Russian male actors are Jews. The most famous Jews of Russia

The most beautiful, famous Jewish women and Jews of Russia November 29th, 2014

Jews are an ancient people of Semitic origin, for two thousand years (until 1948) it did not have its own state and existed exclusively as a network of Jewish diasporas around the world.
The national religion of Jews and the most important attribute of their self-awareness is Judaism, therefore in many languages ​​of the world there is no distinction between the concepts of "Jew" and "Jew", but in Russian, Jew means nationality, and Jew means religion.
Unlike most peoples of the world, Jewish nationality is determined not by the father, but by the mother. Kabbalah explains this by the fact that the soul of a Jewish woman at the moment of conception "attracts" the Jewish soul. The "Law on the Return" of the State of Israel currently states: "A Jew is one who is born of a Jewish mother and has not converted to another religion, as well as a person who converted to Judaism."
This post presents the most beautiful, in my opinion, famous Jewish women in Russia, compiled on the basis of the understanding of Jewry, which is cited above. Those. the rating does not include Jewish paternal who did not convert to Judaism (for example, Irina Slutskaya), but it includes maternal Jewish women, as well as Jewish converts.

Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya - outstanding Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR. In 1999, in a poll by the newspaper "KP" Elina Bystritskaya was recognized as "the most beautiful woman of the outgoing century." She was born on April 4, 1928 in Kiev into a Jewish family.

Sara Lvovna Manakhimova, better known under the stage name Jasmine - Russian singer. She was born on October 12, 1977 in Derbent into a family of Mountain Jews (a sub-ethnic group of Jews from the North and East Caucasus).

Ksenia Alexandrovna Rappoport (born March 25, 1974, St. Petersburg) - Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia. From an interview with Ksenia Rappoport: "I feel like a Jew and I never hid it. Moreover, when at the beginning of my career there was a question of taking a pseudonym, I deliberately did not do this, because I wanted to bear my father's surname."

Yanina (Yana) Farkhadovna Batyrshina (after marriage she took the surname Weinstein) - Russian athlete, five-time European champion and seven-time world champion in rhythmic gymnastics. She was born on October 7, 1979 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Yana's father is Tatar, mother is Jewish. Yana is married to the famous producer Timur Weinstein, a Jew by nationality. The couple have two daughters - Mariam and Ailu.

Tatiana Evgenievna Samoilova (May 4, 1934, St. Petersburg - May 4, 2014) - Soviet and Russian actress, best known for her role as Veronica in the film "The Cranes Are Flying" (1957). From an interview with Tatyana Samoilova: "We are half-breeds with my brother. Our mother is a purebred Jewish woman, and our father is a purebred Russian." The actress also said that it was from her Jewish mother that she inherited slightly slanted eyes.

Oksana Olegovna Fandera (born November 7, 1967, Odessa) - Russian actress. Her father, Oleg Fandera, is an actor, half Ukrainian, half Gypsy, and her mother is Jewish.
From an interview with the actress:
- Oksana, three bloods are mixed in you: Ukrainian, Gypsy and Jewish. How do they manifest themselves?
- Probably, I cook like a Ukrainian, I love freedom like a gypsy, and I feel the world's sorrow like a Jew.
- Who do you feel more like?
- Now I can equally feel like one, the other and the third.

Tamara (Tamriko) Mikhailovna Gverdtsiteli (born January 18, 1962, Tbilisi) - Soviet, Georgian and Russian singer, actress, composer, People's Artist of the Georgian SSR, People's Artist of Russia. Father - from the ancient Georgian noble family Gverdtsiteli. Mother - Jewish, granddaughter of the Odessa rabbi.

From an interview with Tamara Gverdtsiteli:
“My father is Georgian, I was born and lived most of my life in Georgia, naturally, its culture has had a tremendous impact on my life and work. But I was born and raised by a Jewish mother, and over the years I feel more and more of my Jewish genes. "
“In 1988, I first came to Israel and realized that I simply had to sing in Hebrew. Even for myself, even if only 20 people hear me. This is the cry of my soul, this is the call of blood. (...) When I sang in Hebrew, I seemed to have heard a voice from the depths of the ages. "

Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya - Soviet and Russian ballerina, choreographer, choreographer, teacher, writer and actress, People's Artist of the USSR. She was born on November 20, 1925 in Moscow into a Jewish family: her father is a famous economic figure Mikhail Emmanuilovich Plisetskiy, her mother is a silent film actress Rakhil Mikhailovna Messerer.

Historically, not all of Russia's famous Jews found themselves on the same side of the barricades. Fate scattered the representatives of this people, who lived in the diaspora in the 19th century. In Russia, Jews were among the rich and the poor. Some of them were shot after the revolution, others ended up in exile, and still others were among the leaders of the RSDLP. But each of them contributed to the history of our common.

Jews in Russia

Representatives of this ancient people settled in the Russian lands, starting from the era of Kievan Rus. In the 15th century, the heresy of the Jews provoked the first anti-Semitic sentiments, and later Ivan the Terrible demanded the expulsion of the Jews from the borders of his country.

A large number of Jews became subjects of the Russian Empire in the age of Catherine II, when the Crimea and part of the territory of Poland were annexed to the state. The empress's decree attributed the representatives of this people to the urban estates of the bourgeoisie and merchants. Thanks to this, the largest Jewish community has developed in Russia.

Under Nicholas I, Jews began to be subject to conscription. Also, the autocrat's laws limited the rights of representatives of this people to choose their place of residence. A decree appeared prohibiting the wearing of traditional Jewish clothing in society. At the same time, by order of Nicholas I, a special education system was created for Jews, which made it possible to train teachers and rabbis.

In society, especially among conservatives, there has always been some prejudice against this people. After the assassination of Alexander II, Jewish pogroms took place throughout the empire. Communities in 160 cities were affected and many Jewish families lost their property. Over the next 25 years, about two million Jews left Russia, finding a new home in the United States.

Book publisher

The name of Ilya Efron is known to most educated people in Russia. This is due to his activities as a publisher and, above all, the creation of a multivolume universal encyclopedia, which Ilya Efron, together with the Brockhaus company, has been publishing for 17 years.

Jewish roots played an important role in the biography of this man, who was the great-grandson of Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman, one of the spiritual authorities of the Orthodox Jews, who earned the nickname "Gaona" ("genius") for his scholarship.

Ilya Efron's father was a merchant of the first guild and combined financial work with the study of the Talmud. Becoming the publisher and completing the release of the 86-volume encyclopedic dictionary, Ilya Abramovich published the 16-volume "Jewish Encyclopedia" in his printing house in 1908-1913. This work was supposed to tell about "Jewry", its culture and history.

Rich

Horace Osipovich Gunzburg became famous as a banker, one of the richest people in Russia. He was born in 1833 in the Kiev province in the family of a merchant who got rich on wine farms. Later, Gunzburg Sr. moved to the capital of the empire, where, with his sons Horace and Urius, he created a banking firm.

Horace Osipovich served for several years in St. Petersburg as the consul of the Duke of Hesse. For this he received the title from Duke to Baron, and Alexander II allowed Gunzburg to use the acquired title in the Russian Empire.

In the following years, the Baron, as a shareholder, participated in a series of financial ventures that brought him additional income. In 1892 Gunzburg left the bank in a difficult financial situation and focused on gold mining. Horace Osipovich managed to take control of the Lenskoye gold mining partnership.

Following the example of most merchants of the empire, Gunzburg was not shy of charity and social work. He tried to improve the lives of his fellow men. So, for many years he headed the central committee of the Jewish Colonization Society, financed the construction of the Great Choral Synagogue in the capital of the empire and served as its teacher.

After the death of Horace Gunzburg in 1909, his sons inherited the financial empire. They ran a dozen enterprises, and the family's capital was estimated at 25 million Russian rubles.

Revolutionary

Among the creators and leaders of the October Revolution, many prominent leaders were of Jewish origin - Kamenev, Kaganovich, Sverdlov, Zinoviev. But the most famous among the Jewish revolutionaries is Lev Davidovich Trotsky.

At birth, this man was called Leiba Bronstein. He was born in the Kherson province, where his father was a landlord from among the Jewish colonists. The Bronstein arrived in the Kherson region from the Poltava province. As the revolutionary himself recalled, as a child he spoke not Yiddish, but Ukrainian and Russian.

Already in his youth, Leib was carried away by Marxist ideas and joined the South Russian Workers' Union. He invented the pseudonym "Trotsky" in 1902 during his escape from exile, when he entered the name of one of his guards in the Odessa prison in a false passport.

It is unlikely that the origin somehow influenced the views of Bronstein-Trotsky. In 1903, as a correspondent for the Bolshevik newspaper Iskra, he attended a Zionist congress and cruelly ridiculed him in his publications.

Psychologist

Lev Semenovich (Simkhovich) Vygotsky went down in history as one of the greatest Russian Soviet psychologists. He was born in the city of Orsha (Mogilev province), and his father was the merchant Simkha Vygotsky.

Lev Vygotsky was the second child of a large Jewish family. He received his primary education from his home teacher, Sholom Ashpiz. Later, the young man graduated from the history department of the Shanyavsky People's University in Moscow. In 1923 he began to study psychology professionally and became the head of the psychological laboratory in Gomel, where he grew up and spent his childhood. A year later, Lev Semenovich moved to Moscow and the remaining years of his life lived and was engaged in scientific work in the capital of Soviet Russia.

Among the achievements of Vygotsky the psychologist is cultural-historical theory. She explores the role of the sign and the word, as the most important cultural mediators, in the formation of higher human psychological functions. Achievements of L.S. Vygotsky received recognition among scientists in Europe and the United States.

Historian

Evgeny Viktorovich Tarle entered the history of Soviet science as one of the first and most significant historians. His research interests were focused primarily on the military history of Russia in the 18th-19th centuries. His monographs on the war of 1812 and Napoleon are still being reprinted.

Tarle was born in Kiev into a merchant family. His mother came from a family where there were many interpreters of the Talmud, sacred to the Jews. In 1893, Tarle underwent Orthodox baptism and took the new name Eugene instead of the former Gregory. The reason for baptism was love for a Russian girl, who after that became his wife.

It is well known that Yevgeny Viktorovich did not hide his Jewish origin. Famous was the beginning of his lecture in 1951, when he informed the students that the stress in his last name is on the first syllable: "I am not French, but a Jew."

The people mentioned above are far from all famous Jews who contributed to the development of science and artistic culture of our country and the world. The formation of each of them was influenced by family education in the Jewish environment and familiarity with the culture of Russia and other peoples. Often, their origins hindered them due to the prejudices of others, but talent allowed these people to win and become famous.

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Zhabotinsky Vladimir Evgenievich - Wolf Evnovich Zhabotinsky

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Lenin Vladimir Ilyich

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Sverdlov Yakov Mikhailovich

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Trotsky Lev Davidovich - Leiba Davidovich Bronstein

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Radek Karl Berngardovich - Karol Sobelzon Radek

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Sokolnikov Grigory Yakovlevich - Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant

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Zinoviev Grigory Evseevich - Ovsey-Gersh Aronovich Apfelbaum

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Kamenev Lev Borisovich - Lev Borisovich Kamenev Rosenfeld

Soviet party and statesman. 1883-1936 Lev Borisovich Kamenev (real name Rosenfeld) was born on July 18, 1883 in Moscow into an educated Russian-Jewish family. His father was a machinist on the Moscow-Kursk railway, later - after graduating from the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology - became an engineer; mother graduated from the Bestuzhev higher courses. Lev graduated from high school in Tiflis ...

Litvinov Maxim Maximovich - Max Moiseevich Wallakh Filkinstein

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Berry Henrikh Grigorievich - Genakh Girshevich Yegoda

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Kaganovich Lazar Moiseevich

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Alferov Zhores Ivanovich

Russian physicist, 2000 Nobel laureate. R. 1930 Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was born into the Belarusian-Jewish family of Ivan Karpovich Alferov and Anna Vladimirovna Rosenblum in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk. The name was given in honor of Jean Jaures, an international fighter against the war, the founder of the newspaper "L'Humanite". After 1935, the family moved to the Urals, where the father ...

Vygotsky Lev Semyonovich - Lev Simkhovich Vygodsky

Soviet psychologist. 1896-1934 Lev Simkhovich Vygodsky (in 1917 and 1924 he changed his patronymic and surname) was born on November 17, 1896 in the city of Orsha in the family of the deputy manager of the Gomel branch of the United Bank, merchant Simkha (Semyon) Yakovlevich Vygodsky and his wife Tsilya (Cecilia) Moiseevna Vygodskaya ... He was the second of eight children in the family. Education ...

Ginzburg Vitaly Lazarevich

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Zeldovich Yakov Borisovich

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Ioffe Abram Fedorovich

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Kagan Veniamin Fedorovich

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Kikoin Isaac Konstantinovich

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Lavochkin Semyon Alekseevich - Shlema Aizikovich Magaziner

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Landau Lev Davidovich

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Lifshits Evgeny Mikhailovich

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Mandelstam Leonid Isaakovich

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Mil Mikhail Leontievich

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Perelman Yakov Isidorovich

Russian and Soviet scientist, popularizer of science. 1882-1942 Yakov Isidorovich Perelman was born on December 4, 1882 in the city of Bialystok, Grodno province of the Russian Empire (now Bialystok is part of Poland) into a Jewish family. His father worked as an accountant, his mother taught in the elementary grades. The father died in 1883, and the mother alone had to raise the children. She...

Samoilovich Rudolf Lazarevich - Ruvim Lazarevich Samoilovich

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Tarle Evgeny Viktorovich

Soviet historian. 1874-1955 Born November 8, 1874 in Kiev in a Jewish family, was named Gregory. His father belonged to the merchant class, but was mainly engaged in raising children, served as the manager of a shop belonging to a Kiev firm, and his wife was managed there. He spoke German and even translated Dostoevsky. The mother came from a family, in history ...

Frank Ilya Mikhailovich

Soviet physicist, 1958 Nobel Prize laureate. 1908–1990 Born on October 23, 1908 in the family of the mathematician Mikhail Ludvigovich Frank and Elizaveta Mikhailovna Frank (ur. Gratsianova), who had recently moved to St. Petersburg from Nizhny Novgorod. The future physicist came from a well-known Moscow Jewish family - his great-grandfather, Moisei Mironovich Rossiyansky, in the 60s of the XIX ...

Frenkel Yakov Ilyich

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Khariton Yuliy Borisovich

Russian theoretical physicist and physicist-chemist. 1904-1996 Yuliy Borisovich Khariton was born in St. Petersburg on February 27, 1904 into a Jewish family. Grandfather, Joseph Davidovich Khariton, was a merchant of the first guild in Feodosia. Father, Boris Osipovich Khariton, was a famous journalist expelled from the USSR in 1922, after the annexation of Latvia to the USSR in 1940 he was convicted ...

Khvolson Daniil Avraamovich

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Stern Lina Solomonovna

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Rubinstein Anton Grigorievich

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Rubinstein Nikolay Grigorievich

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Engel Julius Dmitrievich

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Maikapar Samuil Moiseevich

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Glier Reingold Moritsevich

Soviet composer, musical and public figure. 1875_1956 Reingold Moritsevich Glier (Reingold Ernest Glier) was born on January 11, 1875 in Kiev. The Glier family comes from Jews who converted to Lutheranism. Father - Moritz Glier moved to Kiev from the German city of Klingenthal. He was a master of the manufacture of brass instruments, and in Kiev he was the owner of a music workshop. ...

Gnesins

Evgenia Fabianovna, married Savina (1870–1940), Maria Fabianovna (1871–1918), Elena Fabianovna (1874–1967), Elizaveta Fabianovna, married Vita-check (1879–1953), Olga Fabianovna, married Alexandrova (1885) –1963), Mikhail Fabianovich (1883–1957) .. Russian musicians, founders of the musical school Sisters and brother were born in Rostov-on-Don in the family of Fabian Osipovich Gnesin, a rabbi. Mother Bella Isaevna Fletzinger-Gnesina, singer, student of the Polish composer S. Moniuszko. Baptized daughters of a Rostov rabbi ...

Dunaevsky Isaac Osipovich - Isaac Beru Betsalev Dunaevsky

Soviet composer. 1900-1955 Dunaevsky (Isaac Beru Iosif Betsalev Tsalievich Dunaevsky) was born on January 30, 1900 in the Ukrainian town of Lokhvitsa into the Jewish family of a small bank employee Tsale-Yosef Simonovich and Rozalia Isaakovna Dunaevsky. The family was musical. Grandfather was a cantor, mother played the piano and sang. From childhood he showed outstanding musical abilities, from the age of 8 ...

Schnittke Alfred Garrievich

Soviet and Russian composer. 1934–1998 Alfred Schnittke was born on November 24, 1934 in the city of Engels in the Republic of Volga Germans into a mixed Jewish and German family, the son of a Jew and a German. His father, Harry Viktorovich Schnittke, was born in Frankfurt am Main. Mother, Maria Iosifovna Vogel, came from German colonists. The first language of the composer was German, however ...

Gusman Israel Borisovich

Russian conductor. 1917-2003 Gusman Izrail Borisovich was born on August 18, 1917 in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of the famous music critic Boris Evseevich Gusman. Soon the Guzman family moved to Moscow. In 1931, Izrail Borisovich graduated from the Music College named after. Gnesins and entered the military conducting faculty of the Moscow Conservatory. During his studies, he began to work ...

Gilels Emil Grigorievich

outstanding Soviet pianist. 1916-1985 Emil Gilels was born on October 19, 1916 in Odessa, into a Jewish family. Father, Grigory Gilels, worked at a sugar factory, mother - Esther - was a housewife. Emil began playing the piano at the age of five and a half. Having quickly achieved significant success, Gilels first appeared in public in May ...

Petrov Nikolay Arnoldovich

Soviet and Russian pianist. 1943–2011 Nikolai Petrov was born on April 14, 1943 in Moscow, into a family of musicians. His father, cellist Arnold Yakovlevich Ferkelman, performed with Dmitry Shostakovich's piano accompaniment and was friends with the composer; grandfather - opera bass Vasily Rodionovich Petrov, sang at the Bolshoi Theater; uncle - composer Moses ...

Zeitlin Lev Moiseevich

Soviet violinist. 1881-1952 Born on March 15, 1881 in Tbilisi. In 1901 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, violin class with L.S. Auer, a Russian violinist of Hungarian origin. Auer is the founder of the so-called Russian violin school. He brought up over 300 students. In 1918 he emigrated to the United States. After graduating from the Conservatory, Lev Tseitlin gave concerts in Russia ...

Oistrakh David Fedorovich - David Fishelevich Oistrakh

Soviet violinist, violist, conductor. 1908-1974 David Fedorovich (Fishelevich) Oistrakh was born on September 30, 1908 in Odessa in the family of the second guild merchant Fishel Davidovich Oistrakh and his wife Beila. From the age of five he studied violin and viola with Pyotr Stolyarsky, first privately, and from 1923 - at the Odessa Institute of Music and Drama ...

Kogan Leonid Borisovich

Soviet violinist. 1924-1982 Leonid Borisovich Kogan was born on November 14, 1924 in Yekaterinoslav, (now - Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), in the family of photographer Boris Semyonovich and Sofia Lvovna Kogan. He studied since 1933 in Moscow, since 1936 - at the Central Music School in the class of A.I. Yampolsky, he also graduated from Moscow in 1948 ...

Elman Mikhail Saulovich

Russian and American violinist. 1891-1967 Misha Elman was born into a musical Jewish family. His grandfather, Yosele Elman, was a famous klezmer violinist (the origins of klezmer are found both in ancient Jewish folklore and in the music of neighboring peoples, especially Moldavian). Grandfather gave his four-year-old grandson the first violin. Father - Saul Iosifovich Elman - was a melamed ...

Milstein Natan Mironovich

Soviet and American violinist. 1904-1992. Nathan Milstein was born on January 13, 1904 in Odessa in a large family far from music. His father, Miron Milstein, worked for a woolen cloth trading company; mother, Maria Bluestein, was a housewife; the family had seven children. He studied violin at the school of Peter Stolyarsky until 1914, then studied ...

Kheifets Yasha - Joseph Ruvimovich Kheifets

one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. 1901–1987 Yasha (Iosif Ruvimovich) Kheifets was born on February 2, 1901 in the city of Vilnius (Russian Empire) in the family of music teacher Ruvim Elievich Kheifets and Khaya Izrailevna Sharfstein. Yasha began studying violin at the age of three with his father and soon became known as a child prodigy. From the age of four began ...

Galich Alexander Arkadevich - Alexander Arkadievich Ginzburg

author and performer of his own songs. 1918-1977 Alexander Arkadyevich Galich (Ginzburg) was born on October 19, 1918 in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk) into an intelligent Jewish family. Father - Aron Samoilovich Ginzburg, economist; mother - Feiga (Fanny, Faina) Borisovna Veksler, worked at the conservatory. Grandfather, Samuel Ginzburg, was a famous pediatrician in the city. In 1920, the Galich family ...

Kristalinskaya Maya Vladimirovna

Soviet pop singer. 1932-1985 Maya Vladimirovna was born on February 24, 1932 in an intelligent Moscow family. Russian by mother, Jewish by father. During her studies at school, she studied in the children's choir group of the National Song and Dance Ensemble of the Central House of Railway Workers' Children, led by Semyon Osipovich Dunaevsky, brother of Isaac Dunaevsky. Graduation June evening ...

Boris Pasternak

one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize. 1890-1960 The future poet was born in Moscow into a creative Jewish family. Father - artist, academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts Leonid Osipovich (Isaak Iosifovich) Pasternak, mother - pianist Rosalia Isidorovna Pasternak (nee Kaufman). The family moved to Moscow from Odessa in 1889, in a year ...

Antokolsky Pavel Grigorievich

Soviet poet. 1896-1978 Pavel Antokolsky was born on July 1, 1896 in St. Petersburg. His father, Grigory Moiseevich, worked as an assistant attorney at law, until 1933 he served in Soviet institutions. Mother Olga Pavlovna, who graduated from the Frebel courses, devoted herself entirely to the family. Antokolsky's grandfather was the famous sculptor Mark Antokolsky, the creator of the famous statue of Grozny. Since childhood, Pavel was fond of ...

Schwartz Evgeny Lvovich

Soviet writer. 1896-1958 Evgeny Lvovich Schwartz was born on October 21, 1896 in Kazan. His father was Lev Borisovich (Vasilievich) Schwartz, a Jew who converted to Orthodoxy, and his mother was Maria Fedorovna Shelkova from an Orthodox Russian family. Moreover, not only Yevgeny Schwartz's father was Orthodox, but also his grandfather, who received the name Boris at baptism (according to the recipient ...

Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel

Soviet writer. 1894-1940 Isaac Babel was born on July 12, 1984 in Odessa on Moldavanka in the Jewish family of a poor merchant Manya Itskovich Bobel, a native of Belaya Tserkov, and Feiga (Fani) Aronovna Bobel. Babel's biography has some gaps. This is mainly due to the fact that the autobiographical notes of the writer himself are largely altered, invented ...

Mandelstam Osip Emilievich

one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century. 1891-1938 Osip Mandelstam was born on January 15, 1891 in Warsaw into a Jewish family. Father, Emily Veniaminovich (Emil, Haskl, Khatskel Beniaminovich) Mandelstam, was a glove master, was a merchant of the first guild, which gave him the right to live outside the Pale of Settlement, despite his Jewish origin. Mother, Flora ...

Tynyanov Yuri Nikolaevich - Yuri Nasonovich Tynyanov

Soviet writer, literary critic. 1894-1943 Yuri Nikolaevich (Nasonovich) Tynyanov was born on October 18, 1894 in Rezhitsa, Vitebsk province in a wealthy Jewish family of doctor Nason Arkadyevich Tynyanov and co-owner of a tannery Sofia Borisovna Tynyanova (ur. Sora-Khasi Epstein). In 1904-1912 he studied at the Pskov gymnasium, which he graduated with a silver medal. Then he studied in 1912-1918 ...

Kassil Lev Abramovich

Soviet writer. 1905-1970 Lev Kassil was born on July 10, 1905 in Pokrovskaya Sloboda (now the city of Engels, Saratov Region) in the family of a doctor Abram Grigorievich Kassil and a music teacher, then a dentist Anna Iosifovna Perelman. He studied at the gymnasium, after the revolution transformed into the Unified Labor School, which he graduated in 1923. The school published a handwritten ...

Kaverin Veniamin Alexandrovich - Veniamin Alexandrovich Zilber

Soviet writer. 1902-1989 Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin (Zilber) was born on April 19, 1902 in the family of the bandmaster of the 96th Omsk Infantry Regiment Abel Abramovich Zilber and his wife, Khana Girshevna Desson, the owner of music stores. On August 14, 1912, according to the results of admissions tests, Veniamin Zilber was enrolled in the preparatory class of the Pskov provincial gymnasium, where he studied ...

Ilf Ilya Arnoldovich - Iehiel-Leib Arievich Fainzilberg

Soviet writer and journalist. 1897-1937 Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf (Iekhiel-Leib Arievich Fainzilberg) was born on October 15, 1897, the third of four sons in the family of a bank clerk Arye Benjaminovich Fainzilberg and his wife Mindl Aronovna in Odessa, where they moved between 1893 and 1895. In 1913 he graduated from a technical school, after which he worked in a drawing ...

Kazakevich Emmanuil Genrikhovich

Russian and Jewish Soviet writer. 1913-1962 Kazakevich (known among his relatives as Emma Kazakevich) was born on February 24, 1913 in Kremenchug, Poltava province, into the family of a Jewish publicist and literary critic Geneh Kazakevich. In 1930, Emmanuel graduated from the Kharkov Mechanical Engineering College and the next year he moved with his parents to Birobidzhan, where the Jewish ...

Grossman Vasily Semyonovich - Joseph Solomonovich Grossman

Soviet writer and journalist. 1905-1964 Vasily Grossman (Joseph Solomonovich Grossman) was born on December 12, 1905 in Berdichev into an intelligent Jewish family. His father - Solomon Iosifovich Grossman, a chemical engineer by profession - was a graduate of the University of Bern and came from a Bessarabian merchant family. Mother - Ekaterina (Malka) Savelievna Vitis, French teacher - ...

Aliger Margarita Iosifovna - Margarita Iosifovna Zeiliger

Soviet poetess. 1915-1992 Margarita Iosifovna Aliger (Zeiliger) was born on October 7, 1915 in Odessa into a Jewish family. Her parents were employees. Her father dreamed of composing music all his life, but a terrible need for many years forced him to engage in translations of technical literature. Therefore, he really wanted that at least his daughter could ...

Barto Agniya Lvovna - Gitel Leibovna Volova

Soviet children's poet. 1906-1981 Agniya Lvovna (Gitel Leibovna Volova) was born on February 17, 1906 in Moscow into an educated Jewish family of a veterinarian. According to the testimony of her daughter, Tatyana Andreevna Scheglyaeva, Agnia was born in 1907. The fact is that when Agnia was 17 years old, in order to receive rations for employees (herring heads), she ...

Dragunsky Victor Yuzefovich

Soviet writer. 1913-1972 Viktor Dragunsky was born on November 30, 1913 in New York into a family of immigrants from Russia. Soon after that, the parents returned to their homeland and settled in Gomel. Victor started working early to provide himself with food, because during the war his father died of typhus. His stepfather I. Voitsekhovich, red commissar, ...

Marshak Samuil Yakovlevich

Soviet poet. 1887-1964 Samuil Marshak was born on November 3, 1887 in Voronezh into a Jewish family. His father, Yakov Mironovich, worked as a foreman at a soap factory. Mother, Evgenia Borisovna Gitelson, was a housewife. The surname "Marshak" is an abbreviation for "Our teacher Rabbi Aaron Shmuel Kaidanover" and belongs to the descendants of this famous rabbi and Talmudist (1624-1676). Early ...

Rybakov Anatoly Naumovich

Soviet, Russian writer. 1911–1998 Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov was born on January 14, 1911 in Chernigov in the Jewish family of engineer Naum Borisovich Aronov and his wife Dina Abramovna Rybakova. From 1919 he lived in Moscow. He studied at the former Khvostov gymnasium. All Rybakov's childhood impressions and memories are connected with the life of a big city in the 1920s. Here, ...

Samoilov David - David Samuilovich Kaufman

Soviet poet, translator. 1920-1990 David Samoilov (David Samuilovich Kaufman) was born on June 1, 1920 in Moscow into a Jewish family. Father - a famous doctor, chief venereologist of the Moscow region Samuil Abramovich Kaufman; mother - Cecilia Izrailevna Kaufman. In 1938, David Samoilov graduated from high school and entered the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, History and Literature (MIFLI) - ...

Levitansky Yuri Davidovich

poet and translator. 1922–1996 Yuri Davidovich Levitansky was born on January 22, 1922 in the city of Kozelets (Chernigov region, Ukrainian SSR) into an assimilated Jewish family. They lived poorly, sometimes they needed the bare essentials, especially after they were once robbed completely, having taken out of the house almost everything that was there. Soon after the birth of Yuri, the family moved ...

Dolmatovsky Evgeny Aronovich

Soviet poet. 1915–1994 Evgeny Dolmatovsky was born on May 5, 1915 in Moscow into the family of a lawyer, member of the collegium of defenders, associate professor of the Moscow Law Institute Aron Moiseevich Dolmatovsky. During his studies at the Pedagogical College, he began to publish in the pioneer press. In 1932-1934 he worked on the construction of the Moscow metro. In 1937 he graduated from the Literary Institute. March 28, 1938 was ...

Brodsky Joseph Alexandrovich

Russian and American poet, 1987 Nobel laureate. 1940–1996 Joseph Brodsky was born on May 24, 1940 in Leningrad into a Jewish family. Father, Alexander Ivanovich Brodsky, was a military photojournalist, returned from the war in 1948 and went to work in the photographic laboratory of the Naval Museum. After that he worked as a photographer and journalist in several ...

Eisenstein Sergei Mikhailovich

Soviet theater and film director. 1898–1948 Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga (Russian Empire) on January 22, 1898 into a wealthy family of the city architect Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein. His father, Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein, was a Riga city architect and rose to the rank of titular councilor. Mikhail Eisenstein died in Berlin, but was buried in the Russian cemetery. ...

Rom Abram Matveevich

Soviet film director. 1894-1976 Born on June 28, 1894 in Vilna (Russian Empire). In 1914-1917 he studied at the Petrograd Psycho-Neurological Institute, in 1917-1922 - at the Medical Faculty of Saratov University. In parallel with his studies, he worked in the Saratov Department of Arts as a teacher, was the rector of the Saratov Higher State Workshops, a director at the Demonstration and Children's Theaters. Headed the Theater ...

Romm Mikhail Ilyich

Soviet film director. 1901-1971 Romm was born on January 24, 1901 into a family of Jewish Social Democrats in Irkutsk, where his father, a doctor by profession, was exiled for participation in revolutionary activities. Mother came from a family of intellectuals. She passionately loved theater and passed on her love for art to children. From the age of nine he grew up in Moscow. He graduated from high school ...

Mikhoels Solomon Mikhailovich - Solomon Mikhoels Vovsi

Soviet Jewish theater actor and director. 1890-1948 Solomon Mikhoels (Vovsi) was born on March 16, 1890 in Dinaburg (now - Daugavpils, Latvia), into a patriarchal Jewish family. Received traditional Jewish primary education at Cheder. According to the actor himself, he "only at the age of thirteen began to study systematically the secular sciences and the Russian language." Then in ...

Chukhrai Grigory Naumovich

Soviet film director. 1921-2001 Born on May 23, 1921 in Melitopol. Father, Rubanov Naum Zinovievich, was a serviceman. In 1924, Gregory's parents separated and he stayed with his mother. He was brought up by his stepfather, Pavel Antonovich Litvinenko, who worked as the chairman of a collective farm. In 1935, his stepfather was sent to study at the All-Union Academy of Social Agriculture in Moscow, ...

Schweitzer Mikhail Abramovich - Moisey Abramovich Schweitzer

Soviet film director. 1920–2000 Mikhail (Moisey) Abramovich Schweitzer was born on February 16, 1920 in Perm. In the spring of 1925, the family moved to Moscow. Graduated from the directing department of VGIK in 1943. He studied at Eisenstein's workshop. “I'm a student of Eisenstein,” Schweitzer liked to say. “I really remember many of his precepts ...” His appearance in the cinema fell on the period ...

Sats Natalia Ilyinichna

founder and director of six children's theaters. 1903–1993 Natalia Sats was born on August 27, 1903 in Irkutsk in the family of the composer Ilya Alexandrovich Sats and the opera singer Shchastnaya Anna Mikhailovna. Ilya Sats, Natalia's father, was born in the town of Chernobyl into a Jewish family. His father, Alexander Mironovich Sats, was an attorney at law. Ilya grew up in Chernigov, ...

Soviet pop artist. 1895-1982 Leonid Osipovich Utyosov (Lazar (Leizer) Iosifovich Vaysbein) was born on March 21, 1895 in Odessa into a large Jewish family of a small merchant Osip (Iosif) Kalmanovich Vaysbein and Malka Moiseevna. Leonid studied in Odessa at a commercial school, from where he was expelled in 1909 for poor academic performance and low discipline. After a short ...

Urbansky Evgeny Yakovlevich

Soviet theater and film actor. 1932-1965 Evgeny Urbansky was born on February 27, 1932 in Moscow. Father, Yakov Samoilovich, a responsible Komsomol and party worker, served at that time as the second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan. In 1938 he was repressed and served time in a camp near Vorkuta. Mother, Polina Filippovna, with two sons ...

Prudkin Mark Isaakovich

Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. 1898–1994 Mark Isaakovich Prudkin was born on September 13, 1898 in the city of Klin in the family of the tailor Isaak Lvovich Prudkin and Rakhila Lazarevna Prudkina. Mark graduated from the Klin Real School. There he took part in amateur performances. From 1918 to 1924 he studied at the 2nd Studio of the Moscow Art Theater (in parallel ...

Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna

Soviet theater and film actress. 1896-1984 Faina Georgievna (Grigorievna) Ranevskaya (Faina Girshevna Feldman) was born on August 27, 1896 in Taganrog into a wealthy Jewish family. Father, Feldman Girshi Khaimovich, was the owner of a dry paint factory, several houses, a shop and the ship "St. Nicholas". Mom - Feldman Milka Rafailovna Zagovailova. In addition to her, the family already ...

Plyatt Rostislav Yanovich

Soviet theater and film actor. 1908-1989 Rostislav Plyatt was born in Rostov-on-Don on December 13, 1908. Father - a well-known Rostov lawyer Ivan Iosifovich Plyat, a Jew by nationality. The pseudonym Rostislav himself came up with, adding one letter to the surname and slightly changing the patronymic. Mother - Zinaida Pavlovna Zakamennaya - Ukrainian, originally from Poltava. In 1916 ...

Gerdt Zinovy ​​Efimovich - Zalman Afroimovich Efraimovich Khrapinovich

Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. 1916-1996 Zinovy ​​Gerdt (Zalman Afroimovich (Efraimovich) Khrapinovich) was born on September 21, 1916 into a poor Jewish family in the Pskov region. At the age of 15, he graduated from the FZU of the Kuibyshev Moscow Electric Plant and worked as an electrician on the construction of the Moscow metro. At the plant there was the Theater of Working Youth (TRAM), in which the actor ...

Kozakov Mikhail Mikhailovich

Soviet, Russian and Israeli director, theater and film actor. 1934–2011 Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov was born on October 14, 1934 in Leningrad in the Jewish family of the writer Mikhail Emmanuilovich Kozakov and the editor of the Writers' Publishing House in Leningrad Zoya Aleksandrovna Nikitina (nee Gatskevich). She was arrested twice - in 1937 and in 1948. In the apartment of the Kozakovs ...

Shklovsky Victor Borisovich

Soviet film critic and screenwriter. 1893-1984 Viktor Shklovsky was born on January 24, 1893 in St. Petersburg in the family of a mathematics teacher of Jewish origin, later professor of the Higher Artillery Courses Boris Vladimirovich Shklovsky and his wife Varvara Karlovna, née Bundel, of Russian-German origin. The elder brother of Viktor Shklovsky, Vladimir Shklovsky, was a member of the Council of Orthodox Brotherhoods in 1919-1922 ...

Emelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky (real name and surname Miney Izrailevich Gubelman) - Russian Jewish revolutionary, Soviet party leader, ideologist and head of anti-religious policy in the USSR. Chairman of the Union of Militant Atheists. In July 1917, Emelyan Yaroslavsky returned to Moscow, created the military organization of the party, was one of the leaders of the Bolshevik ...

Turning on the TV, we watch all sorts of shows, performances of our favorite artists without even knowing about their nationality. All the heroes of our article are Jews, and this is not bad at all, just looking at these artists it is very difficult to guess that they were born into a Jewish family, or at least one of the parents was Jewish. We present to your attention a list of famous artists whom you would never think of being Jewish.

Leonid Agutin (Leonty Nikolaevich Chizhov)

Soviet and Russian singer, songwriter, composer, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Born in Moscow, into a Jewish family of musician and tour manager Nikolai Petrovich and primary school teacher Lyudmila Leonidovna (nee Shkolnikova).

Angelica Varum (real name Maria Yurievna Varum)

Born in Lvov in the family of composer Yuri Ignatievich Varum and theater director Galina Mikhailovna Shapovalova. Tinned Artist of the Russian Federation.
Father Yuri Ignatievich (Itskhakovich) Varum recalls: "The surname of my grandfather is Robak, he is from Warsaw, where my father was born. When the Second World War began, his brothers and sisters, forced to flee Poland, decided to take the rare surname" Varum " so that after the war it would be easier to find each other. My grandfather Yudka, who was stuck in Warsaw, died in the ghetto along with his whole family. He was deeply religious, he enjoyed great prestige, people came to him, like a rabbi, for advice and resolution of controversial issues. "

Larisa Aleksandrovna Dolina (Larisa Aleksandrovna Kudelman)

Soviet and Russian pop and jazz singer, actress. People's Artist of the Russian Federation. She was born in Baku in the Jewish family of the builder Alexander Markovich Kudelman and typist Galina Izrailevna Kudelman (née Dolina). At the age of three, she moved with her parents to Odessa, the hometown of her parents.

Oleg Mikhailovich Gazmanov

Soviet and Russian pop singer, composer and poet, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, candidate of technical sciences. Father, Major Mikhail Semyonovich Gazmanov, was a professional military man, Tatar by nationality; mother, Zinaida Abramovna (1920-2006) - a cardiologist in a military hospital, Jewish by nationality.

Tamara (Tamriko) Mikhailovna Gverdtsiteli

Soviet, Georgian and Russian singer, actress, composer, Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1989), People's Artist of Georgia (1991), People's Artist of Ingushetia, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
"I am a man of the world. I grew up in an international family. Dad is Georgian. I am as emotional as he is. And my mother is a Jewess. Here I am in her mind. For Georgians, I am Tamara Gverdtsiteli, and for Jews, Tamara Kofman is Gverdtsiteli. I was born and raised by a Jewish mother, and over the years I feel more and more my Jewish genes. Do I feel that I belong to the Jewish people? Naturally. First of all, by blood. My mother is a purebred Jewish woman from Odessa. I feel it. It is can only be explained by the feelings that I have towards my mother and the closest people ... My grandfather Vladimir Abramovich, whom I remember very well, belonged to the Kaufman family. After the revolution, part of the family emigrated from Russia. "

Jasmine

Russian pop singer, actress, model, TV presenter. Honored Artist of the Republic of Dagestan. Born into a family of Mountain Jews. Great-grandmother lives in Israel.

Leonidov Maxim Leonidovich

Born into a family of actors of the Leningrad Academic Comedy Theater, Honored Artists of the RSFSR Lyudmila Alexandrovna Lyulko and one of the founders of the famous skits Leonid Efimovich Leonidov (real name Shapiro). The famous Russian singer lived in Israel for six years, recorded two music albums (in Hebrew and Russian), played in a musical, and starred in a movie. And then he returned to his native Peter, recorded his hit about "Girl-Vision". Now Maxim lives in Russia, but continues to love Israel

Lolita Markovna Milyavskaya (Lolita Markovna Gorelik)

Russian pop singer, actress, TV presenter and director. Mom, singer, worked in a jazz band. My father worked with my mother as an entertainer, conducted the orchestra. During the tour of her parents, little Lolita was brought up by her grandmother. In 1972, the parents divorced, in 1974, the father emigrated abroad to Israel.

Boris Mikhailovich Moiseev

Soviet and Russian dancer, choreographer, pop singer. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
The English wiki contains a hint of nationality, the Russian one does not. Born in prison, as his mother, dissatisfied with the government, was a political prisoner in those years. He spent his childhood in a small Jewish ghetto in the provincial Mogilev.

Marina Arnoldovna Khlebnikova

Soviet and Russian pop singer and TV presenter.
Khlebnikova was invited to the Jewish theater "Sholom" "- Why do you think you were invited to play in this performance?
- I do not know. The reason was probably the fact that I was a student of Joseph Davydovich Kobzon. Second, now I have a name. And for the theater, this series of performances would be a bright spot. Maybe Clara Novikova's recommendations also played a role. And the main thing, of course, is the roots. "

Mikhail Borisovich Turetsky

Russian singer and conductor. Founder, artistic director and art director of the art group "Turetsky Choir" and "Soprano 10". People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Born into a Jewish family of immigrants from Belarus. Father - Boris Borisovich Epstein. She bears the name of her mother, since all her relatives on her side died during the Holocaust and looks like a Russian one, too.

Mikhail Zakharovich Shufutinsky

Russian pop singer, pianist and composer. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
Born into a Jewish family of war veteran and doctor Zakhar Davidovich

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Alexander Nikolaevich Uman and Igor Mikhailovich Bortnik - both left for Israel, Bortnik served in the army.

Elena Vorobei (real name Elena Yakovlevna Lebenbaum)

Russian pop actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Born into the Jewish family of Yankel Movshevich Lebenbaum and his wife Nina Lvovna.

Clara Novikova

Born in Kiev, in the family of a front-line soldier, director of a shoe store in Podol, Boris Zinovievich Herzer. Jewess Clara Novikova reigns supreme among women in the kingdom of the conversational genre of Russia. The Russian surname Novikova came from her first musician husband.

Maxim Alexandrovich Galkin

Popular Russian parodist, comedian, TV presenter, film actor and singer. He is currently married to Alla Pugacheva. A family from a small village near Chelyabinsk. I even managed to write down something from the memories of my grandmother. On my father's side, we had Larins in our family. According to my mother's - Odessa Jews

Alexander Viktorovich Kutikov

Famous Soviet and Russian musician, composer, vocalist, music producer. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Born into a Jewish family.

Valery Miladovich Syutkin

Russian singer and musician, songwriter for the rock and roll group "Bravo". Honored Artist of Russia, Artistic Director of the Variety Department of the Moscow State University for the Humanities M.A. Sholokhov.
Mom was born in Moscow, on Samoteka. Her maiden name is Brzezidska, she is of Polish and Odessa blood. To put it bluntly (laughs). So I'm a normal Polish citizen of Odessa. I have Jewish roots. According to my mother ... I am familiar with Jewish traditions.

Ukupnik Arkady Semyonovich

Born on February 18, 1953, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Khmelnitsky region. Composer, pop singer, producer of the KAR-MAN group, director of the Galla and Alla studios. “I was born in Ukraine. As an adult, having arrived in Moscow, I immediately noted that there is no such tough attitude towards Jews as in Ukraine. Since then I have achieved a lot in life. And much has changed in the country. And, nevertheless, I am very worried about that there is MEOTS, and that here I am always "among my own".

Vladimir Natanovich Vinokur

Soviet and Russian comedian, singer and TV presenter. Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR. Born into a Jewish family of the builder Natan Lvovich Vinokur.

The top-ranking of beautiful Jews includes charismatic, stately actors, musicians, singers: from the USA, Great Britain, Europe, Israel, Russia ... Artists paint a Jewish face with an oval shape, with a wide forehead. Thick eyebrows. The hair is dark, often jet black and curly. The eyes are round, large, deep-set, they look even slightly rolled out, this adds to the expressiveness of the look. Sephardic Jews have a more eastern eye shape. Almond-shaped, indeed in shape resemble a nut - elongated with a characteristic end in the shape of a curved arrow. The expression in dark eyes is difficult to describe. In general, they are strikingly shiny and radiant, in some they seem to be sleepy or dreamy, dragging or tired, in others they are piercing, shimmering or secretive, at the same time, in those portraits where the upper eyelid is especially large and the gaze seems half-closed, this expression of the eyes is called "suppressed cunning". Sometimes it is soft beauty, sometimes predatory, sometimes intellectual, but Jewish men have always been appreciated by women of all nationalities. It is no secret that many brides would like to have a Jewish husband. Here is a top ranking of the most interesting Jewish men, some of them on the maternal and paternal side, some by half. Some of them grew up in religious traditions, while others did not come to this.

1. Josh Radnor

His mother comes from a family of Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Russia. Josh grew up in the Columbus suburb of Bexley, where he attended a Jewish day school and went to camp for the summer. The most important role of Josh Radnor was the portrayal of the architect Ted Mosby in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which started its first season in 2005. The series became one of the most popular sitcoms on television in the 2000s and to some extent took over from the conceptually similar Friends.

2. Zac Efron

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David - Alexander Zachary. Efron's ancestors were Jewish, as were his parents. A talented actor and singer, a young handsome man, at the sight of whom many ladies are lost, was born on October 18, 1987 in the town of San Luis (California) in the family of engineer David Efron and Starla Baskett.

3. Eric Dane

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Born November 9, 1972 in San Francisco, California, into a Jewish family. Eric William Dane is an American actor. Best known for his role as Dr. Mark Sloane in Grey's Anatomy. His father is an architect and interior designer in San Francisco, and his mother, Leia, is a housewife. Eric has two younger brothers.

4. Brian Greenberg

Born: May 24, 1978, Nebraska, USA. Brian Greenberg is an American actor. His first film was filmed in 1990. Brian Greenberg was especially popular with the series with the participation of Brian Greenberg: "How to Succeed in America", "The Sopranos", "One Tree Hill", "Law & Order". Greenberg was born into a family of psychologists Denny and Karl Greenberg. Jewish by nationality, was brought up in the spirit of conservative Judaism and attended synagogue.

5. Joshua Bowman

British actor who became famous for his role in the TV series "Revenge".
Born in the English city of Berkshire. His father comes from a family of Russian Jews, his mother's pedigree is mixed with the British, Irish and Italians. Joshua himself considers himself a Jew.

6. Adam Brody

Born December 15, 1979 in San Diego, California, the son of Mark Brody, a Jewish lawyer, and his wife Valeria, a graphic artist. Adam is the eldest of three children, he has younger twin brothers. In 2001, Adam got into the cast of the famous comedy American Pie 2, in the same year he played in many more films.

7. Dave Franco

Hollywood actor. David John was born on June 12, 1985 in California to a Jewish family, Betsy and Douglas Franco, a descendant of Portuguese and Swedes. The boy grew up in a creative environment. His mother writes prose and poetry, and his grandmother works in the Vernet art gallery. His parents met while studying at Stanford University. Dave has Swedish and Portuguese roots on his paternal side, while he is a descendant of Russian Jews on the maternal side.
Recently, Dave has been trying himself as a director and screenwriter.

8. Harison Ford

Born July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. His grandmother, Anna Lifshuts, came from a Jewish family living in Belarus. In 1907, the Lifshuts family left Minsk for the USA and settled in Brooklyn (New York). In 1906, Harry Nidelman came to America from Minsk, and got a job as a tram driver. After the wedding in 1917, in New Jersey, Harry and Anna have a daughter, Dora, who later became Dorothy. Dora Niedelman married the Irishman Christopher Ford, and the future actor Harrison Ford was born in their family. The actor received his name in honor of Harry's grandfather. The mixture of Irish and Jewish blood has resulted in an explosive mixture that has received the nickname Ferrari in Hollywood for the steep royalties he receives for his films. True, the beginning of Harrison's career did not bode well for anything cool.

9. Sacha Baron Cohen

British comedian of Jewish descent
Sasha Noem Baron Cohen was born on October 13, 1971 in Hammersmith, London, the youngest of three brothers in a Jewish family. Father, Gerald Baron Cohen, was a London-based menswear store owner; mother, Danielle Naomi Baron Cohen (née Weiser), physical therapy instructor, born in Israel, paternal Jewish, the family was of Russian origin (his great-great-grandfather, jeweler Chaim Cohen left the territory of modern Belarus in the 1880s.

10. Daniel Radcliffe

Born July 23, 1989 in Fulham, West London. The only child in the family. Mother - Marcia Gresham, casting agent, Jewish origin, father - Alan Radcliffe, literary agent, born into a family of immigrants from Northern Ireland, considers himself a Jew. He became famous after starring in the film "Harry Potter".

11. Leonidov Maxim Leonidovich

Russian singer, songwriter. Born February 13, 1962, St. Petersburg.
The real surname is Shapiro's father. After leaving the group "Secret" in 1990, Maxim Leonidov began a solo career. At the end of 1990, together with his first wife Irina Selezneva, he repatriated to Israel. Until 1996 he lived and worked in Tel Aviv, after which he returned to St. Petersburg. Knows Hebrew.

12. Robert Downey Jr.

American actor, producer and musician. Golden Globe winner, Emmy (2001) and Oscar (1993, 2009) nominee was born in Manhattan, New York on April 4, 1965, the son of actress Elsie Downey and famous writer, director and screenwriter Robert Downey. The paternal grandfather of the future actor was a Lithuanian Jew; he also has Irish, Hungarian, Scottish, English, German and Swiss blood in his veins.

13. Sylvester Stallone

Was born in 1964 in New York. Hollywood's most famous film boxer has a complex pedigree. He is a Sicilian by his father, and a positive Jew by his mother, originally from Odessa.

14. Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal

American actor, Oscar nominee in 2006, BAFTA award winner.
He was born on December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles (California) in the most creative family: his father was a famous director - Stephen Gyllenhaal, and his mother was a screenwriter, Naomi Foner.
Interestingly, through his father, Jake is the heir to a noble family from Sweden, while from his mother he inherited Russian-Jewish roots.

15. Michael Douglas

Actor, legend of Hollywood cinema. Kirk Douglas 'mother (Michael Douglas' grandmother) Hannah and father Hirsch lived near the Belarusian railway station Chausy, from where they emigrated to the States. Here they had a son, Isidore, aka Issur, who later took the pseudonym Kirk Douglas, he was the fourth child in a poor Jewish family. His parents Gershl Danielovich and Bryna Danielovich emigrated to the United States from Gomel after their marriage in 1908. Isser was the only boy, in addition to him, six girls grew up in the family. Parents subsequently changed the family name and Americanized the names, becoming Harry and Berta Demsky. Subsequently, Kirk had a boy, Michael, who even outdid his father in his career and took a huge number of film awards in Hollywood.

16. Steve Robert Gutenberg

Steve was born August 24, 1958 in Brooklyn, the son of an electrical engineer and a medical assistant. His mother is Anna Guttenberg (nee Newman). Father -Jer Stanley Guttenberg is an electrical engineer. In addition to him, this prosperous Jewish family had two more children - Steve has two sisters. The breakthrough in his career happened in 1984, when Steve began to appear in the "Police Academy"

17.Andrey Mironov

Born on March 7, 1941, in the family of famous pop artists Alexander Semyonovich Menaker and Maria Vladimirovna Mironova. Outstanding Soviet theater and film actor, stage director, screenwriter, pop singer. People's Artist of the RSFSR.
He did not receive his mother's surname immediately, and before entering school he was recorded in the metric as Menaker. However, the anti-cosmopolitan campaign launched in the late 1940s was not conducive to drawing attention to Jewish origins, and the parents thought it best not to spoil the child's life with the notorious "fifth column". Andryusha became Mironov.

18. Alexander Alov

Was born in 1923 in Kharkov. Film director, People's Artist of the USSR (1983). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1985, posthumously). One of Alov's best works was the film "The Run", based on the play by Mikhail Bulgakov, and it is dedicated to the Civil War. The adventure film "Tehran-43", filmed in 1981, became a favorite at the box office, and Alain Delon was among the foreign actors who played in it. Alexander's real surname is Lapsker. Comes from a Jewish family.

19. Chris Noth

Born November 13, 1954, in the USA, Madisson. actor, screenwriter, producer. Chris became a universal favorite of women after he brilliantly played one of the main roles in the popular television series Sex and the City. Chris has Jewish parents. Regularly, accompanied by four bodyguards assigned to him by the Ministry of Tourism, he climbs to Jerusalem to offer prayer at the Wailing Wall. His wedding was organized according to Jewish traditions.

20. Sasha Royz

Born October 21, 1973 in Tel Aviv, Israel. An Israeli-Canadian actor who plays Captain Sean Renard in the TV series Grimm, as well as in such TV shows as Dr. House, Largo Winch, Lie to Me, etc. His parents are Jews from Russia. In 1980, the family moved to Canada, where Sasha began attending drama school in Montreal.

21.David Copperfield

Born September 16, 1956, in Metuchen, New Jersey, to the Jewish family of Rebecca, an insurance agent and a ready-to-wear shop owner, Hayman Kotkins.
The famous American illusionist took a pseudonym for himself, in honor of the famous hero of one of Dickens's novels. In fact, the magician's name is David Seth Kotkin. Well, remember that David Copperfield was hailed by audiences and critics as the greatest illusionist in the world. He became the first illusionist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. David Copperfield was initiated into He, along with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Colin Powell received the Living Legend award from the Library of Congress. He was named the Wizard of the Century and the Wizard of the Millennium. His face is adorned with postage stamps from six different countries, making David the only magician of his kind. He has won over 21 Emmy awards for his groundbreaking television show. He also holds 11 Guinness records and has sold more tickets for his show than any other artist in history, with ticket sales worth billions more than Frank Sinatra, more than Michael Jackson and Elvis.

22. Paul Leonard Newman

Born January 26, 1925 in the prestigious Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights. One of the most famous actors in American cinema. During his career, he starred in almost sixty films and received two Oscars, including an honorary one for his contribution to the film industry. His father, Arthur Newman, a successful sporting goods merchant, was Jewish, and his mother, Teresa Fetzer, was a Catholic with Slovak roots. Later, Paul always emphasized his Jewishness - the very word "Jew" sounds like a challenge, he argued and was proud of the fact that he had Jewish blood.

23.David Beckham

English footballer, born on May 2, 1975 in London, the son of kitchen installer David Edward Alan and hairdresser Sandra George West. Beckham was twice voted second in the FIFA Player of the Year vote, and in 2004 he was the world's highest paid footballer. Beckham became the first British footballer to play 100 UEFA Champions League appearances. He was England captain from 15 November 2000 until the conclusion of the 2006 World Cup, having played 58 captaincy matches. After that, he continued to play for the national team, playing his 100th appearance for England in the match against France on March 26, 2008. Beckham's name was the most popular Google search for sports in 2003 and 2004 and has become a popular advertising brand, including in the fashion world.
As a child, Beckham played football regularly at Ridgway Park in Chingford. His maternal grandfather was Jewish and David himself considers himself "half Jewish."

24. Richard Tiffany Gere

Hollywood actor who starred in the classic Pretty Woman starring Julia Roberts. Born in Philadelphia to a family of Anglo-Irish Jews. His father was an insurance agent and his mother was a housewife. After receiving an athletic scholarship, he entered the University of Massachusetts, where he studied philosophy and dramatic arts. Later he studied Eastern philosophy, Buddhism. But after the Caballa drew Gere to his roots, he could no longer do without Judaism and without Israel itself.

25. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Great Russian poet. The great-grandfather of A.S. Pushkin Avram Petrovich Hannibal is from Ethiopia. Its Jewish - African roots are evident. Abram was the son of one of the powerful and wealthy influential princes there. In the capital of this country, Addis Ababa, there is even a monument to the famous Russian poet, whom Ethiopians consider theirs.
Pushkin himself loved to write about his "African roots". "I often dream of leopards, and palms, and people in whose eyes there is night. Black natives, araps, brothers of my great-grandfather Abram." : "Simcha, son of the venerable Rabbi Yosef the wise, may his memory be blessed."

26. Vladimir Vysotsky

Soviet poet, actor, songwriter. Laureate of the USSR State Prize (posthumously).
Researchers believe that the Vysotsky family comes from Belarus. The great-grandfather of the famous Russian poet on the paternal side was Shliom (Shlema) Vysotsky, a teacher of the Russian language. His wife's name was Feiga Leibovna Bulkovshtein. They had four children: Mary, Isaac, Lyon and Wolf. The latter was the grandfather of Vladimir Vysotsky. Vysotsky's grandmother was Wolf's first wife, nee Dora Bronstein.

27. ROBER OSSEIN

One of the most famous actors and directors of French cinema (Geoffrey de Peyrac from the film epic about Angelique), was born in France and likes to say that he is French. In fact, Robert is the son of a Samarkand-born composer Aminula Husseinov and a Kievite Anna Mnevskaya, Jewish by birth .. They left Russia immediately after the revolution. The first wife of Robert Hossein was the well-known Slavic woman Marina Vlady.

28 Jeff Goldblum

Born in Pennsylvania. In the family of Shirley, radio announcer and Harold the physician-therapist. Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum is an American actor best known for his role of the scientist Seth Brundle in the movie "The Fly" and the role of Ian Malcolm in the films Jurassic Park. Oscar and Emmy nominee and Saturn award winner.
His ancestors were Orthodox Jews .. Goldblum's paternal grandfather, Joseph Zelikovich Povarchik, who later took the surname Goldblum, emigrated from Timkovichi, Minsk province in 1911. Grandmother - Lillian Goldblum (née Leventon) - also came from a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia. Jeffrey received a religious education, attended synagogue and at the age of 13 underwent a bar mitzvah ceremony.

29. Marcello Mastroianni

Do you remember Vittorio de Sica's films "Italian Marriage" with Sophia Loren ?!
Mom never told Marcello about her origins, although her son often asked about it. “And now I want to shock everyone with the news” - somehow she finally said: his mother was Jewish, she was born in 1898 not somewhere in Western Europe, but in Minsk, and her name was Ida. By the way, grandfather Moses and grandmother Malka were named Idelson and lived with their daughter Ida in Minsk until 1906, and then left for Germany. From there Ida Idelson moved to Italy and married Mastroianni-papa. In September 1923, they had a son, who was given the Italian name Marcello.

30. Leonid Utesov

Lazar Weisbein, whom every Russian knows as Leonid Utyosov, was fortunate enough to become more than a pop singer - he became a part of the life of as many as four generations, and his creative life lasted nearly seventy years. His real name is Lazar Iosifovich Weisbein, was born in Odessa on March 9 (21), 1895. Utyosov's father came from a wealthy Jewish family, but he married against the will of his parents and was disinherited. By the age of 15, Lenya had an excellent command of many musical instruments, often played at Jewish weddings, and sang in the synagogue.

31. Dmitry Medvedev

Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation since May 2012, Chairman of the United Russia party. Third President of the Russian Federation (May 2008 to May 2012).
David Aharonovich MENDEL. The father of "MEDVEDEV" - AARON ABRAMOVICH MENDEL (according to the passport recorded as a Russian, Anatoly Afanasyevich Medvedev - JEW), professor at the Leningrad Institute of Technology. Mother, TSILYA VENIAMINOVNA (according to her passport she goes under the name of Yulia Veniaminovna - JEWISH), philologist, taught at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute, later worked as a guide in the museum. David Mendel (Medvedev) is the only child in the family. Married; with his wife Svetlana, nee LINNIK.