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Austria first became a center of Jewish learning during the 13th century. However, increasing anti-semitism led to the expulsion of the Jews in 1669. Following formal readmission in 1848, a sizable Jewish community developed once again, contributing strongly to Austrian culture. By the 1930s, some 300,000 Jews lived in Austria, most of them in Vienna. Following the Anschluss with Nazi Germany, most of the community emigrated or were killed in the Holocaust. The current Austrian Jewish population is around 7,400. The following is a list of some prominent Austrian Jews.

Table of contents

1 Historical Figures

1.1 Politicians
1.2 Other

2 Academic Figures

2.3 Scientists
2.4 Psychologists
2.5 Social & Political Scientists

3 Cultural Figures

3.6 Film & Stage
3.7 Musicians
3.8 Composers
3.9 Artists

4 Writers & Poets
5 Business Figures
6 Sport Figures
7 Miscellaneous

Historical Figures

Politicians

Viktor Adler, Austrian Socialist leader

Otto Bauer, Austrian Socialist leader
Rudolf Hilferding, German Finance Minister
Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem (1965-1993)
Bruno Kreisky, Austrian Chancellor (1970-1983)

Other

Friedrich Adler, assassin of Count Karl von Stürgkh

Adolf Fischhof, leader in Viennese revolution of 1848

Felix Frankfurter, US judge & civil rights activist
Alfred Fried, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize (1911)
Theodor Herzl, Zionist leader
Samuel Oppenheimer, court Jew
Felix G. Rohatyn, New York financer
Samson Wertheimer, court Jew
Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi-hunter

Academic Figures

Scientists

Robert Bárány, physician, Nobel Prize (1914)
Erwin Chargaff, chemist
Carl Djerassi, chemist: oral contraceptive pill
Alfred Einhorn, biochemist: Novocaine
Otto Frisch, physicist
Eric Kandel, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize (2000)
Walter Kohn, physicist, Nobel Prize (1998)
Karl Landsteiner, biologist: blood groups, Nobel Prize (1930)
Otto Loewi, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1936)
Herman F. Mark, chemist: polymers (half Jewish)
Lise Meitner, physicist: nuclear fission
Richard von Mises, mathematician & engineer
Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel Prize (1945)
Max Perutz, molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (1962)
Karl Pribram, neuroscientist (unconfirmed)
Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist, Nobel Prize (1944)
Victor Weisskopf, physicist

Psychologists

Alfred Adler, founder of individual psychology
Bruno Bettelheim, child psychology
Josef Breuer, forerunner of psychoanalysis
Anna Freud, child psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis
Viktor Frankl, founder of logotherapy
Marie Jahoda, psychology of discrimination
Leo Kanner, child psychiatry
Otto F. Kernberg, psychoanalysis (unconfirmed)
Melanie Klein, psychotherapy
Heinz Kohut, psychoanalysis
Ernst Kris, psychoanalysis & art historian
Walter Mischel, experimental psychology
Jacob Moreno, developer of psychodrama
Otto Rank, psychoanalysis
Wilhelm Reich, controversial psychologist
Theodor Reik, psychoanalysis

Social & Political Scientists

Peter Blau, sociologist
Martin Buber, Jewish philosopher
Eugen Ehrlich, sociology of law
Ivan Illich, polymath (half Jewish)
Norbert Jokl, linguist
Hans Kelsen, legal philosopher
Nachman Krochmal, Jewish philosopher
Paul Lazarsfeld, sociologist
Gerda Lerner, feminist historian
Robert Lowie, anthropologist (half Jewish?)
Ludwig von Mises, economist
Karl Popper, philosopher of science
Alfred Schutz, sociologist
Vienna Circle, mostly Jewish:
- Gustav Bergmann, philosopher
- Herbert Feigl, philosopher
- Philipp Frank, philosopher
- Hans Hahn, mathematician
- Otto Neurath, sociologist (half Jewish)
- Friedrich Waissman, philosopher
Otto Weininger, anti-Semitic philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
Eric Wolf, anthropologist