List of Romanian Jews

This is a list of Romanian Jews who are or were Jewish or of Jewish ancestry.

Academics

Aaron Aaronsohn, botanist
Yaakov Bar-Shalom, electrical engineer
J. J. Benjamin, historian
Martin Bercovici, energy engineer
Noël Bernard, journalist
Randolph L. Braham, political scientist, historian
Nicolae Cajal, virologist and Jewish community leader
Gedeon Dagan, hydrologist
Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, sociologist and Marxist theorist
Lazăr Edeleanu, chemist
Zicman Feider, biologist, acarologist
Herman Finer, political scientist
Peter Freund, theoretical physicist
Moses Gaster, hakham (Sephardi scholar & Rabi), linguist (Hebrew, Romanian), early Zionist leader
Lucien Goldmann, philosopher, critic, sociologist
Alexandru Graur, linguist
Michael Harsgor, historian
Joseph M. Juran, industrial engineer
Ernest Klein, linguist
Charles H. Kremer, dentist and war-crimes investigation activist
Liviu Librescu, physicist
Mario Livio, astrophysicist
Edward Luttwak, economist and historian
Norman Manea, writer and college professor
Meinhard E. Mayer, physicist
Serge Moscovici, social psychologist
Victor Neumann, historian and political analyst
Andrei Oișteanu, historian and anthropologist
Zigu Ornea, literary critic
Julius Popper, explorer
Lazăr Șăineanu, (Eliezer Schein) linguist and folklorist
Itamar Singer (1946–2012), Israeli historian
Heimann Hariton Tiktin, linguist
Vladimir Tismăneanu, historian and political analyst
David Wechsler, psychologist
Avram Leib Zissu, political leader, Zionist activist, author, opinion journalist

Mathematicians

Peter Constantin, mathematician
David Emmanuel, mathematician
Murray Gerstenhaber (1927–2024), mathematician and lawyer
Sergiu Hart, mathematician, economist
George Lusztig, mathematician
Sergiu Klainerman, mathematician
Solomon Marcus, mathematician
Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, mathematician

Artists

Avigdor Arikha, painter
Victor Brauner, painter and photographer
Sorel Etrog, sculptor
André François, painter and graphic artist
Idel Ianchelevici, sculptor
Marcel Iancu, architect and painter
Iosif Iser, painter
Isidore Isou, Letterist
Alex Leon, painter
Moissaye Marans, sculptor
M. H. Maxy, painter
Constantin Daniel Rosenthal, painter
Reuven Rubin, painter
Herman Sachs, muralist
Arthur Segal, painter
Saul Steinberg, cartoonist
Hedda Sterne, painter, sculptor and graphic artist
Nicolae Vermont, painter and graphic artist
Jean Weinberg, photographer
Medi Dinu, painter

Business people

Max Auschnitt, financier
Emil Calmanovici, financier and communist activist
Safra Catz, business executive
Solomon Leibovici, financier
Eduardo Saverin (grandson of a Romanian Jew), co-founder of Facebook

Film and stage figures

Israil Bercovici, playwright
Lauren Bacall, actress
Lucian Bratu, director/film producer
Christian Calson, director/writer
I. A. L. Diamond, screenwriter
Abraham Goldfaden, founder of Yiddish-language theater
Henric Hirsch, director
Marin Karmitz, director, producer
Elina Löwensohn, actress
Sigmund Mogulesko
Maia Morgenstern (1962 - ) film and stage actress
Bernard Natan, film producer
Ovitz family, circus actors and traveling musicians
Edward G. Robinson, actor
Winona Ryder, actress
Abba Schoengold
Dumitru Solomon, playwright
Jacob Sternberg, director
Yael Stone, actress

Miscellaneous

Iancu Țucărman, Holocaust and Iași pogrom survivor

Musicians

Art Garfunkel, composer, singer-songwriter
Dana International, Israeli singer and musician
Shlomo Artzi, musician now living in Israel
Dan Bittman, singer
Alexander Uriah Boskovich, composer
Dumitru Bughici composer, pianist
Sergiu Comissiona, conductor, violinist
Alma Gluck, soprano
Sarah Gorby singer
Clara Haskil, pianist
Philip Herschkowitz, music theorist and composer
Gabriel Iranyi, composer
Mindru Katz, pianist
Max Leibowitz violinist and bandleader
Sammy Lerner, composer
Yoel Levi, conductor
Sergiu Luca, violinist
Radu Lupu, pianist
Silvia Marcovici, violinist
Ion Marin, conductor
Abraham Moskowitz, singer and theatre actor
Joseph Moskowitz, klezmer musician
Moishe Oysher, cantor and singer
Simon Paskal singer, cantor and theatre actor
Mendi Rodan. conductor, composer and violinist.
Beverly Sills, opera singer

Political figures

Martin Abern, Trotskyist activist
Colette Avital, Israeli politician
Davicion Bally, public servant
Olga Bancic, communist activist
Silviu Brucan, communist politician and dissident
Simion Bughici, communist politician
Avram Bunaciu, communist politician
Iosif Chișinevschi, communist politician
Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea, communist activist
Mișu Dulgheru, communist activist, spy
Miriam Eshkol, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol
Max Goldstein, communist activist
Michael Howard, British politician
Serge Klarsfeld, anti-Nazi activist
David Korner, Trotskyist activist
Alex Kozinski, judge
Leon Lichtblau, communist activist
Samuel Leibowitz, attorney
Vasile Luca, communist politician
Gheorghe Gaston Marin, communist politician
Nati Meir, politician
Ghiță Moscu, communist activist and politician
Alexandru Nicolschi, communist politician
Ana Pauker, communist politician
Marcel Pauker, communist politician
Mircea Răceanu, diplomat and dissident (Jewish father)
Leonte Răutu, communist politician
Valter Roman, communist politician
Petre Roman, politician (Jewish father)
Leonte Tismăneanu, communist politician
Ghizela Vass, communist activist

Religious figures

Moses Gaster, rabbi, philologist, community leader, early Zionist
David L. Genuth, rabbi
Ernest Klein, rabbi
Moses Rosen, rabbi
Moses Josef Rubin, rabbi
Alexandru Șafran, rabbi
Meir Shapiro, rabbi
Nicolae Steinhardt, Christian Orthodox monk (Jewish father)
Richard Wurmbrand, minister of religion

Sportspeople

Baseball

Basketball

Ernie Grunfeld, Romania-born US, NBA 6' 6" guard/forward & GM, Olympic champion

Boxing

Victor Zilberman, boxer

Canoeing

Leon Rotman, sprint canoer, 2x Olympic champion (C-1 10,000 meter, C-1 1,000-meter) and bronze (C-1 1,000-meter), 14 national titles

Chess

Abraham Baratz, chess player
Alexandru Tyroler, chess player
Bernardo Wexler, chess player

Fencing

Andre Spitzer, fencing master and coach

Football

Itay Shechter, soccer player
Avi Strool, soccer player
Samuel Zauber, late soccer player
Rudolf Wetzer, late soccer player
Jack Moisescu, late soccer player
Elemer Hirsch, late soccer player
Nicolae Hönigsberg, late soccer player
Norberto Höfling, late soccer player

Table tennis

Angelica Rozeanu (Adelstin), Romania/Israel, 17x world champion, ITTFHoF

Writers

Aharon Appelfeld (1932–2018), novelist and Holocaust survivor
Iuliu Barasch, physician and writer
Zelig Bardichever, poet and songwriter
Max Blecher, writer
Srul Bronshtein, poet
Nina Cassian, poet
Paul Celan, poet
Andrei Codrescu, poet and essayist
Vladimir Colin, short story writer and novelist
Benjamin Fondane, poet, playwright, and literary critic
Abraham Goldfaden, poet and playwright
Alexandru Hâjdeu, writer, founding member of the Romanian Academy.
Zeydl Shmuel-Yehuda Helman, songwriter, journalist and actor
D. Iacobescu, poet
Isidore Isou, poet
Irving Layton, poet
Stan Lee (1922–2018) born Stanley Martin Lieber, writer, editor, publisher, and co-creator of most of the Marvel Comics Universe.
Gherasim Luca, poet
Isac Ludo, novelist
Norman Manea, novelist
Cilibi Moise, storyteller and humorist
Florin Mugur, author (poetry, prose, essays)
Sașa Pană, poet and short story writer
Maurice Samuel, novelist
Elias Schwarzfeld, historian and novelist
Mihail Sebastian, playwright
Nicolae Steinhardt, writer (Jewish father)
Alexandru Toma, poet
Tristan Tzara, poet and essayist, founder of Dadaism
Tudor Vianu, literary critic
Ilarie Voronca, poet and essayist
Elie Wiesel, writer
Haralamb Zincă (Hary Isac Zilberman), writer
Gellu Naum, poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer, and translator (Jewish Mother, Maria Naum née Rosa Gluck)

References

↑ Contribution of the Romanian Jews to Culture and Civilisation, Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania, Hasefer Press, Bucharest, 2004, ISBN 973-630-067-6
↑ "Mr. Herman Finer, an Englishman, Jewish"; born Jassy, Roumania (Who was Who)
↑ Blumenthal, Ralph (28 May 1987). "DR. CHARLES KREMER, 89, DIES; PRESSED TRIFA WAR CRIME CASE". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
↑ Jewish Chronicle, Apr 20 2007 p.3
↑ Jacob Adler, "A Life on the Stage: A Memoir", translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-679-41351-0. 68, 125, 203, 221
↑ Darvari, Alex (9 January 2021). "A murit Iancu Țucărman, penultimul supraviețuitor al "trenurilor morții" din timpul Pogromului". Newsweek România (in Romanian).
↑ Cristescu, George Andrei (8 January 2021). "Iancu Țucărman, supraviețuitor al Pogromului de la Iași, a murit din cauza COVID-19". Adevărul (in Romanian).
↑ "Jews in Sports: Basketball". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
↑ Arbure, Zamfir C. (1898). "Basarabia in secolul XIX".
↑ "The Reform Advocate". 1914.
↑ http://filosofieromaneasca.uv.ro/bogdanpetriceicuhasdeu.htm^{[dead link]}
↑ "Home". Archived from the original on 20 April 2009.

[1] Contribution of the Romanian Jews to Culture and Civilisation, Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania, Hasefer Press, Bucharest, 2004, ISBN 973-630-067-6

[2] "Mr. Herman Finer, an Englishman, Jewish"; born Jassy, Roumania (Who was Who)

[3] Blumenthal, Ralph (28 May 1987). "DR. CHARLES KREMER, 89, DIES; PRESSED TRIFA WAR CRIME CASE". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

[4] Jewish Chronicle, Apr 20 2007 p.3

[5] Jacob Adler, "A Life on the Stage: A Memoir", translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-679-41351-0. 68, 125, 203, 221

[6] Darvari, Alex (9 January 2021). "A murit Iancu Țucărman, penultimul supraviețuitor al "trenurilor morții" din timpul Pogromului". Newsweek România (in Romanian).

[7] Cristescu, George Andrei (8 January 2021). "Iancu Țucărman, supraviețuitor al Pogromului de la Iași, a murit din cauza COVID-19". Adevărul (in Romanian).

[jewishvirtuallibrary1-8] "Jews in Sports: Basketball". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved May 25, 2010.

[9] Arbure, Zamfir C. (1898). "Basarabia in secolul XIX".

[10] "The Reform Advocate". 1914.

[11] ttp://filosofieromaneasca.uv.ro/bogdanpetriceicuhasdeu.htm^{[dead link]}

[12] "Home". Archived from the original on 20 April 2009.

List of Romanian Jews

Academics

Mathematicians

Artists

Business people

Film and stage figures

Miscellaneous

Musicians

Political figures

Religious figures

Sportspeople

Baseball

Basketball

Boxing

Canoeing

Chess

Fencing

Football

Table tennis

Writers

See also

References