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The following is a list of notable Jews who are or were natives of the ], ], ], ] or ].


== Music ==
There was a large and thriving community of ], both religious and secular, in ] before ]. Many perished after the ]. Today, nearly all of the survivors inter-married and assimilated into the Czech and Slovak society.
*] (1908 - 1973) conductor, respected for his performances of contemporary music and particularly cherished for his interpretations of music by Czech composers<ref> "Post-war Jewish immigration has related less to persecution than to professional appointments or opportunities (eg, Karel Ančerl" Accessed 23 October 2006.</ref>

*] (1919 - 1995) opera singer and composer<ref> lists Berman as among the Jews sent there; Accessed 3 November 2006<br>: "Czech opera star Karel Berman" Accessed 3 November 2006</ref>
== Academics ==
* ], composer and pianist <ref>Jewish: "Contemporary Review, June, 1999 by Anthony Paterson" "the Nazi ban on his compositions - he was Jewish" Accessed 6 Nov 2006.<br>born Moravia: "Composers of Classical Music" "Brull, Ignaz 1846-1907 Moravia, Prossnitz - Austria, Vienna" Accessed 6 November 2006.</ref>
* ], Czech born Israeli historian of the Holocaust <ref> Accessed 9 Feb 2006</ref>
* ], inventor <ref>Review of his book, "The Cosmic Book: On the Mechanics of Creation" calls him "a Jewish scientist and inventor, who was born in Prague". Accessed 20 Oct 2006</ref> * ] (1852-1924) pianist & composer<ref>; "born at Prague" Accessed 28 Nov 2006.</ref>
*] (1899 - 1944) composer<ref>"Classical Composers Database" "Born: 21 June 1899, Brno (Czechoslovakia) ... Being Jewish, at the time of the Nazi invasion he divorced his Christian wife to save his family" Accessed 6 Nov 2006.</ref>
*] (1896 - 1957) biochemist<ref></ref>
*] (1825-1904) music critic<ref>Avins, Styra "Brahms and the German Spirit (review)" Music and Letters - Volume 87, Number 1, 2006, pp. 136-141 online at or
* ], chemist <ref>: "Birthplace: Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia ... Religion: Jewish" accessed 8 Feb 2007</ref>
"three other Jews, Julius Epstein, Anton Door, and Eduard Hanslick"
*] (1920 - 1991) self-taught philosopher<ref> "Vilém Flusser was born on the 12th of May 1920 in Prague into a family of Jewish intellectuals"</ref>
(Needs subscription, but found with this search: Accessed 6 Nov 2006.)<br>
* ] (1925 - 1995) philosopher and social anthropologist <ref>Obituary, by John Davis, Warden of All Souls College , "Ernest Gellner, who has died a few days short of his 70th birthday, was brought up in Prague, in an urban intellectual Jewish family." Accessed 10 Nov 2006.</ref>
Born in Prague: Accessed 6 Nov 2006.</ref>
* ] (1854-1923) philosopher and psychologist<ref>Memoir by his son "there were also two other Jewish teachers at the Gymnasium school apart from my father" (He and his brother) "were born in the small village of Drenice in Bohemia". Both accessed 29 Nov 2006.</ref>
*] (1919 - 1945) composer of classical music<ref> "The life and work of the Czech Jewish composers Gideon Klein and Egon Ledeč" Accessed 10 Nov 2006.</ref><ref> "The Gideon Klein Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by Eliška Kleinová, Gideon Klein’s sister" Accessed 15 Jun 2007.</ref>
* ], philosopher <ref>(] 2005 p215, in List of Jewish Fellows of the British Academy; born Czechoslovakia; see ])</ref>
*] (1912 - 1999) pianist, music educator, and was the sister of ]
* ], Czechoslovakian mediaevalist. (Encyclopedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".)
* ], composer <ref>: "he got thrown out of Vienna because he was Jewish" Jessica Duchen, author of E. Korngold's biography); : "BRNO, where the composer was born"; accessed 6 Feb 2007.</ref>
*] (1906 - 1995) mathematician<ref> "Political tensions arose around this time, and like many other Jewish intellectuals, she left Germany"</ref>
*] (1899 - 1944) composer<ref> "Krása, who was Jewish" Accessed 23 November 2006<br> "Krása was a gifted Czech composer" Accessed 23 November 2006</ref>
* ] (1924-2006) pharmacologist<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,1752845,00.html</ref>
*] (1889 - 1944) composer of classical music<ref> "The life and work of the Czech Jewish composers Gideon Klein and Egon Ledeč" Accessed 10 Nov 2006.</ref>
* ] (1860-1911), composer and conductor, Czech-born<ref> "Mahler's Jewish faith stood in the way of his career goal" Accessed 28 Nov 2006.<br> "Czech-born Austrian composer and conductor" Accessed 28 Nov 2006.</ref>
*] (1794 - 1870) composer and piano virtuoso<ref>Art. on Moscheles in "Czech pianist, one of the outstanding virtuosos of his era"; Art. on Moscheles in "Prague -born Jewish virtuoso Ignaz Moscheles" Both accessed 29 Nov 2006.</ref>
*] (1927 - ) contemporary harpsichordist, interpret of classical and baroque music<ref> "She was born in Pilsen in 1927 into an upper class Jewish family"; "France honours Czech harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova" Both accessed 29 Nov 2006.</ref>
*] (1894 - 1942) composer and pianist<ref>], "Erwin Schulhoff, a Czech Jew executed by the Nazis..." Accessed 8 Dec 2006.</ref>
*] (1825 - 1898) pianist and composer <ref>], 2nd ed., art. "Schulhoff, Julius": "Born in Prague"</ref>
*] (1913 - 1980) conductor<ref> "The distinguished Czech-born English conductor" "Walter Susskind, a German Jew" Both accessed 4 Jan 2007</ref>
*] (1898 - 1944) composer, conductor and pianist<ref> "Raised a German-Czech until a 1909 move to Austria" "Viktor Ullmann, composer, pianist, choirmaster, conductor and music critic, was one of the victims from among the Prague German Jewish musicians in World War II."</ref>
*] (1896 - 1967) composer<ref> noted as one of "Jews prominent in music"</ref>


==Arts/Entertainment== ==Arts/Entertainment==
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*] (1899 - 2000) actor <ref>], 2nd ed, art. "Lederer, Francis": "Czech actor"</ref> *] (1899 - 2000) actor <ref>], 2nd ed, art. "Lederer, Francis": "Czech actor"</ref>
*] (1871 - 1940) sculptor <ref>: he is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Znojmo, Czech Republic; accessed 18 May 2007</ref> *] (1871 - 1940) sculptor <ref>: he is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Znojmo, Czech Republic; accessed 18 May 2007</ref>
*] (1917 - ) international film actor<ref>According to the ], CD-ROM ed, art. Lom, Herbert.</ref>
*] (1923 -) media mogul<ref></ref>
*] (1870 - 1932) painter<ref> "important Jewish graphic artist and painter, Emil Orlik"</ref> *] (1870 - 1932) painter<ref> "important Jewish graphic artist and painter, Emil Orlik"</ref>
*] (1917 - 1976) stage director<ref> described Radok as "half Jewish"</ref> *] (1917 - 1976) stage director<ref> described Radok as "half Jewish"</ref>
*] (1926 - 2002) director, became one of the most important film-makers in post war Britain<ref> "Reisz arrived in Britain in 1939 as one of more than 600 Jewish children, who escaped the horrific fate of their parents thanks to Sir Nicholas Winton, who arranged for them to escape Czechoslovakia"</ref> *] (1926 - 2002) director, became one of the most important film-makers in post war Britain<ref> "Reisz arrived in Britain in 1939 as one of more than 600 Jewish children, who escaped the horrific fate of their parents thanks to Sir Nicholas Winton, who arranged for them to escape Czechoslovakia"</ref>
*], (1946- ) film director (born in Slovakia)<ref></ref>
*] (1935 - ) art photographer<ref> "in spite of the fact that due to his wartime experience as an enduring Jewish child"</ref> *] (1935 - ) art photographer<ref> "in spite of the fact that due to his wartime experience as an enduring Jewish child"</ref>
*] (1894 - 1980) artist<ref> noted in an essay on "Jewish artists"</ref> *] (1894 - 1980) artist<ref> noted in an essay on "Jewish artists"</ref>

== Music ==
*] (1908 - 1973) conductor, respected for his performances of contemporary music and particularly cherished for his interpretations of music by Czech composers<ref> "Post-war Jewish immigration has related less to persecution than to professional appointments or opportunities (eg, Karel Ančerl" Accessed 23 October 2006.</ref>
*] (1919 - 1995) opera singer and composer<ref> lists Berman as among the Jews sent there; Accessed 3 November 2006<br>: "Czech opera star Karel Berman" Accessed 3 November 2006</ref>
*] (1899 - 1944) composer<ref>"Classical Composers Database" "Born: 21 June 1899, Brno (Czechoslovakia) ... Being Jewish, at the time of the Nazi invasion he divorced his Christian wife to save his family" Accessed 6 Nov 2006.</ref>
*] (1919 - 1945) composer of classical music<ref> "The life and work of the Czech Jewish composers Gideon Klein and Egon Ledeč" Accessed 10 Nov 2006.</ref><ref> "The Gideon Klein Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by Eliška Kleinová, Gideon Klein’s sister" Accessed 15 Jun 2007.</ref>
*] (1912 - 1999) pianist, music educator, and was the sister of ]
*] (1899 - 1944) composer<ref> "Krása, who was Jewish" Accessed 23 November 2006<br> "Krása was a gifted Czech composer" Accessed 23 November 2006</ref>
*] (1889 - 1944) composer of classical music<ref> "The life and work of the Czech Jewish composers Gideon Klein and Egon Ledeč" Accessed 10 Nov 2006.</ref>
*] (1927 - ) contemporary harpsichordist, interpret of classical and baroque music<ref> "She was born in Pilsen in 1927 into an upper class Jewish family"; "France honours Czech harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova" Both accessed 29 Nov 2006.</ref>
*] (1896 - 1967) composer<ref> noted as one of "Jews prominent in music"</ref>


==Politicians== ==Politicians==
* ] (1852-1918) socialist politician, born Prague
*] (1937 - ) served as the 64th United States Secretary of State<ref> "When born Jews like Madeleine Albright leave Judaism to participate in new secular religions a la Karl Marx with Marxism" "The Washington Post reported Feb. 4 that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's parents were Jewish converts to Catholicism and that her grandparents died in the Holocaust."</ref> *] (1937 - ) served as the 64th United States Secretary of State<ref> "When born Jews like Madeleine Albright leave Judaism to participate in new secular religions a la Karl Marx with Marxism" "The Washington Post reported Feb. 4 that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's parents were Jewish converts to Catholicism and that her grandparents died in the Holocaust."</ref>
* ], politician <ref> Accessed 8 Feb 2007.</ref>
*] (1915 - 1986) communist politician and co-defendant in the ]. He was born in Ostrava, Moravia, Austria-Hungary<ref> "The film tells the story of Artur London, a Czech Jewish communist who survived Nazi concentration camps"</ref> *] (1915 - 1986) communist politician and co-defendant in the ]. He was born in Ostrava, Moravia, Austria-Hungary<ref> "The film tells the story of Artur London, a Czech Jewish communist who survived Nazi concentration camps"</ref>
*] (1901 - 1952) Communist politician and the party's ] after World War II. Later he fell into disfavour with the regime and was executed after a show trial<ref> "The Czech Jewish party leader Rudolf Slansky"</ref> *] (1901 - 1952) Communist politician and the party's ] after World War II. Later he fell into disfavour with the regime and was executed after a show trial<ref> "The Czech Jewish party leader Rudolf Slansky"</ref>
*] Diplomat, politician and author. He was appointed to serve as the Ambassador to Israel in July 2003.<ref> Michael Zantovsky, a leading Czech political figure who is of Jewish background"; Accessed 5 Feb 2007</ref> *] Diplomat, politician and author. He was appointed to serve as the Ambassador to Israel in July 2003.<ref> Michael Zantovsky, a leading Czech political figure who is of Jewish background"; Accessed 5 Feb 2007</ref>

==Writers==
* ] (1813-?), journalist & politician <ref>, "born at Prague"; accessed 3 Dec 2006.</ref>
* ] (1814-1878) Hebraist and journalist; born Bohemia<ref>British Concise ]</ref>
* ], journalist <ref>], 2nd ed., art. "Blowitz, Henri</ref>
*] (1884 - 1968) author, composer, and journalist<ref> "Czech-born, German-language novelist" "Brod was a Czech Jew, or more precisely a Prague Jew, and a member of the famous Prager Kreis-that is to say, a Jew inhabiting a special cultural enclave"</ref>
*] (1912 - 2006) writer<ref></ref>
*] (1908 - 1973) writer<ref>http://www.traktor.cz/twisted/hostovsky.html</ref>
*] (1883 - 1924) one of the major German-language novelists and short story writers of the 20th century, whose unique body of writing has become iconic in Western literature<ref> "Czech writer" "As a Jew Kafka was isolated from the German community in Prague"</ref>
*] (1821 - 1879) writer<ref></ref>
*] (1931 - ) novelist, playwright<ref> "You might say that the Czech novelist, Ivan Klima, has been the victim of the famous Chinese curse, 'may you live in interesting times'. Born in 1931 he was a boy when Czech independence was in effect handed over to Nazi Germany in 1938. As a Jew he and his family were interned in the Terezinstadt Concentration Camp during the Second World War"</ref>
* ] (1822-1886), author<ref>, "born at Münchengrätz, Bohemia" Accessed 8 Dec 2006.</ref>
*] (1889 - 1942) writer, author of many expressionist plays<ref> "German-Jewish writers: Paul Kornfeld"</ref>
* ], writer <ref>: "Karl Kraus was born in Jicin (or Gitschin), Czechoslovakia (then a part of Austria-Hungary) into a Jewish family." Accessed 8 Feb 2007.</ref>
* ] (1821 - 1902), poet <ref>: "Jewish poets like Hieronymus Lorm (Heinrich Landesmann)"; Nikolsburg was in Moravia; accessed 17 May 2007.</ref>
*] (1926 - ) author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust<ref> "Lustig was one of the few out of fifteen thousand Jewish children"</ref>
*] (1892 - 1945) writer and journalist<ref></ref>
* ], Bibliographer and Orientalist, born Moravia<ref>]</ref>
*] (1937 - ) playwright, famous for plays such as ''The Real Thing'' and ''Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'', and for the screenplay for ''Shakespeare in Love''<ref> "At 68, he is still discovering himself. When he was a boy, his mother drew a veil over the family's past. There had been a Jewish grandmother, she said, and this was why they had to leave Czechoslovakia. Only relatively recently did he learn the full story. His whole family was Jewish. Most of his relatives had been murdered in the death camps. His father, once the house doctor at the Bata shoe factory in Zlin, had been killed in a Japanese air raid."</ref>
*] (1893 - 1929) writer of German language and an officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia<ref> "Hermann Ungar was born on April 20, 1893 to a comfortable Jewish family in the small Moravian town of Boskovice, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Formerly the Jewish ghetto, the Jewish Town of Boskovice had the unusual distinction of having been established as its own municipality in 1848 (one of only two such instances, this status lasted until 1919) after the Habsburg's emancipation of the Jews in the Czech Lands... Ungar grew up speaking German and Czech..."</ref>
*] (1900 - 1959) writer whose works include the two novels ''Life with a Star'' (''Život s hvězdou'') and ''Mendelssohn is on the Roof''<ref> "Jiri Weil, a Czech Jewish writer"</ref>
* ] (1890-1945); Czech-born<ref></ref> writer; later moved to Austria and then the USA

== Scientists and mathematicians ==
* ], inventor <ref>Review of his book, "The Cosmic Book: On the Mechanics of Creation" calls him "a Jewish scientist and inventor, who was born in Prague". Accessed 20 Oct 2006</ref>
*] (1896 - 1957) biochemist<ref></ref>
* ], chemist <ref>: "Birthplace: Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia ... Religion: Jewish" accessed 8 Feb 2007</ref>
* ] (1925 - 1995) philosopher and social anthropologist <ref>Obituary, by John Davis, Warden of All Souls College , "Ernest Gellner, who has died a few days short of his 70th birthday, was brought up in Prague, in an urban intellectual Jewish family." Accessed 10 Nov 2006.</ref>
* ] (1854-1923) philosopher and psychologist<ref>Memoir by his son "there were also two other Jewish teachers at the Gymnasium school apart from my father" (He and his brother) "were born in the small village of Drenice in Bohemia". Both accessed 29 Nov 2006.</ref>
* ] (1857–1944), ophthalmologist <ref>], 2nd ed., art. "Koller, Carl": "Koller, who was born in Bohemia"</ref>
*] (1906 - 1995) mathematician<ref> "Political tensions arose around this time, and like many other Jewish intellectuals, she left Germany"</ref>
* ] (1924-2006) pharmacologist<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,1752845,00.html</ref>


== Religious leaders == == Religious leaders ==
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* ], playwright, chief rabbi of ], and ]. * ], playwright, chief rabbi of ], and ].


==Writers== == Academics ==
* ], Czech born Israeli historian of the Holocaust <ref> Accessed 9 Feb 2006</ref>
*] (1912 - 2006) writer<ref></ref>
* ], philosopher <ref>; ; both accessed 11 March 2007</ref>
*] (1908 - 1973) writer<ref>http://www.traktor.cz/twisted/hostovsky.html</ref>
* ], Moravian historian (Encyclopedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".)
*] (1821 - 1879) writer<ref></ref>
*] (1920 - 1991) self-taught philosopher<ref> "Vilém Flusser was born on the 12th of May 1920 in Prague into a family of Jewish intellectuals"</ref>
*] (1931 - ) novelist, playwright<ref> "You might say that the Czech novelist, Ivan Klima, has been the victim of the famous Chinese curse, 'may you live in interesting times'. Born in 1931 he was a boy when Czech independence was in effect handed over to Nazi Germany in 1938. As a Jew he and his family were interned in the Terezinstadt Concentration Camp during the Second World War"</ref>
* ] (1856-1939) born in Pribor (Freiberg) in Moravia, founder of psychoanalysis.
* ] (1822-1886), author<ref>, "born at Münchengrätz, Bohemia" Accessed 8 Dec 2006.</ref>
* ], Moravian historian and politician. (Encyclopedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".)
*] (1926 - ) author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust<ref> "Lustig was one of the few out of fifteen thousand Jewish children"</ref>
* ], Czech-born French-Israeli historian of the Holocaust. (Encyclopedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".)
*] (1892 - 1945) writer and journalist<ref></ref>
* ]<ref>] "Theodor Gomperz and his wife belonged to the Jewish aristocracy in Vienna. They were married in 1869 in the Seitenstetten Synagogue" Accessed 23 Nov 2006; born Brno (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., art. Gomperz, Theodor]]</ref> Philosopher and classical scholar
*] (1937 - ) playwright, famous for plays such as ''The Real Thing'' and ''Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'', and for the screenplay for ''Shakespeare in Love''<ref> "At 68, he is still discovering himself. When he was a boy, his mother drew a veil over the family's past. There had been a Jewish grandmother, she said, and this was why they had to leave Czechoslovakia. Only relatively recently did he learn the full story. His whole family was Jewish. Most of his relatives had been murdered in the death camps. His father, once the house doctor at the Bata shoe factory in Zlin, had been killed in a Japanese air raid."</ref>
* ] <ref> </ref>, founder of the phenomenological movement
*] (1900 - 1959) writer whose works include the two novels ''Life with a Star'' (''Život s hvězdou'') and ''Mendelssohn is on the Roof''<ref> "Jiri Weil, a Czech Jewish writer"</ref>
* ] (1877-1942), founder of ]<ref>Biography of Ernest Koliqi, : "Norbert Jokl (1877-1942), the renowned Austrian Albanologist of Jewish origin"; : "Norbert Jokl was born in Bzenec (then Bisenz), Southern Moravia, now the Czech Republic". Both accessed 8 Dec 2006.</ref>
* ], philosopher <ref>(] 2005 p215, in List of Jewish Fellows of the British Academy; born Czechoslovakia; see ])</ref>
* ] (1882 - 1939), economist <ref>; : "Bohemian-born Emil Lederer"; both accessed 17 May 2007</ref>
* ], Czechoslovakian mediaevalist. (Encyclopedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".)
* ], one of the founders of Gestalt psychology, born in Prague.


== Other == == Other ==
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*] (1908 - 1983) leading chess master of the early 20th century<ref> "Since his family was Jewish, they were in great danger"</ref> *] (1908 - 1983) leading chess master of the early 20th century<ref> "Since his family was Jewish, they were in great danger"</ref>
*] (1928 - 1944) young boy who was deported to the Terezín concentration camp during the Holocaust<ref> "Recalling the diaries of another teenage victim of the Holocaust, Anne Frank, they reveal a budding Czech literary and artistic genius whose life was cut short by the Nazis... Moon Landscape connects the dream of one Jewish boy who is a symbol of the talent lost in the Holocaust"</ref> *] (1928 - 1944) young boy who was deported to the Terezín concentration camp during the Holocaust<ref> "Recalling the diaries of another teenage victim of the Holocaust, Anne Frank, they reveal a budding Czech literary and artistic genius whose life was cut short by the Nazis... Moon Landscape connects the dream of one Jewish boy who is a symbol of the talent lost in the Holocaust"</ref>
* ] (1925 - 1995) philosopher and social anthropologist<ref>Obituary by Tom Nairn, colleague at LSE "Gellner's Czech-Jewish family came from the Sudeten or German- speaking region of Bohemia." Accessed 14 november 2006.</ref>
* ], (1759-1849) merchant <ref> "born June 10, 1759, at Prostiebor, near Kladrau, in the district of Pilsen, Bohemia" accessed 8 Feb 2007</ref>
* ] (1930-), businessman<ref> "Czechoslavakian-born Lowy"<br> "In Forbes magazine's second annual Top 10 rich list for Australia and New Zealand, four Jewish businessmen feature prominently. Frank Lowy (second), Richard Pratt (Third), John Gandel (sixth) and Harry Triguboff (eighth) all had reported wealth of over $1 billion; both accessed 3 Dec 2006.</ref> * ] (1930-), businessman<ref> "Czechoslavakian-born Lowy"<br> "In Forbes magazine's second annual Top 10 rich list for Australia and New Zealand, four Jewish businessmen feature prominently. Frank Lowy (second), Richard Pratt (Third), John Gandel (sixth) and Harry Triguboff (eighth) all had reported wealth of over $1 billion; both accessed 3 Dec 2006.</ref>
*] (1889 - 1929) chess grandmaster<ref></ref> *] (1889 - 1929) chess grandmaster<ref></ref>
*] (1836 - 1900) first World Chess Champion<ref></ref>


==See also== ==See also==

Revision as of 12:13, 3 August 2007

Template:JewsByCountry The following is a list of notable Jews who are or were natives of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia, Bohemia or Moravia.

Music

Arts/Entertainment

Politicians

Writers

  • Raphael Basch (1813-?), journalist & politician
  • Abraham Benisch (1814-1878) Hebraist and journalist; born Bohemia
  • Henri Blowitz, journalist
  • Max Brod (1884 - 1968) author, composer, and journalist
  • Avigdor Dagan (1912 - 2006) writer
  • Egon Hostovsky (1908 - 1973) writer
  • Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) one of the major German-language novelists and short story writers of the 20th century, whose unique body of writing has become iconic in Western literature
  • Siegfried Kapper (1821 - 1879) writer
  • Ivan Klíma (1931 - ) novelist, playwright
  • Leopold Kompert (1822-1886), author
  • Paul Kornfeld (1889 - 1942) writer, author of many expressionist plays
  • Karl Kraus, writer
  • Heinrich Landesmann (1821 - 1902), poet
  • Arnošt Lustig (1926 - ) author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust
  • Karel Poláček (1892 - 1945) writer and journalist
  • Moritz Steinschneider, Bibliographer and Orientalist, born Moravia
  • Tom Stoppard (1937 - ) playwright, famous for plays such as The Real Thing and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and for the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love
  • Hermann Ungar (1893 - 1929) writer of German language and an officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia
  • Jiří Weil (1900 - 1959) writer whose works include the two novels Life with a Star (Život s hvězdou) and Mendelssohn is on the Roof
  • Franz Werfel (1890-1945); Czech-born writer; later moved to Austria and then the USA

Scientists and mathematicians

Religious leaders

Academics

  • Yehuda Bauer, Czech born Israeli historian of the Holocaust
  • Samuel Bergman, philosopher
  • Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historian (Encyclopedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".)
  • Vilém Flusser (1920 - 1991) self-taught philosopher
  • Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) born in Pribor (Freiberg) in Moravia, founder of psychoanalysis.
  • Heinrich Friedjung, Moravian historian and politician. (Encyclopedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".)
  • Saul Friedländer, Czech-born French-Israeli historian of the Holocaust. (Encyclopedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".)
  • Theodor Gomperz Philosopher and classical scholar
  • Edmund Husserl , founder of the phenomenological movement
  • Norbert Jokl (1877-1942), founder of Albanology
  • Stephan Korner, philosopher
  • Emil Lederer (1882 - 1939), economist
  • Samuel Steinherz, Czechoslovakian mediaevalist. (Encyclopedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".)
  • Max Wertheimer, one of the founders of Gestalt psychology, born in Prague.

Other

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. Canadian Encyclopedia, art. Jewish music and musicians "Post-war Jewish immigration has related less to persecution than to professional appointments or opportunities (eg, Karel Ančerl" Accessed 23 October 2006.
  2. The concentration camp for Jews - the Terezín Ghetto lists Berman as among the Jews sent there; Accessed 3 November 2006
    Jewish Theological Seminary: "Czech opera star Karel Berman" Accessed 3 November 2006
  3. Jewish: "Contemporary Review, June, 1999 by Anthony Paterson" "the Nazi ban on his compositions - he was Jewish" Accessed 6 Nov 2006.
    born Moravia: "Composers of Classical Music" "Brull, Ignaz 1846-1907 Moravia, Prossnitz - Austria, Vienna" Accessed 6 November 2006.
  4. Jewish Encyclopedia; "born at Prague" Accessed 28 Nov 2006.
  5. "Classical Composers Database" "Born: 21 June 1899, Brno (Czechoslovakia) ... Being Jewish, at the time of the Nazi invasion he divorced his Christian wife to save his family" Accessed 6 Nov 2006.
  6. Avins, Styra "Brahms and the German Spirit (review)" Music and Letters - Volume 87, Number 1, 2006, pp. 136-141 online at or "three other Jews, Julius Epstein, Anton Door, and Eduard Hanslick" (Needs subscription, but found with this search: Accessed 6 Nov 2006.)
    Born in Prague: Encyclopaedia Britannica Accessed 6 Nov 2006.
  7. Czech Jewish Museum "The life and work of the Czech Jewish composers Gideon Klein and Egon Ledeč" Accessed 10 Nov 2006.
  8. The Gideon Klein Foundation "The Gideon Klein Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by Eliška Kleinová, Gideon Klein’s sister" Accessed 15 Jun 2007.
  9. Korngold Society: "he got thrown out of Vienna because he was Jewish" Jessica Duchen, author of E. Korngold's biography); Korngold Society: "BRNO, where the composer was born"; accessed 6 Feb 2007.
  10. Berkeley Repertory Theater "Krása, who was Jewish" Accessed 23 November 2006
    Minnesota Public Radio "Krása was a gifted Czech composer" Accessed 23 November 2006
  11. Czech Jewish Museum "The life and work of the Czech Jewish composers Gideon Klein and Egon Ledeč" Accessed 10 Nov 2006.
  12. IMDB database "Mahler's Jewish faith stood in the way of his career goal" Accessed 28 Nov 2006.
    Sony Essentials of Music "Czech-born Austrian composer and conductor" Accessed 28 Nov 2006.
  13. Art. on Moscheles in Encyclopaedia Britannica "Czech pianist, one of the outstanding virtuosos of his era"; Art. on Moscheles in Columbia Encyclopedia "Prague -born Jewish virtuoso Ignaz Moscheles" Both accessed 29 Nov 2006.
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  21. Web biographies that indicate Forman's father, who died in a concentration camp, was Jewish are incorrect. Neither one of his parents was Jewish. However, according to , Forman's biological father was Jewish, something he found out only after WWII: "About this time Milos received word from a woman who befriended Anna in Auschwitz. What she had to say would come as quite a shock. It seems Rudolf was in fact not Milos's father and that his real father was an architect who had worked for Anna. He too disappeared before the war but was Jewish thereby making Milos half Jewish. Milos would learn that this man was in fact alive and a professor at a university in Ecuador. They would never meet."
  22. Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed, art. "Goldflam, Arnošt": "Czech playwright, writer, director, screenwriter, and actor. Born to Holocaust survivors in Brno (Moravia)"
  23. Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed, art. "Haas, Hugo": "Czechoslovakian actor and film director"
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  32. "in spite of the fact that due to his wartime experience as an enduring Jewish child"
  33. noted in an essay on "Jewish artists"
  34. "When born Jews like Madeleine Albright leave Judaism to participate in new secular religions a la Karl Marx with Marxism" "The Washington Post reported Feb. 4 that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's parents were Jewish converts to Catholicism and that her grandparents died in the Holocaust."
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  38. Jewish News Weekly Michael Zantovsky, a leading Czech political figure who is of Jewish background"; Accessed 5 Feb 2007
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  84. "Alternating chapters tell not only of the Jewish Hana Brady's deportation..."
  85. "The Bradys were Jewish. They weren't a religious family. But Mother and Father wanted their children to know about their heritage. Once a week, while their playmates were at church, Hana and George sat with a special teacher who taught them about Jewish holidays and Jewish history."
  86. "Since his family was Jewish, they were in great danger"
  87. "Recalling the diaries of another teenage victim of the Holocaust, Anne Frank, they reveal a budding Czech literary and artistic genius whose life was cut short by the Nazis... Moon Landscape connects the dream of one Jewish boy who is a symbol of the talent lost in the Holocaust"
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    Australian Jewish Times "In Forbes magazine's second annual Top 10 rich list for Australia and New Zealand, four Jewish businessmen feature prominently. Frank Lowy (second), Richard Pratt (Third), John Gandel (sixth) and Harry Triguboff (eighth) all had reported wealth of over $1 billion; both accessed 3 Dec 2006.
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