List of West European Jews Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Apart from France, established Jewish populations exist in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. With the original medieval populations wiped out by the Black Death and the pogroms that followed it, the current Dutch and Belgian communities originate in the Jewish expulsion from Spain and Portugal, while most of the Swiss community arrived after emancipation in 1874. The Dutch population, however, was decimated during the Holocaust, while major Jewish communities never again arose in Spanish or Portugal. Here is a list of some prominent West European Jews, arranged by country of origin.

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1 Belgium 2 Ireland 3 Luxembourg 4 Monaco 5 Netherlands 6 Portugal 7 Spain 8 Switzerland

Belgium

• Chantal Akerman, director
• Zora Arkus-Duntov, father of the Chevrolet Corvette (Belgian-born)
• Natacha Atlas, singer (half Jewish; Belgian-born)
• Lt-General Louis Bernheim, WWI General
• Gérard Blitz, Olympic water polo medallist, co-founder of Club Med
• Diane Von Furstenberg, fashion designer
• Camille Gutt, finance minister; head of the IMF
• Paul Hymans, liberal leader; president of the League of Nations
• George Koltanowski, chess player
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist (Belgian-born)
• Ilya Prigogine, chemist, Nobel Prize (1977)
• Henry Spira, animal rights activist
• Elias M. Stein, mathematician (Belgian-born)
• Gilbert Stork, chemist
• Olivier Strelli, fashion designer

Ireland

• Henri Bergson, philosopher (Anglo-Irish mother)
• John Desmond Bernal, molecular biologist (half Jewish)
• Agnes Bernelle, entertainer
• Robert & Ben Briscoe, lord mayors of Dublin
• Daniel Day Lewis, actor (half Jewish)
• Chaim Herzog, Israeli president
• Sam Obernik, singer

Luxembourg

• Hugo Gernsback, science-fiction pioneer (unconfirmed)
• Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist (Luxembourg-born)

Monaco

• Franz Schreker, composer (half Jewish)

Netherlands

• Tobias Asser, jurist, Nobel Peace Prize (1911)
• Alfred Ayer, philosopher (Dutch mother)
• Frieda Belinfante, conductor (half Jewish)
• Carina Benninga, field hockey player, Olympic flag bearer
• Sarah Bernhardt, actress (half Jewish, Dutch mother)
• Job Cohen, mayor of Amsterdam
• Anne Frank, diarist
• Samuel Gompers, labor union leader (Dutch parents)
• Jacob Israël de Haan, poet
• Etty Hillesum, writer
• Xaviera Hollander, writer (half Jewish)
• Leo Lionni, illustrator (half Jewish)
• Karl Marx, social theorist (Dutch mother)
• Harry Mulisch, author (half Jewish)
• David Ricardo, economist (Dutch parents)
• Tom Okker, tennis player
• Leo Smit, composer
• Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
• Sjaak Swart, Ajax footballer (half Jewish)

Portugal

• Luis De Torres, explorer
• Jorge Sampaio, president (Moroccan Jewish grandmother)
• Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (Portuguese Parents)

Spain

• Isaac Carasso, founder of Danone
• Cecilia Roth, actress
• Milton Wolff, head of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Switzerland

• Jeff Agoos, US soccer international
• Ernest Bloch, composer
• Felix Bloch, physicist, Nobel Prize (1952)
• Alain de Botton, writer
• John M. Brunswick, founder of the Brunswick Corporation
• Albert Cohen, novelist
• Arthur Cohn, film producer
• Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss president (1999)
• Camille & Henry Dreyfus, inventors of Celanese
• Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize (1921)
• Edmond Fischer, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992) (half Jewish)
• Robert Frank, photographer
• Viktor Korchnoi, chess player (half Jewish)
• Mathilde Krim, AIDS researcher (convert)
• Meret Oppenheim, surrealist artist
• Rachel, stage actress (Swiss born)
• Tadeus Reichstein, chemist, Nobel Prize (1950)
• Edmond Safra, banker
• Jean Starobinski, literary critic
• Charles Weissmann, biochemist

See also: List of Jews, Belgians, Irish people, Luxembourgeois, Monegasque people, Dutch people, Portuguese, Spaniards, Swiss people

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