Before the Holocaust, Jews were a significant part of the population in Lithuania where they numbered around 240,000, including approximately 100,000 in Vilnius, or about 45% of that city's pre-World War II population (Vilnius was also once known as the "Jerusalem of Lithuania"). A large Jewish community also existed in Latvia. In comparison, Estonia and the Nordic countries have had much smaller communities, concentrated mostly in Denmark and Sweden. The following is a list of prominent North European Jews, arranged by country of origin:
Leo Eitinger (born in Slovakia), professor of psychiatry at University of Oslo and Holocaust survivor, known mainly for his work on late-onset psychological trauma amongst Holocaust survivors
Oskar Mendelsohn, historian, known for his two-volume history of Norwegian Jews
Charles Philipson, Supreme Court Justice Judge, Chairman of the Petroleum Law Committee, deputy chairman of the Petroleum Council and chairman of the Riksel Committee
Moritz Rabinowitz, merchant, active in public debate against antisemitism and Nazism before World War II
^Jewish Chronicle, February 4, 2000, p.6: "Jewish business leader Marcus Storch"
January 01, 1970
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Before the Holocaust Jews were a significant part of the population in Lithuania where they numbered around 240 000 including approximately 100 000 in Vilnius or about 45 of that city s pre World War II population Vilnius was also once known as the Jerusalem of Lithuania A large Jewish community also existed in Latvia In comparison Estonia and the Nordic countries have had much smaller communities concentrated mostly in Denmark and Sweden The following is a list of prominent North European Jews arranged by country of origin Contents 1 Denmark 2 Estonia 3 Finland 4 Iceland 5 Latvia 6 Lithuania 7 Norway 8 Sweden 9 ReferencesDenmark editSee also Category Danish people of Jewish descent Mogens Ballin painter Victor Bendix composer conductor and pianist Susanne Bier film director Kim Bodnia actor Harald Bohr mathematician and footballer Jewish mother Niels Bohr physicist Nobel Prize 1922 Jewish mother Victor Borge entertainer Edvard Brandes politician critic and author minister of finance from 1909 to 1910 Ernst Brandes economist and editor Georg Brandes author and critic father of Danish naturalism Marcus Choleva chief executive officer of KFI Dagmar Cohn illustrator Esther Gehlin painter Meir Aron Goldschmidt author and editor Heinrich Hirschsprung industrialist art patron Den Hirschsprungske Samling Arne Jacobsen architect and designer Jewish mother Abraham Kurland Olympic wrestling medalist 1 Arne Melchior politician and former Transport Minister and Minister for Communication and Tourism Marcus Melchior chief rabbi of Denmark father of Arne Melchior Michael Melchior rabbi and Israeli politician Ivan Osiier seven time Olympic fencer Lee Oskar harmonica player member of War Herbert Pundik journalist Raquel Rastenni jazz and popular singer Edgar Rubin Gestalt psychologist Dan Zahavi philosopher Nikolaj Znaider violinist conductorEstonia editSee also Category Estonian people of Jewish descent Juri Alperten 1957 2020 conductor pianist and music teacher Eino Baskin 1929 2015 actor and theatre director Avi Benjamin born 1959 composer Ben Berlin 1896 1944 jazz musician Maria Dangell born 1974 singer and pianist Aaron Feinstein chess player Moses Wolf Goldberg 1905 1964 chemist Heinrich Gutkin 1879 1941 businessman and politician Idel Jakobson 1904 1997 NKVD investigator Louis Kahn 1901 1974 architect Anna Klas 1912 1999 pianist Eri Klas 1939 2016 conductor Mihhail Lotman born 1952 philologist and politician Juri Lotman 1922 1993 semiotician Zara Mints 1927 1990 literary scientist Vladimir Padwa 1900 1981 pianist and composer Ita Saks 1921 2003 translator and publicist Hagi Sein born 1945 journalist film director screenwriter and professor Benno Schotz 1891 1984 sculptor Samuel H Shapiro 1907 1987 politician Emmanuel Steinschneider 1886 1970 physician Leonid Stolovich 1929 2013 philosopher David Vseviov born 1949 historianFinland editSee also Category Finnish people of Jewish descent Mathilda Berwald singer Max Dimont historian and author Ida Ekman soprano singer Abba Gindin Finnish born Israeli football player Rosalia Gurovich barber Kim Hirschovits ice hockey player Ruben Jaari businessman Max Jakobson diplomat Wolf Karni football referee Daniel Katz writer Elias Katz athlete Olympic medalist 1 Salomon Klass 1907 1985 Finnish Army captain Roni Porokara football player Boris Rotenberg football player Marion Rung pop singer Elis Sella actor Seela Sella actress Mauritz Stiller director Uniikki rapper Sam Vanni painter Poju Zabludowicz business magnate Ben Zyskowicz conservative leaderIceland editSee also Category Icelandic people of Jewish descent Vladimir Ashkenazy pianist Bobby Fischer chess player Jewish mother but did not self identify as a Jew American expatriate Icelandic Dorrit Moussaieff First Lady of Iceland Sruli Recht award winning designerLatvia editSee also Category Latvian people of Jewish descent Elya Baskin actor Isaiah Berlin historian of ideas Lipman Bers mathematician and activist 2 David Bezmozgis author Boris Brutskus Sergei Eisenstein film director Movsas Feigins chess player Morris Halle linguist Philippe Halsman photographer Joseph Hirshhorn financier and philanthropist Abraham Zevi Idelsohn Jewish musicologist Hermann Jadlowker musician born at Riga Mariss Jansons conductor Jewish mother Gil Kane comic book illustrator Alexander Koblencs chess player Abraham Isaac Kook rabbi Gidon Kremer violinist father was a Jewish Holocaust survivor 3 Nechama Leibowitz Yeshayahu Leibowitz Hermanis Matisons chess player Mischa Maisky cellist Solomon Mikhoels actor Aron Nimzowitsch chess player Arkady Raikin performing artist Yosef Rosen der Rogatchover Gaon Mark Rothko painter Judith Shklar political philosopher Meir Simcha of Dvinsk rabbi Mikhail Tal world chess champion Max Weinreich linguistLithuania editSee also Category Lithuanian people of Jewish descent Semyon Alapin 1856 1923 chess player Mark Antokolsky 1840 1902 sculptor to Tzar Alexander II of Russia Moshe Arens 1925 2019 former Minister of Defence and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Aaron Barak born 1936 President of the Supreme Court of Israel Zerach Barnett 1843 1935 one of founders of Mea Shearim Jerusalem Petach Tikva and Neve Shalom Israel Saul Bellow 1915 2005 writer and laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1976 Eliezer Ben Yehuda 1858 1922 reviver of Hebrew Bernard Berenson 1865 1959 art critic Izis Bidermanas 1911 1980 photographer Reuben Asher Braudes 1851 1902 Hebrew language novelist and journalist Victor David Brenner 1871 1924 designer of the US penny Eli Broad 1933 2021 American philanthropist and investor founder of KB Home Sir Montague Burton British retailer 4 Abraham Cahan 1860 1951 writer and activist Leonard Cohen 1934 2016 musician poet David Cronenberg born 1943 film director Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler 1892 1953 rabbi Talmudic scholar Simeon Dimanstein 1886 1938 Soviet Commissar of Nationalities Bob Dylan born 1941 singer songwriter artist writer Ilya Ehrenburg 1891 1967 one of the most prolific and well known writers during the Soviet Union Nosson Tzvi Finkel Orthodox Judaism leader Vyacheslav Ganelin born 1944 jazz musician Sara Ginaite 1924 2018 former resistance fighter now Canadian academic Romain Gary novelist the Prix Goncourt twice Morris Ginsberg sociologist 5 Louis Ginzberg scholar of the Talmud Philip Glass music composer Leah Goldberg poet Emma Goldman political activist Nahum Goldmann world Jewish leader Chaim Grade writer Iosif Grigulevich secret agent historian Zvi Griliches economist Shira Gorshman Zionist pioneer writer Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg rabbi Bernard Lown scientist Nobel prize winner Aron Gurwitsch philosopher Laurence Harvey actor Jascha Heifetz 1901 1987 widely regarded as the greatest violinist of the 20th century 6 Sidney Hillman political activist Shemp Howard 1895 1955 comedian and actor Moe Howard 1897 1975 comedian and actor Curly Howard 1903 1952 comedian and actor Jay M Ipson founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum Leo Jogiches revolutionary Al Jolson singer comedian and actor Berek Joselewicz colonel of the Polish Army Joseph Kagan Baron Kagan clothes manufacturer 7 Yisrael Meir Kagan rabbi Daniel Kahneman psychologist Nobel Prize 2002 Lithuanian parents Mordechai Kaplan founder of Reconstructionist Judaism Shlomo Kleit political activist Aaron Klug chemist Nobel Prize 1982 Gurwin Kopel 1923 1990 artist Lazare Kopelmanas international law scholar Abba Kovner poet writer Abraham Dob Bar Lebensohn writer Micah Joseph Lebensohn writer Phoebus Levene biochemist Emmanuel Levinas philosopher Isaac Levitan artist Bernard Lewis historian Morris Lichtenstein rabbi founder of the Jewish Science Jacques Lipchitz cubist sculptor Jay Lovestone politician Alexander Ziskind Maimon author and scholar of the Talmud Osip Mandelstam poet librettist Abraham Mapu novelist Isser Zalman Meltzer rabbi Harvey Milk gay politician in the U S Hermann Minkowski mathematician Oskar Minkowski physiologist Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel Mitchell Parish 1900 1993 Lithuanian born American lyricist 8 Abram Rabinovich chess player Bar Refaeli Israeli supermodel television host actress and businesswoman Willy Ronis artist Eduardas Rozentalis chess player Yisroel Salanter rabbi famed Talmudist Meyer Schapiro art historian Alexander Schneider violinist and conductor Lasar Segall painter engraver and sculptor Benjamin Schlesinger American labor leader former President of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union Ben Shahn artist Esther Shalev Gerz artist Karl Shapiro poet Lithuanian parents Sam Lee and Jacob Shubert theatre managers producers cf Shubert Brothers Joe Slovo ANC activist Elijah ben Solomon rabbi The Gaon of Vilna Maximilian Steinberg composer David Suchet English actor Helen Suzman anti apartheid MP Lithuanian parents Isakas Vistaneckis chess player Louis Washkansky recipient of the world s first human heart transplant Uriel Weinreich linguist David Wolfsohn second President of World Zionist Organization Bluma Zeigarnik psychologist and psychiatrist Emanuelis Zingeris politician William Zorach painter sculptor and writer Louis Zukofsky poet Lithuanian parents Benjamin Zuskin actorNorway editSee also Category Norwegian people of Jewish descent Bjorn Benkow journalist known for faking interviews Jo Benkow President of the Parliament of Norway Carl Paul Caspari professor in theology Lutheranism Leo Eitinger born in Slovakia professor of psychiatry at University of Oslo and Holocaust survivor known mainly for his work on late onset psychological trauma amongst Holocaust survivors Victor Goldschmidt professor in mineralogy Salo Grenning pen name Pedro editorial cartoonists in Verdens Gang Berthold Grunfeld specialist in psychiatry and professor in social medicine until 1993 Imre Hercz physician and public debater Bente Kahan Yiddish singer and actress Hermann Kahan Holocaust survivor activist Morten Levin professor of organization and work science Robert Levin pianist Oskar Mendelsohn historian known for his two volume history of Norwegian Jews Charles Philipson Supreme Court Justice Judge Chairman of the Petroleum Law Committee deputy chairman of the Petroleum Council and chairman of the Riksel Committee Moritz Rabinowitz merchant active in public debate against antisemitism and Nazism before World War II Oystein Wingaard Wolf poet and authorSweden editSee also Category Swedish people of Jewish descent Olof Aschberg businessman and banker Robert Aschberg journalist media executive TV personality Amalia Assur first female dentist in Sweden Lovisa Augusti opera singer Jean Pierre Barda musician Mathilda Berwald nee Cohn musician Sharon Bezaly flute soloist Jerzy Einhorn pathologist and politician Herbert Felix entrepreneur Josef Frank architect and designer Isaac Grunewald artist Lars Gustafsson writer and scholar Johan Harmenberg epee fencer Olympic fencing medalist 1 Eli Heckscher economist Aaron Isaac businessman from Swedish Pomerania pioneer in the history of Sweden s Jewish population Erland Josephson actor and writer Ernst Josephson painter Ragnar Josephson writer and art historian Anne Kalmering singer Mirjam Katzin academic Joel Kinnaman actor George Klein pathologist and writer Oskar Klein physicist Oscar Levertin poet and literary historian Jacob Marcus businessman pioneer in the history of Sweden s Jewish population Rudolf Meidner economist Hanna Pauli painter Dominika Peczynski musician Alexandra Rapaport actress Marcel Riesz mathematician 9 Goran Rosenberg journalist Bo Rothstein political scientist Nelly Sachs poet Nobel Prize 1966 10 Jerzy Sarnecki criminologist Harry Schein writer and culture personality Leif Silbersky lawyer and author Sara Sommerfeld actress Ute Steyer Sweden s first female rabbi Mauritz Stiller director 11 Marcus Storch industrialist 12 Anna Warburg 1881 1967 educator Peter Weiss dramatist and writerReferences edit a b c Jews in Sports Jewish Olympic Medalists 1896 Present Jewish Virtual 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