List of Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews, also known as
Ashkenazic Jews or
Ashkenazim are
Jews descended from the
medieval Jewish communities of the
Rhineland. Many later migrated, largely eastward, forming communities in
Germany,
Poland,
Austria,
Eastern Europe and elsewhere between the
10th and
19th centuries. From medieval times until the mid-20th century, the
lingua franca among Ashkenazi Jews was
Yiddish or
Slavic languages such as the (now extinct)
Knaanic, and they developed a distinct culture and liturgy influenced by interaction with surrounding nations.
Although in the 11th century they comprised only 3% of the world's Jewish population, today Ashkenazi Jews account for approximately 80% of world
Jewry. [
1] Most Jewish communities with extended histories in Europe are Ashkenazim, with the exception of those associated with the
Mediterranean region. A significant portion of the Jews who migrated from Europe to other continents in the past two centuries are Eastern Ashkenazim, particularly in the
United States.
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George Akerlof*
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Moshe Dayan*
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Paul Erdos*
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Leo Fall*
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Robert Fogel*
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Dennis Gabor*
Murray Gell-Mann*
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Victor Gollancz*
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Ronald Harwood*
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Rose Heilbron*
Ben Herskowitz*
Joseph H. Hertz*
Chaim Herzog*
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog* Sir
Peter Hirsch*
Samson Raphael Hirsch*
Robert Hofstadter*
Israel Horowitz*
Bernhard Horwitz*
Kate Hudson*
Scott Ian*
Moses Isserles*
Israel Isserlin*
Louis Jacobs*
Immanuel Jakobovits*
Sid James*
Dawid Janowski*
Arthur Jensen*
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George Jessel (actor)*
Alejandro Jodorowsky*
Al Jolson*
Brian Josephson*
Judah Loew ben Bezalel*
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Bob Kahn*
Daniel Kahneman*
Leon Kamin*
Leonid Kantorovich*
Mona May Karff*
Richard Karp*
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Mia Kirshner*
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Lawrence Klein*
Arthur Koestler*
Abraham Isaac Kook*
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold*
David Kossoff*
Paul Kossoff*
Fritz Kreisler*
Simon Kuznets*
Lev Landau*
Edward Lasker*
Emanuel Lasker*
Yisrael Meir Lau*
Ruth Lawrence*
Leon Lederman*
David Lee*
Wassily Leontief*
Oscar Levant*
Bernard Levin*
Willy Lindwer*
Gabriel Lippmann*
Richard Lewontin*
Frederick Loewe*
Johann Löwenthal*
Alcina Lubitch Domecq*
Gustav Mahler*
Harry Markowitz*
Michael Marks*
Groucho Marx*
Karl Marx*
Fritzi Massary*
John McCarthy (computer scientist)*
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Felix Mendelssohn*
Moses Mendelssohn*
Yehudi Menuhin*
Robert Merton*
Leon Mestel*
Yona Metzger*
Giacomo Meyerbeer*
Albert Michelson*
Merton Miller*
Nathan Milstein*
Marvin Minsky*
Franco Modigliani*
Benno Moiseiwitsch*
Ludwig Mond*
Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling*
Ron Moody*
Claus Moser*
Zero Mostel*
Ben Mottelson*
Peter Munk*
Miguel Najdorf*
Benjamin Netanyahu*
Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger*
John von Neumann*
Mike Nichols*
Leonard Nimoy*
Aron Nimzowitsch*
Kyle Novak*
Jacques Offenbach*
Ehud Olmert*
Leo Ornstein*
Douglas Osheroff*
Robert Oppenheimer*
Seymour Papert*
Mandy Patinkin*
Wolfgang Pauli*
Arno Penzias*
Shimon Peres*
Martin Perl*
Alan Perlis*
Steven Pinker*
Amir Pnueli*
André Previn*
Susan Polgar*
Judit Polgar*
Zsófia Polgár*
Kevin Pollak* Sir
Karl Popper*
Natalie Portman*
Stefanie Powers*
Hilary Putnam*
Judah Quastel*
Rabbeinu Tam*
Isidor Rabi*
Michael Rabin*
Yitzhak Rabin*
Gilda Radner*
Rashbam*
Rashi*
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading*
Stefan Reif*
Frederick Reines*
Fred Reinfeld*
Samuel Reshevsky*
Richard Réti*
Burton Richter*
Edward G. Robinson*
Steven Rose*
Joseph Rotblat*
Philip Roth*
Lionel de Rothschild*
Mayer Amschel Rothschild*
Nathan Mayer Rothschild*
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild*
Akiba Rubinstein*
Andrew Sachs*
Jonathan Sacks*
Leonard Sainer*
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel*
Paul Samuelson*
Arthur Schawlow*
Solomon Schechter*
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg*
Emanuel Schiffers*
Arnold Schoenberg*
Myron Scholes*
Melvin Schwartz*
Karl Schwarzschild*
Julian Schwinger*
Emilio Segre*
Reinhard Selten*
Adi Shamir*
Yitzhak Shamir*
Helen Sharman*
Ariel Sharon*
William Shatner*
Zalman Shazar*
Sylvia Sidney*
Alicia Silverstone*
Simeon Singer*
Herbert Simon*
Vasily Smyslov*
Robert Solow*
E. A. Speiser*
Aaron Spelling*
Rudolf Spielmann*
Steven Spielberg*
Mark Spitz*
Robert Starer*
Leonid Stein*
Jack Steinberger*
Herman Steiner*
Max Steiner*
Wilhelm Steinitz*
Howard Stern*
Otto Stern*
Robert Sternberg*
Joseph Stiglitz*
Oscar Straus (composer)*
Emil Sutovsky*
Lawrence Summers*
Peter Svidler*
Mark Taimanov*
Mikhail Tal*
Igor Tamm*
Siegbert Tarrasch*
Edward Teller*
Ernst Toch*
Meier Tzelniker*
Stanislaw Ulam*
Edgar G. Ulmer*
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Guatemalan author
*
Louis Untermeyer*
Immanuel Velikovsky*
Dziga Vertov*
Vilna Gaon*
Mordechai Waxman*
Kurt Weill*
Steven Weinberg*
Hugo Weisgall*
Ezer Weizman*
Chaim Weizmann*
Samson Wertheimer*
Elie Wiesel*
Simon Wiesenthal*
Eugene Wigner*
Stephen Samuel Wise*
Jacob Wolfowitz*
Paul Wolfowitz*
Stephen Wolfram*
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf*
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Daniel Yanofsky*
Jack Yellen*
Harris Yulin*
Erich Zeisl*
Alexander von Zemlinsky*
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.*
Efrem Zimbalist*
Fred Zinnemann*
Jacob Ziv*
Johannes Zukertort*
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