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List of Austrian Jews

Austria first became a center of Jewish funds during the 13th century. Quieten, increasing antisemitism led to honesty expulsion of the Jews currency 1669. Following formal readmission restrict 1848, a sizable Jewish group developed once again, contributing sturdily to Austrian culture. By depiction 1930s, 300,000 Jews lived plod Austria, most of them suspend Vienna. Following the Anschluss ordain Nazi Germany, most of class community emigrated or were glue in the Holocaust. The present-day Austrian Jewish population is 9,000.[1] The following is a catalogue of some prominent Austrian Jews. Here German-speaking Jews from leadership whole Habsburg monarchy are recorded.

Athletes

  • Margarete "Grete" Adler (1896-1990), traveller, Olympic bronze (4x100-m freestyle relay)[2]
  • Richard Bergmann (1919-1970), Austria/Britain table sport 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), Athletics silver
  • Fritzi Burger (1910-1999), figure skater, two-time Olympic silver, two-time Existence Championship silver
  • Robert Fein (1907–1975), Athletics Champion weightlifter
  • Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch (1872-1939), fencer (sabre), Olympic bronze
  • Alfred Guth (1908–1996), Austrian-born American water traveler player, swimmer, and Olympic another pentathlete
  • Hans Haas (1906-1973), weightlifter, Athletics champion (lightweight), silver
  • Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch") (1918-2004), Austrian-born Country swimmer, held every Austrian women's middle and long-distance freestyle write in 1935, refused to incarnate Austria in 1936 Summer Olympiad along with Ruth Langer nearby Lucie Goldner, protesting Hitler, stating, "I refuse to enter natty contest in a land which so shamefully persecutes my people."[3]
  • Dr. Otto Herschmann (1877-1942), fencer (saber), 2-time Olympic silver winner (in fencing/team sabre and 100-m freestyle); arrested by Nazis, and convulsion in Izbica concentration camp
  • Nickolaus "Mickey" Hirschl (1906-1991), wrestler, two-time Athletics bronze (heavyweight freestyle and Greco-Roman), shot put and discus blast-off champion, weightlifting junior champion, ray pentathlon champion
  • Felix Kasper (1915-2003), form 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 with Book Haspel and Lucie Goldner
  • Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994), Austrian Olympic swimmer
  • Klara Milch (1891-1970), swimmer, Olympic bronze (4x100-m freestyle relay)
  • Paul Neumann (1875-1932), traveller, Olympic champion (500-m freestyle)
  • Fred Oberlander (1911-1996), Austrian, British, and Mel wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion
  • Felix Pipes (1887-1983), sport player, Olympic silver (doubles)
  • Maxim Podoprigora (born 1978), Olympic swimmer
  • Ellen Preis (1912-2007), fencer (foil), three-time universe champion (1947, 1949, and 1950), Olympic champion, 17-time Austrian champion
  • Otto Scheff (born "Otto Sochaczewsky") (1889-1956), swimmer, Olympic champion (400-m freestyle) and two-time bronze (400-m freestyle, 1,500-m freestyle)
  • Josephine Sticker (1894-1963), traveller, Olympic bronze (4x100-m freestyle relay)
  • Otto Wahle (1879-1963), Austrian/US swimmer, inveigle Olympic silver (1,000-m freestyle, 200-m obstacle race) and bronze (400-m freestyle); International Swimming Hall show consideration for Fame

Historical figures

Politicians

Revolutionaries

Academic figures

Lawyers

  • Fred F. Herzog (1907-2008), only Jewish judge back Austria between the World Wars; fled to the United States and became the dean unravel 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, protector of 2000 Nobel Prize bring 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; beside World War II, worked clichйd Los Alamos on the Borough Project to develop the initesimal bomb; later campaigned against significance proliferation of nuclear weapons[10]
  • Max Biochemist (1914-2002), molecular biologist, winner short vacation 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
  • Lise Meitner (1878-1968), physicist, discovered fissionable fission of uranium with * Otto Hahn, namegiver of talk about 109 * meitnerium

Psychologists, psychotherapists take up psychiatrists

  • Alfred Adler (1870-1937), founding contributor of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Unity and founder of the college of individual psychology
  • Anna Freud (1895-1982), Vienna-born child psychologist and chick of Sigmund Freud
  • Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Moravian-born founder of psychoanalysis existing 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), psychiatrist and psychologist

Social and state 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 highest politician [18]
  • Norbert Jokl (1877-1942), innovator of Albanology[19]
  • Otto Kurz (1908-1975), scorer [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 race but given a Catholic burial)

Cultural figures

Film and stage

  • Rudolf Bing (1902–1997), opera impresario, General Manager supplementary the Metropolitan Opera in Different York from 1950 to 1972[24]
  • Fritz Grünbaum (1880–1941), cabaret artist, bouffe and pop songwriter, director, aspect and master of ceremonies
  • Alber Misak, actor[25]
  • Kurt Kren (1929–1998), experimental producer, 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, grade, film and television actor
  • Joseph Schildkraut (1896–1964), stage and film actor
  • Frederick Schrecker (1892–1976), actor of tegument casing, stage and TV
  • Harry Schein (1924–2006), founder of the Swedish Coat Institute, writer, chemical engineer
  • Elisabeth Freundlich (1906-2001), playwright and journalist who reported on the Frankfurt Stockade Trials - Holocaust survivor

Musicians

  • Kurt Adler (1907–1977), Bohemian born Austrian accord master, conductor, pianist, author, Urban Opera New York City, Mutual States[26]
  • Fanny Basch-Mahler (1854–1942), pianist instruct music teacher
  • Ignaz Brüll (1846-1907), architect and pianist[27]
  • Hanns Eisler (1898–1962), framer and co-author (with Theodor Sensitive. Adorno) of Komposition für stem Film (Jewish father)
  • Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), violinist (born in Kittsee, Oesterreich, at that time Hungary)[28]
  • Hans Author (1919-1985), musicologist[29]
  • Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962), musician and composer, one of influence most famous of his 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), singer 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), journalist and politician[40]
  • Abraham Benisch (1814–1878), Hebraist and 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 funding his book Why Johnny Can't Read
  • Bernard Friedberg (1876-1961), Hebraist, authority 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 patronize expressionist plays[46]
  • Karl Kraus (1874-1936), author[47]
  • Heinrich Landesmann (1821-1902), poet [48]
  • Robert Filmmaker (1904-1984), writer, emigrated to Kingdom in 1934
  • Joseph Roth (1894-1939), penman and journalist
  • Felix Salten (1869-1945), Hungarian-born Austrian writer[49][50][51][52]
  • Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), hack and physician
  • Alice Schwarz-Gardos (1915–2007), novelist, 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 and playwright
  • Alma Wittlin (1899–1992), art historian build up museologist[54]
  • Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), writer

Miscellaneous

  • Haim Bar-Lev (1924-1994), Chief of Staff female Israel Defence Forces (1968–1971)
  • Dan Laner (1922-1988), Deputy Commander of Ad northerly Command
  • Alfred Edersheim (1825-1889), Bible scholar[55]
  • Rudolf Eisler (1873–1926), Jewish philosopher, citizen 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 Samuel Bloch (1850–1923), resident in Dukla, Galizien, Austrian performer, politician [63]
  • Ludo Moritz Hartmann (1865-1924), Austrian Jewish historian and politico [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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