Belarusian Jews - Notable Belarusian Jews

Notable Belarusian Jews

see List of Belarusian Jews

• Marc Chagall, painter
• Menachem Begin, Israeli PM (1977-1983), Nobel Prize (1978)
• Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Israeli linguist, father of modern Hebrew language
• Chaim Weizmann, First President of Israel, syntetic acetone
• Shimon Peres, Belarusian-born Israeli PM, Nobel Prize (1994)
• Irving Berlin, American composer
• Michael Marks, co-founder of Marks and Spencers
• Louis B. Mayer, co-founder MGM
• Rabbi Louis Abrahamson, religious leader

Naum Akhiezer, Belarusian mathematician,

• S. Ansky
• Isaac Dov Berkowitz, writer
• Asael Bielski
• Tuvia Bielski
• Zus Bielski
• Aron Bielski
• Bella Chagall, the wife of Chagall
• Morris Raphael Cohen, philosopher
• David Dubinsky, labor leader
• Simon Dubnow, Jewish historian
• Nahum Eitingon
• Naum Gabo, sculptor
• Boris Gelfand, chess player
• Gesya Gelfman
• Eugene Lyons
• Antoine Pevsner, sculptor
• Ossip Zadkine, sculptor (Jewish father)
• Lazar Gulkowitsch
• Avraham Harkavi, historian
• Michel Kikoine, painter
• Semyon Ariyevich Kosberg
• Pinchus Kremegne, painter
• Moyshe Kulbak
• Seymour Lubetzky, cataloging theorist
• Mark Nemenman
• Alexander Parvus
• David Pinski, writer
• Zvi Yosef Resnick, Rosh yeshivah (Dean of a rabbinical academy)
• Ida Rosenthal, founder of Maidenform
• Yitzhak Salkinsohn
• David Sarnoff, head of RCA
• Feodor Schapiro, Belarusian nuclear physicist
• Issai Schur, Belarusian-born German Israeli mathematician
• Mendele Mocher Sforim, writer
• Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli PM (1983-1984; 1986-1992)
• Carlos Sherman, writer, translator (Jewish father)
• Chaim Soutine, painter
• Immanuel Velikovsky, cosmology writer
• Joseph Soloveitchik
• Lev Vygotsky, psychologist
• Oscar Zariski, Belarus-born mathematician
• Morris B. Zale, founder of Zale Corporation