List of West European Jews

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Apart from France, established Jewish populations exist in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. With the original medieval populations wiped out by the Black Death and the pogroms that followed it, the current Dutch and Belgian communities originate in the Jewish expulsion from Spain and Portugal, while a Swiss community was only established after emancipation in 1874. However, the vast majority of the population in the Netherlands and a large proportion of the one in Belgium were murdered in the Holocaust, and much of the modern Jewish population of these countries (as well as of Switzerland) derives from post-Holocaust arrivals from other parts of Europe. Here is a list of some prominent Jews in West Europe, arranged by country of origin.

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Austria

Belgium

France

Ireland

Luxembourg

Monaco

Netherlands

Scotland

Switzerland

United Kingdom

Politicians

Actors

Religious and communal leaders

Other

See also

Notes

^ Of the 12 members of the 1928 Olympics Dutch Women's Gymnastics Team the first ever women's gymnastics gold medalists five were Jewish. All but Levie were murdered in the Holocaust.

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jews in Sports: Jewish Olympic Medalists (1896 - Present)". Jewish Virtual Library.
  2. Ralph Miliband biography Archived 3 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Brussels Transit" . Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  4. Fleishman, Jeffrey (1 December 2006). "A farcical attack on Hitler taboos". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 21 August 2009. Retrieved 17 December 2006.
  5. L'ENTREPRISE PRÉFÉRÉE DU GRAND PUBLIC. Chanel, le luxe et le secret (in French)