List of Hungarian Jews

This is a list of Hungarian Jews. There has been a Jewish presence in Hungary since Roman times (bar a brief expulsion during the Black Death). Jews fared particularly well under the Ottoman Empire, and after emancipation in 1867. At its height, the Jewish population of historical Hungary numbered more than 900,000, but the Holocaust and emigration, especially during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, has reduced that to around 100,000, most of whom live in Budapest and its suburbs.

This is a list of anyone who could be reliably described as "Hungarian" and is of significant Jewish heritage (ethnic or religious). See List of Hungarian Americans for descendents of Hungarian émigrés born in America, a significant number of whom are/were of Jewish ancestry.

Historical figures

* Victor Basch, politician
* Johanna Bischitz von Heves, philanthropist
* Pál Hevesy, diplomat
* Sándor Hatvany-Deutsch, merchant
* Miksa Falk, tutor of Hungarian language for emperor Franz-Joseph I.
* Ernő Gerő, communist politician
* Theodor Herzl, Zionist leader
* Miklós Kanitz, survivor
* Rudolf Kasztner, controversial Holocaust figure
* Zsigmond Kornfeld, banker
* Béla Kun, communist revolutionary (Jewish father)
* Leó Lánczy, deputy
* Tom Lantos, US Congressman
* Trebitsch Lincoln, British adventurer [http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/040620_Trebisch.html]
* Max Nordau, Zionist leader
* Alexander Rado, Soviet military intelligence agent
* Mátyás Rákosi, communist politician
* Tibor Rubin, American militaryman
* Rosika Schwimmer, feminist and diplomat
* Yehoshua Stampfer, Zionist pioneer
* Tibor Szamuely, politician [http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/maj/maj06.htm]
* Hannah Szenes, WW2 partisan
* Moritz Wahrmann, politician
* Alexander Wahrmann, politician
* Berthold Weisz, deputy
* Solomon Winter, philanthropist
* Markus Nissa Weiss, advocate of Reform
* Philip Wodianer, communal worker
* Theodore Wolfner, deputy
* Károly Csemegi, jurist, editor of the first Hungarian modern legal codex

Religious Figures

:"See" "Hungarian-Jewish Religious Figures"

cientists

Films and stage

* Mischa Auer, actor
* George Cukor film director [ [http://www.adherents.com/movies/FilmAFI100.html Religious Affiliation of Directors of AFI's Top 100 Movies ] ]
* Tony Curtis, actor
* Jamie Lee Curtis, actress
* Michael Curtiz, director
* Paul Czinner, director/screenwriter/producer
* Eva Gabor, actor (Jewish mother) [Catholic by religion]
* Magda Gabor, actress and socialite (Jewish mother)
* Zsa Zsa Gabor, actor (Jewish mother)
* Goldie Hawn, actress
* Harry Houdini, magician and film actor
* Kate Hudson, actress
* Gustav Kadelburg, actor, dramatist, writer
* Heinrich Kadelburg, actor
* Peter Kassovitz, director
* Sir Alexander Korda, director & producer
* Vincent Korda, art director and production designer
* Zoltán Korda, director
* Robert Lantos, producer
* Peter Lorre, actor
* Paul Lukas, actor
* Emeric Pressburger, Oscar-winning film director, screenwriter, producer
* István Szabó, director [http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/sto032.htm]
* George Tabori, playwright and director
* Alexandre Trauner, set designer
* Rachel Weisz, actress

Musicians

* Paul Abraham, composer
* Moshe Atzmon, conductor
* Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim, singer
* Leopold Auer, conductor, violinist
* Gábor Darvas, composer
* Antal Dorati, conductor (Jewish mother)
* Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist
* Adam Fischer, conductor
* Annie Fischer, pianist
* Ivan Fischer, conductor
* Carl Flesch, violinist
* Karl Goldmark, composer
* Stephen Heller, composer
* Naftali Hershtik, chazzan
* Joseph Joachim, violinist
* Emmerich Kálmán, composer
* István Kertész, conductor
* Joseph Kosma, composer
* Lili Kraus, pianist
* György Kurtág, composer
* Yehoshua Lakner, Israeli composer
* György Ligeti, composer
* Oszkar Maleczky, opera singer
* Ervin Nyíregyházi, pianist [Kevin Bazzana (2007). "Lost Genius". Canada: McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-1100-9.]
* Eugene Ormandy, conductor, violinist
* Ödön Pártos, violist, composer
* Adolph Pollitzer, violinist
* Tommy Ramone, drummer
* Fritz Reiner, conductor
* Eduard Remenyi, violinist
* Sigmund Romberg, composer
* Vera Rozsa, singer, singing educator, vocal consultant
* Márk Rózsavölgyi, composer, originator of csardas
* András Schiff, pianist
* Friedrich Schorr, bass-baritone
* Matyas Seiber, composer
* Edmund Singer, violinist
* Sir Georg Solti, conductor
* János Starker, cellist
* George Szell, conductor
* Joseph Szigeti, violinist
* Miklós Vig, singer and cabaret performer
* Endre Wolf, violinist
* Bela Zerkovitz, composer

Writers

* Béla Balázs, poet & film critic ["Encyclopaedia Judaica", art. Balazs, Bela; [http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/taite/vk/honti/principl.pdf (p100, footnote 171) "German on his mother's side and Jewish on his father's"]
* Sándor Bródy, journalist
* Zsigmond Bródy, journalist
* György Faludy, writer
* Miksa Fenyõ, writer, intellectual and politician
* Daniel Ganzfried, Swiss author
* Jenő Heltai, poet
* Theodor Hertzka, journalist
* Arthur Holitscher, essayist, novelist
* Illés Kaczér, satirist, political humorist
* Imre Kertész, author, Nobel Prize (2002)
* Arthur Koestler, novelist & critic [http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/cesarini-koestler.html]
* György Konrád, writer and former political dissident
* Ephraim Kishon, satirist
* Paul Lendvai, journalist
* Rudolf Lothar, dramatist [ [http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22rudolf+lothar%22+jewish+jstor&meta=] ]
* Georg Lukács, philosopher & literary critic
* George Mikes, humorous writer (UK)
* Ferenc Molnár, playwright
* Max Simon Nordau, social critic & Zionist leader
* Miklós Radnóti, poet
* Anna Sandor, screenplay
* Ernő Szep
* Tamás Sipos, sports commentator and writer
* Antal Szerb, scholar & writer [brought up a Catholic]
* George Tabori, writer & theatre director
* Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel Peace Prize
* Ludwig Wysber, Hungarian journalist and author
* Zvi Yair, Hebrew poet

Artists

* Imre Ámos, painter
* Margit Anna, painter
* Maurice Ascalon, sculptor & industrial designer (immigrated to Israel)
* Lipót Baumhorn, architect
* Gyula Basch, painter
* Árpád Basch, painter
* Andor Basch, painter
* Marcel Breuer, artist, architect
* Robert Capa, photojournalist
* István Farkas, painter
* Andre Francois, painter and graphic artist [ [http://www.pbase.com/csw62/andre_francois Andre Francois Photo Gallery by Christopher Wheeler at pbase.com ] ] (Jewish father)
* Ilka Gedő, painter and graphic artist [ [http://www.ilkagedo.hu]
* John Hirsch, theatre director
* Isidor Kaufman, painter
* Oskar Kaufmann, architect
* André Kertész, photographer
* Paul Laszlo, architect
* László Moholy-Nagy, painter, photographer
* Martin Munkacsi, photographer
* Sylvia Plachy, photographer (Jewish mother) [Catholic by religion]
* Constantin Daniel Rosenthal, painter
* Hugo Scheiber, painter
* Arpad Szenes, painter
* Lajos Vajda, painter
* Ignaz Wechselmann, architect and philanthropist

Business

* Leo Castelli, Trieste-born US paint merchant [ [http://www.salon.com/people/obit/1999/09/11/castelli/ Salon People | Leo Castelli ] ]
* André Deutsch, publisher
* Móric Farkasházi Fischer
* William Fox, founder of Fox
* Andrew Grove, co-founder and chairman of Intel
* Josef Ganz, automotive engineer
* Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper baron (Jewish father)
* Reichmann family
* George Soros, financial speculator
* Teodoro Schwartz, father of George Soros
* Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures
* Estee Lauder, founder of world-wide cosmetical company
* Ronald Lauder, businessman, philanthropist, son of Estee Lauder

ports

Chess

* Gyula Breyer
* Rezső Charousek
* Ernst Karl Falkbeer
* István Fazekas
* Ernő Gereben
* Isidor Gunsberg
* Ignác Kolisch
* Gyula Kluger
* Imre König
* Samuel Lipschütz
* János Jakab Löwenthal
* Andor Lilienthal
* Josef Noa
* Judit Polgár
* Zsófia Polgár
* Zsuzsa Polgár
* Samuel Lipschütz
* Endre Steiner
* Herman Steiner
* Lajos Steiner
* László Szabó
* Miksa Weiss

Fencing

* Ilona Elek, Olympic fencer (2g1s) (Jewish father)
* Jenö Fuchs, Olympic champion fencer
* Endre Kabos, Olympic fencer (3g1s)
* Attila Petschauer, Olympic champion fencer

Other

* Viktor Barna, table tennis World Champion (5 singles, 8 doubles, 2 mixed)
* Béla Guttman, football (soccer) coach (10 championships, 2 European Cups)
* Dezső Gyarmati, Olympic water polo player & captain (3g1s1b) (half Jewish)http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1996/olympika0501k.pdf]
* Alfréd Hajós, first Olympic swimming champion (2g)
* Paul Havas, Columbia Quarterback (Transylvanian Grandparents)
* György Kárpáti, water polo player (half Jewish)
* Béla Komjádi, water polo player
* György Bródy, Olympic water polo players (3g1b & 2g & 2g) [http://www.jewishsports.net/medalists.htm Jewish Olympic Medalists ] ]
* Ágnes Keleti, Olympic gymnast (5g4s1b)
* Ferenc Kemény, co-founder and first secretary of the IOC [ [http://www.jewishsports.net/PillarAchievementBios/FerencKemeny.htm Ferenc Kemeny (Kauffmann) ] ]
* Lily Kronberger, figure skating World Champion (4g2b)
* Emilie Rotter & Laszlo Szollas , figure skating World Champions (4g1s) & Olympic medalists (2b)
* Gusztáv Sebes, national Hungarian football (soccer) coach (gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and silver medal at the 1954 FIFA World Cup)
* Anna Sipos, table tennis World Champion (2 singles, 6 doubles, 2 mixed)
* Miklós Szabados, table tennis World Champion (1 singles, 6 doubles, 3 mixed)Fact|date=January 2007
* Éva Székely & Andrea Gyarmati, mother and daughter Olympic swimmers (1g1s & 1s1b)

Pedigrees

* Baron Hatvany-Deutsch family
* Zuckerkandl pedigree
* the House of Bischitz von Heves / Hevesy-Bischitz
* Mendel family

ee also

*List of Hungarians
*History of the Jews in Hungary

References

External links

* [http://www3.sympatico.ca/thidas/Hungarian-history/Jews.html Jewish Hungarians and Hungarian Jews]
* [http://zsidlex.extra.hu A list of about 5000 Hungarian Jews]