List of Czech and Slovak Jews

There was a large and thriving community of Jews, both religious and secular, in Czechoslovakia before World War II. Many perished during the Holocaust. Today, nearly all of the survivors have inter-married and assimilated into Czech and Slovak society.

Academics and scientists

=Engineering=

Itzhak Bentov, inventorReview of his book, The Cosmic Book: On the Mechanics of Creation [http://www.biblio.com/books/23440506.html Biblio.com booksellers] calls him "a Jewish scientist and inventor, who was born in Prague". Retrieved 20 October 2006. Actually born in Humenné.
Daniel Mandl (1891–1944), civil engineer, inventor, victim of the Holocaust

=Social science=

Guido Adler (1855–1941), musicologist, composer, writer, born in Ivančice (Eibenschütz), Moravia
Yehuda Bauer, Czech-born Israeli historian of the Holocaust{{Cite web |title=Yehuda Bauer, Historian of the Holocaust |url=http://www.adl.org/education/dimensions_18_1/portrait.asp ADL website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061202210719/http://www.adl.org/education/dimensions_18_1/portrait.asp |archive-date=2 December 2006 |access-date=9 February 2006 |website=Anti-Defamation League}}
Samuel Bergman, philosopher[http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/people/BIOS/bergman.html Jewish Agency for Israel] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001232125/http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/people/BIOS/bergman.html |date=1 October 2006 }}; [http://www.jewishgen.org/AustriaCzech/hugo.html The Hugo Bergmann family Papers]; both accessed 11 March 2007
Pavel Bergmann, historian, philosopher and political activist; signatory of charter 77; nephew of Hugo Bergmann
Berthold Bretholz, Moravian historianEncyclopaedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".
Vilém Flusser (1920–1991), self-taught philosopher{{cite web |url=http://www.flusserstudies.net/pag/flusser.htm |title=Flusserstudies.net |accessdate=2006-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060713161144/http://www.flusserstudies.net/pag/flusser.htm |archivedate=13 July 2006}} "Vilém Flusser was born on 12 May 1920 in Prague into a family of Jewish intellectuals"
Ernest Gellner (1925–1995), philosopher and social anthropologistObituary, by John Davis, Warden of All Souls College [http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/gellner/JDavisObit.html London School of Economics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061214230519/http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/gellner/JDavisObit.html |date=14 December 2006 }}, "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 November 2006.
Stephan Korner, philosopher(Jewish Year Book 2005 p215, in List of Jewish Fellows of the British Academy; born Czechoslovakia; see Who's Who)
Ernest Nagel, philosopher[http://www.jinfo.org/Philosophers.html List of Jewish philosophers]; born in Prague [http://www.123exp-biographies.com/t/00034390399/ Biography Research Guide] 10 March 2008
Samuel Steinherz (1857–1942), Czechoslovak mediaevalistEncyclopedia Judaica, article "Historians", list of "Prominent Jewish General Historians".

=Mathematics=

Nikolai Brashman (1796–1866), mathematician{{MacTutor Biography|id=Brashman|title=Nikolai Dmetrievich Brashman}}
David Gans (1541–1613), mathematician{{Cite web|url=https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6506-gans-david-ben-solomon-ben-seligman|title=GANS, DAVID BEN SOLOMON BEN SELIGMAN - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com|accessdate=31 March 2023}}
Joseph Kohn (1932–2023), mathematician{{cite book|last1=Cook|first1=Mariana|title=Mathematicians an outer view of the inner world|date=2009|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, N.J.|isbn=978-1400832880|page=110|edition=Online-Ausg.|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1400832888}}
Ernst Kolman (1892–1972), philosopher of mathematics{{cite journal |last1=Lorentz|first1=G. G.|year=2002|title=Mathematics and Politics in the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953|url=https://www.emis.de/classics/HAT/fpapers/lorentzussr.pdf|journal=Journal of Approximation Theory|volume=116 |issue=2|page=185|doi=10.1006/jath.2002.3670|doi-access=free}}
Charles Loewner (1893–1968), mathematician{{MacTutor Biography|id=Loewner|title=Charles Loewner}}
Assaf Naor (born 1975), mathematician{{cite web |url=http://www.jinfo.org/Bocher_Mathematics.html|title=Jewish Recipients of the Bôcher Memorial Prize|website=Jinfo.org |accessdate=1 July 2018}}
Alfred Tauber (1866–1942), mathematician{{MacTutor|id=Tauber|title=Alfred Tauber}}
Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995), mathematician{{cite web |url=http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/BestOf/WomenInMath7102.html |title=The Return of Women of Mathematics (Olga Taussky-Todd) |accessdate=2006-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19980113102809/http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/BestOf/WomenInMath7102.html |archivedate=13 January 1998}} "Political tensions arose around this time, and like many other Jewish intellectuals, she left Germany"

=Medicine=

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis; born in Příbor (Freiberg), Moravia
Carl Koller (1857–1944), ophthalmologistEncyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., art. "Koller, Carl": "born in Bohemia"
Pavol Steiner (1908–1969), Olympic water polo player, swimmer, and cardiac surgeon
Rudolf Vrba (1924–2006), pharmacologist{{cite news|author=Ruth Linn |url=https://www.theguardian.com/secondworldwar/story/0,,1752845,00.html |title=Obituary: Rudolf Vrba | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited |work=The Guardian|date= 13 April 2006|accessdate=8 November 2011 |location=London}} (born in Slovakia)

=Natural science=

Gerty Cori (1896–1957), biochemist{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/cori.html |title=Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |accessdate=8 November 2011}}
Martin Fleischmann, chemist{{Cite web |title=Martin Fleischmann |url=https://www.nndb.com/people/452/000044320/ |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=www.nndb.com}}

Arts/entertainment

Bedřich Feuerstein (1892–1936), architect, painter and essayist{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/a100leta.htm |title=Year of Jewish Culture - 100 Years of the Jewish Museum in Prague |accessdate=2006-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060719172826/http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/a100leta.htm |archivedate=19 July 2006}} Noted in "Prague Jewish Architecture"
Miloš Forman (1932–2018), film director, actor and script writerWeb 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 [http://www.telusplanet.net/public/albear1/MILOSFORMAN.html], Forman's biological father was Jewish, something he found out only after WWII: "About this time Miloš 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 Miloš'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 Miloš half Jewish. Miloš would learn that this man was in fact alive and a professor at a university in Ecuador. They would never meet."
Juraj Herz (born 1934), film director, actor, and scenic designer{{cite book | last = Kronfeld | first = Martin | editor = Myrtil Nagy | chapter = Židia | title = Naše národnostné menšiny | publisher = Fórum inštitút pre výskum menšín | year = 2012 | location = Šamorín | page = 23 | isbn = 978-80-89249-57-2 }} (born in Slovakia)
Arnošt Goldflam (born 1946), playwright, writer, director, screenwriter and actorEncyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed, art. "Goldflam, Arnošt": "Czech playwright, writer, director, screenwriter, and actor. Born to Holocaust survivors in Brno (Moravia)"
Hugo Haas (1901–1968), actor and film directorEncyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed, art. "Haas, Hugo": "Czechoslovak actor and film director"
Miloš Kopecký (1922–1996), actor
Hugo Lederer (1871–1940), sculptor[http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/czechu-z.html International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies – Cemetery Project] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070126083259/http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/czechu-z.html |date=26 January 2007 }}: he is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Znojmo, Czech Republic; accessed 18 May 2007
Francis Lederer (1899–2000), actorEncyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed, art. "Lederer, Francis": "Czech actor"
Herbert Lom (1917–2012), actor{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1K4UAQAAIAAJ&q=herbert+lom+jewish |title=The Jewish lists: physicists and ... |author=Martin Harry Greenberg |date= November 1979|publisher=Schocken Books |isbn=9780805237115 |accessdate=8 November 2011}}
Robert Maxwell (1923–1991), media mogul{{cite web |url=http://www.ketupa.net/maxwell.htm |title=Robert Maxwell: Overview |publisher=Ketupa.net |accessdate=8 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630002535/http://www.ketupa.net/maxwell.htm |archivedate=30 June 2015}}
Emil Orlik (1870–1932), painter{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/a033.htm |title=Newsletter 2003/3 |accessdate=2006-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060208083451/http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/a033.htm |archivedate=8 February 2006}} "important Jewish graphic artist and painter, Emil Orlik"
Alfréd Radok (1917–1976), writer and director in theater and film{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090212094306/http://www.ce-review.org/01/20/kinoeye20_cieslar.html Article title]}} described Radok as "half Jewish"
Karel Reisz (1926–2002), film director{{Cite web |date=2002-11-28 |title=Czech-born director Karel Reisz dies in London |url=https://english.radio.cz/czech-born-director-karel-reisz-dies-london-8068396 |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=Radio Prague International |language=en}}
Ivan Reitman (1946-2022), film director (born in Slovakia)
Emery Roth (1871–1948), architect (born in Sečovce at the present-day territory of Slovakia)
Jan Saudek (born 1935), art photographer{{cite web |url=http://www.themuchagallery.cz/eng/saudek_uvod.html |title=Jan Saudek |accessdate=2006-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060824062924/http://www.themuchagallery.cz/eng/saudek_uvod.html |archivedate=24 August 2006}} "in spite of the fact that due to his wartime experience as an enduring Jewish child"
Anna Ticho (1894–1980), artist{{cite web |url=http://www.sternart.com/article_item.asp?ID=2 |title=Stern Gallery - Essay on Jewish and Israeli Art |accessdate=2006-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060814050250/http://www.sternart.com/article_item.asp?ID=2 |archivedate=14 August 2006}} noted in an essay on "Jewish artists"
Jiří Weiss (1913–2004), film director and screenwriter{{Cite web |title=The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe |url=https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article.aspx/Cinema |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=encyclopedia.yivo.org}}
Adrianna Demiany (née Roskovanyi) (born 1942), Slovak-Hungarian-Canadian Journalist (Born in Košice at the present-day territory of Slovakia)[https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianna-demiany-13317323 LinkedIn Profile] {{Self-published source|date=June 2022}}

Athletes

Kurt Epstein (1904–1975), Czechoslovak national water polo team, Olympic competitor, incarcerated by the Nazis in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz{{cite web|url=http://mehrpatrick1.web.officelive.com/AJewishAthlete.aspx |title=A Jewish Athlete |publisher=Mehrpatrick1.web.officelive.com |accessdate=8 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330182126/http://mehrpatrick1.web.officelive.com/AJewishAthlete.aspx |archivedate=30 March 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/a043.htm |title=NEWSLETTER 2004/3 |publisher=Jewishmuseum.cz |accessdate=8 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328165757/http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/a043.htm |archivedate=28 March 2012 }}
Arie Gill-Glick (1930–2016), Israeli Olympic runner
Ladislav Hecht (1909–2004), Czechoslovak-American tennis player, world #6
Gertrude "Traute" Kleinová (1918–1976), table tennis, three-time world champion, incarcerated by the Nazis in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz
Pavol Steiner (1908–1969), Olympic water polo player, swimmer, and cardiac surgeon
Olga Winterberg (1922–2010), Israeli Olympian in the discus throw

Music

Karel Ančerl (1908–1973), conductor, respected for his performances of contemporary music and particularly cherished for his interpretations of music by Czech composers[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jewish-music-and-musicians-emc Canadian Encyclopedia, art. Jewish music and musicians] "Post-war Jewish immigration has related less to persecution than to professional appointments or opportunities (e.g., Karel Ančerl" Accessed 23 October 2006.
Karel Berman (1919–1995), opera singer and composer[http://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/showdoc.do?docid=175 The concentration camp for Jews – the Terezín Ghetto] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050301012237/http://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/showdoc.do?docid=175 |date=1 March 2005 }} lists Berman as among the Jews sent there; Accessed 3 November 2006
[http://www.jtsa.edu/shop/melton/direc.shtml Jewish Theological Seminary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061127232131/http://www.jtsa.edu/shop/melton/direc.shtml |date=27 November 2006 }}: "Czech opera star Karel Berman" Accessed 3 November 2006
Ignaz Brüll, composer and pianistJewish: "Contemporary Review, June 1999 by Anthony Paterson" {{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1601_274/ai_55128451/pg_2 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410214404/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1601_274/ai_55128451/pg_2 |archivedate=10 April 2008 |accessdate=2006-10-30}} "the Nazi ban on his compositions – he was Jewish" Accessed 6 November 2006.
born Moravia: "Composers of Classical Music" [http://composers-classical-music.com/b/BrullIgnaz.htm] "Brull, Ignaz 1846–1907 Moravia, Prossnitz – Austria, Vienna" Accessed 6 November 2006.
Arthur Chitz (1882–1944) musicologist, composer, pianist, and conductor{{Cite web|url=http://www.juden-in-mittelsachsen.de/shalom/arthur_chitz.html|title=Projekt Shalom CJD Chemnitz - Arthur Chitz|author=Uwe Scholz|website=www.juden-in-mittelsachsen.de|language=de|access-date=2018-06-06}}{{Cite web|url=http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/ghettos/riga/chitz-arthur/|title=Music and the Holocaust|last=ORT|first=The World|website=holocaustmusic.ort.org|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-06-06}}
Alexander Goldscheider (born 1950), composer and producer
Alfred Grünfeld (1852–1924), pianist and composer[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=462&letter=G Jewish Encyclopedia]; "born at Prague" Accessed 28 November 2006.
Pavel Haas (1899–1944), composer"Classical Composers Database" [http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/haas] "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 November 2006.
Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904), music criticAvins, Styra "Brahms and the German Spirit (review)" Music and Letters – Volume 87, Number 1, 2006, pp. 136–141 online at [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/music_and_letters/v087/87.1chadwick.pdf] or [https://archive.today/20130415152716/http://ml.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/87/1/136]

"three other Jews, Julius Epstein, Anton Door, and Eduard Hanslick"

(Needs subscription, but found with this search: [https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22three+other+Jews%2C+Julius+Epstein%2C+Anton+Door%2C+and+Eduard+Hanslick%22&meta=] Accessed 6 November 2006.)

Born in Prague: [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9039176/Eduard-Hanslick Encyclopædia Britannica] Accessed 6 November 2006.

Gideon Klein (1919–1945), composer of classical music[http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/atony.htm Czech Jewish Museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060203101053/http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/atony.htm |date= 3 February 2006 }} "The life and work of the Czech Jewish composers Gideon Klein and Egon Ledeč" Accessed 10 November 2006.[http://www.gideonklein.cz/ The Gideon Klein Foundation] "The Gideon Klein Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by Eliška Kleinová, Gideon Klein’s sister" Accessed 15 June 2007.
Eliška Kleinová (1912–1999), pianist, music educator; sister of Gideon Klein
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), composer[http://www.korngold-society.org/duchen.html Korngold Society] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209004201/http://www.korngold-society.org/duchen.html |date=9 December 2006 }}: "he got thrown out of Vienna because he was Jewish" Jessica Duchen, author of E. Korngold's biography); [http://www.korngold-society.org/korngold_centre.html Korngold Society]: "BRNO, where the composer was born"; accessed 6 February 2007.
Hans Krása (1899–1944), composer[http://www.berkeleyrep.org/HTML/CurrentSeason/BC_programnotes.html Berkeley Repertory Theater] "Krása, who was Jewish" Accessed 23 November 2006[http://music.minnesota.publicradio.org/programs/spco/features/0401_theresienstadt.shtml Minnesota Public Radio] "Krása was a gifted Czech composer" Accessed 23 November 2006
Egon Ledeč (1889–1944), music composer
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), music composer and conductor, Czech-born{{IMDb name|id=0006178|section=bio|name=Gustav Mahler}}. Retrieved 28 November 2006. "Mahler's Jewish faith stood in the way of his career goal"[http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/mahler.html Sony Essentials of Music] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615191253/http://essentialsofmusic.com/composer/mahler.html |date=15 June 2006 }} "Czech-born Austrian composer and conductor" Accessed 28 November 2006.
Herbert Thomas Mandl (1926–2007), concert violinist, professor at the Janáček Academy of Music in Ostrava, Holocaust survivor who was a contemporary witness to the rich cultural life in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto
Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870), composer and piano virtuosoArt. on Moscheles in [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9053878 Encyclopædia Britannica] "Czech pianist, one of the outstanding virtuosos of his era"; Art. on Moscheles in [http://www.highbeam.com/ref/doc3.asp?docid=1E1:Moschele Columbia Encyclopedia] {{Dead link|date=December 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} "Prague -born Jewish virtuoso Ignaz Moscheles" Both accessed 29 November 2006.
Zuzana Růžičková (1927–2017), contemporary harpsichordist, interpreter of classical and baroque music[http://www.radio.cz/en/issue/62712 Radio Praha] "She was born in Pilsen in 1927 into an upper class Jewish family"; [http://goldbergweb.com/en/news/france/2003/12/16360.php Goldberg the early-music portal] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505001713/http://goldbergweb.com/en/news/france/2003/12/16360.php |date=5 May 2007 }} "France honours Czech harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova" Both accessed 29 November 2006.
Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942), composer and pianistSchool of Oriental and African Studies, [http://www.jmi.org.uk/suppressedmusic/newsletter/reviews/cd_schulhoff.html Newsletter of the Jewish Music Institute] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822025140/http://www.jmi.org.uk/suppressedmusic/newsletter/reviews/cd_schulhoff.html |date=22 August 2006 }} "Erwin Schulhoff, a Czech Jew executed by the Nazis..." Accessed 8 December 2006.
Julius Schulhoff (1825–1898), pianist and composerEncyclopædia Britannica, 2nd ed., art. "Schulhoff, Julius": "Born in Prague"
Walter Susskind (1913–1980), conductor[http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Susskind-Walter.htm Bach cantatas site] "The distinguished Czech-born English conductor" [http://www.lakeplacidfilmforum.com/html/films.html Lake Placid Film Forum] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523060343/http://www.lakeplacidfilmforum.com/html/films.html |date=23 May 2006 }} "Walter Susskind, a German Jew" Both accessed 4 January 2007
Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944), composer, conductor and pianist{{cite web |url=http://www.interdisciplinary.neu.edu/terezin/music/ullmann.html |title=Terezin |accessdate=2006-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908201655/http://www.interdisciplinary.neu.edu/terezin/music/ullmann.html |archivedate=8 September 2006}} "Raised a German-Czech until a 1909 move to Austria" {{cite web |url=http://www.musica.cz/comp/ulmann.htm |title=Viktor Ullmann - Czech Contemporary Composer |accessdate=2006-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060803043453/http://www.musica.cz/comp/ulmann.htm |archivedate=3 August 2006}} "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."
Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967), composer{{Cite web |title=Jewish History of Czech Republic |url=http://www.porges.net/JewishHistoryOfCzechRepub.html |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=www.porges.net}}

Politicians

Victor Adler (1852–1918), socialist politician, born in Prague[http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.a/a095441.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en Encyclopedia of Austria] born Prague. Retrieved 20 March 2008; "Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century" by Andrew R. Heinze; Published 2004 Princeton University Press {{ISBN|0-691-11755-1}}, p.69 (includes him in list of notable Jews in Vienna)
Madeleine Albright (1937–2022), served as the 64th United States Secretary of State{{cite web |title=Irwin N. Graulich: The Beauty of Madeleine Albright |url=http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_13005.shtml |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619104607/http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_13005.shtml |archivedate=19 June 2006 |accessdate=2006-07-29}} "When born Jews like Madeleine Albright leave Judaism to participate in new secular religions a la Karl Marx with Marxism" [http://www.slate.com/id/1048/] "The Washington Post reported 4 February that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's parents were Jewish converts to Catholicism and that her grandparents died in the Holocaust."
Ludwig Czech (1870–1942), leader and several times minister for the German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic
Jan Fischer (born 1951), prime minister of the Czech Republic (2009){{cite web|author=15. dubna 2009 |url=http://ona.idnes.cz/manzel-tak-nevypada-ale-je-vtipny-rika-zena-noveho-premiera-poh-/ona_ony.asp?c=A090414_143412_ona_ony_jup |title=Manžel tak nevypadá, ale je vtipný, říká žena nového premiéra |date = 15 April 2009|publisher=Ona.idnes.cz |accessdate=8 November 2011}}
Bruno Kafka (1881–1931), German-speaking Jewish Czech politician, leader from 1918 to his death of the Czechoslovak German Democratic Liberal Party, member of the National Assembly
Ignaz Kuranda, politician{{Cite web |title=KURANDA, IGNAZ |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=452&letter=K |access-date=20 March 2008 |website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}}
Artur London (1915–1986), communist politician and co-defendant in the Slánský trial; born in Ostrava, Silesia, Austria-Hungary{{cite web |url=http://www.jewhoo.com/editor/profiles/yves.html |title=Jewhoo! - "News & Notes" |accessdate=2006-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512134204/http://www.jewhoo.com/editor/profiles/yves.html |archivedate=12 May 2006}} "The film tells the story of Artur London, a Czech Jewish communist who survived Nazi concentration camps"
Rudolf Margolius (1913–1952), Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade (1949–1952), a victim of the Slánský trialhttp://www.margolius.co.uk "Articles and books about the life of Rudolf Margolius and his international economic agreements."
Rudolf Slánský (1901–1952); Communist politician and the party's General Secretary after World War II; fell into disfavour with the regime and was executed after a show trialhttp://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/eng_captions/62-4.html "The Czech Jewish party leader Rudolf Slansky"
Michael Žantovský, politician and author; appointed to serve as the Ambassador to Israel in July 2003[http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/6540/edition_id/122/format/html/displaystory.html Jewish News Weekly] Michael Zantovsky, a leading Czech political figure who is of Jewish background"; Accessed 5 February 2007
Vladimír Železný (born 1945), media businessman and politician, member of the European Parliament, founder of TV NOVA

Religious leaders

Samuel Abramson, rabbi of Carlsbad[http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/16571/edition_id/325/format/html/displaystory.html Jewish News Weekly of Northern California] "A chance meeting 13 years ago changed the course of Rabbi Samuel Abramson's life... He left his homeland, Czechoslovakia, in 1988" Accessed 8 December 2006.
Tzvi Ashkenazi, better known as Haham Zevi, chief rabbi of Amsterdam, prominent opponent of the Sabbateans
Nehemiah Brüll, rabbi (born Rousínov, Moravia)[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1531&letter=B&search=nehemiah%20brull Jewish Encyclopedia], "Rabbi and scholar of varied attainments; born 16 March 1843, at Neu-Raussnitz, Moravia" Accessed 10 November 2006.
Israel Bruna, rabbi (born Brno)"Historical survey of Jewish settlement in Brno", [http://www.centropa.org/reports.asp?rep=HR&ID=7073&TypeID=0 Centropa Quarterly, Summer 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827020035/http://centropa.org/reports.asp?rep=HR&ID=7073&TypeID=0 |date=27 August 2006 }}, "Rabbi Israel ben Chajim, also known as Israel Bruna (born in Brno early 15th century, died after 1475) was the first important Hebrew scholar in the Czech lands." Accessed 30 October 2006.
Aaron Chorin, rabbi (born Moravia)[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=474&letter=C Jewish Encyclopedia] "rabbi; born at Weisskirchen, Moravia" Accessed 7 November 2006.
Joseph H. Hertz (1872–1946), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire{{cite web |url=http://www.chiefrabbi.org/history/hertz.html |title=Joseph Herman Hertz 1872-1946 |accessdate=2006-08-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061130065339/http://www.chiefrabbi.org/history/hertz.html |archivedate=30 November 2006}} "Joseph Herman Hertz was born in Slovakia in 1872"
Isaac ben Jacob ha-Lavan, Bohemian tosafistJewish Encyclopedia: [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=231&letter=I] Bohemian; [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=276&letter=T] tosafist
Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525?–1609), rabbi[http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=111877 Chabad.org Jewish History] "Rabbi Judah ben Bezalel Lowe was born about the year 5285, probably in Posen. He became famous as a great Talmudic scholar at an early age. In his late twenties, he was invited to become the Rabbi in Nikolsburg, Moravia, a position which he held for about twenty years. His greatest fame, however, came to him as the spiritual head of the Jewish community in Prague" Accessed 22 May 2007.
Mordecai Meisel, philanthropist and communal leader at Prague[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=370&letter=M Jewish Encyclopedia]: "born at Prague 1528; died there 13 March 1601. The persecution of the Jews of Prague by the fanatical Ferdinand I. occurred while Mordecai was a youth. In 1542 and 1561 his family, with the other Jewish inhabitants, was forced to leave the city" Accessed 22 May 2007.
Karol Sidon, playwright, chief rabbi of Prague, and Convert to Judaism
Salomon Weisz, cantor & Bar Mitzvah teacher in Znojmo and Trebic, cantor of Moravia and Bar Mitzvah teacher in Prague from 1946 to 1968.

Writers

Henri Blowitz, journalistEncyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., art. "Blowitz, Henri
Max Brod (1884–1968), author, composer, and journalisthttp://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9016573 "Czech-born, German-language novelist" {{cite web|url=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V51I5P87-1.htm|title=Commentary Magazine - Paganism-Christianity-Judaism, by Max Brod|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018031953/http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V51I5P87-1.htm|archivedate=18 October 2006|url-status=dead|accessdate=2006-07-29}} "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"
Petr Brod (b. 1951), journalist {{Cite web|url=https://www.memoryofnations.eu/en/brod-petr-1951|title=Petr Brod (1951)|website=www.memoryofnations.eu|accessdate=31 March 2023}}
Avigdor Dagan (1912–2006), writer{{cite web |url=http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1855 |title=All About Jewish Theatre – The Court – Jesters in Jerusalem |publisher=Jewish-theatre.com |accessdate=8 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927215216/http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1855 |archivedate=27 September 2011}}
Egon Hostovsky (1908–1973), writer{{Cite web|url=http://www.traktor.cz/twisted/hostovsky.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209130241/http://www.traktor.cz/twisted/hostovsky.html|url-status=dead|title=Egon Hostovsky|archivedate=9 February 2006|accessdate=31 March 2023}}
Franz Kafka (1883–1924), novelist"KAFKA, Franz (1883–1924): Czech

novelist.": Hutchinson 20th Century Encyclopedia (7th ed, 1986), p.

702."KAFKA, FRANZ (1883–1924): Czech author.": The New Standard

Jewish Encyclopedia (fifth ed, 1977, ed. Geoffrey Wigoder), p.

1101.http://classiclit.about.com/od/kafkafranz/Kafka_Franz.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070828004811/http://classiclit.about.com/od/kafkafranz/Kafka_Franz.htm |date=28 August 2007 }}

"Czech writer"

Siegfried Kapper (1821–1879), writer{{cite web|url=http://www.porges.net/JewishCemeteriesPrague.html |title=The Jewish cemeteries of Prague |language=fr |publisher=Porges.net |accessdate=8 November 2011}}
Ivan Klíma (born 1931), novelist, playwrighthttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/klima_transcript.shtml {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218193418/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/klima_transcript.shtml |date=18 December 2007 }} "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"
Leopold Kompert (1822–1886), author[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=346&letter=K Jewish Encyclopedia], "born at Münchengrätz, Bohemia" Accessed 8 December 2006.
Heda Margolius Kovály, author and translatorIncluded in Clive James's book Cultural Amnesia.{{Cite web|url=http://www.margolius.co.uk/|title=Margolius Family Website|website=Margolius Family Website|accessdate=31 March 2023}}
František R. Kraus (1903–1967), writer, journalist and reporter; wrote one of the first books ever about his experience in Auschwitz, published in 1945
Jiří Langer (1894-1943), poet, scholar and essayist, journalist and teacher
Arnošt Lustig (1926–2011), author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust{{cite web |url=http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Lustig.htm |title=1 |accessdate=2006-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051219132714/http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Lustig.htm |archivedate=19 December 2005}} "Lustig was one of the few out of fifteen thousand Jewish children"
Jiří Orten (1919–1941), poethttps://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jir%C3%AD-orten "https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jir%C3%AD-orten"
Ota Pavel (1930–1973), writer, journalist and sport reporter
Leopold Perutz (1882–1957), German language novelist and mathematician
Karel Poláček (1892–1945), writer and journalist{{Cite web|url=http://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/showdoc.do?docid=175|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050301012237/http://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/showdoc.do?docid=175|url-status=dead|title=Terezín Memorial – The concentration camp for Jews – the Terezín Ghetto|archivedate=1 March 2005|accessdate=31 March 2023}}
Tom Stoppard (born 1937), playwright, known for plays such as The Real Thing and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and for the screenplay for Shakespeare in Lovehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/06/11/do1107.xml {{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} "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."
Hermann Ungar (1893–1929), writer of German language and an officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia{{cite web|url=http://www.traktor.cz/twisted/ungar.html |title=Hermann Ungar |accessdate=2007-06-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702104920/http://www.traktor.cz/twisted/ungar.html |archivedate=2 July 2007 }} "Hermann Ungar was born on 20 April 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..."
Jiří Weil (1900–1959), writer, novels Life with a Star (Život s hvězdou) and Mendelssohn is on the Roofhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Mendelssohn2.html "Jiri Weil, a Czech Jewish writer"
Franz Werfel (1890–1945), Czech-born writer; married Mahler's widow[http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/exiles/werfel.html Feuchtwanger memorial Library] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828055954/http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/exiles/werfel.html |date=28 August 2006 }}: "The Czech-born, Austrian-Jewish writer Franz Werfel" accessed 27 March 08

Other

Jacob Bassevi (1580–1634), Bohemian Court Jew and financier{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/aexpomaisel.htm |title=New exhibition in the Maisel Synagogue in Prague |accessdate=2006-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060613134415/http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/aexpomaisel.htm |archivedate=13 June 2006}} "This provides an overview of the history of the Jews in the Czech Lands... Jacob Bassevi, the first Jew to be raised to the nobility"
George Brady (1928–2019), brother of Hana Bradyhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0807531480 "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."
Hana Brady (1931–1944), Holocaust victimhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0807531480 "Alternating chapters tell not only of the Jewish Hana Brady's deportation..."
Izrael Zachariah Deutsch, deaf memoirist{{Cite book|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781563681813|isbn=9781563681813|title=Surviving in Silence: A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust, the Harry I. Dunai Story|year=2002|publisher=Gallaudet University Press}}
Salo Flohr (1908–1983), leading chess master of the early 20th century{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/chesschampions/bflohr-s.html |accessdate=29 July 2006 |title=Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos }} {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} "Since his family was Jewish, they were in great danger"
Petr Ginz (1928–1944), boy deported to the Terezín concentration camp during the Holocaust{{Cite web |last=Bauerova |first=Ladka |title=Petr Ginz diaries |url=http://isurvived.org/InTheNews/PetrGinz-diaries.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424224540/https://isurvived.org/InTheNews/PetrGinz-diaries.html |archive-date=24 April 2022 |website=isurvived.org |quote="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"}}
Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759–1849), merchant[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=838&letter=H Jewish Encyclopedia] "born June 10, 1759, at Prostiebor, near Kladrau, in the district of Pilsen, Bohemia" accessed 23 June 2008
Frank Lowy (born 1930), businessman[http://www.ioadmin.unsw.edu.au/agsm/web.nsf/Content/AGSMMagazine-LearningTheValueInEducation Australian Graduate School of Management] "Czechoslovak-born Lowy"
[http://www.jewishtimes.com.au/content/view/303/190/ Australian Jewish Times] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061223095718/http://www.jewishtimes.com.au/content/view/303/190/ |date=23 December 2006 }} "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 December 2006.
Richard Réti (1889–1929), chess grandmaster{{cite web|url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1004505 |publisher=Chessgames.com |accessdate=8 November 2011|title=Greatest Jewish Chess Players }}
Yoshua Samuel Rusnak (also "Yehoshua Sh'mu'el Rusnak"; died 1915),{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_slovakia/slo495.html |title=Encyclopaedia of Jewish communities, Slovakia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=8 November 2011}} diasporan Jew and Zionist based in Kosice, Slovakia; many of his family members were murdered in the Holocaust at Auschwitz{{cite web|url=http://yadvashem.org |title=World Center for Holocaust Research, Education, Documentation and Commemoration |publisher=Yad Vashem |accessdate=8 November 2011}}Alan Sidransky (a grandnephew of Zoli Grinfeld)Contributor for "Yoshua Rusnak", a descendant of Yoshua's brother Jakub's son Andrej Stef "Andrew Stephen" Rusnak.
Wilhelm Steinitz (1836–1900), first World Chess Champion{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1070&letter=S |title=Steinitz, Wilhelm |publisher=JewishEncyclopedia.com |accessdate=8 November 2011}}
Irene Capek (1925–2006), Jewish holocaust survivor, humanitarian and local Australian politician

References

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