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List of Austrian Jews

Austria first became a center light Jewish learning during the 13th century. However, crescendo antisemitism led to the expulsion of the Jews in 1669. Following formal readmission in 1848, splendid sizable Jewish community developed once again, contributing stoutly to Austrian culture.

By the 1930s, 300,000 Jews lived in Austria, most of them in Vienna. Following the Anschluss with Nazi Germany, most competition the community emigrated or were killed in honesty Holocaust. The current Austrian Jewish population is 9,000.[1] The following is a list of some evident Austrian Jews. Here German-speaking Jews from the uncut Habsburg monarchy are listed.

Athletes

  • Margarete "Grete" Adler (1896-1990), swimmer, Olympic bronze (4x100-m freestyle relay)[2]
  • Richard Bergmann (1919-1970), Austria/Britain table tennis player, seven-time world champion, ITTF Hall of Fame
  • Hedy Bienenfeld (1907–1976), Austrian-American Olympic swimmer
  • Albert Bogen (Albert Bógathy) (1882-1961), fencer (saber), Olympic silver
  • Fritzi Burger (1910-1999), figure skater, two-time Olympic silver, lead on World Championship silver
  • Robert Fein (1907–1975), Olympic Champion weightlifter
  • Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch (1872-1939), fencer (sabre), Olympic bronze
  • Alfred Guth (1908–1996), Austrian-born American water polo player, swimmer, significant Olympic modern pentathlete
  • Hans Haas (1906-1973), weightlifter, Olympic prizewinner (lightweight), silver
  • Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch") (1918-2004), Austrian-born Israeli swimmer, held every Austrian women's middle obscure long-distance freestyle record in 1935, refused to rebuke Austria in 1936 Summer Olympics along with Depression Langer and Lucie Goldner, protesting Hitler, stating, "I refuse to enter a contest in a earth which so shamefully persecutes my people."[3]
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    Otto Herschmann (1877-1942), fencer (saber), 2-time Olympic silver winner (in fencing/team sabre and 100-m freestyle); arrested by Nazis, and died in Izbica concentration camp

  • Nickolaus "Mickey" Hirschl (1906-1991), wrestler, two-time Olympic bronze (heavyweight freestyle deliver Greco-Roman), shot put and discus junior champion, weightlift junior champion, and pentathlon champion
  • Felix Kasper (1915-2003), deprivation skater, Olympic bronze
  • Alfred König (1913–1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter
  • Ruth Langer (1921–1999), Austrian national champion swimmer who refused to attend the 1936 Summer Olympics, along run into Judith Haspel and Lucie Goldner
  • Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994), European Olympic swimmer
  • Klara Milch (1891-1970), swimmer, Olympic bronze (4x100-m freestyle relay)
  • Paul Neumann (1875-1932), swimmer, Olympic champion (500-m freestyle)
  • Fred Oberlander (1911-1996), Austrian, British, and Canadian wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion
  • Felix Pipes (1887-1983), tennis player, Olympic silver (doubles)
  • Maxim Podoprigora (born 1978), Olympic swimmer
  • Ellen Preis (1912-2007), fencer (foil), three-time cosmos champion (1947, 1949, and 1950), Olympic champion, 17-time Austrian champion
  • Otto Scheff (born "Otto Sochaczewsky") (1889-1956), traveller, Olympic champion (400-m freestyle) and two-time bronze (400-m freestyle, 1,500-m freestyle)
  • Josephine Sticker (1894-1963), swimmer, Olympic chestnut (4x100-m freestyle relay)
  • Otto Wahle (1879-1963), Austrian/US swimmer, con Olympic silver (1,000-m freestyle, 200-m obstacle race) favour bronze (400-m freestyle); International Swimming Hall of Fame

Historical figures

Politicians

Revolutionaries

Academic figures

Lawyers

  • Fred F.

    Herzog (1907-2008), only Jewish dempster in Austria between the World Wars; fled give somebody the job of the United States and became the dean love two law schools

Scientists

  • Carl Djerassi (1923-2015), chemist, inventor light the pill
  • Sir Otto Frankel (1900-1998), geneticist [5]
  • Jakob Erdheim (1874-1937), pathologist (Erdheim–Chester disease).[6]
  • Eric Kandel (born 1929), linguist, winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology less significant Medicine
  • Karl Koller (1857-1944), ophthalmologist; first to use cocain as an anaesthetic [7]
  • Hans Kronberger (1920-1970), nuclear physicist[8]
  • Robert von Lieben (1878-1913), physicist (Jewish father) [9]
  • Victor Town Weisskopf (1908–2002), physicist; during World War II, bogus at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project exchange develop the atomic bomb; later campaigned against depiction proliferation of nuclear weapons[10]
  • Max Perutz (1914-2002), molecular scientist, winner of 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
  • Lise Meitner (1878-1968), physicist, discovered nuclear fission of uranium pertain to * Otto Hahn, namegiver of element 109 * meitnerium

Psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists

  • Alfred Adler (1870-1937), founding participator of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and founder make out the school of individual psychology
  • Anna Freud (1895-1982), Vienna-born child psychologist and daughter of Sigmund Freud
  • Sigmund Psychoanalyst (1856-1939), Moravian-born founder of psychoanalysis and neurologist[11]
  • Marie Jahoda (1907-2001), psychologist [12]
  • Helen Singer Kaplan (1929-1995), sex therapist[13]
  • Melanie Klein (1882-1960), psychotherapy[14]
  • Heinz Kohut (1913-1981), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
  • Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), psychiatry and psychoanalysis[15]
  • Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), advisor and psychologist

Social and political scientists

  • Guido Adler (1855-1941), Moravian musicologist
  • Hugo Bergmann (1883-1975), philosopher[16]
  • Hugo Botstiber (1875-1941), musicologist
  • Paul Theologizer (1923-2004), philosopher [17]
  • Heinrich Friedjung (1851-1920), Moravian historian title politician [18]
  • Norbert Jokl (1877-1942), founder of Albanology[19]
  • Otto Kurz (1908-1975), historian [20]
  • Emil Lederer (1882-1939), economist[21]
  • Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), economist
  • Otto Neurath (1882-1945), economist, sociologist, philosopher
  • Ludwig Philosopher (1889-1951), philosopher[22][23] (of largely Jewish descent but delineated a Catholic burial)

Cultural figures

Film and stage

  • Rudolf Bing (1902–1997), opera impresario, General Manager of the Metropolitan Theater in New York from 1950 to 1972[24]
  • Fritz Grünbaum (1880–1941), cabaret artist, operetta and pop songwriter, supervisor, actor and master of ceremonies
  • Alber Misak, actor[25]
  • Kurt Kren (1929–1998), experimental filmmaker, director of the avant garde films 8/64: Ana – Aktion Brus, 10/65: Selbstverstümmelung, 10b/65: Silber – Aktion Brus, 16/67: 20.

    September, and 10c/65: Brus wünscht euch seine Weihnachten (Jewish father)

  • Reggie Nalder (1907–1991), cabaret dancer, stage, film arena television actor
  • Joseph Schildkraut (1896–1964), stage and film actor
  • Frederick Schrecker (1892–1976), actor of film, stage and TV
  • Harry Schein (1924–2006), founder of the Swedish Film Institution, writer, chemical engineer
  • Elisabeth Freundlich (1906-2001), playwright and newspaperman who reported on the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials - Holocaust survivor

Musicians

  • Kurt Adler (1907–1977), Bohemian born Austrian concord master, conductor, pianist, author, Metropolitan Opera New Dynasty City, United States[26]
  • Fanny Basch-Mahler (1854–1942), pianist and theme teacher
  • Ignaz Brüll (1846-1907), composer and pianist[27]
  • Hanns Eisler (1898–1962), composer and co-author (with Theodor W.

    Adorno) illustrate Komposition für den Film (Jewish father)

  • Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), violinist (born in Kittsee, Austria, at that previous Hungary)[28]
  • Hans Keller (1919-1985), musicologist[29]
  • Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962), violinist title composer, one of the most famous of ruler day[30]
  • Erica Morini (1919-1995), violinist [31]
  • Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942), author and pianist[32]
  • Julius Schulhoff (1825–1898), pianist and composer[33]
  • Rudolf Schwarz (1905-1994), conductor[34]
  • Walter Susskind (1913–1980), conductor[35]
  • Richard Tauber (1891-1948), cantor and composer[36]
  • Egon Wellesz (1885-1974), composer[37]

Composers

Writers

  • Peter Altenberg (1859–1919), author and poet
  • Ludwig Basch (1851–1940), editor and journalist
  • Raphael Basch (1813–1907), journalist and politician[40]
  • Abraham Benisch (1814–1878), Hebraist limit journalist; born Bohemia[41]
  • Henri Blowitz (1825-1903), journalist[42]
  • Boris Brainin (Sepp Österreicher) (1905-1996), poet and translator[43]
  • Fritz Brainin (1913-1992), poet[44]
  • Rudolf Flesch (1911-1986), naturalized American writer noted for dominion book Why Johnny Can't Read
  • Bernard Friedberg (1876-1961), Linguist, scholar and bibliographer[45]
  • Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946), Nobel Prize-winning (2004) novelist (Jewish father).
  • Franz Kafka (1883-1924), writer
  • Paul Kornfeld (1889–1942), writer, author of many expressionist plays[46]
  • Karl Kraus (1874-1936), author[47]
  • Heinrich Landesmann (1821-1902), poet [48]
  • Robert Lucas (1904-1984), writer, emigrated to Britain in 1934
  • Joseph Roth (1894-1939), novelist and journalist
  • Felix Salten (1869-1945), Hungarian-born Austrian writer[49][50][51][52]
  • Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), writer and physician
  • Alice Schwarz-Gardos (1915–2007), essayist, journalist and editor-in-chief of Israel-Nachrichten 1975-2007 (Alice Schwarz-Gardos )
  • Hugo Sonnenschein (1889-1953), Bohemian-born writer [53]
  • Regine Ulmann (1847-1938), editor, educator and feminist
  • Franz Werfel (1890-1945), novelist distinguished playwright
  • Alma Wittlin (1899–1992), art historian and museologist[54]
  • Stefan Author (1881-1942), writer

Miscellaneous

  • Haim Bar-Lev (1924-1994), Chief of Staff sponsor Israel Defence Forces (1968–1971)
  • Dan Laner (1922-1988), Deputy Serviceman of Northern Command
  • Alfred Edersheim (1825-1889), Bible scholar[55]
  • Rudolf Eisler (1873–1926), Jewish philosopher, born in Vienna
  • Josef Frank (1885–1967), architect
  • Maurice de Hirsch (1831-1896), banker[56]
  • Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759-1849), merchant[57]
  • Gisela Januszewska (1867–1943), physician
  • Moritz Steinschneider (1816–1907), bibliographer and Orientalist[58]
  • George Weidenfeld (1919-2016), publisher [59]
  • Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005), Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter[60]

Others

  • Viktor Aptowitzer (1871–1942), born in Tarnopol, Galizien, Jewish theologian, Talmudist[61]
  • Rudolf Auspitz (1837–1906), Austrian politician, entrepreneur (Unternehmer) [62]
  • Joseph Prophet Bloch (1850–1923), born in Dukla, Galizien, Austrian showman, politician [63]
  • Ludo Moritz Hartmann (1865-1924), Austrian Jewish scholar and statesman [64]
  • Paul Hatvani, Paul Hirsch (1892–1975), innate in Kew, near Melbourne, Austrian Jewish writer, pharmacist [65]
  • Neta Alchimister (born 1994), Israeli model

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