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Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 until the Holocaust
The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as , Churben is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler....
, Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s comprised a significant part of the Polish
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 population. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries in 16th and 17th-century Europe, formed by a Union of Lublin of Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1569....
, known as a "Jewish paradise" for its religious tolerance, attracted numerous Jews who fled persecution from other European countries, even though, at times, discrimination against Jews surfaced as it did elsewhere in Europe.






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From the Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 until the Holocaust
The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as , Churben is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler....
, Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s comprised a significant part of the Polish
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 population. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries in 16th and 17th-century Europe, formed by a Union of Lublin of Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1569....
, known as a "Jewish paradise" for its religious tolerance, attracted numerous Jews who fled persecution from other European countries, even though, at times, discrimination against Jews surfaced as it did elsewhere in Europe. Poland was a major spiritual and cultural center for Ashkenazi Jewry, and Polish Jews made major contributions to Polish cultural, economic, and political life. At the start of the Second World War, Poland had the largest Jewish population in the world (over 3 million), the vast majority of whom were killed by the Nazis
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
 in the Holocaust during the German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 occupation of Poland, particularly through the implementation of the "Final Solution
Final Solution

The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's plan and execution of its systematic genocide against History of the Jews in Europe during World War II, resulting in the final, most deadly phase of the Holocaust ....
" mass extermination program. Only 369,000 (11%) survived. After massive postwar emigration, the current Polish Jewish population stands at somewhere between 8,000 and 20,000.

Note that the list includes people of Jewish faith, Ashkenazi culture and/or Jewish ancestry.

Historical figures


Politicians

  • Menachem Begin
    Menachem Begin

    was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
     (1913-1992), Israeli prime minister (born in Poland)
  • David Ben-Gurion
    David Ben-Gurion

    was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel....
     (1886-1973), Israeli prime minister (born in Poland)
  • Jakub Berman
    Jakub Berman

    Jakub Berman , was a Poland Communism politician. As a member of the Polish United Workers' Party's Politburo he was in charge of State Security Services and considered Joseph Stalin's right hand in the People's Republic of Poland between 1944 and 1953....
     (1901-1984), Polish communist, Secretary of PUWP (Polish United Workers' Party)
  • Czeslaw Bielecki (b. 1948), Polish politician and architect
  • Marek Borowski
    Marek Borowski

    Marek Borowski is a Poland left-wing politician, the former leader of the Democratic Left Alliance and the former Speaker of the Sejm .From 2004 to January 2009 he was the leader and chairman, of a new Polish left-wing party called Social Democracy of Poland , formed from a break-away group of SLD....
     (b. 1946), Polish politician, a speaker of the Sejm
  • Sala Burton
    Sala Burton

    Sala Burton was a United States Representative from California. She was born Sala Galante in Bialystok, Poland. She attended public schools in San Francisco and University of San Francisco....
     (1925-1987), American politician
  • Yohanan Cohen
    Yohanan Cohen

    Yohanan Cohen is a former Israeli politician and diplomat....
     (b. 1917), Israeli politician
  • Adam Czerniaków
    Adam Czerniaków

    Adam Czerniak?w was a List of Polish Jews engineer and senator , born in Warsaw, Poland. He committed suicide in the Warsaw Ghetto on July 23, 1942....
     (1880-1942), Polish politician
  • Herman Diamand (1860-1931), Polish politician
  • Ludwik Dorn
    Ludwik Dorn

    Ludwik Dorn - Poland conservative politician of Jews origin, former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, vice chairman of Law and Justice party, Member of Polish Parliament ....
     (b. 1954), Polish politician, a speaker of the Sejm
  • Boleslaw Drobner (1883-1968), Polish politician, a speaker of the Sejm
  • David Dubinsky
    David Dubinsky

    David Dubinsky was an United States of America labor leader. He served as president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union between 1932 and 1966, took part in the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and was one of the founders of the American Labor Party and the Liberal Party of New York....
     (1892-1982), American politician
  • Jerzy Einhorn
    Jerzy Einhorn

    Jerzy Einhorn was a Poland-born Sweden medical doctor, researcher and politician. His Hebrew name was Chil Josef and he was named after his grandfather on his fathers side....
     (1925-2000), Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician
  • Abraham Foxman
    Abraham Foxman

    Abraham Foxman is the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League....
     (b. 1940), Anti-Defamation League official
  • Bronislaw Geremek
    Bronislaw Geremek

    Professor Bronislaw Geremek , was a Poland Social history and politician....
     (1932-2008), Polish foreign affairs minister
  • Abba Hushi
    Abba Hushi

    Abba Hushi was the mayor of Haifa, Israel, for eighteen years, from 1951 to 1969. Hushi was one of the founders and activists of Hashomer Hatzair movement in Poland....
     (1898-1969), Israeli politician
  • Julian Klaczko
    Julian Klaczko

    Julian Klaczko was a Polish author.Born Jehuda Lejb into a wealthy Jewish family, he studied in Vilna and K?nigsberg. In 1847, he took PhD title ....
     (1825-1906), Polish politician
  • Rosa Luxemburg
    Rosa Luxemburg

    Rosa Luxemburg was a Poland Germany Marxist theory, Socialism philosopher, and revolutionary for the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the German Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Communist Party of Germany....
     (1871-1919), Polish-born]] Marxist theorist and revolutionary of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania
    Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania

    The Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania was a Marxist political party founded in 1893. Its original name was the "Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland" and it eventually became part of the Communist Workers Party of Poland....
    .
  • Herman Lieberman
    Herman Lieberman

    Herman Lieberman was a Poland lawyer and socialist politician....
     (1870-1941), Polish politician
  • Stefan Meller
    Stefan Meller

    Stefan Meller was a Poland diplomat and academician. He served as Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland of Poland from October 31, 2005, to May 9, 2006, in the Cabinet of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz....
    , (1942-2008), Polish foreign affairs minister
  • Hilary Minc
    Hilary Minc

    Hilary Minc was a Polish politician, Marxist economist, member of the Communist Party of Poland and the PWP/PUWP Politburo of the KCPolska Partia Robotnicza between 1944-1956, the third in command in Boleslaw Bierut's political apparatus....
     (1905-1974), Polish politician, an economist and minister
  • Lewis Bernstein Namier
    Lewis Bernstein Namier

    Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was an England historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then Austria-Hungary and is now Poland....
     (1888-1960), British politician
  • Shimon Peres
    Shimon Peres

    Order of St Michael and St George is the ninth and current President of Israel. Peres served twice as Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 Cabinet of Israel in a political career spanning over 66 years....
     (b. 1923), Israeli prime minister and president, Nobel Prize laureate (1994)
  • Feliks Perl (1871-1927), Polish politician
  • Karl Radek
    Karl Radek

    Karl Berngardovich Radek was a socialism active in the Poland and Germany Social Democracy before World War I and an international Communism leader after the Russian Revolution ....
     (1885-1939), Bolshevik politician
  • Adam Rotfeld (b. 1938), Polish foreign affairs minister
  • Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski
    Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski

    Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski was a List of Polish Jews industrialist and Zionist activist and functioned as the Nazism-nominated head of the Judenrat, or Jewish authorities in the L?dz Ghetto....
     (1877-1944), Polish politician
  • Arthur Ruppin
    Arthur Ruppin

    Arthur Ruppin was a Zionism thinker and leader. He was also one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv, and a pioneering sociologist credited as being "The Father Of Jewish Sociology", directing Berlin's Bureau for Jewish Statistics and Demography from 1902 to 1907....
     (1876-1943), Zionist thinker and politician
  • Moses Schorr
    Moses Schorr

    Moses Schorr, Polish: Mojzesz Schorr was a Jewish rabbi, Polish historian, politician, Bible scholar, assyriologist and orientalist.Schorr belongs to the most outstanding personalities in the scientific life of Galician and Polish Jewry, being a renowned historian - the first Jewish researcher of Polish archives, historical sources a...
     (1874-1941), Polish polititian and historian
  • Yitzhak Shamir
    Yitzhak Shamir

    was Prime Minister of Israel of Israel from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992....
     (b. 1915), Israeli prime minister (born in Poland)
  • Stanislaw Stronski
    Stanislaw Stronski

    Stanislaw Stronski was a Polish philologist, publicist and politician . In Second Polish Republic he edited the Rzeczpospolita and was a professor at Krak?w's Jagiellonian University and at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin....
     (1882-1955), Polish politician (of Jewish descent)
  • Eugeniusz Szyr (1915-2000), deputy prime minister
  • Samuel A. Weiss
    Samuel A. Weiss

    Samual Artur Weiss was a Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Samuel Weiss was born in Krotowocz, Poland, Poland....
     (1902-1977), American politician
  • Shevah Weiss
    Shevah Weiss

    Shevah Weiss is an Israeli political science and former politician.Weiss was born on July 5, 1935 in Boryslav, Poland in Polish Jewish family to Gienia and Meir Wolf Weiss....
     (b. 1935), Israeli politician, a speaker of the Knesset
  • Szmul Zygielbojm
    Szmul Zygielbojm

    Szmul Zygielbojm, sometimes spelled Zygelbojm or Zigelboim, was a Jewish-Poland socialism politician, leader of the General Jewish Labor Union, and a member of the National Council of the Polish government in exile....
     (1895-1943), Polish Bund leader


Soldiers and fighters

  • Mordechaj Anielewicz
    Mordechaj Anielewicz

    Mordechaj Anielewicz was the commander of the Jewish Combat Organization , also known as ZOB, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ...
     (1919-1943), leader of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the History of the Jews in Poland insurgency that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in Occupation of Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the Treblinka extermination camp....
  • Yitzhak Arad
    Yitzhak Arad

    Yitzhak Arad is a Lithuanian-born Israelis historian and retired Israel Defense Forces brigadier general. A veteran of the Nazism-era Jewish resistance movement in ghetto; Soviet partisan and alleged former member of the NKVD, he has researched, lectured, and published extensively on the Holocaust....
     (b. 1926), partisan combat, historian, Israeli general
  • David Ben-Gurion
    David Ben-Gurion

    was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel....
     (1886-1973), Jewish Legion
    Jewish Legion

    The Jewish Legion was the name for five battalions of Jewish volunteers established as the British Army's 38th through 42nd Battalions of the Royal Fusiliers....
  • Marek Edelman
    Marek Edelman

    Marek Edelman is a Poland political and social activist, cardiologist, and last living leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He lives in L?dz....
     (b. 1922), last living leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the History of the Jews in Poland insurgency that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in Occupation of Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the Treblinka extermination camp....
  • Berek Joselewicz
    Berek Joselewicz

    Berek Joselewicz was a List of Polish Jews merchant and a colonel of the Polish Armed Forces during the Kosciuszko Uprising. Joselewicz commanded the first Jewish military formation in modern history...
     (1764-1809), colonel during Kosciuszko Uprising
    Kosciuszko Uprising

    The Kosciuszko Uprising was an rebellion led by Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Poland and Lithuania in 1794. It was a failed attempt to liberate Poland and Lithuania of Russian Empire influence after the Second Partition of Poland and the creation of the Confederation of Targowica....
     and Napoleonic wars
  • Sir John Monash
    John Monash

    General Sir John Monash Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Bath, Volunteer Decoration was an Australian military commander of the World War I....
     Australian military commander (father from Krotoszyn
    Krotoszyn

    Krotoszyn [] is a town in central Poland with 30,010 inhabitants . It has been part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship since 1999; it was within Kalisz Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998....
    )
  • Hyman Rickover (1900-1986), US Navy Admiral
  • Krystyna Skarbek
    Krystyna Skarbek

    Krystyna Skarbek George Medal Order of the British Empire Croix de guerre was a Polish-born World War II Great Britain Special Operations Executive spy, also known as Krystyna Gizycka and by the nom de guerre, Christine Granville....
     (1915-1952), WW2 spy (Jewish mother)
  • Avraham Stern
    Avraham Stern

    Avraham Stern , alias Yair was a Jewish urban revolutionary who founded and led the Zionism organization later known as Lehi ....
     (1907-1942), the founder and leader of the Zionist underground organization Lehi
    Lehi (group)

    Lehi , also known as the Stern Gang, a term coined by the United Kingdom, was an armed Resistance movement Zionist faction in British Mandate of Palestine,...
  • Józef Swiatlo
    Józef Swiatlo

    J?zef Swiatlo was a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Public Security of Poland . After the death of Joseph Stalin and the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria in 1953, by accident he was travelling on Berlin subway and ended up in West Berlin sector....
     (1915-1975), colonel, communist, spy


Others

  • Wilhelm Billig, founder of Polish nuclear energy industry
  • Isaac Deutscher
    Isaac Deutscher

    Isaac Deutscher was a United Kingdom journalist, historian and political activist of Poland-Jewish birth. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and commentator upon Soviet Union affairs....
     (1907-1967), Polish-British political activist
  • Dora Diamant
    Dora Diamant

    Dora Diamant is best remembered as the lover of the writer Franz Kafka and the person who kept some of his last writings in her possession until they were confiscated by the Gestapo in 1933....
     (1898-1952), lover of Franz Kafka
    Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka was one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German language-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Austria-Hungary, presently the Czech Republic....
  • Gaspar da Gama (1444-ca.1510), traveller, interpreter
  • Mieczyslaw Grydzewski (1894-1970), journalist, editor
  • Gideon Hausner
    Gideon Hausner

    Gideon Hausner was an Israeli jurist and politician. Between 1960 and 1963 he served as Attorney General of Israel, and was later elected to the Knesset and served in the Cabinet of Israel....
     (1915-1990), Israeli jurist
  • Emil Haecker (1875-1934), journalist, editor
  • Sir Hersch Lauterpacht
    Hersch Lauterpacht

    Sir Hersch Lauterpacht was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1954 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1955 to 1960....
    , British judge,
  • Raphael Lemkin
    Raphael Lemkin

    Raphael Lemkin was a Poles lawyer of Jewish descent. Before World War II, Lemkin was interested in the Armenian Genocide and campaigned in the League of Nations to ban what he called "barbarity" and "vandalism"....
     (1900-1959), human rights lawyer
  • Rosa Luxemburg
    Rosa Luxemburg

    Rosa Luxemburg was a Poland Germany Marxist theory, Socialism philosopher, and revolutionary for the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the German Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Communist Party of Germany....
     (1870-1919), Marxist
  • Adam Michnik
    Adam Michnik

    Adam Michnik is the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, where he sometimes writes under the pen-names of Andrzej Zagozda or Andrzej Jagodzinski....
     (b. 1946), journalist, dissident
  • Daniel Passent
    Daniel Passent

    Daniel Passent - a Polish journalist and writer. He is an author of a blog which appears as a column in a Polish weekly Polityka .Passent studied journalism at the University of Warsaw, Saint Petersburg State University, Princeton University, and Harvard University in the 1950s and 1960s....
     (b. 1938), journalist
  • Ludwik Rajchman
    Ludwik Rajchman

    Ludwik J. Rajchman was a Polish bacteriologist. He was one of the founders of UNICEF....
     (1881-1965), founder of UNICEF
  • Ernestine Rose
    Ernestine Rose

    Ernestine Louise Rose was an Individualist feminism, abolitionist, freethinker, and atheist. She was one of the major intellectual forces behind the women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America....
     (1810-1892), feminist
  • Joseph Rotblat
    Joseph Rotblat

    Sir Joseph Rotblat, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, was a Poland-born and United Kingdom-naturalised physicist....
     (1908-2005), founder of Pugwash
    Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

    The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats....
    , Nobel Prize (1995)
  • Leon Rubinstein, Operative Technology and records
  • Kazimiera Szczuka
    Kazimiera Szczuka

    Kazimiera Szczuka is a Poland literary historian, literary critic and television personality, known from the Polish edition of The Weakest Link....
     feminist (Jewish mother)
  • Jerzy Urban
    Jerzy Urban

    Jerzy Urban, also known as: Jerzy Kibic, Jan Rem, Klakson born Jerzy Urbach, is a Jewish born, atheist-Poland journalist, commentator, writer and politician, editor-in-chief of the weekly Nie and owner of the company which owns it, :pl:Urma....
     (b. 1933), journalist, commentator, writer and politician
  • Saul Wahl
    Saul Wahl

    Saul Wahl was, according to legend, king of Poland for a single day, August 18, 1587....
     (1541-1617), according to tradition, temporary King of Poland in 1586
  • Simon Wiesenthal
    Simon Wiesenthal

    Simon Wiesenthal KBE was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineering and Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued Nazi war criminals in an effort to bring them to justice....
     (1908-2005), hunter of Nazis


Religious figures

  • Barnett Abrahams
    Barnett Abrahams

    Barnett Abrahams was the Principal of Jews' College.His father emigrated to England in 1839; his wife and son arrived in 1841, and two more sons were born in 1843 and 1844....
     (1831-1863), dayan, principal of Jews' College
    Jews' College

    OriginsJews' College, now known as the London School of Jewish Studies, was opened in Finsbury Square, London as a rabbinical seminary in 1855 with the support of the then Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler and of Sir Moses Montefiore, who had had the idea for such a venture as early as 1841....
    , London
  • Yitzchak Meir Alter
    Yitzchak Meir Alter

    Yitzchak Meir Alter , is considered to be the first Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic Judaism dynasty, which he founded in the town of G?ra Kalwaria , Poland....
     (1798-1866), Hassidic first Rebbe
    Rebbe

    Rebbe which means master, teacher, or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew language word Rabbi. It mostly refers to the leader of a Hasidic Judaism Jewish movement....
     of Ger
    Ger

    Ger may refer to:*Ger , a Hasidic dynasty from G?ra Kalwaria*Ger , the javelin of the Germanic tribe of the Teutons*Germany *German language ...
  • Dov Ber of Mezeritch (d. 1772), Hassidic rabbi
  • Israel ben Eliezer (the Baal Shem Tov) (ca 1700-1760), Hassidic rabbi
  • Elimelech of Lizhensk (1717-1786), Hassidic rabbi
  • Philip Ferdinand
    Philip Ferdinand

    Philip Ferdinand was an English people Hebrew language.Born in Poland to Polish Jewish parents, he converted first to Roman Catholicism and then to Protestantism....
    , Professor of Hebrew
  • Jacob Frank
    Jacob Frank

    Jacob Frank was an 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi and also of King David....
     (1726-1791), Jewish messianic claimant who combined Judaism and Christianity
  • Christian David Ginsburg
    Christian David Ginsburg

    Christian David Ginsburg was a Polish-born, British Bible scholar and student of the masoretic tradition in Judaism....
     (1831-1914), Hebraist, converted to Christianity
  • Kalonymus Haberkasten
    Kalonymus Haberkasten

    Rabbi Kalonymus Haberkasten was a Talmudist in sixteenth century Poland. He is well known as the rosh yeshiva of many great rabbis including Rabbi Solomon Luria; his daughter Lipka married Luria....
     (16th c.), rabbi
  • Chaim Halberstam
    Chaim Halberstam

    Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Nowy Sacz , known as the Divrei Chaim after his magnum opus on halakha, was a famous Hasidic rebbe and the founder of the Sanz ....
     (1793-1876), Hassidic rabbi
  • Naftali Tzvi Halberstam
    Naftali Halberstam

    Grand Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Halberstam , was the Grand Rebbe of Bobov from August 2000 until March 2005. He succeeded his father, Rabbi Solomon Halberstam , as Grand Rebbe of Bobov....
     (1931-2005), Hassidic Rebbe
    Rebbe

    Rebbe which means master, teacher, or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew language word Rabbi. It mostly refers to the leader of a Hasidic Judaism Jewish movement....
     of Bobov
  • Aaron Hart
    Aaron Hart

    Rabbi Aaron Hart was the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1704 until his death.A portrait of Rabbi Hart hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London....
     (1670-1756), rabbi
  • Isaac Hellmuth
    Isaac Hellmuth

    Isaac Hellmuth , second Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Huron, was the founder of Huron University College and the University of Western Ontario, one of Canada's leading universities....
    , convert to Christianity
  • Ridley Haim Herschell
    Ridley Haim Herschell

    Ridley Haim Herschell was an England-Poland minister who converted from Judaism to Evangelical Christianity.Herschell was born in Strzelno in the Duchy of Warsaw, a France satellite state in Poland that had previously been under Prussian control....
    , missionary
  • Arthur Hertzberg
    Arthur Hertzberg

    Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg was a Conservative Judaism rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist....
     (1921-2006), rabbi
  • Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
    Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog

    Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog , also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1937 until his death, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the Mandate for Palestine and of Israel after its independence in 1948....
     (1889-1959), Chief Rabbi of Ireland
  • Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Abraham Joshua Heschel

    Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Warsaw-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians of the 20th century....
     (1907-1972), theologian
  • Zevi Hirsch Kalischer (1795-1874), rabbi & Zionist pioneer
  • Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov
    Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov

    Tzvi Hirsh, born 1763 in Sambor and died in Zidichov 1831, was a Hasidic Judaism rabbi and the founder of the Zidichov Hasidic Judaism dynasty in Zidichov....
     (1763-1831), Hassidic rabbi
  • Moses Isserles
    Moses Isserles

    Moses Isserles , was an eminent Ashkenazic Rabbi, Talmudist, and Posek, renowned for his fundamental work of Halakha , entitled HaMapah , an inline commentary on the Shulkhan Aruch ....
     (1530-1572), rabbi
  • Israel Meir Lau (b. 1937), the Israeli Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi (1993-2003)
  • Solomon Luria
    Solomon Luria

    Solomon Luria was one of the great Ashkenazic posek and teachers of his time. He is known for his work of Halakha, Yam Shel Shlomo, and his Talmudic commentary Chochmat Shlomo....
     (1510-1574), rabbi
  • Jean-Marie Lustiger
    Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger

    Aaron Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger was a France prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005....
     (1926-2007), French Roman-Catholic cardinal
  • Walenty Potocki, count, converted to Judaism (Avrohom ben Avrohom), the Ger Tzedek of Vilna, (d. 1749)
  • Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport
    Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport

    Solomon Judah L?b Rapoport , was a Galicia n rabbi and Jewish scholar. He was born in Lemberg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria.After various experiences in business, Rapoport became successively rabbi of Tarnopol and of Prague ....
     (1790-1867), Orthodox rabbi, scholar
  • Shalom Rokeach
    Shalom Rokeach

    Rabbi Sholom Rokeach, , also known as the Sar Sholom , was the first Belz er Rebbe.His father was Rabbi Elazar, a member of the Brody Kloise sages....
     (1779-1855), Hassidic rabbi (first Belz
    Belz (Hasidic dynasty)

    Belz is a Hasidic Judaism named for the town of Belz, a small town in Western Ukraine. The town has existed since at least the 10th century with the Jewish community being established during the 14th century....
    er Rebbe
    Rebbe

    Rebbe which means master, teacher, or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew language word Rabbi. It mostly refers to the leader of a Hasidic Judaism Jewish movement....
    )
  • Aharon Rokeach
    Aharon Rokeach

    Rabbi Aharon Rokeach was the fourth rebbe of the Belz Hasidic Judaism dynasty. He led the movement from 1926 until his passing in 1957.Aharon inherited the mantle of leadership from his father, Yissachar Dov Rokeach , upon the latter's death in 1926....
     (1877-1957), Hassidic rabbi (fourth Belzer Rebbe)
  • Michael Schudrich
    Michael Schudrich

    Rabbi Michael Schudrich is the chief rabbi of Poland. He was born in New York City to a Polish Jewish family from Baligr?d.Rabbi Schudrich is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook, and Columbia University, and received rabbinic ordination from Jewish Theological Seminary of America and later, an orthodox rabbinical ordination through Yeshiva Un...
     (b. 1955), Chief Rabbi of Poland
  • Meir Shapiro
    Meir Shapiro

    Yehuda Meir Shapiro, , was a prominent Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva. He is noted for his promotion of the Daf Yomi in 1923 and establishment of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in 1930....
     (1887-1933), Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva
    Rosh yeshiva

    Rosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the Dean of a Yeshiva . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh ? meaning head, and yeshiva ? a school of religious Jewish education....
  • Naftoli Shapiro
    Naftoli Shapiro

    Rabbi Naftoli Shapiro was an Orthodox Judaism Talmudic Talmid Chacham and rosh yeshiva in Glasgow for 40 years.Born in 1906 in the town of Mir, Belarus, Poland, Rabbi Shapiro studied at the prestigious Mir yeshiva from the age of twelve....
     (1906-1981), rabbi and rosh yeshiva
    Rosh yeshiva

    Rosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the Dean of a Yeshiva . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh ? meaning head, and yeshiva ? a school of religious Jewish education....
  • Joseph Soloveitchik
    Joseph Soloveitchik

    Joseph Ber Soloveitchik w was an United States Orthodox Judaism rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosophy. He was a descendant of the Lithuanian Jews Brisk yeshivas....
     (1903-1993), Orthodox rabbi, philosopher
  • Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin
    Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin

    Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin, also Jacob Isaac of Lublin, or Y. Y. Horowitz , known as "The Chozeh of Lublin" , or simply as the "Chozeh", was a Hasidic Judaism rebbe from Poland....
     (1745-1815), Hassidic rabbi
  • Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel (b. 1943), Catholic priest
  • Israel Zolli
    Israel Zolli

    Israel Anton Zoller was from 1939 to 1945 Chief Rabbi of Rome. After the war, he converted to Roman Catholic Church, taking on the name Eugenio Zolli in recognition of Pope Pius XII....
     (1881-1956), Chief Rabbi of Rome, converted to Christianity


Academics


Scientists

  • Herman Auerbach
    Herman Auerbach

    Herman Auerbach was a Poland mathematician and member of the Lw?w School of Mathematics.Auerbach was professor at Lw?w University. During the Second World War because of his Jewish descent he was imprisoned by the Germany in the Lw?w ghetto....
    , mathematician (Jewish father)
  • Iuliu Barasch
    Iuliu Barasch

    Iuliu Barasch or Baras was a Galicia -born Jewish physician and writer who made his career in Romania....
    , physician
  • Salomon Bochner
    Salomon Bochner

    Salomon Bochner was an USA mathematician of Austria-Hungary origin, known for wide-ranging work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry....
    , mathematician
  • Leslie Brent
    Leslie Brent

    Leslie Baruch Brent has been Professor Emeritus, University of London, since 1990. He is an expert on immunology and organ transplants.He was born in Koszalin , Poland....
    , immunologist
  • Jacob Bronowski
    Jacob Bronowski

    Jacob Bronowski was a United Kingdom mathematician and biologist of history of the Jews in Poland origin. He is best remembered as the presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary film series, The Ascent of Man....
    , scientist & broadcaster, works: algebraic geometry
  • Georges Charpak
    Georges Charpak

    Georges Charpak is a Poland-France physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics winner....
    , physicist, Nobel Prize (1992)
  • Samuel Eilenberg
    Samuel Eilenberg

    Samuel Eilenberg was a Poland and United States mathematician of Jew. He was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire and died in New York City, United States, where he had spent much of his career as a professor at Columbia University....
    , mathematician: category theory
    Category theory

    In mathematics, category theory deals in an abstract way with mathematical structures and relationships between them: it abstracts from set s and function s to objects linked in diagrams by morphisms or arrows....
  • Salo Finkelstein
    Salo Finkelstein

    Salo Finkelstein was a mental calculator, ranked eighth in the "100 Greatest Mental Calculators". He was born in L?dz to a Jewish family.While at school he was above average in mathematics, and discovered his calculating abilities as well as his faculty in memorizing numbers....
    , mental calculator
    Mental calculator

    Mental calculators are people with a prodigious ability in some area of mental calculation, such as multiplication large numbers or factorization large numbers....
  • Roald Hoffmann
    Roald Hoffmann

    Roald Hoffmann is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York....
    , chemist & writer, Nobel Prize (1981)
  • Leopold Infeld
    Leopold Infeld

    File:LeopoldInfeld1960.jpgLeopold Infeld was a Poland physicist. He was a Rockefeller fellow at University of Cambridge and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences....
    , physicist
  • Mark Kac
    Mark Kac

    Mark Kac was a Poles and United States mathematician of Jewish ancestry. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Hearing the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry....
    , mathematician
  • Abraham Lempel
    Abraham Lempel

    Abraham Lempel is an Israeli computer science and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.He studied at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and received Bachelor of Science in 1963, Master of Science in 1965, and Doctor of Science in 1967....
    , computer scientist: LZW
    LZW

    Lempel-Ziv-Welch is a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch. It was published by Welch in 1984 as an improved implementation of the LZ77 and LZ78 algorithm published by Lempel and Ziv in 1978....
     compression
  • Adolf Lindenbaum
    Adolf Lindenbaum

    Adolf Lindenbaum , was a Poland logician and mathematician.He was a student of Waclaw Sierpinski, became a distinguished author of works on set theory and had served as an Assistant Professor at Warsaw University....
    , logician
  • Henryk Makower, microbiologist
  • Benoît Mandelbrot
    Benoît Mandelbrot

    Beno?t B. Mandelbrot is a French people mathematics, best known as the father of fractal. He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus at Yale University; IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J....
    , mathematician: fractals
  • Szolem Mandelbrojt
    Szolem Mandelbrojt

    Szolem Mandelbrojt was a Polish Jews mathematician. He worked mainly in classical analysis; he was a student of Jacques Hadamard, and became Hadamard's successor as Professor at the Coll?ge de France....
    , mathematician
  • Albert Abraham Michelson
    Albert Abraham Michelson

    Albert Abraham Michelson was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment....
    , physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics

    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
     (1907)
  • Herman Müntz
    Herman Müntz

    Herman M?ntz was a Germany mathematician, now remembered for the M?ntz approximation theorem.He was born in L?dz in a secular Jewish family, who had adopted a German spelling of the surname Minc....
    , mathematician
  • Jakub Natanson, chemist
  • Emil Leon Post
    Emil Leon Post

    Emil Leon Post, Ph.D., was a mathematician and logician....
    , mathematician
  • Mojzesz Presburger
    Mojzesz Presburger

    Mojzesz Presburger was a Poland Jewish mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He was a student of Alfred Tarski and is known for, among other things, having invented Presburger arithmetic....
    , logician
  • Isidor Isaac Rabi
    Isidor Isaac Rabi

    Isidor Isaac Rabi was a Galicia -born American physicist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance....
    , physicist, Nobel prize (1944)
  • Tadeus Reichstein
    Tadeus Reichstein

    Tadeusz Reichstein was a Poland Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate.Reichstein was born into a Jewish family at Wloclawek, Congress Poland, and spent his early childhood at Kiev, where his father was an engineer....
    , chemist, Nobel Prize (1950)
  • Moshe Ron
    Moshe Ron

    Moshe Ron - Israeli materials scientist, specialist in metal hydrides...
    , materials scientist
  • Stanislaw Saks
    Stanislaw Saks

    Stanislaw Saks was a Poland mathematician and university tutor, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Caf? circle, an extensive monograph on the Theory of Integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali-Hahn-Saks theorem....
    , mathematician
  • Albert Sabin
    Albert Sabin

    Albert Bruce Sabin was an United States medical researcher best-known for having developed an oral polio vaccine....
    , inventor of the oral Polio vaccine
    Polio vaccine

    Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat poliomyelitis . The first was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in 1952. Announced to the world by Salk on April 12, 1955, it consists of an injected dose of inactivated poliovirus....
  • Andrew V. Schally, endocrinologist, Nobel Prize (1977) (Jewish father)
  • Juliusz Schauder
    Juliusz Schauder

    Juliusz Pawel Schauder was a Poland List of mathematicians of Jewish origin, known for his work in functional analysis, partial differential equation and mathematical physics....
    , mathematician
  • Hugo Steinhaus
    Hugo Steinhaus

    Wladyslaw Hugo Dionizy Steinhaus was a Poland mathematician and educator....
    , mathematician
  • Abraham Sztern (1762-1842), inventor, he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators
  • Ary Sternfeld, space pioneer.


Social sciences

  • Solomon Asch
    Solomon Asch

    Solomon Eliot Asch , also known as Shlaym, was a world-renowned United States Gestalt psychology and pioneer in social psychology. He was born in Warsaw which then belonged to the Russian Empire, and emigrated to the United States in 1920....
    , Gestalt psychologist
  • Zygmunt Bauman
    Zygmunt Bauman

    Zygmunt Bauman is a Poland sociology who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic purge organized by the Polish United Workers' Party....
    , sociologist
  • Ivan Bloch
    Ivan Bloch

    Ivan Stanislavovic Bloch , was a Poland banker and railway financier who devoted his private life to the study of modern industrial warfare. Born Jewish and converted to Calvinism, he spent considerable effort to opposing the prevalent Antisemitic polices of the Tsarist government, and was sympathetic to the fledgling Zionist Movement....
    , military writer
  • Alain Finkielkraut
    Alain Finkielkraut

    Alain Finkielkraut, born in Paris on June 30 1949, is a France essayist, and son of a Jewish Polish artisan manufacturing fine leather goods who was deported to Auschwitz....
    , French philosopher
  • Henryk Grossman
    Henryk Grossman

    Henryk Grossman alternative spelling Henryk Grossmann , was a Polish-German economist and historian of Jewish descent.Grossman was born in Krak?w and studied law and economics in Krak?w and Vienna....
    , economist
  • Joseph Jastrow
    Joseph Jastrow

    Joseph Jastrow was an United States psychologist, born in Warsaw, Poland. He was the son of Talmud scholar Marcus Jastrow and younger brother of Morris Jastrow....
    , psychologist (Jewish father)
  • Michal Kalecki
    Michal Kalecki

    Michal Kalecki was a Poland Economics who specialized in macroeconomics. Over the course of his life, he worked at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and Warsaw School of Economics as well as an economic advisor to governments of Cuba, Israel, Mexico and India....
    , economist
  • Abraham Low
    Abraham Low

    Abraham Low , was a Jewish-United States Neuropsychiatry noted for his work establishing self-help programs for the mentally ill, and criticism of Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis....
    , neuropsychiatrist
  • Paul Radin
    Paul Radin

    Paul Radin was a widely read American cultural anthropologist and folklorist of the early twentieth century. A student of Franz Boas at Columbia University, the L?dz-born Radin counted Edward Sapir and Robert Lowie among his classmates....
    , anthropologist
  • Milton Rokeach
    Milton Rokeach

    Milton Rokeach was a Professor of social psychology at Michigan State University, and later at Washington State University, where he held a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Psychology....
    , psychologist
  • Manfred Sakel
    Manfred Sakel

    Manfred Joshua Sakel, Austrian neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, was born on June 6, 1900, in Nadw?rna, in the former Austria-Hungary . Sakel studied Medicine at the University of Vienna from 1919 to 1925, specializing in neurology and neuropsychiatry....
    , neurophysiologist & psychiatrist
  • Adam Schaff
    Adam Schaff

    Adam Schaff was a Poles Marxist philosopher....
    , philosopher
  • Avraham Stern
    Avraham Stern

    Avraham Stern , alias Yair was a Jewish urban revolutionary who founded and led the Zionism organization later known as Lehi ....
    , famous Zionist
  • Pawel Spiewak
    Pawel Spiewak

    Pawel Spiewak is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 18403 votes in 19 Warsaw district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list....
    , sociologist, politician
  • Shemaryahu Talmon
    Shemaryahu Talmon

    Shemaryahu Talmon was J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University.He was educated at the J?disches Reform-Real Gymnasium in Breslau, Germany....
    , Bible scholar
  • Michel Thomas
    Michel Thomas

    Michel Thomas was a Polyglot linguist, language teacher and decorated war veteran. He survived Nazism persecution, served in the French Resistance and worked with the U.S....
    , language teacher
  • Ludwik Zamenhof, ophthalmologist and inventor of Esperanto
    Esperanto

    is the most widely spoken constructed language international auxiliary language in the world. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L....


Historians

  • Szymon Aszkenazy, Polish historian
  • Meir Balaban
    Meir Balaban

    Meir Balaban, Majer Balaban was one of the most outstanding historians of Polish and Galician Jews, and the founder of Polish Jewish historiography....
    , Jewish historian
  • Salo Wittmayer Baron, Austrian historian
  • Szymon Datner
    Szymon Datner

    Szymon Datner was a Poland historian of Jewish descent.Before the World War II he worked as a teacher in a Jewish Hebrew gymnasium in Bialystok....
    , Jewish historian
  • Isaac Deutscher
    Isaac Deutscher

    Isaac Deutscher was a United Kingdom journalist, historian and political activist of Poland-Jewish birth. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and commentator upon Soviet Union affairs....
    , British historian
  • Simon Dubnow
    Simon Dubnow

    Simon Dubnow was a Jewish historian, writer and activist....
    , Jewish historian
  • Artur Eisenbach, historian
  • Norman Finkelstein
    Norman Finkelstein

    Norman Gary Finkelstein is an United States political science and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust....
    , historian
  • Jan T. Gross
    Jan T. Gross

    Jan Tomasz Gross is a Polish American historian and sociologist. He is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society and Professor of History at Princeton University....
    , American sociologist
  • Marceli Handelsman
    Marceli Handelsman

    Marceli Handelsman was a Poland historian, a Warsaw University professor, Middle Ages, modern history, and historical methodology....
    , Polish historian
  • Leopold Labedz
    Leopold Labedz

    Leopold Labedz was an anti-communist English people-Poland commentator on the Soviet Union.Labedz was born to a Polish Jewish doctor in Russia....
    , British historian
  • Rafal Mahler, historian
  • Marian Malowist, historian
  • Lewis Namier
    Lewis Bernstein Namier

    Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was an England historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then Austria-Hungary and is now Poland....
    , British historian
  • Emanuel Ringelblum
    Emanuel Ringelblum

    Emanuel Ringelblum was a List of Polish Jews historian, politician and social worker, known for his Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, Notes on the Refugees in Zbaszyn chronicling the deportation of Jews from the town of Zbaszyn, and the so-called Oyneg Shabbos of the Warsaw Ghetto....
    , Jewish historian
  • Jacob Talmon
    Jacob Talmon

    Jacob Leib Talmon was an Orthodox Jewish Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been categorised as a 'Cold War liberal' because of his devout anti-Marxism which permeates his main works....
    , Israeli historian
  • Adam Ulam
    Adam Ulam

    Adam Bruno Ulam was a United States professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University. Ulam was one of the world's foremost authorities on Russia and the Soviet Union, and author of twenty books and many articles....
    , American historian


Cultural figures


Artists

  • Jankiel Adler, painter
  • Mordecai Ardon
    Mordecai Ardon

    Mordecai Ardon , considered one of Israel's greatest painters. Ardon was born in Tuchow, Galicia , and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. One of his most famous creations are the Ardon Windows, a set of large stained glass windows displayed prominently in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem, incorporating visual el...
    , artist
  • Chim, photographer
  • Irena Eichler, actress
  • René Goscinny
    René Goscinny

    Ren? Goscinny was a Polish-French author, editor and humorist, who is best known for the comic book Ast?rix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the early issues of the comic book series Lucky Luke with Morris ....
    , cartoonist
  • Maurycy Gottlieb
    Maurycy Gottlieb

    Maurycy Gottlieb was a Jewish Painting, of Polish language-speaking Galician Jews from the western part of Ukraine. He was born in Drohobych , Galicia , modern Lviv region, western Ukraine....
    , painter
  • Ida Kaminska
    Ida Kaminska

    Ida Kaminska was a Jewish Poles actress.Born in Odessa, Russia she was the daughter of Yiddish stage actress Esther Rachel Kaminska and stage producer, Avram Izhak Kashe....
    , actress
  • Mayer Kirshenblatt (b. 1916), artist
  • Moise Kisling
    Moise Kisling

    Moise Kisling was a Polish painter.Born in Krak?w, Austria-Hungary, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Krak?w, where he was encouraged to go on to Paris, France, at the time, the center for artistic creativity....
    , painter
  • Roman Kramsztyk, painter
  • Joe Kubert
    Joe Kubert

    Joe Kubert is a Jewish-United States comic book artist who went on to found the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt....
    , comic book artist
  • Daniel Libeskind
    Daniel Libeskind

    Daniel Libeskind, is an United States architect, artist, and set designer of Polish-Jewish descent. He founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect....
    , architect
  • Louis Marcoussis
    Louis Marcoussis

    Louis Marcoussis, formerly Ludwik Kazimierz Wladyslaw Markus or Ludwig Casimir Ladislas Markus, was a Painting and engraver of Poland origin who lived in Paris for much of his life and became a French citizen....
    , painter
  • Elie Nadelman
    Elie Nadelman

    Elie Nadelman was an American sculpture, drawing and collector of Polish birth....
    , sculptor
  • Maria Orska
    Maria Orska

    Maria Orska was an important actress of the German theater and cinema in the 1920s.Maria Orska was born as Rachel Blindermann in 1896, of a Polish-Jewish family, in a city of Mykolaiv , not far from Odessa, in what is now Ukraine, at the time a part of Russian Empire....
    , actress
  • Erna Rosenstein
    Erna Rosenstein

    Erna Rosenstein was a surrealism painter and poetry. She was the daughter of an Austrian judge, born into a Jewish family in the town of Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, now Lwov in Ukraine....
    , painter, poet
  • Moshe Rynecki
    Moshe Rynecki

    Moshe Rynecki was a Polish artist of Jewish origins. He was born in Miedzyrecze, Poland to a hasidic family. Moshe was one of five surviving children of the thirteen born to his parents....
    , painter
  • Arthur Szyk
    Arthur Szyk

    Arthur Szyk was a Poland-born United States artist, famous for his anti-Axis Powers political illustrations, caricatures, and cartoons during World War II, as well as his illustrations for magazine and newspaper articles and books; including an illustrated Haggadah of Pesach, the Szyk Hagaddah, cited by The Times as "worthy to be pl...
    , political cartoonist
  • Roland Topor
    Roland Topor

    Roland Topor , was a France illustrator, Painting, writer and filmmaker, known for the surrealism nature of his work. He was of Poland Jewish origin and spent the early years of his life in Savoy where his family hid him from the Nazi peril....
    , illustrator, painter
  • Max Weber
    Max Weber (artist)

    Max Weber was a Polish-American Painting who worked in the style of cubism before migrating to Jewish themes towards the end of his life.Born in Bialystok, then part of Poland occupied by Russia, he immigrated to America with his parents at the age of 10....
    , painter
  • Esther Wertheimer
    Esther Wertheimer

    Esther Wertheimer is a Canadian Sculpture. She was born in 1926, in Lodz, Poland, and grew up in Montreal, Canada. She studied art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, at the Academia di Belle Arti, in Florence, at Loyola College , in Montreal, and at Goddard College, Vermont....
    , sculptor
  • Samuel Willenberg, sculptor (Jewish father)
  • Alfred Wolmark
    Alfred Wolmark

    Alfred Wolmark was a painter and decorative artist. He was a pioneer of the New Movement in Art.Wolmark was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw....
    , painter
  • Samuel Yellin
    Samuel Yellin

    Samuel Yellin , American master blacksmith, was born in Galicia Poland where at the age of eleven he was apprenticed to an iron master. By the age of sixteen had had completed his apprenticeship....
    , sculptor


Musicians

  • Emanuel Ax
    Emanuel Ax

    Emanuel Ax is a Grammy award-winning United States-Jewish classical pianist. He is currently a teacher on the faculty of the Juilliard School. ...
    , pianist
  • Nelly Ben-Or
    Nelly Ben-Or

    Nelly Nechama Ben-Or, also known as Nelly Ben-Or Clynes, was born in 1933 in Lwow in Poland. She is an international concert pianist and a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she has taught the piano and the Alexander Technique since 1975....
    , pianist
  • Leonard
    Leonard Chess

    Leonard Chess was a record company executive, founder of Chess Records. Chess was influential in the development of electric blues.He was born Lejzor Czyz in a Jewish community in Motal, Poland ....
     & Phil Chess
    Phil Chess

    Philip Chess is a United States record producer and company executive, the co-founder of Chess Records.He was born Fiszel Czyz in a Jewish community in Motal, Poland ....
    , founders of Chess Records
    Chess Records

    Chess Records was an United States record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It specialized in blues, R&B, gospel music, early rock and roll, and occasional jazz releases....
  • Emanuel Feuermann
    Emanuel Feuermann

    Emanuel Feuermann was a celebrated cello....
    , cellist
  • Grzegorz Fitelberg
    Grzegorz Fitelberg

    Grzegorz Fitelberg was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Mloda Polska group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir R?zycki and Mieczyslaw Karlowicz....
    , composer
  • Ignaz Friedman
    Ignaz Friedman

    Ignaz Friedman was a Poland pianist and composer. Critics and colleagues alike placed him among the supreme piano virtuosi of his day, alongside Leopold Godowsky, Moriz Rosenthal, J?zef Hofmann and Josef Lhevinne....
    , pianist
  • Bronislav Gimpel
    Bronislav Gimpel

    Bronislav Gimpel was a Poland-American violinist, and teacher. He was born in Lvov, Austria-Hungary, part of Polish Galicia ,...
    , violinist
  • Szymon Goldberg
    Szymon Goldberg

    Szymon Goldberg was a Poland-born United States violinist and Conducting.Born in Wloclawek, Congress Poland, Goldberg played the violin as a child growing up in Warsaw....
    , violinist/conductor
  • Ida Haendel
    Ida Haendel

    Ida Haendel, CBE is a British violinist of Polish descent....
    , violinist
  • Sir George Henschel
    George Henschel

    Sir George Henschel , was an England baritone, pianist, conducting, and composer. He was knighted in 1914.Henschel was born at Breslau of Poland-Jewish parentage, and educated as a pianist, making his first public appearance in Berlin in 1862....
    , musician
  • Bronislaw Huberman
    Bronislaw Huberman

    Bronislaw Huberman was a Jewish Poland violinist. He was known for his individualistic and personal interpretations and was praised for his tone color, expressiveness, and flexibility....
    , violinist
  • Jan Kiepura
    Jan Kiepura

    Jan Wiktor Kiepura was a Poland singer and actor. He was born of a Jewish mother and a Polish father.In 1926 he left Poland. History of Poland , he built a well-known hotel, "Patria", in Krynica-Zdr?j, which cost him about United States dollar3 million....
    , singer (Jewish mother)
  • Józef Koffler
    Józef Koffler

    J?zef Koffler , was a Poland composer, music teacher, musicologist and musical columnist.He was the first Polish composer living before the Second World War that applied the Twelve-tone technique ....
    , classic composer, music teacher, music columnist
  • Leopold Kozlowski, composer, arranger, director, pianist (from the famous Brandwein family)
  • Wanda Landowska
    Wanda Landowska

    Wanda Landowska , was a Poland harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century....
    , harpsichordist (Jewish mother)
  • Szymon Laks, composer
  • René Leibowitz
    René Leibowitz

    Ren? Leibowitz was a French composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher born in Warsaw, Poland.During the early 1930s, Leibowitz studied composition and orchestration with Maurice Ravel in Paris, where he was introduced to Arnold Schoenberg's Twelve-note technique by the German pianist and composer Erich Itor Kahn....
    , composer
  • Jerzy Petersburski
    Jerzy Petersburski

    Jerzy Petersburski was a Poland pianist and composer of popular music, renowned mostly for his Tango musics, some of which were milestones in popularization of the musical genre in Poland and are still widely known today, more than half a century after their creation....
    , composer, pianist (of Jewish ancestry)
  • Slawa Przybylska
    Slawa Przybylska

    'Slawa Przybylska' is a Poland singer who became popular in 1958 with the song Pamietasz byla jesien .Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski awarded her the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta....
    , singer
  • Moriz Rosenthal
    Moriz Rosenthal

    Moriz Rosenthal was an American piano of Austro-Hungarian Empire origin.Rosenthal was born in Lemberg , where his father was professor at the chief academy....
    , pianist
  • Eddie Rosner
    Eddie Rosner

    Adolph Ignatievich Rosner, also known as Eddie Rosner was a Polish and Soviet Jazz musician called "The White Louis Armstrong" or "Polish Louis Armstrong" in different sources....
    , jazz bandleader, trumpeter
  • Arthur Rubinstein
    Arthur Rubinstein

    Arthur Rubinstein Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was a Poland-United States pianist who is widely considered as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century....
    , pianist
  • Heinrich Schenker
    Heinrich Schenker

    Heinrich Schenker was a music theorist, best known for his approach to musical analysis, now usually called Schenkerian analysis.Schenker was born in Vyshnivchyk in Galicia then in Austria-Hungary ....
    , music theorist
  • Artur Schnabel
    Artur Schnabel

    Artur Schnabel was an Austrian european classical music pianist, who also composer and taught. Schnabel was renowned for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding anything resembling pure technical bravura....
    , pianist
  • Henryk Szeryng
    Henryk Szeryng

    Henryk Szeryng was a violin virtuoso of Poland and Jewish heritage.He was born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland. Henryk started piano and harmony training with his mother when he was 5, and at age 7 turned to the violin, receiving instruction from Maurice Frenkel....
    , violinist
  • Wladyslaw Szpilman
    Wladyslaw Szpilman

    Wladyslaw ?Wladek? Szpilman was a Poland pianist, composer, and memoirist. Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the Roman Polanski film The Pianist , which is based on his autobiography book recounting how he survived the Holocaust....
     pianist, author of The Pianist
    The Pianist (memoir)

    The Pianist is a memoir written by the Poland musician of Jewish origins Wladyslaw Szpilman. He tells how he survived the German deportations of Jews to extermination camps, the 1943 destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II....
     memoir
  • Alexandre Tansman
    Alexandre Tansman

    Alexandre Tansman was a prolific composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life....
    , composer, pianist
  • Carl Tausig
    Carl Tausig

    Carl Tausig or Karl Tausig was a Poland pianist and composer....
    , composer, pianist
  • Golda Tencer, singer
  • Ignaz Tiegerman
    Ignaz Tiegerman

    Ignaz Tiegerman was a Polish pianist and teacher.He was an exceptional interpreter of the Romanticism . He studied with Leschetizky but his lessons with Ignaz Friedman were more significant....
    , pianist (Jewish father)
  • Ignatz Waghalter
    Ignatz Waghalter

    Ignatz Waghalter was a Poland-Germany composer and conducting.Born into an impoverished Jewish family in Warsaw, Waghalter made his way to Berlin at the age of 17 where he first studied with Philipp Scharwenka....
    , composer
  • Henryk Wars
    Henryk Wars

    Henryk Wars was a Poland and later American pop music composer.During the 1930s, he wrote the songs for a string of musical film in Poland, and his importance there is comparable to that of Irving Berlin in America....
    , composer
  • Mieczyslaw Weinberg
    Mieczyslaw Weinberg

    Mieczyslaw Weinberg was an important USSR composer of Poland-Jewish origin.He lived in the Soviet Union and Russia since 1939 and lost most of his family in the Holocaust....
    , composer
  • Geddy Lee
    Geddy Lee

    Geddy Lee Order of Canada is a Canada musician best known as the singer, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian Rock music group Rush . Lee joined Rush in September 1968 at the request of his childhood friend, Alex Lifeson in order to replace frontman Jeff Jones ....
    , Canadian born son of Polish Jewish holocaust survivors. Bass player, singer, keyboard player, composer for the Canadian progressive rock trio Rush.


Screen and stage

  • Artur Brauner
    Artur Brauner

    Artur "Atze" Brauner is a Germany film producer and entrepreneur. He was born in L?dz, Poland....
    , film producer
  • Aleksander Ford
    Aleksander Ford

    Aleksander Ford was a Poland film director. Polish filmmaker Aleksander Ford played a key role in establishing Poland's international reputation for excellent film....
    , film director
  • Jakub Goldberg
    Jakub Goldberg

    Jakub Goldberg was a Polish scriptwriter, assistant director and actor.A graduate of the prestigious Polish Film School in L?dz, Goldberg was a well-known personality in the post-war Polish film community....
    , film screenwriter
  • Samuel Goldwyn
    Samuel Goldwyn

    Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios....
    , film producer
  • Joseph Green (Yoysef Grinberg)
    Joseph Green (actor)

    'Joseph Green' , born 'Yoysef Grinberg', a.k.a. 'Josef Gr?nberg', 'Joseph Greenberg' and 'Joseph Greene', a Poland-born Jew who emigrated to the United States in 1924, was an actor in Yiddish theater and one of the few directors of Yiddish language films; he made four films including A brivele der mamen and Yidl Mitn Fid...
    , Yiddish actor
  • Anna Held
    Anna Held

    Helene Anna Held was a Poland-born stage performer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband....
    , stage actress
  • Aleksander Hertz, film pioneer and director
  • Jerzy Hoffman
    Jerzy Hoffman

    Jerzy Hoffman is a Poland film director and screenwriter. He is the father of early Mac development team member Joanna Hoffman....
    , film director
  • Agnieszka Holland
    Agnieszka Holland

    Agnieszka Holland is an award-winning Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish New Wave cinema, Holland ranks as one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers....
    , film director, screenwriter (Jewish father)
  • Moses Horowitz
    Moses Horowitz

    Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz , also known as Moishe Hurvitz, Moishe Isaac Halevy-Hurvitz, etc., was a playwright and actor in the early years of Yiddish theater....
    , Yiddish playwright
  • Ida Kaminska
    Ida Kaminska

    Ida Kaminska was a Jewish Poles actress.Born in Odessa, Russia she was the daughter of Yiddish stage actress Esther Rachel Kaminska and stage producer, Avram Izhak Kashe....
    , actress
  • Boris Kaufman
    Boris Kaufman

    Boris Abelevich Kaufman, A.S.C. was an Academy Awards-winning cinematographer. He was the younger brother of famous filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman....
    , cinematographer
  • Mikhail Kaufman
    Mikhail Kaufman

    Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman was a Russian cinematographer and photographer. He was the older brother of notable filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Boris Kaufman....
    , cinematographer
  • Harvey Keitel
    Harvey Keitel

    Harvey Keitel is an Academy Award-nominated American actor whose latest work is that of Detective Lieutenant Gene Hunt on ABC's crime drama "Life on Mars "....
    , actor
  • Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski

    Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
    , film director (gentile maternal grandmother, mother Catholic)
  • Sandie Renee Kloszewski, Adult Film Actress (Kloszewski family converted to Catholisizm when entering the United States)
  • Marie Rambert
    Marie Rambert

    File:Marie Rambert.jpgDame Marie Rambert was a Polish-Jewish dancer and dance pedagogue who exerted a great influence on British ballet, both as a dancer and teacher....
    , ballet dancer
  • Lew Rywin
    Lew Rywin

    Lew Rywin, is a Poland film Film producer associated with Heritage Films . He worked also in state-run TV.He participated in producing such films as Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Roman Polanski's The Pianist , and Jakub Kolski's Pornografia ....
    , film producer
  • Piotr Skrzynecki, cabaret director (Jewish mother)
  • Dziga Vertov
    Dziga Vertov

    Dziga Vertov January 15 , 1896–February 12, 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director. His brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also notable filmmakers....
    , film director
  • Harry
    Harry Warner

    Harry Morris Warner was an United States studio executive, one of the founders of Warner Bros., and a major contributor to the development of the film industry....
    , Sam
    Sam Warner

    Samuel Louis Warner was a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Brothers. He established the studio along with his brothers Harry Warner, Albert Warner, and Jack Warner....
     & Albert Warner
    Albert Warner

    Albert Warner , was one of the founders of Warner Bros.. He established the production studio with his brothers Harry Warner, Sam Warner, and Jack Warner....
    , film producers


Writers and poets


Polish-language

  • Alicia Appleman-Jurman
    Alicia Appleman-Jurman

    Alicia Appleman-Jurman is a Polish-United States memoirist and has spoken out about her experiences of the Holocaust in her autobiography, Alicia: My Story....
    , writer
  • Eli Barbur, writer
  • Roman Brandstaetter, writer, poet
  • Kazimierz Brandys, writer
  • Ida Fink
    Ida Fink

    Ida Fink is a Poland Jewish author who writes about the Holocaust....
    , writer of short stories
  • Konstanty Gebert
    Konstanty Gebert

    Konstanty Gebert is a Poland journalist and a Jewish activist, as well as one of the most notable war correspondents of various Polish daily newspapers and son of Boleslaw Gebert....
    , writer, activist (Jewish mother)
  • Zuzanna Ginczanka
    Zuzanna Ginczanka

    Zuzanna Ginczanka was a Jewish-Polish people poet....
    , poet
  • Henryk Grynberg
    Henryk Grynberg

    Henryk Grynberg was a Poland writer and actor who survived the Nazi occupation. He was an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright and essayist who had authored twenty books of prose and poetry and two dramas....
    , writer
  • Marian Hemar
    Marian Hemar

    Marian Hemar , born Jan Maria Hescheles, was a Polish Jewish poet, journalist, playwright and comedy writer.Hemar was born on April 6, 1901, in Lw?w....
    , poet
  • Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
    Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

    Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski was a Polish essayist and thinker. He is best known for writing a personal account of life in the Soviet gulag - A World Apart ....
    , writer
  • Mieczyslaw Jastrun
    Mieczyslaw Jastrun

    Mieczyslaw Jastrun was a Polish poet and essayist.External links*...
    , poet
  • Janusz Korczak
    Janusz Korczak

    Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit was a Polish-Jewish children's literature, pediatrics, and child pedagogy, known as Pan Doktor ....
    , pediatrician, children's writer, pedagogue and educator
  • Hanna Krall
    Hanna Krall

    Hanna Krall is a Poland writer....
    , author
  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec was a Poland poetry and aphorist of Polish and Jewish noble origin. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of post-WW2 Poland....
    , poet
  • Teodor Parnicki
    Teodor Parnicki

    Teodor Parnicki was a Poland writer, notable for his historical novels. He is especially renowned for works related to the early medieval Middle East, the late Roman and the Byzantine empires....
    , writer (Jewish mother)
  • Artur Sandauer, writer, literature critic, and publicist
  • Bruno Schulz
    Bruno Schulz

    Bruno Schulz was a Poland writer, Graphic arts and Literary criticism, who is widely regarded as one of the great Polish prose stylists of the 20th century....
    , prose writer
  • Antoni Slonimski
    Antoni Slonimski

    Antoni Slonimski was a Poland poet and writer.Born into a Jewish family in Warsaw, Slonimski was baptized in infancy. In 1919 he co-founded the Skamander group of experimental poets with Julian Tuwim and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz....
    , writer
  • Arnold Slucki, poet, publicist, soldier of Red Army, member of communist party,
  • Anatol Stern
    Anatol Stern

    Anatol Stern was a Poland poet, writer and art critic. Born October 24, 1899 to an assimilated family of Jewish ancestry, Stern graduated from the Polish Studies Faculty of the Warsaw University....
    , poet
  • Julian Stryjkowski
    Julian Stryjkowski

    Julian Stryjkowski was a Poland journalist and writer, notable for his social prose of leftists character.He was born April 27, 1905 in Stryj , to a family of Hasidic Judaism....
    , novelist
  • Julian Tuwim
    Julian Tuwim

    Julian Tuwim ; was one of the greatest Polish poets, born in L?dz, Congress Poland, and educated in L?dz and Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University....
    , poet, song lyrics
  • Leopold Tyrmand
    Leopold Tyrmand

    Leopold Tyrmand was a Poland-Jewish novelist and editor. He rose to prominence for his publication of anti-regime newspapers in Poland. He emigrated to the United States in 1966....
    , writer
  • Aleksander Wat
    Aleksander Wat

    Aleksander Wat, was a Poland poet, writer and art theoretician, one of the precursors of Polish futurism movement in early 1920s.He was born May 1, 1900 in Warsaw....
    , poet
  • Bronislaw Wildstein
    Bronislaw Wildstein

    Bronislaw Wildstein is a former Poland dissident, journalist, freelance author and, from May 11 2006 to February 28 2007, the CEO of Telewizja Polska, state-owned television....
    , journalist (Jewish father)
  • Józef Wittlin, poet
  • Stanislaw Wygodzki
    Stanislaw Wygodzki

    Stanislaw Wygodzki was a Poles writer of Jewish origin. He published his first volume of poetry in 1933 before the Nazi occupation of Poland, during which Wygodzki was first interred in the Bedzin ghetto and later in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Dachau concentration camp, Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen concentration camp....
    , writer


Yiddish-language

  • Sholem Asch
    Sholem Asch

    Sholem Asch born Szulim Asz , also written Shalom Asch was a Poland-born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language....
    , writer
  • Mordechai Gebirtig
    Mordechai Gebirtig

    Mordechai Gebirtig, born Mordekhai Bertig was a Yiddish poet and songwriter, regarded as one of the most influential and popular writers of Yiddish songs and poems....
    , poet-songwriter
  • Itche Goldberg
    Itche Goldberg

    Itche Goldberg was a Yiddish writer of children's books, poet, librettist, educator, literary critic, camp director, publisher, fundraiser, essayist, literary editor, Yiddish language and culture scholar, and left-wing political activist....
    , writer
  • Yitzhak Katzenelson
    Yitzhak Katzenelson

    Itzhak Katzenelson Soon after his birth Katzenelson's family moved to L?dz, Poland, where he grew up. He worked as a teacher, founding a school, and as a dramatist in both Yiddish and Hebrew, starting a theatre group which toured Poland and Lithuania....
    , poet
  • Salcia Landmann
    Salcia Landmann

    Salcia Landmann was a Jewish writer. She was born in Zhovkva, Galicia , but died in St. Gallen, Switzerland. She worked on preserving the Yiddish language, and she wrote the important work Der J?dische Witz ....
    , writer
  • I. L. Peretz, writer
  • Morris Rosenfeld
    Morris Rosenfeld

    Morris Rosenfeld was a Yiddish poet.His work sheds light on the living circumstances of emigrants from Eastern Europe in New York's tailoring workshops....
    , proletariat writer
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Nobel Prize in literature-winning Poland-born United States author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literature movement....
    , writer, Nobel Prize (1978)
  • Israel Joshua Singer
    Israel Joshua Singer

    Israel Joshua Singer was a Yiddish language novelist. He was born Yisroel Yehoyshue Zinger the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman....
    , novelist
  • Abraham Sutzkever
    Abraham Sutzkever

    Abraham Sutzkever is a Yiddish poetry and Second World War Soviet partisan.Sutzkever was born in Smorgon, Poland . During the First World War his family fled to seek refuge in Siberia, then in 1922 migrated to Vilnius ...
    , poet


Hebrew-language

  • Shmuel Yosef Agnon
    Shmuel Yosef Agnon

    Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize in literature laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S....
    , writer, Nobel Prize (1966)
  • Nathan Alterman
    Nathan Alterman

    Natan Alterman was an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator....
    , writer
  • Yoram Bronowski, literary critic
  • Isaac Erter
    Isaac Erter

    Isaac Erter was a History of the Jews in Poland satire; 1792 at Janischok, Galicia ? 1851 at Brody. The first part of his life was full of struggles and hardships....
    , writer
  • Roman Frister
    Roman Frister

    Roman Frister wrote "The Cap: The Price of a Life", an autobiography account of his life living in Nazi occupied Poland and then Poland under the communists....
    , journalist and author
  • Naphtali Herz Imber, poet
  • Uri Orlev
    Uri Orlev

    Uri Orlev is an award-winning Israelis children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ....
    , writer, Hans Christian Andersen
    Hans Christian Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen , also known as simply H. C. Andersen ); was a Denmark author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Among his best-known stories are "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Red Shoes "....
     Award (1996)
  • Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai
    Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai

    Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai was a Bible scholar, an author, and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language....
    , writer


Other languages

  • Lisa Appignanesi
    Lisa Appignanesi

    Lisa Appignanesi is a British writer, historian, campaigner for freedom of the press and President of the English branch of International PEN....
    , English writer
  • Louis Begley
    Louis Begley

    Louis Begley is an United Statesn novelist....
    , American writer
  • Maurice Frydman
    Maurice Frydman

    Maurice Frydman, aka Swami Bharatananda , was an engineer and humanitarian who spent the later part of his life in India. He lived at the ashram of Mahatma Gandhi and took an active part in India's fight for independence?notably in helping to draft a new constitution for the State of Aundh that became the Aundh Experiment....
    , Indian translator
  • Marek Halter
    Marek Halter

    Marek Halter is a French-Jewish novelist. He was born in Poland in 1936. During World War II, he and his parents escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and fled to the Soviet Union, spending the remainder of the war in Ukraine, Moscow and later in Kokand, Uzbekistan....
    , French writer
  • Eva Hoffman
    Eva Hoffman

    Eva Wydra Hoffman is a writer and academic. She was born as Ewa Wydra July 1, 1945 in Krak?w, Poland after her Judaism parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in Ukraine....
    , American writer
  • Jerzy Kosinski
    Jerzy Kosinski

    Jerzy Kosinski was a Polish-American novelist, best known for the novels The Painted Bird and Being There , the latter of which was adapted into Being There in 1979....
    , English-language novelist, from 1965 an American citizen
  • Arthur Miller
    Arthur Miller

    Arthur Miller was an United States playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in Theater in the United States and film for almost 100 years, writing a wide variety of dramas, including celebrated Play such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are studied and performed w...
    , American writer
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki
    Marcel Reich-Ranicki

    Marcel Reich-Ranicki is a German literary critic, and a member of the literary group Gruppe 47 of Germans and Polish-Jewish origin. He is regarded as the most influential contemporary literary critic of German literature....
    , German writer
  • Henry Roth
    Henry Roth

    Henry Roth was an American novelist and short story writer....
    , American writer
  • Joseph Roth
    Joseph Roth

    Joseph Roth was an Austrian novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March , and for his novel of Jewish life, Job ....
    , Austrian writer


Business figures

  • Majer Bersohn, banker, philanthropist
  • Henry & Helal Hassenfeld, founders of Hasbro
    Hasbro

    Hasbro is an United States toy company. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world, second only to the toy giant Mattel. Hasbro is also the publisher of the world's most popular board game, Monopoly ....
  • Leopold Kronenberg
    Leopold Kronenberg

    Baron Leopold Julian Kronenberg was a Poles banker....
    , banker
  • Maurycy Orgelbrand, editor
  • Samuel Orgelbrand
    Samuel Orgelbrand

    Samuel Orgelbrand was one of the most prominent Polish-Jewish publishers of the 19th century. The person to discover the works of J?zef Ignacy Kraszewski, he was also the publisher of the Encyklopedia Powszechna , the first true modern Polish language encyclopedia....
    , editor
  • Louis Pozez
    Payless ShoeSource

    Payless ShoeSource is a discount footwear retailer that was founded in 1956 in Topeka, Kansas. Shaol Pozez and his cousin Louis Pozez founded and operated Payless Shoes....
    , co-founder Payless Shoesource
  • Izrael Poznanski
    Izrael Poznanski

    Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznanski was a textile magnate, philanthropist, a successful Polish-Jewish industrialist in L?dz, and the husband of Elenora Hertz Poznanski....
    , textile magnate, philanthropist
  • Helena Rubinstein
    Helena Rubinstein

    Helena Rubinstein was a Poland-United States cosmetics industrialist, founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein, Incorporated, which made her one of the world's richest women....
    , cosmetics industrialist
  • Jack Tramiel
    Jack Tramiel

    Jack Tramiel is a businessman, best known for founding Commodore International - manufacturer of the Commodore PET, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore Amiga, and other Commodore models of home computers....
    , founder of Commodore
    Commodore International

    Commodore, the commonly used name for Commodore International, was a United States electronics company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania which was a vital player in the home computer/personal computer field in the 1980s....
  • Leonard Tramiel, Jack Tramiel's son
  • Hipolit Wawelberg, banker, philanthropist
  • Felix Zandman, founder of Vishay
  • Szmul Zbytkower, banker, factor


Sport figures


Chess players

  • Izak Aloni
    Izak Aloni

    Izak Aloni was an Israeli chess master....
  • Izaak Appel
    Izaak Appel

    Izaak Appel was a Polish chess master....
  • Arnold Aurbach
    Arnold Aurbach

    Arnold Aurbach was a Polish?French chess master.At the beginning of the 20th century, he left Warsaw for Paris. He won a match against Adolphe Silbert at Paris 1907; won, ahead of Weinstein, at Paris 1909; took 12th at Abbazia 1912 ; drew a mini match with Jos? Ra?l Capablanca in 1913, and lost a match to him in 1914, both in Paris....
  • Abram Blass
    Abram Blass

    Abram Blass , a Polish-Israeli chess master.Born in Lomza , he moved to USA where stayed from 1911 to 1924. After returning to Poland, he lived in Warsaw....
  • Oscar Chajes
    Oscar Chajes

    Oscar Chajes , was an Austrian, then American chess player....
  • Josef Cukierman
    Josef Cukierman

    Josef Cukierman was a Polish-born French chess master....
  • Moshe Czerniak
    Moshe Czerniak

    Moshe Czerniak was an Israeli International Chess Master....
  • Arthur Dake
    Arthur Dake

    Arthur Dake was an American chess master. He was born in Portland, Oregon and died in Reno, Nevada.He was born into a Polish family with Jewish roots, who immigrated to America before World War I....
  • Dawid Daniuszewski
    Dawid Daniuszewski

    Dawid Daniuszewski was a Poland chess master....
  • Arthur Dunkelblum
    Arthur Dunkelblum

    Arthur Dunkelblum a Belgium chess master.Arthur Dunkelblum was born in Cracow , Austria-Hungary. He played for Belgium in eleven Chess Olympiads: 1928, 1933, 1937, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1966, and 1968 ....
  • Boruch Israel Dyner
    Boruch Israel Dyner

    Boruch Isra?l Dyner was a Belgian?Israeli chess master.Born in Poland, he moved to Belgium. Dyner won thrice Belgian Chess Championship in 1932 , 1933 and 1935....
  • Samuel Factor
    Samuel Factor

    Samuel Factor was a Polish-American chess master.BiographyDuring World War I, Faktor was one of the strongest chess players in Lodz....
  • Salo Finkelstein
    Salo Finkelstein

    Salo Finkelstein was a mental calculator, ranked eighth in the "100 Greatest Mental Calculators". He was born in L?dz to a Jewish family.While at school he was above average in mathematics, and discovered his calculating abilities as well as his faculty in memorizing numbers....
  • Alexander Flamberg
    Alexander Flamberg

    Alexander Flamberg was a Polish chess master....
  • Henryk Friedman
    Henryk Friedman

    Henryk Friedman was a Polish chess master.He lived in Lvov . In 1926?1934, Friedman won seven times in succession the Championship of Lvov but 1930, when he took 2nd place behind Stepan Popel....
  • Achilles Frydman
    Achilles Frydman

    Achilles Frydman was a Polish chess player....
  • Paulino Frydman
    Paulino Frydman

    Paulino Frydman was a Polish chess master....
  • Edward Gerstenfeld
    Edward Gerstenfeld

    Edward Gerstenfeld was a Polish chess master.He was born in Lvov , Austria-Hungary. From 1935 to 1939, he lived in L?dz. In 1935, Gerstenfeld played in a quadrangular match with Izaak Appel, Achilles Frydman and Jakub Kolski in L?dz....
  • Yehuda Gruenfeld
    Yehuda Gruenfeld

    Yehuda Gruenfeld an Israeli chess International Grandmaster. He was born in Dzierzoni?w in Poland.As of April 2007, his Elo rating was 2480, making him the # 25 player in Israel and the 887th-highest rated player in the world....
  • Izaak Grynfeld
    Izaak Grynfeld

    Izaak Grynfeld a Polish?Israeli chess master.In 1938, he tied for 3rd-4th in Krakow . After World War II, he played six-times in Polish championships ....
  • Jakub Heilpern
    Jakub Heilpern

    Jakub Heilpern was a Polish chess master.Born into a Jewish family near Warsaw, he was educated in a high school gymnasium in Warsaw, studied in ETH Zurich in 1870?72 and gradueted from Technical University of Munich in 1874....
  • Roza Herman
    Róza Herman

    R?za Maria Herman - a Polish chess master.In June 1935, she took 4th in 1st Polish Championship in Warsaw . In August 1935, she tied for 6-7th , in the 5th Women's World Chess Championship in Warsaw ....
  • Max Judd
    Max Judd

    Max Judd was an American chess master.Born in southern Poland , he emigrated to America in 1862. He was an American cloak manufacturer. He was founder and president of the St....
  • Bernhard Kagan
    Bernhard Kagan

    Bernhard Kagan was a German chess player, writer, publisher, editor, and organizer.Born in Poland he lived in Berlin where played in local tournaments....
  • Hermann Keidanski
    Hermann Keidanski

    Hermann Keidanski, later: Keidanz, Kaidanz was a German chess master.Born in Pomerania , he had come to Berlin where participated in many chess tournaments in the 1890s....
  • Stanislaw Kohn
    Stanislaw Kohn

    Stanislaw Kohn was a Polish chess master.Kohn played for Poland in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924.In 1925, he won the Warsaw Championship....
  • Abraham Kupchik
    Abraham Kupchik

    Abraham Kupchik was an USA chess master.Abraham Kupchik was born into a Jewish family in Brest, Belarus . His family emigrated to the USA in 1903....
  • Salo Landau
    Salo Landau

    Salo Landau was a Netherlands chess player, who died in a Nazism concentration camp....
  • Salomon Langleben
    Salomon Langleben

    Salomon Langleben was a Polish chess master.He lived for many years in the United States of America. In 1894 he won in Buffalo. At the end of 19th century, he returned to Poland....
  • Edward Lasker
    Edward Lasker

    Edward Lasker was a leading United States chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of International Master of chess by FIDE. Lasker was an engineer by profession, and an author....
  • Paul Saladin Leonhardt
  • Grigory Levenfish
    Grigory Levenfish

    Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish was a leading Jewish Russian chess grandmaster of the 1920s and 1930s. He was twice Soviet champion , and drew a 1937 match against future world champion Mikhail Botvinnik....
  • Jerzy Lewi
    Jerzy Lewi

    Jerzy Lewi was a Poland chess master.He won five-times Polish Junior championships in 1965?1969. He took 3rd, behind Anatoly Karpov and Andras Adorjan, at Groningen 1967 ....
  • Moishe Lowtzky
    Moishe Lowtzky

    Moishe Lowtzky was a Ukrainian?Polish chess master....
  • Ariah Mohiliver
    Ariah Mohiliver

    Ariah Lev Mohiliver was an Israelis chess master and editor.Born in Poland, he emigrated to Palestine . He published two chess problems in the Egyptian Post in 1921 and edited a chess magazine, Ha?sachmat, in Palestine in the 1920s....
  • Miguel Najdorf
    Miguel Najdorf

    Miguel Najdorf was a Polish-born Argentina chess grandmaster of Jewish origin, famous for his Sicilian Defense, Najdorf Variation....
  • Menachem Oren
    Menachem Oren

    Mieczyslaw Chwojnik, later known as Dr. Menachem Oren was a Polish-born Israelis chess master and mathematician.Chwojnik was the strongest Cracovian chess player in 1920s; thrice winner of the Cracow championships ....
  • Julius Perlis
    Julius Perlis

    Julius Perlis an Austrian chess player....
  • Henryk Pogoriely
    Henryk Pogoriely

    Henryk Pogoriely was a Polish chess master.He took 4th in the Warsaw Championship in 1928. Pogoriely, along with other members of the Warsaw team won gold medal in the 1st Polish Team Championship at Kr?lewska Huta 1929....
  • Dawid Przepiórka
    Dawid Przepiórka

    Dawid Przepi?rka was a prominent Polish people chess player of the early twentieth century.Dawid Przepi?rka was born December 22, 1880 in Warsaw, Poland , to a family of wealthy landowners and entrepreneurs of Jewish extraction....
  • Meir Rauch
    Meir Rauch

    Meir Rauch was an Israeli chess master, born in Zolynia.In August-September 1939, he played for the Palestine team in the 8th Chess Olympiad on the first reserve board in Buenos Aires....
  • Samuel Rosenthal
    Samuel Rosenthal

    Samuel Rosenthal was a Polish-born French chess master. Chess historian Edward Winter wrote, "He dedicated his life to chess-playing, touring, writing, teaching and analysing....
  • Gersz Rotlewi
    Gersz Rotlewi

    Gersz Rotlewi was a Polish chess master....
  • Akiba Rubinstein
    Akiba Rubinstein

    Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was a famous Poland chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century....
  • Samuel Reshevsky
    Samuel Reshevsky

    Samuel Herman Reshevsky was a famous chess prodigy and later a leading American chess International Grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from about the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s; coming equal third in the World Chess Championship 1948 tournament, and equal second in the 1953 Candidates Tournament....
  • Gersz Salwe
    Gersz Salwe

    Gersz Salwe was a Poles chess player....
  • Leon Schwartzmann
    Leon Schwartzmann

    Leon Schwartzmann was a Polish?French chess master.He was born in Warsaw, Poland into a Jewish family, and studied in Sankt Petersburg. In 1911, he tied for 5-6th in St Petersburg ....
  • Stanislaus Sittenfeld
    Stanislaus Sittenfeld

    Stanislaus Sittenfeld was a Polish?French chess master.Born in Poland, he lived in Paris from 1884. He participated at the Caf? de la R?gence championships in Paris, and took twice 3rd place in 1890 and 1892....
  • Gedali Szapiro
    Gedali Szapiro

    Gedali Shapiro was a Polish?Israeli chess master, born in Siedlce.He tied for 7-8th at Wroclaw 1955 Polish Chess Championship. He played for ?Poland B? in 3rd Triennial Cup at Warsaw 1956....
  • Abram Szpiro
    Abram Szpiro

    Abram Szpiro was a Polish chess master.Born in Germany, he moved with his family to L?dz, Poland. He tied for 7-8th , shared 4th , and twice took 6th in L?dz City championships....
  • Savielly Tartakower
  • Jean Taubenhaus
    Jean Taubenhaus

    Jean Taubenhaus was a Poland?born France chess master....
  • Izaak Towbin
    Izaak Towbin

    Izaak Towbin was a Polish chess master and organizer.Born in Korets, Ukraine into a Jewish family, he entered a gymnasium in Kiev and then Kiev University....
  • Szymon Winawer
    Szymon Winawer

    Szymon Abramowicz Winawer , born in Warsaw, Poland, was a leading chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883. At the Paris 1867 chess tournament held at the Caf? de la R?gence, his first international tournament, Winawer finished in second place, tied with Wilhelm Steinitz behind Ignatz Von Kolisch....
  • Daniel Yanofsky
    Daniel Yanofsky

    Daniel Abraham Yanofsky was Canada's first chess International Grandmaster, an eight-time Canadian Chess Championship, a chess writer, a chess arbiter, and a lawyer....
  • Johannes Zukertort
    Johannes Zukertort

    Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a leading chess master of Germany-Poland-Jewish origin. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, and lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally seen as the first World Chess Championship match....


Others

  • Ludwik Gintel
    Ludwik Gintel

    Ludwik Gintel was a soccer player for Cracovia Krak?w, who played as a defender . He was also capped 12 times for the Polish national team, including their first ever Olympic appearance at the 1924 Summer Olympics....
    , footballer (soccer)
  • Charley Goldman
    Charley Goldman

    Charley Goldman was a famed boxing trainer who trained five world champions. Goldman's most famous pupil was the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, Rocky Marciano....
    , boxing trainer (International Boxing Hall of Fame)
  • Roman Kantor
    Roman Kantor

    Roman Kantor , born in L?dz, Poland, was an Poland Olympic Games epee Fencing.Kantor, who was one of Poland?s leading fencers, competed in the team and individual ?p?e events at the 1936 Berlin Olympics....
    , fencer
  • Józef Klotz
    Józef Klotz

    J?zef Klotz , born in Krak?w, was a Polish footballer of Jewish origin, who scored the first ever goal for the Poland national football team. He was connected with two clubs - Jutrzenka Krak?w and Maccabi Warszawa ....
    , footballer (soccer)
  • Józef Lustgarten, footballer (soccer)
  • Myer Prinstein
    Myer Prinstein

    Myer Prinstein was an United States Athletics and member of the Irish American Athletic Club who held the world record for the long jump and won gold medals in three Olympic Games....
    , long- and triple-jumper (4 Olympic golds)
  • Leon Sperling
    Leon Sperling

    Leon Sperling born August 07 1900 in Krak?w, died shot by the Nazis in the Lw?w Jewish ghetto on December 15, 1941.Sperling was a football forward, playing on the left wing....
    , footballer (soccer)


Criminals

  • Boguslaw Bagsik, financial hochstapler, swindler
  • Julia Brystigerowa, communist Security Services
  • Anatol Fejgin
    Anatol Fejgin

    Anatol Fejgin was a Poland Communism activist and notorious commander of the political police . After October 1956, his name symbolized Stalinist terror in Poland....
    , Polish State Security Services,criminal
  • Maria Gurowska or Berger, Polish State Security, Services communist criminal
  • Wiktor Herer, Polish State Security Services, communist criminal
  • Adam Humer
    Adam Humer

    Adam Humer - real name: Umer, - was a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Public Security of Poland ....
    , Polish State Security Services, communist criminal
  • Aaron Kosminski, UK Jack the Ripper suspect
  • Meyer Lansky
    Meyer Lansky

    Meyer Lansky was a organized crime who, with Charles Luciano, was instrumental in the development of The Commission in the United States.Lansky developed a gambling empire which ranged from Saratoga, Miami, Las Vegas and was officially in charge of gambling concessions in Cuba....
    , US gangster
  • Salomon Morel
    Salomon Morel

    Salomon Morel was between February and November 1945 a member of the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa and the commandant of the Zgoda camp camp in Swietochlowice, Poland....
    , Polish State Security Services, communist criminal
  • Julian Polan-Haraschin, chairperson of the military tribunal in Cracow
  • Roman Romkowski
    Roman Romkowski

    General Roman Romkowski was Poland communist and second in command in Poland's Ministry of Public Security in 1940's and beginning of 1950's....
    , 1st vice-minister of MPS
  • Józef Rózanski
    Józef Rózanski

    J?zef R?zanski was a communist activist in Poland, and member of Soviet NKVD and Polish communist Ministry of Public Security of Poland. Born in a Polish Jewish family in Warsaw, active in the Communist Party of Poland before WWII, he joined NKVD and later, Polish communist security apparatus....
    , head of the Department of Investigations
  • Helena Wolinska-Brus
    Helena Wolinska-Brus

    Helena Wolinska-Brus was a former military prosecutor in Poland, involved in Stalinism regime show trials of the 1950s. She has been implicated in the arrests - and in some cases deaths - of key figures in Poland's Home Army....
    , former Stalinist military prosecutor from Poland, court criminal


Fictional figures

  • Jankiel from Pan Tadeusz
    Pan Tadeusz

    Pan Tadeusz, the full title in English language: Mister Thaddeus, or the Last Foray in Lithuania: a History of the Nobility in the Years 1811 and 1812 in Twelve Books of Verse is an epic poem by the Poland poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz....
  • The Jew from Wesele
  • Magneto
    Magneto (comics)

    Magneto is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in Uncanny X-Men #1 , and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby....
    , Marvel comics
    Marvel Comics

    Marvel Comics is an American comic book and related media company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among as its List of Marvel Comics characters such well-known properties as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk , Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and many others....
     mutant


See also

  • History of the Jews in Poland
    History of the Jews in Poland

    The history of the Jews in Poland dates back over a millennium. Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jewish community in Europe and served as the center for Jewish culture, ranging from a long period of religious tolerance and prosperity among the country's Jewish population, to its nearly complete genocide destruction by Naz...
  • List of Jews
  • List of Poles
    List of Poles

    This is a partial list of famous Poles or Polish language persons. In the interest of fairness and accuracy, a minority of persons of mixed heritage have their respective ancestries credited....
  • List of Galician Jews
    List of Galician Jews

    This a list of Galicia Jews - Jews born in Galicia or identifying themselves as Galitzianer...
  • Personalities from Galicia (modern period)
    Personalities from Galicia (modern period)

    The following list includes famous people of various nationalities who were born or resided for a significative period of life in Galicia ....


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