List of Galician Jews

List of Galician Jews

This a list of Galician Jews - Jews born in Galicia or identifying themselves as Galitzianer

Religious figures

*Yosef Babad
*Josef Samuel Bloch
*Martin Buber
*Zvi Hirsch Chajes
*Elimelech of Lizhensk
*Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov)
*Jacob Frank, Jewish messianic claimant who combined Judaism and Christianity
*Ben Zion Halberstam (I)
*Chaim Halberstam
*Naftali Tzvi Halberstam, Hassidic Grant Rebbe of Bobov
*Shlomo Halberstam (I)
*Arthur Hertzberg
*Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov
*Nachman Krochmal
*Hirschel Levin, Chief Rabbi at London and Berlin
*Samuel Judah Löb Rapoport (Shir)
*Shalom Rokeach, first Rebbe of Belz (Hasidic dynasty)
*Yehoshua Rokeach, second Rebbe of Belz
*Yissachar Dov Rokeach (I), third Rebbe of Belz
*Aharon Rokeach, fourth Rebbe of Belz
*Meir Shapiro, Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva
*Dov Berish Weidenfeld
*Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome, converted to Christianity

Political figures

*Muhammad Asad, Jewish religious writer who converted to Islam, Pakistani diplomat
*Isaac Deutscher, Polish-British political activist and historian
*Abba Hushi, Israeli mayor of Haifa
*Julian Klaczko, Polish-Austrian politician
*Manfred Lachs, Polish diplomat and jurist
*Pinhas Lavon, Israeli politician
*Herman Lieberman, Polish socialist politician
*Karl Radek, Bolshevik politician
*Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish foreign affairs minister
*Shevah Weiss, Israeli speaker of the Kneset
*Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazis
*Grigory Yavlinsky, Russian politician

Academics

*Szymon Askenazy
*Herman Auerbach
*Meir Balaban
*Georges Charpak
*Sigmund Freud
*Henryk Grossman
*Roald Hoffmann
*Leopold Infeld
*Ludwig von Mises
*Richard von Mises
*Lewis Bernstein Namier
*Jakub Karol Parnas
*Isidor Isaac Rabi
*Wilhelm Reich, psychologist [http://www.orgone.org/articles/ax6bjmbt.htm]
*Jakob Rosanes
*Manfred Sakel
*Juliusz Schauder
*Hugo Steinhaus
*Adam Ulam
*Stanisław Ulam

Cultural figures

*Shmuel Yosef Agnon
*Mordecai Ardon
*Emanuel Ax
*Adolph Baller
*Salo Wittmayer Baron
*Martin Buber
*Solomon Buber
*Michael Dorfman
*Isaac Erter
*Emanuel Feuermann
*Karl Emil Franzos
*Ignaz Friedman
*Mordechai Gebirtig
*Maurycy Gottlieb
*Chaim Gross
*Marian Hemar
*Jerzy Hoffman
*Moses Horowitz
*Naftali Herz Imber
*Tadeusz Kantor
*Stanisław Jerzy Lec
*Stanisław Lem
*Andrzej Munk
*Teodor Parnicki
*Erna Rosenstein
*Henry Roth
*Joseph Roth
*Bruno Schulz
*Nissan Spivak
*Lee Strasberg
*Julian Stryjkowski
*Billy Wilder
*Samuel Yellin
*Velvel Zbarjer

Chess players

*Izak Aloni, born in Lviv
*Alexander Beliavsky, born in Lviv
*Oscar Chajes, born in Brody
*Arthur Dunkelblum, born in Cracow
*Salo Flohr, born in Horodenka
*Henryk Friedman, lived in Lviv
*Edward Gerstenfeld, born in Lviv
*Max Judd, born in Cracow
*Salo Landau, born in Bochnia
*Menachem Oren, lived in Cracow
*Leon Stolzenberg, lived in Ternopil
*Daniel Yanofsky, born in Brody

Others

* Mikhail Fridman, Russian businessman
* Gideon Hausner, Israeli jurist
* Józef Klotz, Polish footballer (soccer)
* Hersch Lauterpacht, British judge
* Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics industrialist

ee also

*History of the Jews in Poland
*History of the Jews in Ukraine
*Lists of Jews
*List of Poles
*List of Polish Jews
*List of Ukrainians

External links

* [http://www.jewishgen.org/Galicia/ Gesher Galicia ("Bridge to Galicia")]
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=30&letter=G Jewish Encyclopedia]
*Galicia (Central Europe)
*Hasidic Judaism


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