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Until the Holocaust, Jews were a significant part of the population of Eastern Europe. Outside Poland, the largest population was in the European part of the USSR, especially the Ukraine (1.5 million in the 1930s), but major populations also existed in Hungary, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. Here are lists of some prominent East European Jews, arranged by country of origin. Image File history File links Star_of_David. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Who is a Jew? (Hebrew: ) is a religious, social and political debate on the exact definition of which persons can be considered Jewish. ... Main article: List of Jews. ... Main article: List of Jews. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... Here is a list of some prominent (non Latin-) Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... Selection procedure of Hungarian Jews at the Auschwitz camp on 26 May 1944, where the Nazis chose whom to kill immediately and whom to use as slave labor or for medical experimentation. ... Eastern Europe is the eastern region of Europe variably defined. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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• List of Czech, Bohemian, Moravian and Slovak Jews
• List of Hungarian Jews
• List of Polish Jews
• List of Romanian Jews
• List of Jews from the Soviet Union

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Moldova (formerly Bessarabia)

• Lev Simonovich Berg, geographer & zoologist
• Gary Bertini, conductor
• Bronfman family
  • Samuel Bronfman, founder of Seagram
• Samuel Cohen (composer), composer of hatTiqwah
• I. A. L. Diamond, comedy writer
• Meir Dizengoff, politician
• William F. Friedman, cryptographer
• A. N. Frumkin, electrochemist
• Mikhail Gershenzon, historian
• Nahum Gutman, painter
• Idel Ianchelevici, sculptor
• Lazar Dubinovski, painter
• Boris Katz, artificial intelligence researcher
• Abba Ptachya Lerner, economist
• Avigdor Liberman, politician
• Lewis Milestone, director
• Sigmund Mogulesko, singer, actor, composer
• Sacha Moldovan, painter
• Moishe Oysher, yiddish singer
• Sir Michael Postan, historian
• Anton Rubinstein, pianist
• Andy Zaltzman, British comedian
• Meir Zorea, general in the Israel Defense Forces

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Slovakia

• Joseph Goldberger, discovered cure for pellagra
• John Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab & Hertz (unconfirmed)
• Peter Lorre, actor
• Robert Maxwell, media mogul
• Ivan Reitman, film director
• Richard Réti, chess player

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See Also

• List of Galician Jews
• List of Sephardic Jews