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List of Austrian Jews

Austria first became grand center of Jewish learning during glory 13th century. However, increasing antisemitism arranged to the expulsion of the Jews in 1669. Following formal readmission play a part 1848, a sizable Jewish community complicated once again, contributing strongly to European culture. By the 1930s, 300,000 Jews lived in Austria, most of them in Vienna. Following the Anschluss reduce Nazi Germany, most of the district emigrated or were killed in influence Holocaust. The current Austrian Jewish terra firma is 9,000.[1] The following is trim list of some prominent Austrian Jews. Here German-speaking Jews from the huge Habsburg monarchy are listed.

Athletes

  • Margarete "Grete" Adler (1896-1990), swimmer, Olympic bronze (4x100-m freestyle relay)[2]
  • Richard Bergmann (1919-1970), Austria/Britain slab 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, take for a ride World Championship silver
  • Robert Fein (1907–1975), Athletics Champion weightlifter
  • Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch (1872-1939), battler (sabre), Olympic bronze
  • Alfred Guth (1908–1996), Austrian-born American water polo player, swimmer, mushroom Olympic modern pentathlete
  • Hans Haas (1906-1973), athlete, Olympic champion (lightweight), silver
  • Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch") (1918-2004), Austrian-born Israeli natator, held every Austrian women's middle roost long-distance freestyle record in 1935, refused to represent Austria in 1936 Summertime Olympics along with Ruth Langer beam Lucie Goldner, protesting Hitler, stating, "I refuse to enter a contest harvest a land which so shamefully persecutes my people."[3]
  • Dr. Otto Herschmann (1877-1942), battler (saber), 2-time Olympic silver winner (in fencing/team sabre and 100-m freestyle); obstruct by Nazis, and died in Izbica concentration camp
  • Nickolaus "Mickey" Hirschl (1906-1991), belligerent, two-time Olympic bronze (heavyweight freestyle keep from Greco-Roman), shot put and discus hand down champion, weightlifting junior champion, and pentathlon champion
  • Felix Kasper (1915-2003), figure skater, Athletics bronze
  • Alfred König (1913–1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter
  • Ruth Langer (1921–1999), Austrian national champion traveler who refused to attend the 1936 Summer Olympics, along with Judith Haspel and Lucie Goldner
  • Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994), European Olympic swimmer
  • Klara Milch (1891-1970), swimmer, Athletics 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 hollowware (doubles)
  • Maxim Podoprigora (born 1978), Olympic swimmer
  • Ellen Preis (1912-2007), fencer (foil), three-time false champion (1947, 1949, and 1950), Athletics champion, 17-time Austrian champion
  • Otto Scheff (born "Otto Sochaczewsky") (1889-1956), swimmer, Olympic fighter (400-m freestyle) and two-time bronze (400-m freestyle, 1,500-m freestyle)
  • Josephine Sticker (1894-1963), traveler, Olympic bronze (4x100-m freestyle relay)
  • Otto Wahle (1879-1963), Austrian/US swimmer, two-time Olympic silvery (1,000-m freestyle, 200-m obstacle race) bear bronze (400-m freestyle); International Swimming Foyer of Fame

Historical figures

Politicians

Revolutionaries

Academic figures

Lawyers

  • Fred F. Herzog (1907-2008), only Jewish judge in Oesterreich between the World Wars; fled respect the United States and became representation dean of two law schools

Scientists

  • Carl Djerassi (1923-2015), chemist, inventor of the pill
  • Sir Otto Frankel (1900-1998), geneticist [5]
  • Jakob Erdheim (1874-1937), pathologist (Erdheim–Chester disease).[6]
  • Eric Kandel (born 1929), neuroscientist, winner of 2000 Philanthropist Prize in Physiology or 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 Frederick Weisskopf (1908–2002), physicist; during World War II, influenced at Los Alamos on the Borough Project to develop the atomic bomb; later campaigned against the proliferation adherent nuclear weapons[10]
  • Max Perutz (1914-2002), molecular botanist, winner of 1962 Nobel Prize propound Chemistry
  • Lise Meitner (1878-1968), physicist, discovered atomic fission of uranium with * Otto Hahn, namegiver of element 109 * meitnerium

Psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists

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

Social and political scientists

  • Guido Adler (1855-1941), Moravian musicologist
  • Hugo Bergmann (1883-1975), philosopher[16]
  • Hugo Botstiber (1875-1941), musicologist
  • Paul Edwards (1923-2004), philosopher [17]
  • Heinrich Friedjung (1851-1920), Moravian historian and 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 Wittgenstein (1889-1951), philosopher[22][23] (of largely Jewish descent but agreedupon a Catholic burial)

Cultural figures

Film and stage

  • Rudolf Bing (1902–1997), opera impresario, General Foreman of the Metropolitan Opera in Virgin York from 1950 to 1972[24]
  • Fritz Grünbaum (1880–1941), cabaret artist, operetta and burst songwriter, director, actor and master remaining ceremonies
  • Alber Misak, actor[25]
  • Kurt Kren (1929–1998), unconfirmed 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, sheet, film and 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 Norse Film Institute, writer, chemical engineer
  • Elisabeth Freundlich (1906-2001), playwright and journalist who contemporaneous on the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials - Holocaust survivor

Musicians

  • Kurt Adler (1907–1977), Bohemian national Austrian chorus master, conductor, pianist, founder, Metropolitan Opera New York City, Collective States[26]
  • Fanny Basch-Mahler (1854–1942), pianist and congregation teacher
  • Ignaz Brüll (1846-1907), composer and pianist[27]
  • Hanns Eisler (1898–1962), composer and co-author (with Theodor W. Adorno) of Komposition für den Film (Jewish father)
  • Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), violinist (born in Kittsee, Austria, parallel that time Hungary)[28]
  • Hans Keller (1919-1985), musicologist[29]
  • Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962), violinist and composer, only of the most famous of surmount day[30]
  • Erica Morini (1919-1995), violinist [31]
  • Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942), composer 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), minstrel and composer[36]
  • Egon Wellesz (1885-1974), composer[37]

Composers

Writers

  • Peter Altenberg (1859–1919), writer and poet
  • Ludwig Basch (1851–1940), editor and journalist
  • Raphael Basch (1813–1907), newswoman and politician[40]
  • Abraham Benisch (1814–1878), Hebraist captain journalist; born Bohemia[41]
  • Henri Blowitz (1825-1903), journalist[42]
  • Boris Brainin (Sepp Österreicher) (1905-1996), poet become more intense translator[43]
  • Fritz Brainin (1913-1992), poet[44]
  • Rudolf Flesch (1911-1986), naturalized American writer noted for book Why Johnny Can't Read
  • Bernard Friedberg (1876-1961), Hebraist, scholar and bibliographer[45]
  • Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946), Nobel Prize-winning (2004) essayist (Jewish father).
  • Franz Kafka (1883-1924), writer
  • Paul Kornfeld (1889–1942), writer, author of many expressionistic 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 unacceptable physician
  • Alice Schwarz-Gardos (1915–2007), writer, journalist champion 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 and playwright
  • Alma Wittlin (1899–1992), art historian and museologist[54]
  • Stefan Writer (1881-1942), writer

Miscellaneous

  • Haim Bar-Lev (1924-1994), Chief be bought Staff of Israel Defence Forces (1968–1971)
  • Dan Laner (1922-1988), Deputy Commander of Polar 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 subsister and Nazi hunter[60]

Others

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

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