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List of North European Jews

Before the Holocaust, Jews were a significant part of the population in Lithuania where they numbered around 240,000, including approximately 100,000 in Vilnius, or about 45% of that city's pre-World War II population (Vilnius was also once known as the "Jerusalem of Lithuania"). A large Jewish community also existed in Latvia. In comparison, Estonia and the Nordic countries have had much smaller communities, concentrated mostly in Denmark and Sweden. The following is a list of prominent North European Jews, arranged by country of origin:

Denmark

Estonia

  • Avi Benjamin (born 1959), composer
  • Ben Berlin (1896–1944), jazz musician
  • Maria Dangell (born 1974), singer and pianist
  • Aaron Feinstein, chess player
  • Moses Wolf Goldberg (1905–1964), chemist
  • Heinrich Gutkin (1879–1941), businessman and politician
  • Idel Jakobson (1904–1997), NKVD investigator
  • Louis Kahn (1901–1974), architect
  • Eri Klas (1939–2016), conductor
  • Mihhail Lotman (born 1952), philologist and politician
  • Yuri Lotman (1922–1993), semiotician
  • Zara Mints (1927–1990), literary scientist
  • Vladimir Padwa (1900–1981), pianist and composer
  • Benno Schotz (1891–1984), sculptor
  • Samuel H. Shapiro (1907–1987), politician
  • Emmanuel Steinschneider (1886–1970), physician
  • Leonid Stolovich (1929–2013), philosopher

Finland

Iceland

  • Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist
  • Bobby Fischer (deceased), chess player (Jewish mother, but did not self-identify as a Jew; American expatriate, Icelandic)
  • Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland
  • Sruli Recht, award-winning designer

Latvia

Lithuania

Norway

  • Bjørn Benkow, journalist, known for faking interviews
  • Jo Benkow, President of the Parliament of Norway
  • Carl Paul Caspari, professor in theology (Lutheranism)
  • Leo Eitinger (born in Slovakia), professor of psychiatry at University of Oslo and Holocaust survivor, known mainly for his work on late-onset psychological trauma amongst Holocaust survivors
  • Victor Goldschmidt, professor in mineralogy
  • Salo Grenning, pen name Pedro, editorial cartoonists in Verdens Gang
  • Berthold Grünfeld, specialist in psychiatry, and professor in social medicine until 1993
  • Imre Hercz, physician and public debater
  • Bente Kahan, Yiddish singer and actress
  • Hermann Kahan, Holocaust survivor, activist
  • Morten Levin, professor of organization and work science
  • Robert Levin, pianist
  • Oskar Mendelsohn, historian, known for his two-volume history of Norwegian Jews
  • Charles Philipson, Supreme Court Justice Judge, Chairman of the Petroleum Law Committee, deputy chairman of the Petroleum Council and chairman of the Riksel Committee
  • Moritz Rabinowitz, merchant, active in public debate against antisemitism and Nazism before World War II
  • Øystein Wingaard Wolf poet and author

Sweden

References

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  4. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Lithuania of Jewish parentage"
  5. ^ Jewish Year Book 1975, p.213
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