List of North European Jews - Norway

Norway

  • Christian B. Anfinsen, chemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (Norwegian parents, convert)
  • Jo Benkow, parliament speaker
  • Leo Eitinger (b. 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
  • Bente Kahan, Yiddish singer and actress
  • Robert Levin, pianist
  • Mona Levin, actress, writer
  • Oskar Mendelsohn, historian, known for his 2-volume history of Norwegian Jews
  • Eva Scheer, author known especially for her descriptions of the Lithuanian-Jewish shtetl environment
  • Berthold Grünfeld, specialist in psychiatry, and professor in social medicine until 1993
  • Joakim Krøvel, fashion photographer

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Famous quotes containing the word norway:

    “Such was the very armor he had on
    When he the ambitious Norway combated.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”
    —Annie Dillard (b. 1945)

    “A long time you have been making the trip
    From Havre to Hartford, Master Soleil,
    Bringing the lights of Norway and all that.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)