first generation of internationally successful Soviet fencers . He is best known as an extremely successful and innovative fencing coach...
, Soviet (saber), Olympic bronze - Eduard VinokurovEduard VinokurovEduard Teodorovich Vinokurov was a Soviet Russian sabre fencer. He was born in the village of Baizhansai, South Kazakhstan Province, Kazakh SSR.-Fencing career:Vinokurov began fencing in 1956.He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Leningrad....
, Russia (saber), 2x Olympic champion, silver - Iosif VitebskiyIosif VitebskiyIosif Davidovich Vitebskiy is a former Soviet Ukrainian fencer, and current US fencing coach.-Early life and fencing career:A graduate of the Kiev State University with a degree in physical culture and sport, Vitebskiy was a member of both the Soviet Union and Ukrainian national teams.A 19-time...
, Soviet (épée), Olympic silver, 10x national champion
Figure skating
- Ilya Averbukh, Russia, ice dancer, Olympic silver
- Oksana BaiulOksana BaiulOksana Serhiyivna Baiul is a Ukrainian professional figure skater. She is the 1994 Olympic Champion in Ladies' Singles and 1993 World Champion.-Early and personal life:...
, UkraineUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, figure skater, Olympic gold, world champion - Alexei BeletskiAlexei BeletskiAlexei Beletski is an Israeli ice dancer.He competes alongside his wife Natalia Gudina. They competed together for the Ukraine until the end of 1998/1999 season, after which they switched to competing for Israel. Gudina and Beletski the 2000–05 Israeli national silver medalists...
, Ukrainian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian - Aleksandr GorelikAleksandr GorelikAleksandr Yudaevich Gorelik was a Soviet pair skater. He competed with Tatiana Zhuk. They are the 1965 World bronze medalists and the 1966 and 1968 World silver medalists. At the European Figure Skating Championships, they won the bronze medal in 1965 and the silver in 1966...
, Soviet, pair skater, Olympic silver, World Championship 2x silver, bronze - Natalia GudinaNatalia GudinaNatalia Gudina is an Israeli ice dancer. She competes with husband Alexei Beletski. They competed together for the Ukraine until the end of 1998/1999 season, after which they switched to competing for Israel. Gudina and Beletski the 2000–2005 Israeli national silver medalists...
, Ukrainian-born Israeli, figure skater, Olympian - Gennadi KarponossovGennadi KarponossovGennadi Mikhailovich Karponosov is a Russian former competitive ice dancer and current ice dancing coach. Along with his partner, Natalia Linichuk, he was the 1980 Olympic gold medalist and a two-time World Champion.- Competitive career :...
, Russia, ice dancer & coach, Olympic gold, World Championship 2x gold, silver, 2x bronze - Michael ShmerkinMichael ShmerkinMichael "Misha" Shmerkin is an Israeli figure skater.-Biography:Shmerkin was born and raised in the Soviet Union and competed for them internationally, most notably at the 1990 Junior Worlds....
, Soviet-born Israeli, figure skater - Irina Slutskaya, Russia, figure skater, Olympic silver, bronze, World Championship 2x gold, 3x silver, bronze
- Maxim StaviskiMaxim StaviskiMaxim Staviski is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiancée Albena Denkova, he is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...
, Russian-born Bulgarian, ice dancer, World Championship gold, silver, bronze - Alexandra ZaretskiAlexandra ZaretskiAlexandra "Sasha" Zaretsky is an Israeli ice dancer. She competed with her brother Roman Zaretsky. Together, they are three-time Israeli National Champions and two-time Olympic competitors.-Personal life:...
, BelarusBelarusBelarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
ian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian - Roman ZaretskiRoman ZaretskiRoman Zaretsky is an Israeli ice dancer.He competed with his sister, Alexandra Zaretsky. Together, they are three-time Israeli National Champions, and two-time Olympic competitors.-Personal life:Roman Zaretsky was born in Minsk, Belarus SSR, Soviet Union....
, Belarusian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian
Football (American)
- Joe MagidsohnJoe MagidsohnJoseph "Joe" Magidsohn was an American football player and official. He played halfback for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1909 and 1910 and was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp in 1909 and a first-team All-American in 1910...
, Russia, Halfback - Igor OlshanskyIgor OlshanskyIgor Olshansky is a Ukrainian-born American football defensive end free agent in National Football League. He last played for the Miami Dolphins....
, Ukraine, DL (Miami DolphinsMiami DolphinsThe Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
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Gymnastics
- Evgeny (or Yevgeny) BabichYevgeny BabichYevgeny Makarovich Babich was a ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League.-Biography:Babich played for HC CSKA Moscow...
, Soviet, Olympic champion, world & European champion, 2x runner-up - Yanina Batyrchina, Russia, Olympic silver (rhythmic gymnasticsRhythmic gymnasticsRhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...
) - Maria GorokhovskayaMaria GorokhovskayaMaria Kondratyevna Gorokhovskaya was a Ukrainian gymnast. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, she won seven medals, the most medals won by any woman in a single Olympics....
, USSR, Olympic 2x champion (all-around individual exercises, team combined exercises), 5x silver (vault, asymmetrical bars, balance beam, floor exercises, team exercises with portable apparatus) - Natalia Laschenova, USSR, Olympic champion (team)
- Tatiana LysenkoTatiana LysenkoTatiana Felixivna Lysenko is a Soviet and Ukrainian gymnast, who had her senior competitive career from 1990 to 1994.She is Jewish. Tatiana was known for her exceptional difficulty level and haughty style on the floor...
, Soviet/UkrainianUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, 2x Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises), bronze (horse vault) - Mikhail Perelman, USSR, Olympic champion (team combined exercises)
- Vladimir PortnoiVladimir PortnoiVladimir Portnoi is a former Soviet gymnast. He is Jewish, and was born in Odessa.-Olympics:Portnoi won a silver medal for the Soviet Union at the 1960 Olympics in Rome in team combined gymnastics. He won a bronze medal in the long horse at the same Olympics, behind Takashi Ono and Boris...
, USSR, Olympic silver (team combined exercises) and bronze (long horse vault) - Yulia RaskinaYulia RaskinaYulia Raskina is a former Individual rhythmic gymnast who won the All-Around Silver at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She is Jewish....
, Belarus, Olympic silver (rhythmic gymnastics) - Alexander ShatilovAlexander ShatilovAlexander Shatilov is an Israeli artistic gymnast. He specializes in the floor exercise, in which he won several medals at world and European championships, and reached the final at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:...
, Uzbekistan/Israel, world bronze (artistic gymnast; floor exercises) - Yelena ShushunovaYelena ShushunovaYelena Lvovna Shushunova is a Russian gymnast, World, European, and Olympic Champion. Shushunova is renowned for her dynamic vaulting and tumbling skills as well as her longevity and exceptional consistency...
, USSR, Olympic 2x champion (all-around, team), silver (balance beam), bronze (uneven bars)
Ice hockey
- Max BirbraerMax BirbraerMaxim "Max" Birbraer is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Cardiff Devils.Birbraer is Jewish....
, Russian from Kazakhstan; lived & played in Israel; 1st Israeli drafted by NHL team (New Jersey DevilsNew Jersey DevilsThe New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey, United States. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
) - Vitaly DavydovVitaly DavydovVitaly Semenovich Davydov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He was born in Moscow, and played his entire club career for HC Dynamo Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963.-External links:...
, Soviet, defenseman, 3x Olympic champion, world & European champion 1963–71, runner-up - Alfred KuchevskyAlfred KuchevskyAlfred Iosifovich Kuchevsky was a Russian ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. Olympic champion 1956, bronze 1960. Twice World champion.He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. He was Jewish....
, Soviet, Olympic champion, bronze - Yuri LyapkinYuri LyapkinYuri Evgenievich Lyapkin is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League as a defenseman. He played for HC Spartak Moscow. He won a gold medal playing for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Olympics, as his team was undefeated. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey...
, Soviet, defenceman, Olympic champion - Yuri MoiseevYuri MoiseevYuri Ivanovich Moiseev was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He was Jewish, and played for HC CSKA Moscow....
, Soviet, Olympic champion, world champion - Vladimir MyshkinVladimir MyshkinVladimir Semenovich Myshkin is a former ice hockey goaltender. He was a goaltender for HC Dynamo Moscow and the Soviet Union national ice hockey team in the 1970s and 1980s....
, Soviet, goaltender, Olympic champion, silver - Ian RubinIan RubinIan Rubin is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1990s. He played the majority of his professional career for both the Sydney clubs in the National Rugby League the Sydney Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs...
, Ukraine/Australia, Russia national team - Yevgeni ZiminYevgeni ZiminYevgeni Zimin is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC Spartak Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1968.-External links:*...
, Soviet, Olympic champion 1968–72, world & European champion 1968–69, 1971 - Viktor Zinger, Soviet, Olympic champion; world champion 1965–69
Sailing
- Valentyn MankinValentyn MankinValentyn Grigoryevich Mankin is a retired Soviet/Ukrainian sailor, three times Olympic champion for the USSR team.Mankin is Jewish...
, Soviet/Ukraine, only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes (yachting: finn class, tempest class, and star class), silver (yachting, tempest class)
Shooting
- Lev VainshteinLev VainshteinLev Matveyevich Vainshtein was a Soviet world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in shooting.-Shooting career:...
, USSR (Russia), 3x team world champion (25 m25 m Center-Fire Pistol25 metre center-fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events, and is normally a men-only event. Its origin lies in competitions with military-style service pistols, and as such its history dates back to the 19th century....
& 50 m pistol50 m Pistol50 metre pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called free pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting types, dating back to the 19th century and only having seen marginal rule changes since...
) and Olympic bronze medalist (300 m rifle300 metre rifle three positions300 metre rifle three positions is an ISSF shooting event, involving shooting 40 shots each from the prone, the standing and the kneeling positions. Lately a similar event has been designed for women, where only half the course is shot. Originally there had been champions declared in each position...
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Soccer (association football
- Leonid BuryakLeonid BuryakLeonid Yosipovich Buryak is a Ukrainian football coach and former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player.Buryak, who is Jewish, was a midfielder for the USSR national football team, and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal.Buryak played for a number of teams in the...
, USSR/Ukraine, midfielder, Olympic bronze - Andriy OberemkoAndriy OberemkoAndriy Oberemko is a Ukrainian professional football player who currently plays for FC Illychivets Mariupol.-Playing career:In 2006, Oberemko had attracted interest from Israeli club, Beitar Jerusalem. Being Jewish, Oberemko would not count against the clubs foreign player cap. Kiev demanded...
, Ukraine, midfielder (Illichivets & U21 national team) - Boris RazinskyBoris RazinskyBoris Davidovich Razinsky is a retired Soviet Russian football player and manager. He played both as a goalkeeper and as a striker...
, USSR/Russia, goalkeeper/striker, Olympic champion, manager - Mordechai SpieglerMordechai SpieglerMordechai "Motaleh" Spiegler is a former Israeli footballer. He remains Israel's record goalscorer, with 33 goals in 83 caps.In 2005, he was voted the 105th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest...
, Soviet Union/Israel, striker (Israel national team), manager
Swimming
- Vadim AlexeevVadim AlexeevVadim Alexeev is a retired world-class Soviet/Israeli Olympic breaststroke swimmer. Alexeev was born in Almaty, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union. He is Jewish, and emigrated to Israel in 1992. He speaks Russian.-Career:...
, KazakhstanKazakhstanKazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
-born Israeli, breaststrokeBreaststrokeThe breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on his or her chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to its stability and the ability to keep the head out of the water a large portion of the time. In most swimming classes, beginners learn... - Semyon Belits-GeimanSemyon Belits-GeimanSemyon Viktorovich Belits-Geiman is a former Soviet freestyle swimmer. He set a world record in the 800-meter freestyle, and won two Olympic medals.-Early life:Belits-Geiman is Jewish, and was born in Moscow...
, USSR, Olympic silver (400-m freestyle relay) and bronze (800-m freestyle relay); world record in men's 800-m freestyle - Lenny KrayzelburgLenny KrayzelburgLenny Krayzelburg is an American backstroke swimmer, and Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder. He swam in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. He won a total of 4 Olympic gold medals....
, UkrainianUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
-born US, 4x Olympic champion (100-m backstroke, 200-m backstroke, twice 4x100-m medley relay); 3x world champion (100-m and 200-m backstroke, 4×100-m medley) and 2x silver (4×100-m medley, 50-m backstroke); 3 world records (50-, 100-, and 200-m backstroke)
Table tennis
- Marina KravchenkoMarina KravchenkoMarina Kravchenko is a champion Israeli table tennis player. She is Jewish. She participated in the Olympics in 2004.-External links:**...
, UkrainianUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
-born Israeli, Soviet and Israel national teams
Track and field
- Aleksandr AverbukhAleksandr AverbukhAleksandr Averbukh is a retired Israeli athlete who competed in the pole vault.-Biography:He is Jewish. He was formerly a decathlete competing for Russia, but in 1999 he became an Israeli citizen and rose to top level in pole vault....
, Russian-born Israeli, 2002 & 2006 European champion (pole vaultPole vaultPole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...
) - Maria Leontyavna ItkinaMaria Leontyavna ItkinaMaria Leontyavna Itkina is a former Soviet runner and world record holder.-Personal life:Itkina is Jewish, and was born in Roslavl, Smolensk, Russia, and later lived in Minsk.-Running career:...
, USSR, sprinter, world records (400-m & 220-yards, and 800-m relay) - Svetlana KrachevskayaSvetlana KrachevskayaSvetlana Krachevskaya is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the Shot put.She is Jewish. She competed for the USSR in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Russian SFSR in the shot put, where she won the silver medal....
, USSR, shot put, Olympic silver - Vera KrepkinaVera KrepkinaVera Samuilovna Krepkina is a retired Russian athlete who competed for the Soviet Union.She is Jewish, and was born in Kotelnich. She trained in Vologda and later in Kiev at Lokomotiv....
, USSR, Olympic champion (long jump), world records (100-m dash and 4x100-m) - Faina MelnikFaina MelnikFaina Grigorievna Veleva-Melnik was a Ukrainian-born Soviet discus thrower, a 1972 Summer Olympics champion in the discus event.Melnik, who is considered to be one of the most dominant track and field athletes of the 1970s, set the world record twice and held the # 1 ranking in women's discus from...
, Ukrainian-born USSR, 11 world records; Olympic discus throw champion - Zhanna Pintusevich-BlockZhanna Pintusevich-BlockZhanna Pintusevich-Block is a sprinter who has competed in the Olympic Games....
, Ukraine, sprinter, world 100-m & 200-m champion - Irina PressIrina PressIrina Natanovna Press was a Ukrainian athlete.-Career:Press was Jewish. She won two Olympic gold medals for the USSR team, in 80 m hurdles and pentathlon...
, USSR, 2x Olympic champion (80-m hurdles & pentathlonPentathlonA pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente and -athlon . The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games...
) - Tamara PressTamara PressTamara Natanovna Press is a former Soviet shot putter and discus thrower in the 1960s.-Career:Press is Jewish. She competed for VSS Trud...
, USSR, 6 world records (shot put & discus); 3x Olympic champion (2x shot put & discus) and silver (discus)
Volleyball
- Nelly Abramova, USSR, Olympic silver
- Larisa BergenLarisa BergenLarisa Bergen is a former volleyball player for the USSR. She is Jewish, and was born in Astana, Kazakhstan. Bergen played for Dynamo Moskva, in Moscow, Russia. She won a silver medal in volleyball at the 1976 Olympics, in Montreal, Canada.-External links:*...
, USSR, Olympic silver - Yefim ChulakYefim ChulakYefim Aronovich Chulak is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics. He is Jewish....
, USSR, Olympic silver, bronze - Nataliya Kushnir, USSR, Olympic silver
- Yevgeny Lapinsky, USSR, Olympic champion, bronze
- Georgy Mondzolevsky, USSR, 2x Olympic champion, 2x world champion
- Vladimir PatkinVladimir PatkinVladimir Leonidovich Patkin is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics and 1976 Summer Olympics. He is Jewish...
, USSR, Olympic silver, bronze - Yuriy VenherovskyYuriy VenherovskyYury Naumovich Vengerovsky was a Ukrainian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics.He was Jewish, born in Kharkiv, and died in Belgorod, Russia....
, USSR, Olympic champion
Water polo
- Boris Goikhman, USSR, goalkeeper, Olympic silver, bronze
- Nikolai MelnikovNikolai MelnikovNikolai Andreyevich Melnikov was a water polo player for the Soviet Union. He was Jewish, and was born in Moscow, Russia. He won a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.-External links:*...
, USSR, Olympic champion
Weightlifting
- Moisei Kas’ianik, Ukrainian-born USSR, world champion
- Grigory NovakGrigory NovakGrigory Irmovich Novak is a former Ukrainian weightlifter, world champion, and Olympic medalist, who competed for the Soviet Union.He was Jewish, and was born in Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR....
, Soviet, Olympic silver (middle-heavyweight); world champion - Rudolf PlyukfelderRudolf PlyukfelderRudolf Vladimirovich Plyukfelder is a former Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union.He is Jewish, and was born in Novoorlovka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR....
, Soviet, Olympic champion, 2x world champion (light heavyweight) - David RigertDavid RigertDavid Adamovich Rigert is a former Olympic weightlifter for the USSR. Rigert became one of the greatest weightlifters in history. He is Jewish....
, Kazakh-born USSR, Olympic champion, 5x world champion (light-heavyweight and heavyweight), 68 world records - Igor Rybak, Ukrainian-born USSR, Olympic champion (lightweight)
- Valery SharyValery SharyValery Pyetrovich Shary is a former Byelorussian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union.He was born in Chervyen....
, Byelorussian-born USSR, Olympic champion (light-heavyweight)
Wrestling
- Grigorii Gamarnik, USSR, world champion (Greco-Roman lightweight), world championship silver
- Samuel GersonSamuel GersonSamuel Norton "Sam" Gerson was a Ukrainian-born American wrestler.He was born in Tymky, Poltava Oblast, Russian Empire, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Career:...
, Ukrainian-born US, Olympic silver (freestyle featherweight) - Boris Maksovich Gurevich, Soviet, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman flyweight), 2x world champion
- Boris Michail Gurevitsch, USSR, Olympic champion (freestyle middleweight), 2x world champion
- Oleg Karavaev, USSR, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman bantamweight), 2x world champion
- Yakov PunkinYakov PunkinYakov Grigoryevich Punkin was a Soviet wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was Jewish, and was born and died in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.Punkin won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in wrestling.-External links:*...
, Soviet, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman featherweight) - David RudmanDavid Rudman (wrestler)David Rudman is a former Soviet wrestling champion, Sambo world champion, and judo European champion.-Early and personal life:Rudman is Jewish, and was born in Kuibyshev...
, USSR, world championship bronze
Other sports
- Nissim Cahn, twice Bronze MedalBronze medalA bronze medal is a medal awarded to the third place finisher of contests such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The practice of awarding bronze third place medals began at the 1904 Olympic Games in St...
for IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, curlingCurlingCurling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a... - Sasha CohenSasha CohenAlexandra Pauline "Sasha" Cohen is a U.S. figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World Championship medalist, the 2003 Grand Prix Final Champion, and the 2006 U.S. Champion.-Personal life:...
, figure skater (U.S. National Champion and silver medalist at the 2006 Winter Olympics) - Nikolay Epstein, Soviet hockey coach
- Alexander GomelskyAlexander GomelskyAlexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky was a great Soviet and Russian basketball coach.Gomelsky was Jewish. He began his coaching career in 1948 in Leningrad with LGS Spartak...
, Soviet basketball coach - Andriy OberemkoAndriy OberemkoAndriy Oberemko is a Ukrainian professional football player who currently plays for FC Illychivets Mariupol.-Playing career:In 2006, Oberemko had attracted interest from Israeli club, Beitar Jerusalem. Being Jewish, Oberemko would not count against the clubs foreign player cap. Kiev demanded...
, footballer - Karina SmirnoffKarina SmirnoffKarina Smirnoff is a Ukrainian professional ballroom dancer. She is best known for her appearances on Dancing with the Stars, where she held a runner-up title, a semi-final title, and several quarter-final titles...
, professional dancer (Jewish father) - Grigory Surkis, chairman of the Football Federation of Ukraine
See also
- History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet UnionHistory of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet UnionThe vast territories of the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest populations of Jews in the diaspora. Within these territories the Jewish community flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions, while also facing periods of...
- Lists of Jews
- List of Russians
- List of Galician Jews