Graves of Polish Jews among the fallen soldiers of the Polish Defensive War of 1939; Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw

From the Middle Ages until the Holocaust, Jews comprised a significant part of the Polish population. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 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[12]), the vast majority of whom were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during the German occupation of Poland, particularly through the implementation of the "Final Solution" 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. Main article: List of Jews. ... Main article: List of Jews. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... Here is a list of some prominent (non Latin-) Caribbean Jews, arranged by country of origin. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Immigration of Jews to Poland, 1096. ... Immigration of Jews to Poland, 1096. ... Chronology of Jewish Polish history: 960 A Jewish merchant from Spain, Ibrahim Ibn Jaqub (Abraham ben Jakov), travels to Poland and writes the first description of the country. ... The German camps in occupied Poland during World War II were built by Nazi Germany during its occupation of Poland (1939-1945). ... Jewish Polish current events: // 1989-present Main article: History of Poland (1989-present) With the fall of Communism in Poland, Jewish cultural, social, and religious life has been undergoing a revival. ... Download high resolution version (960x1280, 407 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (960x1280, 407 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Combatants Poland Germany Soviet Union Slovakia Commanders Edward Rydz-ÅšmigÅ‚y Fedor von Bock (Army Group North), Gerd von Rundstedt (Army Group South), Mikhail Kovalev (Belorussian Front), Semyon Timoshenko (Ukrainian Front), Ferdinand ÄŒatloÅ¡ (Field Army Bernolák) Strength 39 divisions, 16 brigades, 4,300 guns, 880 tanks, 400 aircraft Total... Powazki Cemetery Powązki Cemetery (Polish Cmentarz powązkowski) is the oldest and most famous cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, which is situated in the western part of the city. ... Motto: Contemnit procellas (It defies the storms) Semper invicta (Always invincible) Coordinates: , Country  Poland Voivodeship Masovia Powiat city county Gmina Warszawa Districts 18 boroughs City Rights turn of the 13th century Government  - Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (PO) Area  - City 516. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... “Shoah” redirects here. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (אַשְׁכֲּנָזִי אַשְׁכֲּנָזִים Standard Hebrew, AÅ¡kanazi,AÅ¡kanazim, Tiberian Hebrew, ʾAÅ¡kănāzî, ʾAÅ¡kănāzîm, pronounced sing. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... In a February 26, 1942, letter to German diplomat Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the Wannsee Conference by asking Luther for administrative assistance in the implementation of the Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution of the Jewish Question). ...

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

Historical figures

Politicians

• Menachem Begin (1913-1992), Israeli prime minister (born in Poland) ^[1]
• David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), Israeli prime minister (born in Poland) ^[2]
• Jakub Berman (1901-1984), Polish communist, Secretary of PUWP (Polish United Workers' Party)
• Czeslaw Bielecki (b. 1948), Polish politician and architect^[3]
• Marek Borowski (b. 1946), Polish politician, a speaker of the Sejm
• Sala Burton (1925-1987), American politician^[4]
• Yohanan Cohen (b. 1917), Israeli politician
• Adam Czerniaków (1880-1942), Polish-Jewish politician
• Herman Diamand (1860-1931), Polish politician
• Ludwik Dorn (b. 1954), Polish politician, a speaker of the Sejm^[5]
• Boleslaw Drobner (1883-1968), Polish politician, a speaker of the Sejm
• David Dubinsky (1892-1982), American politician
• Jerzy Einhorn (1925-2000), Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician
• Abraham Foxman (b. 1940), American-Jewish politician
• Bronisław Geremek (b. 1932), Polish foreign affairs minister
• Abba Hushi (1898-1969), Israeli politician
• Julian Klaczko (1825-1906), Polish politician^[6]
• Herman Lieberman (1870-1941), Polish politician
• Stefan Meller, (b. 1942), Polish foreign affairs minister
• Hilary Minc (1905-1974), Polish politician, an economist and minister
• Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888-1960), British politician ^[7]
• Shimon Peres (b. 1923), Israeli prime minister and president, Nobel Prize laureate (1994) ^[8]
• Feliks Perl (1871-1927), Polish politician
• Karl Radek (1885-1939), Bolshevik politician
• Adam Rotfeld (b. 1938), Polish foreign affairs minister
• Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski (1877-1944), Polish-Jewish politician
• Yitzhak Shamir (b. 1915), Israeli prime minister (born in Poland) ^[9]
• Stanisław Stroński (1882-1955), Polish politician^[10] (of Jewish descent)
• Eugeniusz Szyr (1915-2000), deputy prime minister
• Samuel A. Weiss (1902-1977), American politician^[11]
• Shevah Weiss (b. 1935), Israeli politician, a speaker of the Knesset
• Szmul Zygielbojm (1895-1943), Polish-Jewish leader

  (‎, August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. ...   (October 16, 1886 – December 1, 1973; Hebrew: ) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. ... Jakub Berman (born December 26, 1901, in Warsaw, Poland - died April 10, 1984), was a Polish communist politician of Jewish origin. ... Marek Stefan Borowski (b. ... Sala Burton Sala Burton ( April 1, 1925 - February 1, 1987) was a United States Representative from California. ... Yohanan Cohen (born 12-31-1917) is a Polish-Israeli zionist who came to Israel in the 1937 Aliyah. ... Adam Czerniaków (1880 – July 23, 1942) was a Polish-Jewish engineer and senator, born in Warsaw, Poland. ... Ludwik Dorn (born June 5, 1954 in Warsaw) - Polish politician, vice chairman of Law and Justice (Polish: ) party, Members of Polish Parliament (Sejm). ... David Dubinsky (David Dubnievski) (February 22, 1892 - September 17, 1982) was a U.S. labor leader. ... Jezry Einhorn (b. ... Abraham Henry Foxman (born 1940) is the current National Director and chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith. ... Professor BronisÅ‚aw Geremek (IPA: [], born on March 6, 1932 in Warsaw) is a Polish social historian and politician of Jewish origin. ... Abba Hushi was born in 1898 in Turkah (today in the Ukraine) as Abba Shneler to a Jewish family. ... Julian Klaczko born 6 November 1825, Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius) – died 26 November 1906, Cracow (Kraków) Born Jehuda Lejb into a wealthy Jewish family, he studied in Vilna and Konigsberg. ... Herman Lieberman (born 4 January 1870, Drohobycz - died 21 October 1941, London) was a Polish lawyer and socialist politician. ... Stefan Meller (born July 4, 1942, Lyon, France) is a Polish diplomat. ... Hilary Minc (1905 - 1974) was an economist and member of Communist Party of Poland. ... Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (June 27, 1888 – August 19, 1960) was a significant English historian. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Karl Radek Karl Radek Karl Berngardovich Radek (October 31 [O.S. October 19] 1885 - May 19, 1939) was a Bolshevik and an international Communist leader. ... Adam Daniel Rotfeld (born March 4, 1938), Ph. ... Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski (1877 - 1944), Polish-Jewish industrialist and Zionist activist, functioned as the Nazi-nominated head of the Judenrat, or Jewish authorities in the Łódź Ghetto. ...   (Hebrew יִצְחָק שָׁמִיר) (born October 15, 1915) was Prime Minister of Israel from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992. ... StanisÅ‚aw StroÅ„ski (1882-1955) was a Polish publicist, politician and philologist. ... Samual Artur Weiss (April 15, 1902–February 1, 1977) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. ... Shevah Weiss, in Hebrew שבח וייס, (born 1935) is an Israeli political scientist and politician. ... Szmul Zygielbojm (Zygelbojm) (1895 – May 12, 1943) was a Jewish-Polish socialist politician, leader of Bund and a member of the Warsaw and Łódź city councils in interwar Poland. ...

Soldiers and fighters

• Mordechaj Anielewicz (1919-1943), leader of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Yitzhak Arad (b. 1926), partisan combat, historian, Israeli general
• David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), Jewish Legion
• Marek Edelman (b. 1922), last living leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Berek Joselewicz (1764-1809), colonel during Kościuszko Uprising and Napoleonic wars
• Mieczysław Norwid-Neugebauer (1884–1954), General of the Polish Army
• Hyman Rickover (1900-1986), US Navy Admiral
• Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952), WW2 spy (Jewish mother)
• Avraham Stern (1907-1942), the founder and leader of the Zionist underground organization Lehi
• Józef Światło (1915-1975), colonel, communist, spy

[[Image:aniel. ... Combatants Nazi Germany {SS, SD, Gestapo, Ordnungspolizei, Wehrmacht} Collaborators {Blue Police, Jewish Ghetto Police} Jewish resistance (Å»OB, Å»ZW) Polish resistance (Armia Krajowa, Gwardia Ludowa) Commanders Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg Jürgen Stroop Franz Bürkl Mordechai Anielewicz† Dawid Apfelbaum† PaweÅ‚ Frenkiel† Icchak Cukierman Marek Edelman Zivia Lubetkin Henryk IwaÅ„ski... Yitzhak Arad is a renowned Israeli historian. ...   (October 16, 1886 – December 1, 1973; Hebrew: ) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. ... The Jewish Legion was the name for five battalions of Jewish volunteers established as the British Armys 38th through 42nd (Service) Battalions of the Royal Fusiliers. ... Marek Edelman, Warsaw University, Warsaw (Poland), April 26, 2005 Marek Edelman (b. ... Combatants Nazi Germany {SS, SD, Gestapo, Ordnungspolizei, Wehrmacht} Collaborators {Blue Police, Jewish Ghetto Police} Jewish resistance (Å»OB, Å»ZW) Polish resistance (Armia Krajowa, Gwardia Ludowa) Commanders Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg Jürgen Stroop Franz Bürkl Mordechai Anielewicz† Dawid Apfelbaum† PaweÅ‚ Frenkiel† Icchak Cukierman Marek Edelman Zivia Lubetkin Henryk IwaÅ„ski... Berek Joselewicz (1764-1809), was a Jewish-Polish merchant and a colonel of the Polish Army during the Kościuszko Uprising. ... The Kościuszko Uprising took place in Poland in 1794. ... Hyman George Rickover, (January 27, 1900 - July 8, 1986) was a US Navy Admiral known as the Father of the Nuclear Navy. ... Krystyna Skarbek Countess Krystyna Skarbek, G.M., O.B.E., Croix de guerre (May 1, 1908 - June 15, 1952) was a Polish-born World War II British SOE agent also known by the nom de guerre, Christine Granville. ... Avraham Stern Avraham Stern (Hebrew: אברהם שטרן Avraham Shtern), alias Yair (Hebrew: יאיר) (December 23, 1907 - February 12, 1942) was the founder and leader of the Zionist underground organization later known as Lehi and also known as the Stern Gang. Stern was born in Suwalki, Poland, immigrated to Israel in 1925, and studied... Lehi refers to: Lehi, a prophet in the Book of Mormon Lehi, a city in Utah Lehi, a Zionist paramilitary group in Palestine/Israel Lehi, a location in southwest Palestine/Israel Lehi, a traditionally Mormon agricultural neighborhood in northern Mesa, Arizona This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... Józef ÅšwiatÅ‚o Józef ÅšwiatÅ‚o (1915-1975) was a high-ranking official of Ministry of Public Security of Poland (deputy director of 10th Department). ...

Others

• Wilhelm Billig, founder of Polish nuclear energy industry
• Isaac Deutscher (1907-1967), Polish-British political activist
• Dora Diamant (1898-1952), lover of Franz Kafka^[12]
• Gaspar da Gama (1444-ca.1510), traveller, interpreter^[13]
• Mieczysław Grydzewski (1894-1970), journalist, editor
• Gideon Hausner (1915-1990), Israeli jurist
• Emil Haecker (1875-1934), journalist, editor
• Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, British judge^[14],
• Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), human rights lawyer
• Rosa Luxembourg (1870-1919), Marxist
• Adam Michnik (b. 1946), journalist, dissident
• Daniel Passent (b. 1938), journalist
• Ludwik Rajchman (1881-1965), founder of UNICEF
• Ernestine Rose (1810-1892), feminist
• Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005), founder of Pugwash, Nobel Prize (1995)
• Leon Rubinstein, Operative Technology and records
• Kazimiera Szczuka feminist (Jewish mother)
• Jerzy Urban (b. 1933), journalist, commentator, writer and politician
• Saul Wahl (1541-1617), according to tradition, temporary King of Poland in 1586
• Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005), hunter of Nazis

Isaac Deutscher (3 April 1907 – 19 August 1967), British journalist, historian and political activist of Polish-Jewish birth, became well-known as the biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Kafka at the age of five Franz Kafka (IPA: ) (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. ... Gaspar da Gama (born 1444, Poznan, Poland - died ca. ... Gideon Hausner ( Israel, 1915 – 1990), the legal adviser of the Israeli Government, was the main prosecutor at the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961. ... Hersch Lauterpacht was judge of the International Court of Justice, 1955-60. ... Rafael Lemkin (June 24, 1900—August 28, 1959) was a lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent. ... Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1870 or 1871 - January 15, 1919, in Polish language Róża Luksemburg) was a Polish and German Jewish Marxist politician, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. ... Adam Michnik in WrocÅ‚aw, March 2006 Adam Michnik (born October 17, 1946, Warsaw, Poland) is the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza a major Polish newspaper, where he sometimes writes under the pen-names of Andrzej Zagozda or Andrzej JagodziÅ„ski. ... Daniel Passent (* April 28, 1938 in StanisÅ‚awów, Poland (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine)) is a polish journalist. ... Ludwik J. Rajchman (Chinese:拉西曼) (November 1, 1881, Warsaw - 1965, Chenu) was a Polish bacteriologist. ... UNICEF Logo The United Nations Childrens Fund or UNICEF (Arabic: ; French: ; Spanish: ) was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. ... Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13, 1810-August 4, 1892) was a Polish-born Individualist Feminist, Abolitionist, Freethinker, atheist, and spoke out freely against bigotry and prejudice. ... Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS, (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish-born British-naturalised physicist. ... Pugwash encounter and tour held at the National Accelerator Laboratory, now Fermilab, September 12, 1970. ... Kazimiera Szczuka (born 22 June 1966) is a Polish literary historian, literary critic and television personality, known from the Polish edition of The Weakest Link. ... Jerzy Urban, also known as: Jerzy Kibic, Jan Rem, Klakson (born August 3, 1933 in Łódź), journalist, commentator, writer and politician, editor-in-chief of the weekly Nie and owner of the company which owns it, Urma. ... Saul Wahl (1541-1617) was a remarkable personage who, according to tradition, occupied the throne of Poland for a short time in 1586. ... Simon Wiesenthal, KBE, (Buczacz, December 31, 1908 – Vienna, September 20, 2005) was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi hunter after surviving the Holocaust. ...

Religious figures

• Barnett Abrahams (1831-1863), dayan, principal of Jews' College, London
• Yitzchak Meir Alter (1798-1866), Hassidic first Rebbe of Ger
• 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, Professor of Hebrew ^[15]
• Jacob Frank (1726-1791), Jewish messianic claimant who combined Judaism and Christianity
• Christian David Ginsburg (1831-1914), Hebraist, converted to Christianity^[16]
• Kalonymus Haberkasten (16th c.), rabbi
• Chaim Halberstam (1793-1876), Hassidic rabbi
• Naftali Tzvi Halberstam (1931-2005), Hassidic Rebbe of Bobov
• Aaron Hart (1670-1756), rabbi ^[17]
• Isaac Hellmuth, convert to Christianity [13]
• Ridley Haim Herschell, missionary ^[18]
• Arthur Hertzberg (1921-2006), rabbi
• Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1889-1959), Chief Rabbi of Ireland
• Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), theologian
• Zevi Hirsch Kalischer (1795-1874), rabbi & Zionist pioneer
• Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov (1763-1831), Hassidic rabbi
• Moses Isserles (1530-1572), rabbi
• Israel Meir Lau (b. 1937), the Israeli Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi (1993-2003)
• Solomon Luria (1510-1574), rabbi
• Jean-Marie Lustiger (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 (1790-1867), Orthodox rabbi, scholar
• Shalom Rokeach (1779-1855), Hassidic rabbi (first Belzer Rebbe)
• Aharon Rokeach (1877-1957), Hassidic rabbi (fourth Belzer Rebbe)
• Michael Schudrich (b. 1955), Chief Rabbi of Poland
• Meir Shapiro (1887-1933), Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva
• Naftoli Shapiro (1906-1981), rabbi and rosh yeshiva
• Joseph Soloveitchik (1903-1993), Orthodox rabbi, philosopher
• Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin (1745-1815), Hassidic rabbi
• Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel (b. 1943), Catholic priest^[19]
• Israel Zolli (1881-1956), Chief Rabbi of Rome, converted to Christianity

Barnett Abrahams (1831, Warsaw - 15 November 1863, London) was the Principal of Jews College. ... Jews College, since about 2000 known as the London School of Jewish Studies, was founded in London as a rabbinical seminary in 1852 with the support of the then Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler and of Sir Moses Montefiore. ... Yitzchak Meir Alter (also Rottenburg or Rothenburg as an alternate for Alter) (1798(?) - March 10, 1866), was also known as the Chidushei Harim for his Torah book/s. ... Rebbe which means master, teacher, or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew word רבי (Rabbi). ... Ger can have the following meanings: Ger is the Yiddish form for the name of the Polish town of Góra Kalwaria. ... Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch (דוב בער ממזריטש‎) (1704/1710 (?) – 1772-12-04 OS) was a disciple of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, and largely seen as his successor. ... Rabbi Israel (Yisroel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר, c. ... Rabbi Elimelech of Lezhinsk (or Lijensk) (in Polish: Leżajsk) (1717-1786) was one of the great Hassidic rebbes of the past. ... Philip Ferdinand (1555, Poland-1598, Leiden) was an English Hebraist. ... Jacob Frank. ... Christian David Ginsburg (1831-1914), Jewish scholar, was born in Warsaw on 25 December 1831. ... Rabbi Kalonymus Haberkasten was a Talmudist in sixteenth century Poland. ... Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (1793-1896), known commonly as the Divrei Chaim after his magnum opus on Halakha. ... Grand Rabbi Naftali Halberstam of Bobov Naftali Tzvi Halberstam כק אדמור מבאבוב, זצל (1930-2005) was the Grand Rebbe (akin to chief rabbi)of Bobov from August of 2000 until March of 2005. ... Rebbe which means master, teacher, or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew word רבי (Rabbi). ... Bobov is a Hasidic group within Judaism with its headquarters in the neighborhood of Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York. ... Chief Rabbi Aaron Hart Aaron Hart (1670 - 1756) was the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1704 until his death. ... The Right Reverend Isaac Hellmuth (Born December 14, 1819), second Bishop of the Diocese of Huron, was the founder of the University of Western Ontario, one of Canadas leading universities. ... Ridley Haim Herschell (7 April 1807, Strzelno - 14 April 1864, Brighton) was one of the leading dissenting ministers of 19th century Great Britain. ... Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg (June 9, 1921-April 17, 2006) was born in Poland. ... Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of the Republic of Ireland and, later, of the British mandate in Palestine and Israel, once formed. ... Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907, Warsaw, Poland – December 23, 1972) was considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century. ... Zevi(Zwi) Hirsch Kalischer(1795 - 1874) was a rabbi and one of the Zionism pioneers in Germany. ... Tzvi Hirsh, born 1763 in Sambor and died in Zidichov 1831, was a Hasidic rabbi and the founder of the Zidichov Hasidic Judaism dynasty in Zidichov. ... Moses Isserles Moses Isserles (or Moshe Isserlis) (1520 - 1572), was a Rabbi and Talmudist, renowned for his fundamental work of Halakha (Jewish law), entitled HaMapah (lit. ... Introduction Rabbi Israel Meir Lau is currently the Chief Rabbi of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. ... Rabbi Solomon Luria (1510-1574), was one of the great Ashkenazic poskim (decisors of Jewish law) and teachers of his time. ... Jean-Marie Lustiger (French pronunciation: ; September 17, 1926 – August 5, 2007)[1] [2] was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Walenty (Walentyn, Valentine) Potocki (Pototzki, Pototsky), a legendary Polish nobleman, the Vilna Ger Tzedek. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Shalom Rokeach (1779 - September 10, 1855), was the first Belzer Rebbe, also known as the Sar Shalom. ... The third Belzer Rebbe, Yissachar Dov Rokeach Belz (חסידות בעלז) is a Hasidic dynasty named after the town of Belz, a small town originally located in eastern Poland, presently in Ukraine. ... Rebbe which means master, teacher, or mentor is a Yiddish word derived from the identical Hebrew word רבי (Rabbi). ... Aharon Rokeach was the fourth rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty from 1877 to August 18, 1957. ... Rabbi Michael Schudrich (b. ... Yehuda Meir Shapiro, (March 3, 1887 - October 27, 1933), a major Orthodox Judaism Rabbi and the creator of the Daf Yomi, a seven year cycle of the learning of a page of Talmud a day, in 1922. ... Rosh yeshiva (Hebrew: ראש ישיבה) (pl. ... Rabbi Naftoli Shapiro (1906-1981) was an Orthodox Talmudic scholar of great accomplishment and Rosh yeshiva in Glasgow for 40 years. ... Rosh yeshiva (Hebrew: ראש ישיבה) (pl. ... Rav Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov, Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik (Hebrew: ) () was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher. ... Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin, also Jacob Isaac of Lublin, or Y. Y. Horowitz (Polish: Jakub Izaak Horowic, Hebrew: יעקב יצחק הורוביץ), known as The Chozeh of Lublin (החוזה מלובלין, The Seer of Lublin), or simply as the Chozeh, (1745-July 15, 1815) was a Hasidic rabbi from Poland. ... Israel Anton Zoller (September 27, 1881, Brody, Galicia, Ukraine - March 2, 1956) was an Italian Jewish Rabbi who later converted to Roman Catholicism. ...

Academics

Scientists

• Herman Auerbach, mathematician (Jewish father)
• Iuliu Barasch, physician
• Salomon Bochner, mathematician
• Leslie Brent, immunologist
• Jacob Bronowski, scientist & broadcaster, works: algebraic geometry
• Georges Charpak, physicist, Nobel Prize (1992)
• Samuel Eilenberg, mathematician: category theory
• Kasimir Fajans, physicist
• Salo Finkelstein, mental calculator
• Roald Hoffmann, chemist & writer, Nobel Prize (1981)^[20]
• Leopold Infeld, physicist
• Mark Kac, mathematician
• Hilary Koprowski, immunologist
• Abraham Lempel, computer scientist: LZW compression
• Adolf Lindenbaum, logician
• Henryk Makower, microbiologist ^[21]
• Benoît Mandelbrot, mathematician: fractals
• Szolem Mandelbrojt, mathematician
• Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist,^[22] Nobel Prize in Physics (1907)
• Herman Müntz, mathematician
• Jakub Natanson, chemist
• Emil Leon Post, mathematician
• Mojzesz Presburger, logician
• Alfred Pringsheim, mathematician
• Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist, Nobel prize (1944)
• Tadeus Reichstein, chemist, Nobel Prize (1950)
• Stanislaw Saks, mathematician
• Albert Sabin, inventor of the oral Polio vaccine
• Andrew V. Schally, endocrinologist, Nobel Prize (1977) (Jewish father)
• Juliusz Schauder, mathematician
• Hugo Steinhaus, mathematician
• Abraham Sztern (1762-1842), inventor, he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators
• Ary Sternfeld, space pioneer ^[23], ^[24]
• Alfred Tarski, mathematician, logician
• Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician

Herman Auerbach (1901-1942) was a Polish mathematician. ... Iuliu Barasch (1815–1863) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish physician and writer who made his career in Romania. ... Salomon Bochner (20 August 1899 - 2 May 1982) was a Polish-American mathematician, known for wide-ranging work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry. ... Leslie Baruch Brent (born 5 July 1925) has been Professor Emeritus, University of London, since 1990. ... Jacob Bronowski (January 18, 1908, Łódź, Congress Poland, Russian Empire - August 22, 1974, East Hampton, New York, USA) was an English-Polish mathematician, best known as the presenter of the BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man. ... Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics winner. ... Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913-January 30, 1998) was a Polish mathematician. ... In mathematics, category theory deals in an abstract way with mathematical structures and relationships between them. ... Kasimierz Fajans or Kasimir Fajans (27 May 1887 - 18 May 1975), was a Polish-American chemist who did valuable work on chemical bonding and on radioactivity and isotopes. ... Salo Finkelstein (1896 or 1897, date of death unknown) was a mental calculator, ranked #8 in 100 Greatest Mental Calculators. He was born in Łódź (then within the Russian Empire, now Poland) to a Jewish family. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937 as Roald Safran --- Hoffmann is the surname of his stepfather) is an American theoretical chemist of Polish-Jewish origin. ... Leopold Infeld (1898 - 1968) was a Polish physicist; Rockefeller fellow at the Cambridge University. ... Mark Kac (Marko Kac) (b. ... Hilary Koprowski (b. ... Abraham Lempel is a computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. ... LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) is an implementation of a lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv. ... Adolf Lindenbaum (born June 12, 1904 in Warsaw, Poland; died 1941 in Paneriai), was a Polish Jewish logician and mathematician. ... Benoît B. Mandelbrot, PhD, (born November 20, 1924) is a Franco-American mathematician, best known as the father of fractal geometry. Benoît Mandelbrot was born in Poland, but his family moved to France when he was a child; he is a dual French and American citizen and was... A fractal is a geometric object which can be divided into parts, each of which is similar to the original object. ... Szolem Mandelbrojt (1899 – 1983) was a French mathematician, from a Polish-Lithuanian Jewish background. ... His signature. ... Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... (Chaim) Herman Müntz (1884-1956) was a Polish-Jewish mathematician, now remembered for the Müntz approximation theorem. ... Emil Leon Post (February 11, 1897 - April 21, 1954) was a Polish-American mathematician and logician. ... Mojzesz Presburger (1904 - 1943) was a Polish mathematician, logician and philosopher. ... Alfred Pringsheim (September 2, 1850 _ June 25, 1941) was a mathematician who was born in Ohlau Lower Silesia (now Olawa Poland) and died in Zurich Switzerland. ... Isidor Isaac Rabi (July 29, 1898 - January 11, 1988) was an American physicist of Austro-Hungarian origin. ... Tadeus Reichstein (July 20, 1897 - August 1, 1996) was a Polish Nobel Prize-winning chemist. ... Stanisław Saks (30 December 1897 – 23 November 1942) was a Polish mathematician. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat polio. ... Andrzej Wiktor Schally (born November 20, 1926) in Wilno, Poland), is a Polish endocrinologist and Nobel Prize winner in 1977 in Medicine for research work. ... Juliusz Paweł Schauder (1899-1943) was a Polish mathematician. ... Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus (January 14, 1887 - February 25, 1972) was a Polish mathematician, educator, and humanist. ... // Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1902, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a logician and mathematician who spent four decades as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. ... StanisÅ‚aw Ulam in the 1950s. ...

Social sciences

• Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist
• Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist
• Ivan Bloch, military writer
• Alain Finkielkraut, French philosopher
• Henryk Grossman, economist
• Joseph Jastrow, psychologist (Jewish father)
• Michal Kalecki, economist
• Paul Radin, anthropologist
• Milton Rokeach, psychologist
• Manfred Sakel, neurophysiologist & psychiatrist
• Adam Schaff, philosopher
• Avraham Stern, famous Zionist
• Paweł Śpiewak, sociologist, politician
• Michel Thomas, language teacher
• Ludwik Zamenhof, ophthalmologist and inventor of Esperanto

Solomon E. Asch (September 14, 1907 - February 20, 1996) was a world-renowned American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology. ... Bauman in Warsaw, 2005 Zygmunt Bauman (born 19 November 1925 in PoznaÅ„) is a Polish-born sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven there by an anti-Semitic purge organized by the communist party of Poland. ... Ivan Stanislavovic Bloch (1836 - 1902) (aka Johann von Bloch, Jean de Bloch, Ivan Bliokh) was a Polish banker and railway financier who devoted his private life to the study of modern industrial warfare. ... Alain Finkielkraut (b. ... Henryk Grossman/Grossmann (1881-1950) was born in Kraków and studied law and economics in Kraków and Vienna. ... Joseph Jastrow, Ph. ... MichaÅ‚ Kalecki (22nd June 1899-18 April 1970) was one of the greatest Polish economist. ... Paul Radin (1883–1959) was a widely-read American anthropologist of the early twentieth century. ... Milton Rokeach (1918-1988) was a psychologist and served as Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University for many years. ... Manfred Joshua Sakel, Polish neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, was born on June 6, 1900, in Nadvorna, in the former Austria-Hungary Empire (now Ukraine). ... Adam Schaff (b. ... Avraham Stern Avraham Stern (Hebrew: אברהם שטרן Avraham Shtern), alias Yair (Hebrew: יאיר) (December 23, 1907 - February 12, 1942) was the founder and leader of the Zionist underground organization later known as Lehi and also known as the Stern Gang. Stern was born in Suwalki, Poland, immigrated to Israel in 1925, and studied... PaweÅ‚ Åšpiewak (born April 17, 1951 in Warsaw) is a Polish politician. ... By Roy Rivenburg Michel Thomas (February 3, 1914 – January 8, 2005) was a polyglot linguist, language teacher and decorated war veteran. ... Dr. Ludovic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer) Zamenhof (December 15, 1859–April 14, 1917) was a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken planned language to date. ...   is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. ...

Historians

• Szymon Aszkenazy, Polish historian
• Meir Balaban, Jewish historian
• Salo Wittmayer Baron, Austrian historian
• Szymon Datner, Jewish historian
• Isaac Deutscher, British historian
• Simon Dubnow, Jewish historian
• Artur Eisenbach, historian
• Jan T. Gross, American historian
• Marceli Handelsman, Polish historian
• Leopold Łabędź, British historian
• Rafał Mahler, historian
• Lewis Namier, British historian
• Richard Pipes, American historian
• Emanuel Ringelblum, Jewish historian
• Jacob Talmon, Israeli historian ^[25]
• Adam Ulam, American historian

Szymon Askenazy (1866?-1935) was a Polish historian, diplomat and politician, founder of the Askenazy school. ... Meir Balaban, Majer Balaban (1874, Lviv - 1941, Warsaw Ghetto) - one of the most outstanding historians of Polish and Galician Jews. ... ... Szymon Datner (1902–1989) was a Polish historian of Jewish descent. ... Isaac Deutscher (3 April 1907 – 19 August 1967), British journalist, historian and political activist of Polish-Jewish birth, became well-known as the biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs. ... Simon Dubnow (alternatively spelled Dubnov, Russian: Семен Маркович Дубнов; September 10, 1860–December 8, 1941) was a Jewish historian, writer and activist. ... Jan Tomasz Gross (born December 8, 1947 in Warsaw)- a controversial Polish-American historian of Jewish origin. ... Marceli Handelsman (1882-1945) was a Polish historian and university professor, one of the most notable Polish medievists of 20th century and a tutor of numerous Polish historians. ... Leopold Labedz (January 22, 1920 Simbirsk, Russia - March 22, 1993 London) was a conservative Anglo-Polish historian of the Soviet Union. ... Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (June 27, 1888 – August 19, 1960) was a significant English historian. ... Richard Pipes, Warsaw (Poland), October 20, 2004 Richard Edgar Pipes (b. ... Emanuel Ringelblum (1900 Buchach-1944 Warsaw) was a Polish-Jewish historian, politician and social worker, known for his Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, Notes on the Refugees in Zbąszyn chronicling the deportation of Jews from the town of Zbąszyn, and the so-called Ringelblums Archives of the... Jacob Leib Talmon (1916-1980) was an Israeli historian in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem that studied the Modern Age, especially the French Revolution. ... bajskorven ...

Cultural figures

Artists

• Jankiel Adler, painter
• Mordecai Ardon, artist
• Chim, photographer
• Irena Eichler, actress
• René Goscinny, cartoonist
• Maurycy Gottlieb, painter
• Scarlett Johansson, actress
• Ida Kaminska, actress
• Bronisław Kaper, composer^{[citation needed]}
• Moise Kisling, painter
• Roman Kramsztyk, painter
• Joe Kubert, comic book artist
• Tamara de Lempicka, painter (Jewish mother)
• Daniel Libeskind, architect
• Louis Marcoussis, painter
• Elie Nadelman, sculptor
• Maria Orska, actress
• Erna Rosenstein, painter, poet
• Moshe Rynecki, painter
• Arthur Szyk, political cartoonist
• Max Weber, painter
• Esther Wertheimer, sculptor
• Samuel Willenberg, sculptor (Jewish father)
• Alfred Wolmark, painter^[26]
• Samuel Yellin, sculptor

Mordecai Ardon (1896-1992) was a Polish-born artist. ... René Goscinny (August 14, 1926 – November 5, 1977) was a French author, editor and humorist, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the early issues of the comic book series Lucky Luke with Morris. ... Self-portrait, 1876. ... Scarlett Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress. ... Ida Kaminska (September 18, 1899 - May 21, 1980) was an Oscar-nominated Jewish Polish actress. ... BronisÅ‚aw Kaper (misspelled by the U.S. immigration authorities as Bronislau Kaper) (1902 - 1983) was a Jewish Polish-born composer of popular music. ... Moise Kisling (January 22, 1891 - April 29, 1953) was a Polish painter. ... Joe Kubert (born September 18, 1926, Poland) is an American comic book artist who went on to found the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. ... The Musician (1929), oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898 – March 18, 1980), noted Art Deco painter, was born Maria Górska in Moscow, Russia. ... Daniel Libeskind in front of his extension to the Denver Art Museum. ... Louis marcoussis was a polish painter whom the Spanish surrealist Joan Mirò (1893-1983), in 1930, started Graphic Technique with, but had to stop in 1939 due to the emergence of WWII (1939-1945) ... Elie Nadelman (February 20, 1882, Warsaw - December 28, 1946) was a Poland-born US sculptor. ... Maria Orska - portrait by Oskar Kokoschka, 1922 Maria Orska (* March 16, 1896 - † May 16, 1930) was an important actress of the German theater and cinema of the 1920s. ... Erna Rosenstein (May 17, 1913 - November 10, 2004) was a surrealist painter and poet. ... Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943) was an artist and painter in Warsaw, Poland in the 1920s and 1930s. ... Arthur Szyk (1894 - 1951) was a Poland-born American artist, famous for his anti-Axis political illustrations and cartoons during World War II. Szyk was born in Łódź, Poland, to Jewish parents. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Esther Wertheimer is a sculptor from Poland. ... Alfred Wolmark (1877, Warsaw - 6 January 1961, London) was a painter and decorative artist. ... Samuel Yellin (1885 -1940) Samuel Yellin, 1927 Biography American blacksmith, born in Galicia Poland where, at the age of eleven he was apprenticed to an iron master. ...

Musicians

• Emanuel Ax, pianist
• Leonard & Phil Chess, founders of Chess Records
• Grzegorz Fitelberg, composer
• Ignaz Friedman, pianist
• Bronislav Gimpel, violinist
• Szymon Goldberg, violinist/conductor
• Ida Haendel, violinist
• Sir George Henschel, musician ^[27]
• Mieczysław Horszowski, pianist
• Bronislaw Huberman, violinist
• Jan Kiepura, singer^[28] (Jewish mother)
• Leopold Kozlowski, composer, arranger, director, pianist (from the famous Brandwein family)
• Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist (Jewish mother)
• Szymon Laks, composer
• René Leibowitz, composer
• Jerzy Petersburski, composer, pianist (of Jewish ancestry)
• Sława Przybylska, singer
• Moriz Rosenthal, pianist
• Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
• Heinrich Schenker, music theorist
• Artur Schnabel, pianist
• Henryk Szeryng, violinist^[29]
• Władysław Szpilman pianist, author of The Pianist memoir
• Alexandre Tansman, composer, pianist
• Carl Tausig, composer, pianist
• Golda Tencer, singer
• Ignaz Tiegerman, pianist (Jewish father)
• Ignatz Waghalter, composer
• Henryk Wars, composer^[30]
• Mieczyslaw Weinberg, composer
• Henryk Wieniawski, violinist, composer

Emanuel Ax (born June 8, 1949) is Ukrainian-born Polish pianist. ... Leonard Chess (March 12, 1917 - October 16, 1969) was a record company executive, founder of Chess Records. ... Philip Chess (b. ... The Chess Records logo, as featured on this Memphis Slim single. ... Grzegorz Fitelberg (b. ... Ignaz Friedman (also spelled Ignace or Ignacy) (February 14, 1882 – January 26, 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. ... Bronislav Gimpel 1911–1979) was a Polish/American violinist, and teacher. ... Category: Possible copyright violations ... Ida Haendel, CBE (born December 15, 1928) is a violinist. ... George Henschel (Ismoa Georg] (1850 - 1934), English musician (naturalized 1890), of German family, was born at Breslau, and educated as a pianist, making his first public appearance in Berlin in 1862. ... Mieczysław Horszowski (June 23, 1892-May 22, 1993) was a US pianist of Polish birth. ... Bronislaw Huberman (1882-1947) was a Polish violinist born in Czestochowa. ... Jan Wiktor Kiepura (born May 16, 1902 in Sosnowiec - died August 15, 1966 in Harrison, New York) was a Polish singer (tenor) and actor. ... Wanda Landowska (July 5, 1879 – August 16, 1959), harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of that instrument in the early 20th century. ... René Leibowitz (February 17, 1913 – August 29, 1972) was a French composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher born in Warsaw, Poland. ... Gold & Petersburski Orchestra Jerzy Petersburski (born Jerzy Melodysta; 1897 – 1979) was a Polish pianist and composer of popular music, renown mostly for his Tangos, some of which (such as Ta ostatnia niedziela, Już nigdy and Tango Milonga) were milestones in popularization of the musical genre in Poland and are still... Moriz Rosenthal (December 18, 1862 - September 3, 1946) was a Ukrainian-born American pianist. ... For the 19th century Russian pianist and composer, see Anton Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Arthur Rubinstein (January 28, 1887 – December 20, 1982) was a Polish pianist who is widely considered as one of the greatest piano virtuosos of the 20th Century. ... Heinrich Schenker Heinrich Schenker (June 19, 1868 - January 13, 1935) was a music theorist, best known for his approach to musical analysis, now usually called Schenkerian analysis. ... Artur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 – August 15, 1951) was a classical pianist, who also composed and taught. ... Henryk Szeryng (September 22, 1918 – March 8, 1988) was a Polish-born Mexican violinist. ... Władysław Szpilman Władysław Szpilman (December 5, 1911 – July 6, 2000) was a Polish pianist. ... The Pianist is a memoir written by the Polish musician of Jewish origins Władysław Szpilman. ... Alexandre Tansman (June 12, 1897, Łódź–November 15, 1986) was a prolific composer and virtuoso pianist. ... Carl Tausig Carl Tausig or Karl Tausig (November 4, 1841 - July 17, 1871) was a Polish-born pianist and composer. ... Ignaz Tiegerman (1893‑1968) was a Polish pianist and teacher. ... Ignatz Waghalter (March 15, 1881 – April 7, 1949) was a Polish-German composer and conductor. ... Henryk Wars (real name Henryk Warszawski, 1902, Warsaw - 1977, USA) was a Polish and later American pop music composer. ... A Hebe kike MieczysÅ‚aw Samuilowicz Jewberg (also Moisei Jewberg) (December 8, 1919 in Warsaw, Poland – February 26, 1996 in Moscow, Russia) was a Polish Jewish composer who - after losing most of his family to the Nazis - spent most of his life in the Soviet Union and Russia. ... Henryk Wieniawski (July 10, 1835 Lublin, Poland - March 31, 1880 Moscow) was a Polish composer and violinist. ...

Screen and stage

• Artur Brauner, film producer
• Aleksander Ford, film director
• Jakub Goldberg, film screenwriter
• Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
• Joseph Green (Yoysef Grinberg), Yiddish actor
• Anna Held, stage actress
• Aleksander Hertz, film pioneer and director
• Jerzy Hoffman, film director
• Agnieszka Holland, film director, screenwriter (Jewish father)
• Moses Horowitz, Yiddish playwright
• Wanda Jakubowska, film director
• Boris Kaufman, cinematographer
• Mikhail Kaufman, cinematographer
• Roman Polański, film director (born Catholic from maternal grandmother)
• Marie Rambert, ballet dancer ^[31]
• Lew Rywin, film producer
• Piotr Skrzynecki, cabaret director (Jewish mother)^[32]
• Dziga Vertov, film director^[33]
• Harry, Sam & Albert Warner, film producers

Artur „Atze“ BRAUNER (born on August 1, 1918 in Łódź, Poland) is german film producer and entrepreneur. ... Aleksander Ford (born November 24, 1908; died April 4, 1980) was a Polish film director. ... Jakub Goldberg (August 29, 1924 in Warsaw, Poland – April 27, 2002 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Polish film assistant director, scriptwriter, and actor. ... Samuel Goldwyn (July 1882 (some sources say 17 August 1882, others 1879 [1]) – 31 January 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning producer, also a well-known Hollywood motion picture producer and founding contributor of several motion picture studios. ... Joseph Green (April 23, 1900 – June 20, 1996), born Yoysef Grinberg, a. ... Helene Anna Held (March 8, 1872 – August 12, 1918) was a Polish-born stage performer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband. ... Jerzy Hoffman (born on 1932 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish film director and screenwriter. ... Agnieszka Holland (born November 28, 1948 in Warsaw, Poland) is a film and TV director and screenplay writer. ... Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz (1844–March 4, 1910), a. ... Wanda Jakubowska (born 10 October 1901, Warsaw - died 25 February 1998, Warsaw) was a Polish film director. ... Boris Kaufman (Russian: ; August 24, 1897-June 24, 1980) was an Oscar-winning (1954) cinematographer. ... Mikhail Kaufman with his camera Shooting from train Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman (1897-1979; Russian: ) was a Russian cinematographer and photographer. ... Roman PolaÅ„ski (born August 18, 1933) is an Academy Award winning film director, writer, actor, producer. ... Dame Marie Rambert was to exert a great influence on British ballet, both as dancer and teacher. ... Lew Rywin (born November 10, 1945 in a Siberian village) is a Polish film producer associated with Heritage Films (est. ... Dziga Vertov Dziga Vertov (Russian: , January 2, 1896–February 12, 1954) was a Russian documentary film and newsreel director. ... Harold (Harry) Morris Warner (born Hirsch Eichelbaum, December 12, 1881 Krasnosielc, Mazovia, Poland - 25 July 1958) was one of the founders of Warner Bros. ... Sam Warner (August 10, 1887 - October 5, 1927) was a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Brothers film company. ... Albert Warner (July 23, 1883 - November 26, 1967) was the one of the founders of Warner Bros. ...

Writers and poets

Polish-language

• Alicia Appleman-Jurman, writer
• Eli Barbur, writer
• Roman Brandstaetter, writer, poet^[34]
• Kazimierz Brandys, writer^[35]
• Jan Brzechwa, poet
• Ida Fink, writer of short stories
• Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, writer
• Konstanty Gebert, writer, activist (Jewish mother)
• Henryk Grynberg, writer
• Marian Hemar, poet
• Bruno Jasieński, poet ^[36] (Jewish father)
• Mieczysław Jastrun, poet
• Janusz Korczak, pediatrician, children's writer, pedagogue and educator
• Hanna Krall, author
• Stanisław Jerzy Lec, poet
• Stanisław Lem, writer (Jewish father) ^[37]
• Bolesław Leśmian, poet
• Teodor Parnicki, writer (Jewish mother)^[38]
• Artur Sandauer, writer, literature critic, and publicist
• Bruno Schulz, prose writer
• Antoni Słonimski, writer
• Arnold Słucki, poet
• Anatol Stern, poet ^[39]
• Julian Stryjkowski, novelist
• Julian Tuwim, poet, song lyrics
• Leopold Tyrmand, writer^[40]
• Aleksander Wat, poet^[41]
• Bronisław Wildstein, journalist (Jewish father)
• Józef Wittlin, poet^[42]
• Stanislaw Wygodzki, writer

Alicia Jurman (Alicia Appleman-Jurman being her married name), born 1930, is a Polish-born memoirist and has spoken out about her experiences of the Holocaust in her autobiography, Alicia: My Story. ... Jan Brzechwa, real name Jan Lesman-No!! Jan Lesmian was another polish poet !!!! (August 15, 1900 – July 2, 1966) was a Polish poet and author, mostly known for his contribution to childrens literature. ... Ida Fink (born 1921) is a Polish author who writes about the Holocaust. ... Gustaw Herling GrudziÅ„ski (b. ... Konstanty Gebert (pseudonym Dawid Warszawski; b. ... Henryk Grynberg (born in 1936 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish writer and actor who survived the Nazi occupation. ... Marian Hemar (1901-1972; born Jan Maria Hescheles) was a Polish poet, journalist, playwright and comedy writer. ... Bruno JasieÅ„ski Bruno JasieÅ„ski (Бруно Ясенский, real name Wiktor Zysman) (1901 – 1938) was a Polish leader of the Polish futurist movement. ... The grave of MieczysÅ‚aw Jastrun at PowÄ…zki Cemetery, Warsaw. ... Janusz Korczak Janusz Korczak, real name Henryk Goldszmit (July 22, 1878 or 1879 – August, 1942) was a Polish-Jewish childrens author, pediatrician, and child pedagogist, known as Old Doctor (Stary Doktor). ... Hanna Krall (born 1937 in Warsaw) is a Polish writer. ... StanisÅ‚aw Jerzy Lec StanisÅ‚aw Jerzy Lec (6 March 1909 – 7 May 1966) was a Polish poet and aphorist. ... StanisÅ‚aw Lem (1966). ... BolesÅ‚aw LeÅ›mian (born BolesÅ‚aw Lesman; 1878-1937) was a Polish poet, artist and member of the Polish Academy of Literature. ... Teodor Parnicki (1908-1988) was a Polish writer, notable for his historical novels. ... Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, literary critic and graphic artist, widely considered to be one of the greatest Polish prose stylists of the 20th century. ... Antoni SÅ‚onimski Antoni SÅ‚onimski (November 15, 1895 – July 4, 1976) was a Polish poet and writer. ... Anatol Stern (1899-1968) was a Polish poet, writer and art critic. ... Julian Stryjkowski (born Pesach Stark, 1905-1996) was a Polish journalist and writer, notable for his social prose of leftists character. ... Julian Tuwim, 1894-1953 Julian Tuwim (from Hebrew טובים tovim, meaning good) (September 13, 1894 – December 27, 1953) was a Jewish Polish poet; born in the city of Łódź in Poland, educated in Łódź and Warsaw (studied Law and Philosophy at Warsaw University). ... Chronicles is a U.S. monthly magazine published by the paleoconservative Rockford Institute. ... Aleksander Wat, (born Aleksander Chwat; 1900-1967) was a Polish poet, writer and art theoretician, one of the precursors of Polish futurism movement in early 1920s. ... BronisÅ‚aw Wildstein (b. ... StanisÅ‚aw Wygodzki (1907, Poland - 1992, Israel) was a Polish writer of Jewish origin. ...

Yiddish-language

• Sholem Asch, writer
• Mordechai Gebirtig, poet-songwriter
• Itche Goldberg, writer
• Yitzhak Katzenelson, poet
• Salcia Landmann, writer
• I. L. Peretz, writer
• Morris Rosenfeld, proletariat writer
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, Nobel Prize (1978)
• Israel Joshua Singer, novelist
• Abraham Sutzkever, poet [14]

Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957), also known as Shalom Asch, was a Polish-born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language. ... Mordechai Gebirtig (1877, Kraków - 1942, Kraków) was a Yiddish poet and musician. ... Itche Goldberg (March 22, 1904 - December 27, 2006) was a Yiddish writer of childrens books, poet, librettist, educator, literary critic, camp director, essayist, literary editor, Yiddish language and culture scholar, and left-wing political activist. ... Yitzhak Katzenelson Yitzhak Katzenelson (Hebrew: , Yiddish: ; also transcribed Icchak-Lejb Kacenelson, Jizchak Katzenelson; Yitzhok Katznelson) (1886–1944) was a Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist. ... Salcia Landmann (November 18, 1911 - May 16, 2002) was a Jewish writer. ... Isaac Leib Peretz (May 18, 1852–1915), a. ... Morris Rosenfeld (Moshe Jacob Alter) was a Yiddish poet (born December 28th 1862 in Bokscha in Poland, died June 22nd 1923 in New York). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Israel Joshua Singer photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1938 Israel Joshua Singer (November 30, 1893, BiÅ‚goraj, Poland - February 10, 1944 New York) was a Yiddish novelist and the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer and novelist Esther Kreitman. ... Abraham Sutzkever is a Yiddish poet. ...

Hebrew-language

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon, writer, Nobel Prize (1966)
• Nathan Alterman, writer
• Yoram Bronowski, literary critic
• Isaac Erter, writer
• Roman Frister, journalist and author
• Naphtali Herz Imber, poet
• Uri Orlev, writer, Hans Christian Andersen Award (1996)
• Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai, writer

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; known as shay agnon, born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966). ... ... Isaac Erter (Yitzhak Erter) was a Polish-Jewish satirist; born 1792 at Janischok, Galicia; died 1851 at Brody. ... Roman Frister (born 17th January 1928, Bielsko-Biala, Poland) wrote the Cap or the Price of a Life, an autobiographical account of his life living in Nazi occupied Poland and then Poland under the communists. ... Naftali Herz Imber (1856 - October 8, 1909) was a Galician Jewish poet and zionist. ... Uri Orlev (Hebrew: ‎; born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski in 1931) is an award-winning Israeli childrens author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin. ... Hans Christian Andersen or simply H.C. Andersen , (April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. ... Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (born Harry Torczyner) (1886-1973) was a Bible scholar, an author, and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language. ...

Other languages

• Lisa Appignanesi, English writer
• Louis Begley, American writer
• Maurice Frydman, Indian translator
• Marek Halter, French writer
• Jerzy Kosiński, English-language novelist, from 1965 an American citizen
• Arthur Miller, American writer
• Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German writer
• Henry Roth, American writer
• Joseph Roth, Austrian writer

Lisa Appignanesi (born Elsbieta Borenztejn on January 4, 1946 in Lodz, Poland) is a television producer and novelist. ... Louis Begley (born October 6, 1933) is an American lawyer and novelist. ... I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Maurice Frydman, aka Swami Bharatananda (born 1900, Poland - died 1976, India), was a Polish Jew who spent his life in India. ... Marek Halter is a French-Jewish novelist. ... Jerzy Kosiński (June 18, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a novelist of Jewish origin, born in Łódź, Poland. ... Arthur Bob Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. ... Marcel Reich-Ranicki (born 2 June 1920, at Włocławek, Poland) is a famous German literary critic, and a member of the literary group Gruppe 47. ... Henry Roth (born February 8, 1906 in Galicia, Austro-Hungary - died October 13, 1995, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.) was a Jewish-American novelist and short story writer. ... Joseph Roth (September 2, 1894 in Brody - May 27, 1939 in Paris) was an Austrian Jewish novelist who converted to Catholicism and is best known for his family saga The Radetzky March (1932), and for his novel of Jewish life Job (1930). ...

Business figures

• Majer Bersohn, banker, philanthropist^[43]
• Henry & Helal Hassenfeld, founders of Hasbro
• Leopold Kronenberg, banker^[44]
• Maurycy Orgelbrand, editor^[45]
• Samuel Orgelbrand, editor^[46]
• Izrael Poznański, textile magnate, philanthropist
• Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics industrialist
• Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore
• Hipolit Wawelberg, banker, philanthropist
• Felix Zandman, founder of Vishay
• Szmul Zbytkower, banker, factor^[47]

Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) is an American toy and game company. ... Baron Leopold Julian Kronenberg, or Leopold Kronenberg (1849, Warsaw - 1937 Warsaw) was a Polish banker. ... Samuel Orgelbrand (1810-1868) was one of the most prominent Polish publishers of the 19th century. ... Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański (b. ... Helena Rubinstein was born in this house in Kazimierz in Krakau Helena Rubinstein (b. ... Jack Tramiel (born 1928) is a businessman, famous for founding Commodore International, manufacturer of the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga home computers, and later President and CEO of Atari Corp. ... Commodore, the commonly used name for Commodore International, was an American electronics company based in West Chester, Pennsylvania which was a vital player in the home/personal computer field in the 1980s. ...

Sport figures

Chess players

• Izak Aloni
• Izaak Appel
• Abram Blass
• Agnieszka Brustman
• Oscar Chajes
• Josef Cukierman
• Moshe Czerniak
• Arthur Dake
• Dawid Daniuszewski
• Arthur Dunkelblum
• Samuel Factor
• Alexander Flamberg
• Henryk Friedman
• Achilles Frydman
• Paulino Frydman
• Edward Gerstenfeld
• Yehuda Gruenfeld
• Izaak Grynfeld
• Roza Herman
• Dawid Janowski ^[48]
• Max Judd
• Stanisław Kohn
• Jakub Kolski
• Abraham Kupchik
• Salo Landau
• Grigory Levenfish
• Jerzy Lewi
• Moishe Lowtzky
• Miguel Najdorf
• Menachem Oren
• Julius Perlis
• Dawid Przepiórka
• Samuel Rosenthal
• Gersz Rotlewi
• Akiba Rubinstein
• Samuel Reshevsky
• Gersz Salwe
• Leon Schwartzmann
• Stanislaus Sittenfeld
• Gedali Szapiro
• Savielly Tartakower ^[49]
• Jean Taubenhaus ^[50]
• Szymon Winawer
• Daniel Yanofsky
• Johannes Zukertort

Izak (Izhak, Itzchak) Aloni (Schächter) (born 5 April 1905, Lvov – died 1985) was an Israeli chess master. ... Izaak (Isaak) Appel (born 1905 – died 1941) was a Polish chess master. ... Abram Blass , a Polish chess master. ... Agnieszka Brustman Agnieszka Brustman (born 31 July 1962, Warsaw) is a female Polish chess master. ... Oscar Chajes (pronounced HA-yes) was an Austrian chess player. ... Josef (Józef, Iosif) Cukierman (born 1900, Poland – died 1941, France) was a Polish-French chess master. ... Moshe Czerniak (3 February 1910 at Warsaw, Poland – 31 August 1984 at Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli chess master. ... Arthur Dake (Darkowski) (born 8 April 1910, Portland, Oregon – died 28 April 2000, Reno, Nevada) was an American chess master. ... Dawid Daniuszewski (1885 – 1944) was a Polish chess master. ... Arthur Dunkelblum (born 23 April 1906 – died 27 January 1979) a Belgian chess master. ... Samuel (Faktor) Factor (born 22 September 1883, Łódź – died 11 January 1949, Chicago) was a Polish-American chess master. ... Alexander Flamberg (born 1880, Warsaw – died 24 January 1926, Warsaw) was a Polish chess master. ... Henryk Friedman (born 1903 – died 1942) was a Polish chess master. ... Achilles Frydman (1905 – 1940) was a Polish chess player. ... Paulino (Paulin) Frydman (born 26 May 1905 in Poland - died 2 February 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Polish chess master. ... Edward (Eduard) Gerstenfeld (born 1915, Lvov – died 1943, Soviet Union) a Polish chess master. ... Yehuda Gruenfeld (Grünfeld, Greenfeld) (born 28 February 1956, Poland) an Israeli chess master. ... Izaak (Izak) Grynfeld (born 1920, Lodz) a Polish–Israeli chess master. ... Róża Maria Herman (born 16 January 1902 - died 1995) - a Polish chess master. ... Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (1868 – 1927) was a leading Polish-Jewish chess master. ... Max Judd (Maximilian Judkiewich) (born on December 27, 1851, Cracow, Poland - died on May 7, 1906, USA). ... StanisÅ‚aw Kohn (1895–1940) was a Polish chess master. ... Jakub Kolski (1900 – 1941) was a Polish chess master. ... Abraham Kupchik (born 25 March 1892 – died 26 November 1970) was an American chess master. ... Salo Landau (1903–1944) was a Dutch chess player, who died in a Nazi concentration camp. ... Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish (March 9, 1889 - February 9, 1961) was a leading Jewish Russian chess grandmaster of the 1920s and 1930s. ... Jerzy Lewi (born 22 April 1949, WrocÅ‚aw (Breslau) – died 30 October 1972, Lund) was a Polish chess masters. ... Moishe (Mojżesz) Lowtzky (Łowcki) (born 1881 – died 1940) was an Ukrainian–Polish chess master. ... Miguel Najdorf (born as Mieczysław Najdorf; 1910 - 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess player. ... MieczysÅ‚aw Chwojnik also Menachem Oren (born 1901, Poland – died 1962, Tel Aviv, Israel) was a Polish-Israeli chess master. ... Julius Perlis (born 19 January 1880, BiaÅ‚ystok – died 11 September 1913, Ennstal) an Austrian chess player. ... Dawid Przepiórka (December 22, 1880, Warsaw–1942?) was a prominent Polish-Jew chess player of the early twentieth century. ... Samuel Rosenthal (born 7 September 1837, SuwaÅ‚ki, Poland – died 12 September 1902, Neuilly–sur–Seine, France) was a Polish-French chess master. ... Gersz (Georg, George) Rotlewi (Rotlevi, Rotlevy) (1889 – 1920) was a Polish chess master. ... Akiba Rubinstein (born 12 December 1882, died 15 March 1961 in Antwerp) was a brilliant Polish chess master and a famous grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. ... Samuel Herman (Sammy) Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski, November 26, 1911, Ozorków, (then German Empire, today Poland) - died April 4, 1992, New York, USA) was a leading American chess Grandmaster. ... Gersz (Hersz, Georg, George, Henryk Jerzy) Salwe (born 12 December 1862, Warsaw – died 15 December 1920, Lodz) was a Polish grandmaster. ... Leon Schwartzmann (Szwarcman, Szwarzman, Schwarzman, Schwarzmann) (born 1887, Warsaw – died 1942 Auschwitz) was a Polish–French chess master. ... Stanislaus Sittenfeld (born 11 July 1865 – died 15 June 1902) was a Polish–French chess master. ... Gedali Shapiro (Grzegorz Szapiro) (born 28 October 1929) a Polish–Israeli chess master. ... Ksawery Tartakower (generally known as Saviely or Savielly in English, from Polish Sawielly meaning little Saul, less often Xavier Tartacover or Xavier Tartakover; 1887–1956) was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. ... Jean (Jan) Taubenhaus (born 14 December 1850, Warsaw – died 14 September 1919, Paris) was a Polish–French chess master. ... Szymon Winawer (1838 – 1920) was a leading Polish chess player. ... Daniel Abraham Yanofsky (March 25, 1925- March 5, 2000) was Canadas first chess grandmaster and an eight-time national champion. ... Zukertort, early 1880s Johannes Hermann Zukertort (7 September 1842 Lublin – 20 June 1888 London) was a leading Polish-Jewish chess master. ...

Others

• Ludwik Gintel, footballer (soccer)
• Charley Goldman, boxing trainer (International Boxing Hall of Fame)
• Roman Kantor, fencer
• Józef Klotz, footballer (soccer)
• Józef Lustgarten, footballer (soccer)
• Myer Prinstein, long- and triple-jumper (4 Olympic golds)
• Leon Sperling, footballer (soccer)
• Irena Kirszenstein-Szewińska, sprinter (7 medals over 4 Olympics)^[51]

Ludwik Gintel (born 1899 in Krakow, committed suicide in 1973 in Tel Aviv) was a soccer player for Cracovia Krakow, who played as a defender (later forward). ... Charley Goldman (b. ... Roman Kantor (March 20, 1912-1943), born in Łódź, Poland, was an Polish Olympic epee fencer. ... Józef Klotz (January 2, 1900 - 1941), born in Kraków, was a Polish footballer of Jewish origin, who scored the first ever goal for the Poland national football team. ... Myer (or Meyer) Prinstein (1878 - March 10, 1925) was an American athlete who held the world record for the long jump and won gold medals in three Olympic Games. ... Leon Sperling born August 07 1900 in Kraków, died shot by the Nazis in the Lwów Jewish ghetto on December 15, 1941. ... Irena Szewińska (born Irena Kirszenstein on May 24, 1946 in St. ...

Criminals

• Bogusław Bagsik, financial hochstapler, swindler
• Julia Brystigerowa, communist Security Services
• Anatol Fejgin , 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, Polish State Security Services, communist criminal
• Aaron Kosminski, UK Jack the Ripper suspect
• Meyer Lansky, US gangster
• Salomon Morel, Polish State Security Services, communist criminal
• Julian Polan-Haraschin, chairperson of the military tribunal in Cracow
• Roman Romkowski, 1st vice-minister of MPS
• Józef Różański, head of the Department of Investigations
• Helena Wolinska-Brus, former Stalinist military prosecutor from Poland, court criminal

This is a list of proposed suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders that took place in London, England during 1888. ... Meyer Lansky (born Majer Suchowliński, July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983) was an American gangster who, with Charles Lucky Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the so-called National Crime Syndicate in the United States. ... Salomon Morel, passport photo taken in 1993 Salomon (also Solomon or Shlomo) Morel (born November 15, 1919 in Garbów, Poland, died February 2007 in Tel Aviv, Israel) was a Polish Jew, who, between February and November 1945, was a member of Communist State Security, known in Polish as Urz... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Fictional figures

• Jankiel from Pan Tadeusz
• The Jew from Wesele
• Magneto, Marvel comics mutant

Picking mushrooms. ... Wesele by WÅ‚odzimierz Tetmajer. ... Magneto (Eric Magnus Lensherr) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ...

See also

• History of the Jews in Poland
• List of Jews
• List of Poles
• List of Galician Jews

The history of the Jews in Poland reaches back over a millennium. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... Note: Names that cannot be confirmed in Wikipedia database nor through given sources are subject to removal. ... List of Galician Jews // Martin Buber Elimelech of Lizhensk Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov) Jacob Frank Ben Zion Halberstam (I) Chaim Halberstam Shlomo Halberstam (I) Arthur Hertzberg Samuel Judah Lob Rapoport Aharon Rokeach Shalom Rokeach Yehoshua Rokeach Yissachar Dov Rokeach (I) Isaac Deutscher Karl Radek Adam Daniel Rotfeld Simon...

References

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