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Encyclopedia > List of Romanian Jews
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Contents

Academics

Aaron Aaronsohn (1876—1919) was a renowned scientist, traveller, entrepreneur, and politician. ... J. J. Benjamin J. J. Benjamin (b. ... Nicolae Cajal (October 1, 1919, Bucharest- April 8, 2004) was a Romanian Jewish physician, academic, politician, and philanthropist. ... Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea (born Solomon Katz; 1855, near Dnipropetrovsk, then in Imperial Russia—1920, Bucharest) was a Jewish Romanian Marxist theorist, politician, sociologist, literary critic, and journalist, the father of Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea. ... Lazar Edeleanu (1861-1941) was a famous Romanian chemist. ... David Emmanuel (January 31, 1854 - February 4, 1941), was a Romanian Jewish mathematician and member of the Romanian Academy, considered to be the founder of the modern mathematics school in Romania. ... Herman Finer (February 24, 1898 - March 4, 1969) was a British political scientist. ... Moses Gaster (born September 16, Bucharest, 1856 - 1939) was the Romanian Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London, and linguist, Hebrew linguist. ... Theodor Herzl Gaster (1906 - 1992) was an American Biblical scholar known for work on comparative religion, mythology and the history of religions. ... Joseph Moses Juran (b. ... Ernest Klein (1899 - February 4, 1983) was a Canadian linguist, author, and rabbi. ... Liviu Librescu (August 18, 1930 – April 16, 2007) was a Romanian-born Israeli scientist and educator whose major research fields were Aeroelasticity and Aerodynamics. ... Mario Livio (born 1945) is an astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. ... George Lusztig is an American mathematician. ... Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born 1942) is an economist and historian known for his many publications on military strategy and international relations. ... Dr. Solomon Marcus is a member of the Mathematical Section of the Romanian Academy and Emeritus Professor of the University of Bucharest. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Biography Serge Moscovici was one of Europes most prominent social psychologists. ... Victor Neumann (b. ... Julius Popper. ... Isaac Jacob Schoenberg (April 21, 1903 - February 21, 1990) was a Romanian mathematician who was born in Galati, Romania. ... Heimann Hariton Tiktin (born Heimann Tiktin; August 9, 1850–March 13, 1936) was a Silesian-born Romanian Jewish linguist and academic, one of the founders of modern Romanian linguistics. ... Vladimir Tismăneanu, photo by Eduard Koller Vladimir Tismăneanu (b. ... David Wechsler (January 12, 1896, Lespedi, Romania - May 2, 1981, New York, New York) was a leading Romanian-American psychologist. ...

Artists

Avigdor Arikha (born 1929) was a Jewish, Israelian artist, born in Romania, notable for detailed drawing and painting of objects of familiarity. ... Victor Brauner: Self-portrait with a plucked eye, 1931 Victor Brauner (1903, Piatra Neamţ - March 12, 1966, Paris) was a Romanian Jewish painter, the brother of Harry Brauner (a known folklorist who was a political prisoner in Communist Romania, and who later married Lena Constante). ... Sorel Etrog (born August 29, 1933) is a Canadian sculptor. ... André François (November 9, 1915 – April 11, 2005) was a French cartoonist. ... Idel Ianchelevici, 1909-1994, Sculptor, Drawer Idel Ianchelevici was born in Léova (Bessarabia) in 1909. ... Marcel Janco/Iancu/Ianco (May 24, 1895, Bucharest - April 21, 1984, Tel Aviv) was a Jewish-Romanian artist, painter and architect. ... Iosif Iser (1881—April 25, 1958; born and died in Bucharest) was a Romanian painter and graphic artist. ... M. H. Maxy (born Maximilian Herman Maxy) (1895-1971) was a Romanian Cubist painter. ... Portrait of Rosenthal by Ioan D. Negulici Constantin Daniel Rosenthal (Hungarian: Rosenthal Konstantin, 1820—July 22, 1851) was a Hungarian-born painter and 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist subjects. ... Self Portrait with a Flower, 1922, oil on canvas, courtesy of the Rubin Museum Reuven Rubin (November 13, 1893 - 1974) was a Romanian-born Israeli painter. ... Daniel Spoerri (born Daniel Isaac Feinstein 27 March 1930) is a Romanian-born French dancer and performance artist. ... Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914 - May 12, 1999) was a cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker magazine. ...

Business people

  • Max Auschnitt, financier
  • Mauriciu Blank, financier
    • Aristide Blank, financier and activist
  • Emil Calmanovici, financier and communist activist
  • Jacques Elias, banker, landowner, manufacturer
  • Hillel Manoah, banker
  • Iosif Samitca, publisher
    • Ralian Samitca, publisher
    • Ignat Samitca, publisher

The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ...

Film and stage figures

Israil (Israel) Bercovici (1921–1988) served the State Jewish Theater of Romania as a dramaturg, playwright, director, and historian from 1955 to 1982; he also wrote Yiddish-language poetry. ... I.A.L. Diamond (27 June 1920 - 21 April 1988) was a comedy writer in Hollywood during the 1940 and 50s. ... John Houseman John Houseman (September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born actor and film producer. ... Marin Karmitz (born on October 7, 1938 in Bucharest, Romania) is a French movie director, producer, and executive producer. ... Maia Morgernstern (b. ... Bernard Natan on trial (filmed against his wishes) Bernard Natan (1886-1942) (born Natan Tannenzaft) was a Romanian Jew who moved to France after World War I and became a French citizen (in 1921), changing his name to the less Jewish-sounding Bernard Natan in the process. ... The Ovitz family were a family of Jewish dwarfs and traveling musicians who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. // The Ovitz family originated from the Romanian village of Rozavlea. ... Edward Goldenberg Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg, Yiddish: עמנואל גולדנברג; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American stage and film actor of Romanian origin. ... Abba Schoengold (also Shongold or Shoengold) was a Romanian Jewish actor in the early years of Yiddish theater, the first person to score a serious reputation a dramatic actor in Yiddish. ... Dumitru Solomon is an Essays, novels, and chronicles author. ... Yankev Shternberg ( in the English language texts occasionally referred to as Jacob Sternberg or Iacob Sternberg) (1890, Lipcani, Bessarabia - 1973, Moscow, USSR) was a Yiddish theater director and teacher of theater, and a Yiddish-language avant garde poet and short-story writer, best known for his theater work in Romania...

Musicians

Album cover Alma Gluck (May 11, 1884 - October 27, 1938), was a soprano. ... Clara Haskil (January 7, 1895 - December 7, 1960) was a classical pianist. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Yoel Levi (1950—) is a musician and conductor. ... György Sándor Ligeti (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a Jewish Hungarian composer born in Romania who later became an Austrian citizen. ... Radu Lupu (born November 30, 1945 in Galati) is a Romanian pianist. ... Silvia Marcovici (b. ... Joseph Moskowitz (1879 – June 27, 1954) was a Romanian-born Jewish musician who invented the klezmer approach to the cymbalum. ... Moishe Oysher Moishe Oysher (1907, Lipkany, Bessarabia — 27 November 1958 New Rochelle, New York, USA). ... Arnold Josef Rosé (born Rosenblum, October 24, 1863, IaÅŸi–August 25, 1946, London) was a Romanian-born Austrian Jewish violinist. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Political figures

  • Martin Abern, Trotskyist activist
  • Radu F. Alexandru, politician
  • Colette Avital, politician
  • Olga Bancic, communist activist
  • Silviu Brucan, communist politician and dissident
  • Simion Bughici, communist politician
  • Iosif Chişinevschi, communist politician
  • Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea, communist activist
  • David Fabian, communist activist
  • Teohari Georgescu, communist politician
  • Max Goldstein, communist activist
  • Remus Koffler, communist activist
  • David Korner, Trotskyist activist
  • Alex Kozinski, judge
  • Serge Klarsfeld, anti-Nazi activist
  • Samuel Leibowitz, attorney
  • Karpel Lippe, Zionist activist
  • Vasile Luca, communist politician
  • Gheorghe Gaston Marin, communist politician
  • Nati Meir, politician
  • Alexandru Nicolschi, communist politician
  • Saul Ozias, communist politician
  • Ana Pauker, communist politician
  • Marcel Pauker, communist politician
  • Mircea Răceanu, diplomat and dissident (Jewish father)
  • Leonte Răutu, communist politician
  • Mihail Roller, communist politician
  • Valter Roman, communist politician
  • Solomon Tinkelman, communist activist
  • Leonte Tismăneanu, communist politician
  • Sorin Toma, communist activist
  • Ghizela Vass, communist activist
  • Belu Zilber, communist activist

Martin Abern, born Martin Abramowitz (December 2, 1898 ? 1949) was a Trotskyist politician. ... Colette Avital (in Hebrew קולט אביטל) (born May 1, 1940) is an Israeli parliamentarian from the Israel Labor Party, who served in the 15th, 16th, and 17th (current) Knessets. ... Olga Bancic (born Golda Bancic; also known under her French pseudonym Pierrette; May 10, 1912-May 10, 1944) was a Romanian communist activist, known for her role in the French Resistance. ... Silviu Brucan (b. ... Iosif ChiÅŸinevschi (1905–1963), born Iosif Roitman, was a leading ideologue of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) from 1944 to 1957, serving as head of its Agitprop Department from 1948 to 1952 and in charge of propaganda and culture from 1952 to 1955. ... Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea or Alexandru Gherea (rendered in Russian as Александр Доброджану-Геря or Доброжану-Гере - Aleksandr Dobrodzhanu-Gerya /Dobrozhanu-Gere; July 7, 1879, PloieÅŸti-1938, in the Soviet Union) was a Romanian communist militant and son of socialist, sociologist and literary critic Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea. ... Teohari Georgescu[1] (January 31, 1908 — December 31, 1976) was a high-ranking member of the Romanian Communist Party. ... Max Goldstein Max Goldstein (died 1924) was a Romanian communist. ... David Korner, also known as Barta, was a Romanian Trotskyist militant. ... Judge Alex Kozinski Judge Alex Kozinski (born July 23, 1950) is a judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a popular essayist. ... Serge (September 17, 1935, Bucharest, Romania) and Beate (February 13, 1939, Berlin, Germany) Klarsfeld, French researchers engaging in Holocaust documentation and anti-Nazi activism. ... Samuel Leibowitz American Jewish attorney, noted for winning the majority of his cases and defending the Scottsboro boys[ http://en. ... Vasile Luca (born Luka László) was a Szekler leading member of the Romanian Communist Party. ... Gheorghe Gaston Marin (born Grossmann on April 14, 1918, Padureni, Romania) was a Romanian politician who had many roles under Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Nicolae CeauÅŸescu. ... Nati Meir (born 23 May 1955) is a Jewish-Romanian politician, currently a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies. ... Alexandru Nicolschi (born Boris Grünberg, his chosen surname was often rendered as Nikolski or Nicolski; Russian: Александр Сергеевич Никольский, Alexandr Sergeyevich Nikolsky; June 2, 1915–April 16, 1992) was a Romanian communist activist, Soviet agent, and Securitate chief under the Communist regime, active until the early 1960s. ... Ana Pauker (born Hannah Rabinsohn; Yiddish: ×—× ×” רבינסון; February 13, 1893 – June 14, 1960) was a Romanian communist leader and served as the countrys foreign minister in the late 1940s and early 1950s. ... Marcel Pauker (rendered in Russian as Марцел Паукер - Martsel Pauker; December 6, 1896, Bucharest—August 16, 1938, Butovo - near Moscow) was a Romanian communist militant and husband of Ana Pauker. ... Mircea Răceanu (b. ... Valter or Walter Roman (born Ernst or ErnÅ‘ Neuländer; October 9, 1913-November 11, 1983) was a Romanian communist politician, activist, soldier and engineer, one of the high-ranking members of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) and active inside several other communist parties during his lifetime (the Communist Party... Petre Roman (born July 22, 1946) is a Romanian politician, former Prime Minister of Romania from 1989 to 1991, when his government was overthrown by the intervention of the miners led by Miron Cozma. ... Leonte Tismăneanu (born Leonid Tisminetski; 1913-1981), surnamed Ciungul (The Crippled)[1] was a Soviet and Romanian communist activist, one of the main propagandists of the communist dictatorship in Romania[2]. Born into a Jewish family in Soroca, Bessarabia, Russian Empire (now in Moldova),[3] Leonte Tismăneanu was...

Religious figures

Ernest Klein (1899 - February 4, 1983) was a Canadian linguist, author, and rabbi. ... Moses (Moshe) Rosen (1912–1994) was Chief Rabbi of Romanian Jewry from 1948 through the entire Communist era in Romania and continued in that role until his death several years after the Romanian Revolution of 1989. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Alexandru Åžafran (or Alexandre Safran; September 12, 1910 – July 27, 2006) was a Romanian rabbi who intervened with authorities in the fascist government of Ion Antonescu in an unusually successful attempt to save Jews during the Holocaust. ... 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. ... Nicolae Steinhardt (born Nicu-Aurelian Steinhardt) (b. ... Richard Wurmbrand Richard Wurmbrand (March 24, 1909 - February 17, 2001) was an evangelical Christian minister, author, and educator who spent a total of fourteen years imprisoned in Romania. ...

Sportspeople

Abraham Baratz (born 14 September 1895, Bessarabia – died 1975, Paris) was a Romanian–French chess master. ... Ernest (Ernie) Grunfeld (born April 24, 1955, in Satu Mare, Romania) is an American former professional basketball player. ... Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu (October 15, 1921 – February 22, 2006) was a Jewish Romanian table tennis player, and the most successful female table tennis player in the history of the sport. ... Andre Spitzer (1945 – September 6, 1972) was a fencing master and coach of Israels 1972 Summer Olympics team. ... Bernardo Wexler (in full Francisco José Bernardo Wexler; April 1, 1925) – 1992) was an Argentine chess master. ... Kevin Edmund Youkilis (born March 15, 1979 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a Jewish-American first baseman and right-handed batter who plays for the Boston Red Sox. ... Major league affiliations American League (1901–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 4, 8, 9, 27, 42 Name Boston Red Sox (1908–present) Boston Americans (1901-1907) Ballpark Fenway Park (1912–present) Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds (1901-1911) Major league titles World Series titles (6) 2004...

Writers

Iuliu Barasch (1815–1863) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish physician and writer who made his career in Romania. ... Srul Bronshtein (Yiddish: ; 1913? ÅžtefăneÅŸti, Bessarabia — 1943, Tashkent, USSR) was a Yiddish-language poet. ... Nina Cassian born Renèe Annie Cassian (born 1924) is a Romanian poet, journalist, film critic, and classical composer. ... Paul Celan Paul Celan (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970) was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World War II era. ... Andrei Codrescu (born December 20, 1946), born in Sibiu, Romania. ... Vladimir Colin is a Romanian writer. ... Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944) was a poet and literary critic. ... Abraham Goldfaden Abraham Goldfaden (July 24, 1840 – January 9, 1908), born Abraham Goldenfoden (first name alternately Avram, Avron, Avrohom, Avrom, or Avrum, last name alternately Goldfadn; the Romanian spelling Avram Goldfaden is common) was a Russian-born Jewish poet and playwright, author of some 40 plays. ... Isidore Isou (born Ioan-Isidor Goldstein, 1925, in BotoÅŸani) is a Romanian-French Jewish poet, film critic, visual artist and founder of Lettrisme. ... Irving Layton OC (March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006) was a Canadian poet. ... Gherasim Luca (or Gherashim Luca) (July 23, 1913 - February 9, 1994) was a surrealist theorist and Romanian poet, frequently cited in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. ... Isac Ludo (1894-1973) was a Romanian writer and political figure. ... Norman Manea (born 19 July 1936) is a Romanian writer and intellectual, born in Burdujeni, Suceava County, Bukovina. ... A portrait of SaÅŸa Pană, by Victor Brauner SaÅŸa Pană (pen name of Alexandru Binder; August 8, 1902—August 22, 1981, born and died in Bucharest) was a Romanian Jewish avant-garde poet, novelist, and short story writer. ... Mihail Sebastian (18 October 1907-29 May 1945), born in Brăila as Iosif Hechter was a Jewish-Romanian author. ... Nicolae Steinhardt (born Nicu-Aurelian Steinhardt) (b. ... Tristan Tzara () (April 16, 1896 – December 25, 1963) was a -Romanian poet and essayist. ... Tudor Vianu was born on January 8, 1898 in Giurgiu, Romania. ... Ion Vianu, a Romanian who later settled in the United States, is the son of the literary critic Tudor Vianu. ... A sketch by Robert Delaunay depicting Ilarie Voronca Ilarie Voronca (pen name of Eduard Marcus; December 31, 1903, Brăila—April 8, 1946, Paris) was a Romanian-French avant-garde poet and essayist of Jewish ethnicity. ... Eliezer Wiesel (commonly known as Elie, born September 30, 1928)[1] is an American-Jewish novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor. ...

References

  1. ^ [1] "Mr. Herman Finer, an Englishman, Jewish"; born Jassy, Roumania (Who was Who)
  2. ^ Jewish Chronicle, Apr 20 2007 p.3
  3. ^ Jacob Adler, "A Life on the Stage: A Memoir", translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-679-41351-0. 68, 125, 203, 221

The Jewish Telegraph is a Jewish Newspaper in Britain. ... Categories: People stubs | Jewish film and theatre | 1855 births | 1926 deaths ...

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