List of Polish Jews

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 [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Poland.html] ), 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.

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) [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1978/begin-bio.html Menachem Begin - Biography ] ]
* David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), Israeli prime minister (born in Poland) [ [http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/History/FormerPrimeMinister/bengur.htm David Ben-Gurion The First Prime Minister ] ]
* Jakub Berman (1901-1984), Polish communist, Secretary of PUWP (Polish United Workers' Party)
* Czeslaw Bielecki (b. 1948), Polish politician and architect [ [http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2005/poland.htm Antisemitism And Racism ] ]
* Marek Borowski (b. 1946), Polish politician, a speaker of the Sejm
* Sala Burton (1925-1987), American politician [ [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burton.html#R9M0IRBIH The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Burton ] ]
* Yohanan Cohen (b. 1917), Israeli politician
* Adam Czerniaków (1880-1942), Polish politician
* Herman Diamand (1860-1931), Polish politician
* Ludwik Dorn (b. 1954), Polish politician, a speaker of the Sejm [ [http://www.przekroj.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=427&Itemid=50 PRZEKRÓJ - Trzeci Kaczyński ] ]
* 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), Anti-Defamation League official
* Bronisław Geremek (1932-2008), Polish foreign affairs minister
* Abba Hushi (1898-1969), Israeli politician
* Julian Klaczko (1825-1906), Polish politician [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08665a.htm CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Julian Klaczko ] ]
* Herman Lieberman (1870-1941), Polish politician
* Stefan Meller, (1942-2008), Polish foreign affairs minister
* Hilary Minc (1905-1974), Polish politician, an economist and minister
* Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888-1960), British politician [http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0834786.html]
* Shimon Peres (b. 1923), Israeli prime minister and president, Nobel Prize laureate (1994) [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/peres-bio.html Shimon Peres - Biography ] ]
* 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 politician
* Arthur Ruppin (1876-1943), Zionist thinker and politician
* Moses Schorr (1874-1941), Polish polititian and historian
* Yitzhak Shamir (b. 1915), Israeli prime minister (born in Poland) [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067108/Yitzhak-Shamir Yitzhak Shamir - Britannica Online Encyclopedia ] ]
* Stanisław Stroński (1882-1955), Polish politician [ [http://www.lib.umd.edu/SLSES/donors/autobio.html Notes for an Autobiography ] ] (of Jewish descent)
* Eugeniusz Szyr (1915-2000), deputy prime minister
* Samuel A. Weiss (1902-1977), American politician [ [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/R9M0JGXLK Looking for The Political Graveyard? ] ]
* Shevah Weiss (b. 1935), Israeli politician, a speaker of the Knesset
* Szmul Zygielbojm (1895-1943), Polish Bund leader

oldiers 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
* Mieczyslaw Norwid-Neugebauer (1884–1954), General of the Polish Army
* Sir John Monash Australian military commander (father from Krotoszyn)
* 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

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 [ [http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=7381 Canadian Jewish News] : "was born in 1898 near Łódź , into a traditional Jewish family" Accessed 10 November 2006.]
* Gaspar da Gama (1444-ca.1510), traveller, interpreter [ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/GaspardaGama.html Gaspar da Gama ] ]
* Mieczysław Grydzewski (1894-1970), journalist, editor
* Gideon Hausner (1915-1990), Israeli jurist
* Emil Haecker (1875-1934), journalist, editor
* Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, British judge, [ [http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol8/No2/art6.html#P4_35 Tributes to Sir Hersch Lauterpacht ] ]
* Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), human rights lawyer
* Rosa Luxemburg (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

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 [Concise Dictionary of National Biography: born in Poland of Jewish parents]
* Jacob Frank (1726-1791), Jewish messianic claimant who combined Judaism and Christianity
* Christian David Ginsburg (1831-1914), Hebraist, converted to Christianity [(British Dictionary of National Biography)]
* 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 [ [http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/HART%2C_AARON_%28Jewish_Encyclopedia%29 Jewish Encyclopedia] ]
* Isaac Hellmuth, convert to Christianity [http://communications.uwo.ca/anniversary/historic_story.html?listing_id=6614]
* Ridley Haim Herschell, missionary [Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Prussian Poland of Jewish parents"]
* 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 [http://www.znak.com.pl/eurodialog/ed/2/weksler.html.po]
* Israel Zolli (1881-1956), Chief Rabbi of Rome, converted to Christianity

Academics

cientists

* 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) [http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/rsolecki/roald_hoffmann.html]
* Leonid Hurwicz, the 2007 Noble Prize in Economics
* Leopold Infeld, physicist
* Mark Kac, mathematician
* Hilary Koprowski, immunologist
* Abraham Lempel, computer scientist: LZW compression
* Adolf Lindenbaum, logician
* Henryk Makower, microbiologist [ [http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Makower Henryk Makower] ]
* Benoît Mandelbrot, mathematician: fractals
* Szolem Mandelbrojt, mathematician
* Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist, [ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html] [http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/ph/sci/aam.htm Polish] ] Nobel Prize in Physics (1907)
* Herman Müntz, mathematician
* Jakub Natanson, chemist
* Emil Leon Post, mathematician
* Mojzesz Presburger, logician
* Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist, Nobel prize (1944)
* Tadeus Reichstein, chemist, Nobel Prize (1950)
* Moshe Ron, materials scientist
* Stanisław 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.
* Alfred Tarski, mathematician, logician
* Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician

ocial 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
* Abraham Low, neuropsychiatrist
* Paul Radin, anthropologist
* Milton Rokeach, psychologist
* Manfred Sakel, neurophysiologist & psychiatrist
* Adam Schaff, philosopher
* Avraham Stern, famous Zionist
* Paweł Śpiewak, sociologist, politician
* Shemaryahu Talmon, Bible scholar
* Michel Thomas, language teacher
* Ludwik Zamenhof, ophthalmologist and inventor of Esperanto

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
* Norman Finkelstein, historian
* Jan T. Gross, American sociologist
* Marceli Handelsman, Polish historian
* Leopold Łabędź, British historian
* Rafał Mahler, historian
* Marian Malowist, historian
* Lewis Namier, British historian
* Richard Pipes, American historian
* Emanuel Ringelblum, Jewish historian
* Jacob Talmon, Israeli historian [Encyclopaedia Judaica, art, "Talmon, Jacob"]
* Adam Ulam, American historian

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, composerFact|date=March 2007
* Mayer Kirshenblatt (b. 1916), artist [ Kirshenblatt, Mayer and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. They called me Mayer July: Painted memories of a Jewish childhood in Poland before the Holocaust. University of California Press. Los Angeles:2007.]
* 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
* Roland Topor, illustrator, painter
* Max Weber, painter
* Esther Wertheimer, sculptor
* Samuel Willenberg, sculptor (Jewish father)
* Alfred Wolmark, painter [Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents in Warsaw"]
* Samuel Yellin, sculptor

Musicians

* Emanuel Ax, pianist
* Nelly Ben-Or, pianist
* Leonard & Phil Chess, founders of Chess Records
* Emanuel Feuermann, cellist
* Grzegorz Fitelberg, composer
* Ignaz Friedman, pianist
* Bronislav Gimpel, violinist
* Szymon Goldberg, violinist/conductor
* Ida Haendel, violinist
* Sir George Henschel, musician [British Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born at Breslau of Polish-Jewish parentage"]
* Mieczysław Horszowski, pianist
* Bronislaw Huberman, violinist
* Jan Kiepura, singer [ [http://www.imagemogul.com/im/ae0020c.html review of the Audio Encyclopedia, Stars of David] "This disc contains over 600 complete recordings of almost 200 singers of Jewish heritage" including Jan Kiepura; accessed 16 November 2006. [http://www.patriamusic.com/review/nyt_2005.php The New York Times, August 10, 2005] The Kiepuras' European ascendancy was cut short by the rise of the Nazis; both had Jewish mothers." Accessed 16 November 2006.] (Jewish mother)
* Józef Koffler, classic composer, music teacher, music columnist
* 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
* Eddie Rosner, jazz bandleader, trumpeter
* Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
* Heinrich Schenker, music theorist
* Artur Schnabel, pianist
* Henryk Szeryng, violinist [ [http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/henryk_szeryng Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie ] ]
* 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 [ [http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/henryk_wars Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie ] ]
* Mieczyslaw Weinberg, composer
* Geddy Lee, Canadian born son of Polish Jewish holocaust survivors. Bass player, singer, keyboard player, composer for the Canadian progressive rock trio Rush.
* Henryk Wieniawski, violinist, composer

creen 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
* Scarlett Johansson, actress
* Ida Kaminska, actress
* Boris Kaufman, cinematographer
* Mikhail Kaufman, cinematographer
* Harvey Keitel, actor
* Roman Polański, film director (born Catholic from maternal grandmother)
* Marie Rambert, ballet dancer [ [http://www.musikinesis.com/October06%20article.htm] : "She was Jewish" Accessed 9 February 2007]
* Lew Rywin, film producer
* Piotr Skrzynecki, cabaret director (Jewish mother) [ [http://www.teatry.art.pl/!osobistosci/skrzynecki.htm Piotr Skrzynecki ] ]
* Dziga Vertov, film director [ [http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/3.4.04/cinema.html Jewish Film Festival ] ]
* Harry, Sam & Albert Warner, film producers

Writers and poets

Polish-language

* Alicia Appleman-Jurman, writer
* Eli Barbur, writer
* Roman Brandstaetter, writer, poet [ [http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/roman_brandstaetter Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie ] ]
* Kazimierz Brandys, writer [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9016225 Kazimierz Brandys - Britannica Online Encyclopedia ] ]
* Jan Brzechwa, poet
* Ida Fink, writer of short stories
* Konstanty Gebert, writer, activist (Jewish mother)
* Zuzanna Ginczanka, poet
* Henryk Grynberg, writer
* Marian Hemar, poet
* Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, writer
* Bruno Jasieński, poet [Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Jasienski, Bruno] (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) ["Jewish Chronicle", Obituary, 18 May 2006: "Born in Lvov to a wealthy Jewish doctor father"]
* Bolesław Leśmian, poet
* Teodor Parnicki, writer (Jewish mother) [ [http://www.republika.pl/kkozuchow/list_tp_jg.html List Teodora Parnickiego do Jerzego Giedroycia ] ]
* Artur Sandauer, writer, literature critic, and publicist
* Bruno Schulz, prose writer
* Antoni Słonimski, writer
* Arnold Słucki, poet, publicist, soldier of Red Army, member of communist party,
* Anatol Stern, poet [Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Stern, Anatol]
* Julian Stryjkowski, novelist
* Julian Tuwim, poet, song lyrics
* Leopold Tyrmand, writer [ [http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/frum031903.asp David Frum on National Review Online ] ]
* Aleksander Wat, poet [Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast]
* Bronisław Wildstein, journalist (Jewish father)
* Józef Wittlin, poet [ [http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/jozef_wittlin Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie ] ]
* Stanislaw Wygodzki, writer

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 [http://www.cjh.org/education/essays.php?action=show&id=15]

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

Other languages

* Lisa Appignanesi, English writer
* Louis Begley, American writer
* Maurice Frydman, Indian translator
* Marek Halter, French writer
* Eva Hoffman, American 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

Business figures

* Majer Bersohn, banker, philanthropist [ [http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/majer_bersohn Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie ] ]
* Henry & Helal Hassenfeld, founders of Hasbro
* Leopold Kronenberg, banker [ [http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/leopold_kronenberg Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie ] ]
* Maurycy Orgelbrand, editor [ [http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/maurycy_orgelbrand Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie ] ]
* Samuel Orgelbrand, editor [ [http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/samuel_orgelbrand Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie ] ]
* Louis Pozez, co-founder Payless Shoesource
* 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 [ [http://www.diapozytyw.pl/pl/site/ludzie/szmul_zbytkower Dia-Pozytyw: Ludzie Sylwetki Biografie ] ]

port figures

Chess players

* Izak Aloni
* Izaak Appel
* Arnold Aurbach
* Abram Blass
* 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 [ [http://profiles.incredible-people.com/dawid-janowski/ » Dawid Janowski Biography - World Famous Biographies - Biographies of famous people : Famous People biography ] ]
* Max Judd
* Bernhard Kagan
* Hermann Keidanski
* Stanisław Kohn
* Jakub Kolski
* Abraham Kupchik
* Salo Landau
* Edward Lasker
* Paul Saladin Leonhardt
* 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 [Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Chess"]
* Jean Taubenhaus [ [http://jewprom.50webs.com/JewPromSite_files/sheet064.htm JewProm ] ]
* Szymon Winawer
* Daniel Yanofsky
* Johannes Zukertort

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) [ [http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm] Jewish Sports]

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 Wolińska-Brus, former Stalinist military prosecutor from Poland, court criminal

Fictional figures

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

ee also

*History of the Jews in Poland
*List of Jews
*List of Poles
*List of Galician Jews
*Personalities from Galicia (modern period)

References

Footnotes