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Artists

• Jan Saudek, art photographer (Jewish father)
• Alfréd Radok, stage director (Jewish mother)
• Karel Reisz, director
• Zuzana Ruzickova, pianist
• Ervín Schulhoff, conductor^{[citation needed]}
• Anna Ticho, artist^{[citation needed]}
• Jaromir Weinberger, composer
• Emil Orlik, painter (Jewish mother)
• Miloš Kopecký, actor (Jewish mother)
• Gideon Klein, composer
• Eliška Kleinová, sister of Gideon Klein, musician
• Hans Krása, composer (Jewish mother)
• Emil Lederer, actor
• Francis Lederer, actor
• Bedřich Feuerstein (Jewish father)
• Karel Berman, opera singer
• Herbert Lom, actor
• Miloš Forman, director (Jewish father)
• Karel Ančerl, conductor
• Heinrich Blum, architect
• Josef Dessauer, composer
• Pavel Haas, composer
• Julius Schulhoff, pianist and composer^{[citation needed]}

Zuzankas night Life Hey, Joe! Jan Saudek (b. ... Alfréd Radok (1917-1976) was a distinguished Czech stage director. ... Karel Reisz (born 1926, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, died London, United Kingdom, 2002) was a Jewish refugee who became one of the most important film-makers in post war Britain. ... Zuzana Růžičková (January 14, 1927, Plzeň) is famous Czech contemporary harpsichordist, interpret of classical and baroque music. ... Erwin Schulhoff (Prague, June 8, 1894; Wülzburg concentration camp, near Weißenburg, Bavaria, August 18, 1942) was a Czech composer and pianist of German-Jewish origin. ... Anna Ticho (1894-1980) was born in Moravia, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, modern-day Czech Republic. ... Jaromir Weinberger was a Czech composer of music. ... Emil Orlik (July 21, 1870 - September 28, 1932) was born in Prague and lived and worked there, in Austria and in Germany ]]. He was a painter, an etcher and lithographer. ... Gideon Klein (December 6, 1919 – c. ... Eliška Kleinová, born Elisabeth Lisa Klein (February 27, 1912, Prerau, Moravia - September 2, 1999, Prag) was a Czech Jewish pianist, music educator, and was the wife of Gideon Klein. ... Hans Krása, (November 30, 1899 – October 17, 1944), was a Bohemian composer. ... Emil Lederer (July 22, 1882, Pilsen - May 29, 1939 in New York City) was a Bohemia-born German economist. ... Francis Lederer Francis Lederer (November 6, 1899 - May 25, 2000) was a Czech actor. ... Bedřich Feuerstein (January 15, 1892, Dobrovice - May 10, 1936, Prague, suicide) was a Czech architect, painter and essayist. ... Karel Berman (* 14. ... Herbert Lom [Czech IPA: xɛrbɛrd lom] is an international film actor. ... Wax figure of Miloš Forman at Prague wax museum Jan Tomáš Forman (born February 18, 1932), better known as Miloš Forman, is a film director, actor and script writer. ... Karel Ancerl (April 11, 1908 - July 3, 1973) was a Czech conductor. ... Heinrich Blum (January 16, 1884 in Soběšice u Brna – 1942 in a concentration camp) was a Czech architect. ... Josef Dessauer (1798 - 1876) was a Czech-born composer. ... Pavel Haas (born 21 June 1899 in Brno, died 17 October 1944 in the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz) was a Czech composer. ... Julius Schulhoff, Julius Šulhov (August 22, 1825 in Prague - March 15, 1898 in Berlin) was a Czech-Austrian pianist and composer. ...

Writers

• Siegfried Kapper, journalist
• Ivan Klíma, novelist, playwright
• Paul Kornfeld, writer
• Egon Hostovsky, writer
• Avigdor Dagan, writer
• Arnošt Lustig, writer
• Ota Pavel, writer (Jewish father)
• Karel Poláček, writer
• Tom Stoppard, playwright
• Josef Vohryzek, writer
• Arnošt Goldflam, playwright, director
• Jiří Weil, writer

Siegfried Kapper (1821–1879) was a Bohemian writer of Jewish origin. ... Ivan Klíma (born 1933, Prague) is a famous contemporary Czech novelist and playwright. ... Paul Kornfield (December 11, 1889 - April 25, 1942) was a Czech writer, author of many expressionist plays. ... Avigdor Dagan (30th June 1912 in Hradec Králové - May 28, 2006, Israel) was a Czech-born Israeli writer. ... Arnošt Lustig (born 21 December 1921 in Prague) is a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust. ... Karel Poláček (22 March 1892 – 19 October 1944 Auschwitz) was a Czech writer and journalist of Jewish descent. ... Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE (born Tomáš Straussler on 3 July 1937) is a British playwright. ... Jiří Weil (1900–1959) was a famous Czechoslovakian writer whose works include the two novels Life with a Star and Mendelssohn is on the Roof . ...

Politicians

• Madeleine Albright, U.S. politician (raised Christian)
• Artur London, politician
• Rudolf Slánský, communist politician

Madeleine Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová on May 15, 1937) served as the 64th United States Secretary of State. ... Artur London, (born February 1, 1915, Ostrava, Moravia, Austria-Hungary - died November 8, 1986 in Paris, France), was a Czech Communist politician and co-defendant in the Prague Trials. ... Rudolf Slánský (July 31, 1901, Nezvěstice near Kladno – December 2, 1952) was a Czech Communist politician and the partys General Secretary after the World War II. Later he fell into disfavour with the regime and was executed after a show trial. ...

Other

• Isaac ben Jacob ha-Lavan, rabbi^{[citation needed]}
• Louis Brandeis, U.S. judge (Czech parents)^{[citation needed]}
• Hana Brady, Holocaust victim
  • George Brady, Hana Brady's brother
• Gerty Cori, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1947)
• Salo Flohr, leading chess player
• Vilem Flusser, philosopher
• Karol Sidon, rabbi
• Olga Taussky Todd, mathematician^{[citation needed]}

Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob or Yitzhak ben Yaakov, nicknamed ha-Lavan or the white was a 12th century rabbi of Bohemia. ... Louis D. Brandeis Louis Dembitz Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 3, 1941) was an important American litigator, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief. ... Hana Brady (Hana Hanička Bradová, Germanized in the tag in her suitcase as Hanna Brady) (March 3rd, 1931, Nové MÄ›sto – 1944) Jewish girl and holocaust victim. ... George Brady , brother of Hana Brady (Bradova), was born in 1928, in Nove Mesto, Czechoslovakia. ... Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, (August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an American biochemist born in Prague (then Austria-Hungary) who, together with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen... This article needs to be wikified. ... Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) was a self-taught philosopher born in Prague, in the then newly independent Czechoslovakia. ... Olga Taussky Todd (August 30, 1906, Olomouc, then Austria-Hungary - October 7, 1995, Pasadena, California) was a mathematician. ...

See also

• List of Czechs
• List of Austrian Jews