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The Jewish
presence in Germany
Scientific figures (continue): Georg Simmel, sociologist, Hugo Sinzheimer, Saul Friedlaender, historian, Franz Weidenreich, physical anthropologist, Louis Wirth, sociologist,Michael Wolffsohn
, historian, Joseph Derenbourg, orientalist, Theodor Benfey, linguist, Walter Benjamin, literary critic & philosopher, Basil Bernstein, linguist, Julius Fürst, orientalist, Theodor Goldstücker, Victor Klemperer, linguist & diarist, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, literary critic, Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist, Heymann Steinthal, linguistHech
Heine - poet
Levi
Strauss, clothing manufacturer
Franz Kafka,
novelist,
Politicans:
Daniel
Cohn-Bendit, member
of European Parliament, student leader in 1968, Klaus Gysi, communist politician
(Jewish father), Rudolf
Hilferding, finance
minister of the Weimar Republic, Henry
Kissinger, US Secretary of State, Nobel
Prize (1973), Ferdinand
Lassalle, founder
of first German worker's party, Eduard Lasker, co-founder of the National
Liberal Party, Rosa
Luxemburg, co-founder of the KPD, Hugo Preuss,
author of Weimar constitution, Walter
Rathenau, foreign
minister of the Weimar Republic, Gabriel
Riesser, deputy
speaker of Frankfurt Assembly in 1848, first Jewish judge in Hamburg, Jeanette
Wolff, West Berlin politician
Jews
have lived in France since Roman times, and since the French Revolution (and emancipation) have contributed to all aspects of French
culture and society. A significant number perished in the Holocaust, deported to Nazi death
camps by the French Vichy government. After the war, France served as a
haven for Jewish refugees, and an influx of immigration
(mostly of Sephardi Jews from North Africa) saw the Jewish population triple to around
600,000, making it the largest Jewish community in Western Europe at the present time.
Activists:
René
Cassin, drafted Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, Nobel Peace Prize (1968), Daniel
Cohn-Bendit, student
leader and Green MEP, Alain Geismar, student leader, Alain Krivine, student leader and Trotskyist MEP
Social
scientists: Raymond Aron, sociologist, Jacques Attali, economist, writer , Julien Benda, philosopher & novelist,
Émile Benveniste,
linguist, Henri Bergson, philosopher, Nobel Prize
(1927), Marc Bloch,
historian & Resistance leader, Léon Brunschvicg,
philosopher, Hélène Cixous,
feminist critic, Hartwig Derenbourg,
arabian linguist. osn of Joseph
Derenbourg, Jacques
Derrida, philosopher, Émile Durkheim,
sociologist, Alain
Finkielkraut, essayist,
André Glucksman,
philosopher, Gersonides,
philosopher, Georges
Gurvitch,
sociologist, jurist, Maurice
Halbwachs,
sociologist, Robert
Hertz, sociologist, Bernard-Henri Lévi,
philosopher, Claude Lévi-Strauss,
anthropologist, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl,
philosopher & anthropologist, Emmanuel
Levinas,
philosopher, Gabriel
Marcel, philosopher (Jewish mother), Marcel Mauss, sociologist, Nostradamus,
astrologer & seer (family forced to convert to Catholicism), Rashi,
religious commentator, Maxime Rodinson,
historian, George
Steiner, literary critic (French-born), Simone Weil,
philosopher & mystic
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The first Jews
arrived in Britain
with the Romans
but it wasn't until the arrival of William
the Conqueror in 1066
that organized Jewish communities first appeared. These existed until 1290
when the Jewish population was expelled by Edward
I. (Hence plays such as The
Jew of Malta and The
Merchant of Venice were written when
Marc Bolan,
member of T. Rex
(Jewish father; raised Jewish), Graham
Gouldman, Lol Crème
& Kevin
Godley, members of 10cc,
Peter
Green, member of Fleetwood
Mac, Ron Mael,
Russell Mael, members of Sparks,
(British parents), Manfred
Mann, R&B keyboardist, Keith Reid
& Matthew
Fisher, founding members of Procol Harum, Helen
Shapiro, singer, John Weider, member of Eric Burdon & the New Animals, Eric Woolfson, member
of The Alan Parsons Project , David Bowie
(one of his parents), David Essex (?), David Byron (Uriah
Heep) (?), Kate Bush (?).