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Jewish women have been famous for their beauty since ancient times. Thanks to rich history Of this people, the appearance of Jewish girls is very diverse - among them are not only bright brunettes, but also natural blondes.

website represents famous Jewish women of the world, whose talent and beauty have become the standard of femininity.

Mila Kunis

American actress. Born in the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi into a Jewish family. In 1991, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. One of the most significant roles actresses in films - the role of ballerina Lily in the film "Black Swan", where she played opposite another famous Jewish woman - Natalie Portman.

Lauren Bacall

American actress, recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history. Lauren Bacall's parents are Jewish, she has to cousin former Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Amanda Peet

American actress. Amanda Peet is married to Jewish American screenwriter and producer David Benioff, who is the creator of the famous TV series Game of Thrones.

Rachel Weisz

Born in London on March 7, 1970. Rachel's father, inventor George Weiss (Jewish by nationality), was from Hungary, and her mother, psychotherapist Edith Ruth, was born in Vienna. Edith Ruth was not a full-blooded Jew, as she also had Italian and Austrian roots and was raised Catholic, but then converted to Judaism.

Hedy Lamarr

Austrian and American actress. Born on November 9, 1914 in Vienna into a Jewish family. The actress became famous in 1933, starring in the Czechoslovak-Austrian film Ecstasy, the first film to contain a prolonged nude scene.

Gwyneth Paltrow

American actress. Her father is a Jew, a descendant of the well-known rabbinical family of Paltrovich. Mother is German. Gwyneth Paltrow considers herself Jewish and is raising her children in the traditions of Judaism, despite the fact that her ex-husband and father of her children, Coldplay musician Chris Martin, is a Christian.

Jennifer Connelly

American actress. Her father is a Catholic with Irish and Norwegian roots, her mother is Jewish (her ancestors are emigrants from Poland and Russia), who studied at a yeshiva - a Jewish educational institution designed to study the Oral Law, mainly the Talmud.

Goldie Hawn

American actress, producer, director. Born November 21, 1945 in Washington. Her mother is Jewish and raised her daughter in the traditions of Judaism.

Maya Plisetskaya

Soviet and Russian ballerina, choreographer, choreographer, teacher, writer and actress, People's Artist of the USSR. She was born on November 20, 1925 in Moscow into a Jewish family: her father is the famous business leader Mikhail Emmanuilovich Plisetsky, her mother is silent film actress Rakhil Mikhailovna Messerer.

Melanie Laurent

French actress, director, singer. Born on February 21, 1983 in Paris into a Jewish family.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

American actress. Sarah's parents are Jews, but they did not adhere to the traditions of Judaism. Sarah herself is not a follower of any religion.

Scarlett Johansson

American actress and singer. Her father is of Danish descent and her mother is an Ashkenazi Jew (a sub-ethnic group of Jews formed in Central Europe), her ancestors moved to the United States from Minsk. Scarlett considers herself Jewish and celebrates the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, although she admits that her family has always celebrated Christmas.

Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya

Outstanding Soviet and Russian actress theater and cinema, People's Artist of the USSR. Born in Kyiv into a Jewish family. In 1999, in a newspaper survey TVNZ» Elina Bystritskaya was recognized as the most beautiful woman of the outgoing century.

Gal Gadot

Israeli actress and model. Born on April 30, 1985 in Rosh HaAyin (Israel). Her parents are Sabras, that is, Jews born in Israel. In 2016, the film “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” will be released, where Gadot will play the comic book heroine Wonder Woman.

Jewish women have been famous for their beauty and sexuality since ancient times. Thanks to the rich history of the Jewish people, the appearance of Jewish girls is very diverse - among them you will find not only bright brunettes, but also natural blondes. In this issue you will find a rating of the most beautiful famous Jewish women of our time.

Jews are an ancient people of Semitic origin, who for two thousand years (until 1948) did not have their own state and existed exclusively as a network of Jewish diasporas around the world. The Jewish population peaked at 16.7 million before World War II, but approximately 6 million Jews were killed in Europe during the Holocaust. Now the number of Jews is 14 million, of which 6 million live in Israel, 5.4 million in the USA. Large Jewish diasporas also exist in France (478 thousand), Canada (380 thousand), Great Britain (290 thousand), Russia (190 thousand) and other countries.

The national religion of Jews and the most important attribute of their self-awareness is Judaism, therefore in many languages of the world, including Hebrew, there is no distinction between the concepts of “Jew” and “Jew,” but in Russian “Jew” denotes nationality, and “Jew” denotes religion.

Unlike most peoples of the world, Jewish nationality is determined not by the father, but by the mother. Kabbalah explains this by saying that the soul of a Jewish woman at the moment of conception “attracts” the Jewish soul. The “Law of Return” of the State of Israel currently states: “A Jew is considered to be one who is born of a Jewish mother and has not converted to another religion, as well as a person who has converted to Judaism.”

This rating, which presents the most beautiful, in our opinion, famous Jewish women, was compiled based on the understanding of Jewry, which is quoted above. Those. The ranking does not include Jewish women on their father's side who did not convert to Judaism (for example, Irina Slutskaya), but Jewish women on their mother's side, as well as converted Jews (only one woman on the list, being a Jew, does not have Jewish blood).

Tamara (Tamriko) Mikhailovna Gverdtsiteli(born January 18, 1962, Tbilisi) - Soviet, Georgian and Russian singer, actress, composer, People's Artist of the Georgian SSR, People's Artist of Russia.

Father is from the ancient Georgian noble family of Gverdtsiteli. Mother is Jewish, granddaughter of an Odessa rabbi.

Tatyana Evgenievna Samoilova(May 4, 1934, St. Petersburg - May 4, 2014) - Soviet and Russian actress, best known for her role as Veronica in the film “The Cranes Are Flying” (1957).

Milena Kunis, better known as Mila Kunis / Mila Kunis, - American actress.

Born on August 14, 1983 in Chernivtsi (Ukraine) into a Jewish family. In 1991, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles.

Alexandra Cohen(born October 26, 1984, Westwood, USA), better known as Sasha Cohen / Sasha Cohen, - American singles figure skater, silver medalist Olympic Games- 2006 and two-time silver medalist at the World Championships (2004, 2005).

Sasha Cohen's father American Jew, and her mother is a Ukrainian Jew.

Candice Isralow, better known as Candice Night / Candice Night, is an American singer, vocalist and lyricist of the folk rock band Blackmore’s Night, wife of the famous English rock musician Ritchie Blackmore.

She was born on May 8, 1971 in New York in a family of descendants of Jewish immigrants from Russian Empire.

Lynn Zuckerman / Lynn Zukerman- Israeli model, participant of the Miss Israel 2013 contest.

Tal Benyerzi / Tal Benyerzi, known simply by the name Tal- French pop and R&B singer.

She was born in Israel on December 12, 1989 into a Jewish family (father is a Moroccan Jew, mother is a Yemenite Jew). When Tal (her name translates from Hebrew as “ morning dew") less than a year old, the family moved to France.

Gal Gadot- Israeli actress and model, Miss Israel 2004.

Born on April 30, 1985 in Rosh HaAyin (Israel). Her parents are sabras, i.e. Jews born in Israel. In 2016, the film “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” will be released, where Gadot will play the comic book heroine Wonder Woman.

Coral Simanovich / Coral Simanovich- Israeli model.

Amanda Peet / Amanda Peet(born January 11, 1972, New York, USA) is an American actress.

Her mother Penny Levy is Jewish. Amanda Peet is married to Jewish American screenwriter and producer David Benioff, who is the creator of the famous TV series Game of Thrones.

Jennifer Connelly / Jennifer Connelly(born December 12, 1970, New York, USA) is an American actress.

Her father is a Catholic with Irish and Norwegian roots, her mother is Jewish (her ancestors are emigrants from Poland and Russia), who studied in a yeshiva. Jennifer Connelly's newest film work is the role of the wife of the biblical righteous man Noah in the film Noah, released in March 2014.

Alicia Silverstone / Alicia Silverstone(born October 4, 1976, San Francisco, USA) is an American actress.

Her father is an English Jew, her mother is a Scot who converted to Judaism before her wedding.

Sarah Michelle Gellar / Sarah Michelle Gellar(born April 14, 1977) is an American actress.

Scarlett Johansson / Scarlett Johansson(born November 22, 1984, New York) is an American actress and singer.

Her father is of Danish descent, and her mother is an Ashkenazi Jew (a sub-ethnic group of Jews formed in Central Europe), her ancestors moved to the United States from Minsk. Scarlett considers herself Jewish and celebrates the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, although she admits that her family has always celebrated Christmas because... loved the traditions of this holiday.

Lauren Bacall / Lauren Bacall(September 16, 1924, New York - August 12, 2014) was an American actress recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history.

Lauren Bacall's parents are Jewish, and she is a cousin of Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Moran Atias- Israeli actress and model.

12th place: Susanna Hoffs / Susanna Hoffs- singer and guitarist from the American band The Bangles.

She was born on January 17, 1959 in Los Angeles into a Jewish family.
For those to whom the name The Bangles means nothing, we invite you to listen to their hit Eternal Flame.

Hedy Lamarr / Hedy Lamarr(real name Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) is an Austrian and American actress.

She was born on November 9, 1914 in Vienna into a Jewish family. The actress (then under her real name Kiesler) became famous in 1933, starring in the Czechoslovak-Austrian film Ecstasy, which became the first non-pornographic film to contain prolonged nude scenes, as well as sexual intercourse and female orgasm. The actress died on January 19, 2000 in the USA.

Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya- outstanding Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR.

In 1999, in a survey by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, Elina Bystritskaya was recognized as “the most beautiful woman of the outgoing century.” Born on April 4, 1928 in Kyiv in a Jewish family.

Natalie Portman / Natalie Portman(real name Hershlag) is an American actress.

She was born in Jerusalem on June 9, 1981 into a Jewish family. Natalie has dual citizenship: American and Israeli. She is married to dancer Benjamin Millepied (they met on the set of the film “Black Swan”), who is Jewish. Their wedding took place in the traditions of Judaism.

Elizabeth Taylor- British-American actress.

Born 27 February 1932 in London. Her parents were Americans who worked in England. My father had Jewish roots, my mother Swiss. Elizabeth Taylor was raised Christian, but in 1959, at the age of 27, she converted to Judaism, receiving the Hebrew name Elisheva Rachel. The actress stated that she accepted the Jewish religion because... Christianity was unable to resolve her questions about life and death. The fact that her third husband (he died in 1958) was Jewish also played a significant role.

Sara Lvovna Manakhimova, better known by her stage name Jasmine, - Russian singer.

Born on October 12, 1977 in Derbent into a family of Mountain Jews (a subethnic group of Jews from the Northern and Eastern Caucasus).

Lilli Palmer (real name: Lilli Maria Pizer)- German actress.

She was born in the city of Poznan (now Poland) on May 24, 1914 into a Jewish family. Lili Palmer starred in British, American, and German films. She died on January 27, 1986 in Los Angeles. (Still from the film “Body and Soul”, 1947)

Eva Green / Eva Green- French actress.

Born in Paris on July 5, 1980. Eva's mother, Marlene Jaubert, is a famous French actress who was born in Algeria into a Jewish family. Eva's father, Walter Green, is Swedish on his father's side and French on his mother's side. Eva's last name is correctly pronounced Gran and means "grain", "tree (branch)" in Swedish. Eva Green considers herself Jewish, despite the fact that she was not raised in the traditions of Judaism.

British actress Rachel Weisz.

Born in London on March 7, 1970. Rachel's father, inventor George Weiss (Jewish by nationality), was from Hungary, and Rachel's mother, psychotherapist Edith Ruth, was born in Vienna. Edith Ruth was not a pure-blooded Jew, because... She also had Italian and Austrian roots and was raised Catholic, but then converted to Judaism.

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Jews are an ancient people of Semitic origin, who for two thousand years (until 1948) did not have their own state and existed exclusively as a network of Jewish diasporas around the world. The Jewish population peaked at 16.7 million before World War II, but the Holocaust killed approximately 6 million Jews in Europe. Now the number of Jews is 14 million, of which 6 million live in Israel, 5.4 million in the USA. Large Jewish diasporas also exist in France (478 thousand), Canada (380 thousand), Great Britain (290 thousand), Russia (190 thousand) and other countries.

The national religion of Jews and the most important attribute of their self-awareness is Judaism, therefore in many languages of the world there is no distinction between the concepts of “Jew” and “Jew,” but in Russian “Jew” means nationality, and “Jew” means religion.

47th place: Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya - Soviet and Russian ballerina, choreographer, choreographer, teacher, writer and actress, People's Artist of the USSR. She was born on November 20, 1925 in Moscow into a Jewish family: her father is the famous business leader Mikhail Emmanuilovich Plisetsky, her mother is silent film actress Rakhil Mikhailovna Messerer.

46th place: Tamara (Tamriko) Mikhailovna Gverdtsiteli (born January 18, 1962, Tbilisi) - Soviet, Georgian and Russian singer, actress, composer, People's Artist of the Georgian SSR, People's Artist of Russia. Father is from the ancient Georgian noble family of Gverdtsiteli. Mother is Jewish, granddaughter of an Odessa rabbi.

From an interview with Tamara Gverdtsiteli:

“My father is Georgian, I was born and most I lived my life in Georgia, naturally, its culture had a tremendous influence on my life and work. But I was born and raised by a Jewish mother, and over the years I feel more and more aware of my Jewish genes.”

“In 1988, I came to Israel for the first time and realized that I simply had to sing in Hebrew. Even for myself, even if only 20 people hear me. This is the cry of my soul, this is the cry of blood. When I sang in Hebrew, it was as if I heard a voice from the depths of centuries. It is indeed true that a person who studies Hebrew does not learn it, but remembers it. This is especially felt in the song. These words came to me through the songs, and I felt and felt them. Hebrew - very strong tongue. It has such energy, such vowel sounds that you get the feeling that you are filling an empty world with sounds and music... I try to go to Jerusalem every year. Whenever I go there, I always go to my tree. It contains a piece of my soul. For me it marks the celebration of the triumph of life. It’s not for nothing that the tradition of planting trees goes back to biblical times - after planting a tree, you feel a full-fledged person. I arrive and feel a sense of completeness that I did everything as expected. It is difficult for me to express my feelings for Jerusalem in words. I have a song based on the poetry of Andrei Dementyev, absolutely Orthodox man, but loving Israel and praising Jerusalem. The Jewish capital is a piece of space that is given to us. You go to Israel, end up in Jerusalem and feel like a cosmic being... The Jewish woman is my mother. For me, she is the most beautiful thing on earth. A Jewish woman is a phenomenal mother, an amazing housewife, friend and protector of her children. It's very hard for me to describe Jewish woman words - there’s music for that.”

45th place: Oksana Olegovna Fandera (born November 7, 1967, Odessa) - Russian actress. Her father Oleg Fandera is an actor, half Ukrainian, half Gypsy, her mother is Jewish. From an interview with the actress:

Oksana, you have three bloods mixed: Ukrainian, Gypsy and Jewish. How do they manifest themselves?

Probably the fact is that I cook like a Ukrainian, I love freedom like a gypsy, and I feel the world’s sorrow like a Jew.

Who do you feel most like?

Now I can equally feel like one, the other and the third.

44th place: Tatyana Evgenievna Samoilova (May 4, 1934, St. Petersburg - May 4, 2014) - Soviet and Russian actress, best known for her role as Veronica in the film “The Cranes Are Flying” (1957). From an interview with Tatyana Samoilova: “My brother and I are half-breeds. Our mother is a purebred Jew, and our father is a purebred Russian.” The actress also said that it was from her Jewish mother that she inherited slightly slanted eyes.

43rd place: Emmanuelle Chriqui - Canadian actress. Acts in films and television series. Emmanuel was born on December 10, 1977 in Montreal (Canada) in a family of Moroccan Jews, and was raised in the traditions of Orthodox Judaism in the Sephardic tradition. She was recognized as the most desirable woman of 2010 according to the Askmen.com portal.

42nd place: Goldie Hawn - American actress, producer, director. Born November 21, 1945 in Washington. Her mother is Jewish and raised her daughter in the traditions of Judaism.

41st place: Barbara Walters is one of the most famous American TV presenters, having worked on television from 1961 to 2014. She was born on September 25, 1929 in Boston into a Jewish family whose ancestors lived in the Russian Empire.

40th place: Milena Kunis, better known as Mila Kunis, is an American actress. Born on August 14, 1983 in Chernivtsi (Ukraine) into a Jewish family. In 1991, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. One of the actress’s most significant film roles is the role of ballerina Lily in the film “Black Swan” (2010), where she played opposite another famous Jewish woman, Natalie Portman. The film was directed by Darren Aronofsky, who is also Jewish.

39th place: Alexandra Cohen (born October 26, 1984, Westwood, USA), better known as Sasha Cohen / Sasha Cohen, is an American singles figure skater, Olympic silver medalist - 2006 and two-time world championship silver medalist (2004, 2005 ). She completed her amateur career in 2006. Sasha Cohen's father is an American Jew, and her mother is a Ukrainian Jew.

38th place: Ksenia Aleksandrovna Rappoport (born March 25, 1974, St. Petersburg) - Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of Russia. From an interview with Ksenia Rappoport: “I feel like a Jew and have never hidden it. Moreover, when at the beginning of my career there was a question about taking a pseudonym, I deliberately did not do this, because I wanted to bear my father’s surname.”

37th place: Candice Isralow, better known as Candice Night / Candice Night, is an American singer, vocalist and lyricist of the folk rock band Blackmore’s Night, wife of the famous English rock musician Ritchie Blackmore. She was born on May 8, 1971 in New York into a family of descendants of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. She is a follower of Judaism.

35th place: Tal Benyerzi, known simply as Tal, is a French pop and R&B singer. She was born in Israel on December 12, 1989 into a Jewish family (father is a Moroccan Jew, mother is a Yemenite Jew). When Tal (her name translates from Hebrew as “morning dew”) was less than a year old, the family moved to France.

34th place: Tahounia Rubel / Tahounia Rubel - Israeli model, winner of the Israeli version of the show “Big Brother”. Born on February 20, 1988 in Ethiopia, at the age of three, she and her family were among 14,325 Ethiopian Jews who were taken to Israel as part of military operation"Solomon".

33rd place: Lizzy (Elizabeth) Caplan / Lizzy Caplan - American actress, appears in films and TV series. Among her recent works, we can note the role of the famous American sexologist Virginia Johnson in the series “Masters of Sex.” She was born on June 30, 1982 in Los Angeles into a Jewish family professing Reform Judaism.

32nd place: Bella Chagall (real name Basya-Reiza Shmuilova Rosenfeld) is the first wife of the artist Marc Chagall. Bella was born on December 15 (new style) 1889 (the year of her birth is often mistakenly indicated as 1895) in Vitebsk (Belarus) into a Jewish family (Marc Chagall is also from a Jewish family). She died in New York on September 2, 1944.

31st place: / Gal Gadot - Israeli actress and model, “Miss Israel - 2004”. Born on April 30, 1985 in Rosh HaAyin (Israel). Her parents are sabras, i.e. Jews born in Israel. In 2016, the film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was released, where Gadot played the comic book heroine Wonder Woman.

29th place: Bar Hefer (born 1995, Petah Tikva, Israel) - Israeli model, First Vice-Miss Israel - 2013.

28th place: Yityish Aynaw - Israeli model, Miss Israel 2013. Born in Ethiopia. Belongs to the Ethiopian Jews. She moved to Israel at the age of 12, where she became the first black girl to win the Miss Israel title.

27th place: Amanda Peet / Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972, New York, USA) - American actress. Her mother Penny Levy is Jewish. Amanda Peet is married to Jewish American screenwriter and producer David Benioff, who is the creator of the famous TV series Game of Thrones.

26th place: Yanina (Yana) Farkhadovna Batyrshina (after marriage she took the surname Weinstein) - Russian athlete, five-time European champion and seven-time world champion in rhythmic gymnastics. Born on October 7, 1979 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Yana's father is Tatar, her mother is Jewish. Yana is married to the famous producer Timur Weinstein, a Jew by nationality. The couple have two daughters - Mariam and Aylu.

25th place: Gwyneth Paltrow / Gwyneth Paltrow - American actress. Born September 27, 1972 in Los Angeles. Her father is a Jew, a descendant of the well-known rabbinical family of Paltrovich. Mother is German. Gwyneth Paltrow considers herself Jewish and is raising her children (son Moses and daughter Apple, i.e. “apple”) in the traditions of Judaism, despite the fact that her ex-husband and father of her children, Coldplay musician Chris Martin, is a Christian.

24th place: Alison Brie Schermerhorn, better known as Alison Brie, is an American actress. Born December 29, 1982 in Hollywood. Alison's father is of Dutch, Scottish and German descent. Mother is Jewish. Alison Brie began her acting career at the Jewish Community Center of Southern California. In 2014, she took second place (after Emilia Clarke) in the ranking of the most desirable women according to the Askmen portal.

23rd place: Jennifer Connelly / Jennifer Connelly (born December 12, 1970, New York, USA) - American actress. Her father is a Catholic with Irish and Norwegian roots, her mother is Jewish (her ancestors are emigrants from Poland and Russia), who studied at a yeshiva - a Jewish educational institution designed to study the Oral Law, mainly the Talmud.

22nd place: Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976, San Francisco, USA) - American actress. Her father is an English Jew, her mother is a Scot who converted to Judaism before her wedding.

21st place: Anouk Aimée (real name - Francoise Judith Sorya Dreyfus) - French actress. She was born in Paris on April 27, 1932. Her parents practiced Judaism, but her mother was raised Catholic and converted to Judaism as an adult. Anouk Aimée's most famous role is that of Anne Gautier in the film A Man and a Woman (1966), directed by Claude Lelouch, who is Jewish.

20th place: Ali (Alice) McGraw / Ali MacGraw - American actress. Born April 1, 1939 in New York. Her father had Scottish and Hungarian roots, and her mother was Jewish (she hid her nationality from her husband). One of Ali MacGraw's most famous roles is the Jewish girl Brenda Patimkin in the film "Goodbye, Columbus" (1969), dedicated to the life of American Jews.

19th place: Mélanie Laurent - French actress, director, singer. Born on February 21, 1983 in Paris into a Jewish family.

18th place: Esther Petrack - American model. Born March 31, 1992 in Jerusalem. She is a follower of Orthodox modernism in Judaism.

17th place: Sarah Michelle Gellar / Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) - American actress. Sarah's parents are Jews, but they did not adhere to the traditions of Judaism and even decorated the tree for Christmas. Sarah herself is not a follower of any religion.

16th place: Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva - American actress, formerly a professional gymnast. Born on February 9, 1980 in St. Petersburg into a Jewish family. In 1991, she and her family moved to New York.

15th place: Scarlett Johansson / Scarlett Johansson (born November 22, 1984, New York) - American actress and singer. Her father is of Danish descent, and her mother is an Ashkenazi Jew (a sub-ethnic group of Jews formed in Central Europe), her ancestors moved to the United States from Minsk. Scarlett considers herself Jewish and celebrates the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, although she admits that her family has always celebrated Christmas because... loved the traditions of this holiday.

14th place: Lauren Bacall (September 16, 1924, New York - August 12, 2014) - American actress, recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history. Lauren Bacall's parents are Jewish, she is a cousin former president Israel to Shimon Peres.

13th place: Moran Atias - Israeli actress and model. She was born on April 9, 1981 in Haifa (Israel) into a family of Moroccan Jews. Moran has younger sister Shani, who is also in this ranking.

12th place: Susanna Hoffs - singer and guitarist from the American group The Bangles. She was born on January 17, 1959 in Los Angeles into a Jewish family.

For those to whom the name The Bangles means nothing, we invite you to listen to their hit Eternal Flame.

11th place: Shani Atias / Shani Atias - Israeli actress and model, younger sister of Moran Atias. She was born on August 21, 1991 in Haifa (Israel) into a family of Moroccan Jews.

10th place: Lisa Bonet / Lisa Bonet - American actress. Born November 16, 1967 in San Francisco. Her father is African American and her mother is Jewish. Lisa Bonet's first husband was American singer Lenny Kravitz, whose pedigree is exactly the opposite: his father is Jewish, his mother is African-American.

Lisa Bonet recalls meeting Kravitz: “It was interesting when we first discovered that our roots were so similar. When I first told him that my mother was Jewish, he replied, “So was my father.” I felt like here was someone who really understood what it was like.”

9th place: Hedy Lamarr (real name - Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) - Austrian and American actress. She was born on November 9, 1914 in Vienna into a Jewish family. The actress (then under her real name Kiesler) became famous in 1933, starring in the Czechoslovak-Austrian film Ecstasy, which became the first non-pornographic film to contain prolonged nude scenes, as well as sexual intercourse and female orgasm. The actress died on January 19, 2000 in the USA.

8th place: Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya - an outstanding Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR. In 1999, in a survey by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, Elina Bystritskaya was recognized as “the most beautiful woman of the outgoing century.” Born on April 4, 1928 in Kyiv in a Jewish family.

7th place: Natalie Portman (real name Herschlag) - American actress. She was born in Jerusalem on June 9, 1981 into a Jewish family. Natalie has dual citizenship: American and Israeli. She is married to dancer Benjamin Millepied (they met on the set of the film “Black Swan”), who is Jewish. Their wedding took place in the traditions of Judaism.

6th place: Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926, Los Angeles - August 5, 1962) - American actress and singer. Birth name: Norma Jeane Mortenson. Father unknown, mother had Irish and Scottish roots. Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism on July 1, 1956. The reason for her adoption of the Jewish religion was her third marriage to the writer Arthur Miller, a Jew by nationality. After the divorce and until her death, Monroe did not renounce Judaism, although, according to contemporaries, she did not attend the synagogue because she believed that then her religious life would turn into a public spectacle. Arthur Miller's brother believed that Monroe's acceptance of Judaism was superficial. As for Monroe’s attitude towards Christianity, it was rather negative, because at one time its guardians were Protestant fundamentalists.

5th place: / Elizabeth Taylor - British-American actress. Born 27 February 1932 in London. Her parents were Americans who worked in England. My father had Jewish roots, my mother had Swiss roots. Elizabeth Taylor was raised Christian, but in 1959, at the age of 27, she converted to Judaism, receiving the Hebrew name Elisheva Rachel. The actress stated that she accepted the Jewish religion because... Christianity was unable to resolve her questions about life and death. The fact that her third husband (he died in 1958) was Jewish also played a significant role.

4th place: Sara Lvovna Manakhimova, better known by her stage name Jasmine, is a Russian singer. Born on October 12, 1977 in Derbent into a family of Mountain Jews (a subethnic group of Jews from the Northern and Eastern Caucasus).

3rd place: Lilli Palmer (real name Lilli Maria Peiser) is a German actress. She was born in the city of Poznan (now Poland) on May 24, 1914 into a Jewish family. Lili Palmer starred in British, American, and German films. She died on January 27, 1986 in Los Angeles. (Still from the film “Body and Soul”, 1947)

2nd place: Eva Green / Eva Green - French actress. Born in Paris on July 5, 1980. Eva's mother, Marlene Jaubert, is a famous French actress who was born in Algeria into a Jewish family. Eva's father, Walter Green, is Swedish on his father's side and French on his mother's side. Eva's last name is correctly pronounced Gran and means "grain", "tree (branch)" in Swedish. Eva Green considers herself Jewish, despite the fact that she was not raised in the traditions of Judaism.

British actress Rachel Weisz / Rachel Weisz. Born in London on March 7, 1970. Rachel's father, inventor George Weiss (Jewish by nationality), was from Hungary, and Rachel's mother, psychotherapist Edith Ruth, was born in Vienna. Edith Ruth was not a pure-blooded Jew, because... She also had Italian and Austrian roots and was raised Catholic, but then converted to Judaism.

They say that Jews are much smarter, more cunning and more resourceful in life than non-Jews. It is not possible to say this absolutely, but there is no point in refuting it either. Although the fact that among the Jews there are a lot of the most, the most, is known firsthand.

All over the globe, famous Jews enjoy deserved popularity. Who is this? These include film artists, singers, actors, athletes and famous directors.

The most famous Jews in the world are always heard by millions of their admirers. In our article we will look at famous Jews (those living) who are Jewish on their mother’s side.

Famous Jews of the world.

Hollywood actors

Who doesn't know Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman, Adam Sandler or Joaquin Phoenix? All of them are film actors and Jews by belonging to their ancient people.

Stars such as Woody Allen probably top the list, which can be called “the most famous Jews in the world.”

Woody Allen (Allan Stewart Konigsberg), born in Brooklyn on December 1, 1935. A talented director, actor, screenwriter, producer and even composer. Without having a bright appearance, for decades now he has been making millions of fans of his talent remember themselves and love their work.

The director often emphasizes his Jewishness in the plots of his films or in the roles he plays simply brilliantly! In one of his most famous films, Take the Money and Run, Allen exposed many of the characteristics of the Jewish character.

In the film "Under the Mask of a Gigolo", Vanessa Paradis, playing the role of a Jewish widow, at the insistence of Woody Allen, spent several days in the closed society of an Orthodox Jewish family. In his opinion, this was the only way to express the true image of a Jewish woman.

One can safely classify Jewish actors in Hollywood as Jake Gyllenhaal. Full name this truly handsome actor is Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal. Jake's mother, Naomi Foner (Ax), grew up in a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. Parents with early childhood made their son understand what it was like to earn a living through hard work. Jacob Benjamin was bar mitzvahed.

American Jewish actors such as: Adam Sandler and Adrien Brody, were born in the USA, but both have roots in Eastern Europe. Adam Sandler's wife, actress Jackie Titone, converted to Judaism before their wedding in 2003.

Adrien Brody played in the film “The Pianist” a Jewish musician living in Nazi Poland. The picture was based on documentary basis. The actor has an extraordinary appearance with memorable sad eyes.

Such famous Jewish actors, or rather actresses, as: Natalie Portman and Woody Allen's favorite - Scarlett Johansson , both American.

Natalie Portman was born in Israel and was originally Netalie Hershlag. Her husband, Benjamin Millepied, is a French Jew, and Natalie and Benjamin's son was named Aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

French Jewish Eva Green (36 years old) often plays oriental beauties in Hollywood films. Her mother Marlene Jaubert, the daughter of Jews who lived in Algeria, was also a famous French actress.

Jennifer Connelly (46 years old) Also Jewish on her mother’s side, her grandparents were Polish-Russian Jews. As a child, she attended a Catholic school and baptized her children, so we can say that her descendants will no longer have anything to do with Judaism.

Scarlett Johansson (born 1984) has Jewish roots from his mother, who in turn was from a family with Belarusian and Polish roots. According to the actress, every year she celebrates the Jewish Hanukkah, although Christmas is also celebrated in the family. Scarlett collaborated with the Israeli campaign SodaStream.

Sacha Baron Cohen (45 years old) - another name on the honorary list of famous Jewish artists. Daniella Naomi Baron Cohen - Sasha's mother, was born in Israel. The actor's wife, Isla Fisher, converted to Judaism and changed her name to a Jewish one. They say that Sacha Baron Cohen eats only kosher food, and also regularly attends the synagogue.

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (59 years old) , an adherent of the Stanislavsky system, apparently for this reason, has three Oscars. Award for the best male role three times, never repeated again to anyone. The Jewish mother's roots came from Latvia and Poland. Although Jewishness is passed on through the mother's blood, Day-Lewis says he does not observe Jewish rituals and is an agnostic.

Joaquin Phoenix (42 years old) , born in Puerto Rico, received Jewish roots from his mother Arlene Sharon Phoenix, whose family came from Russia and Hungary. In addition to being included in the list of famous Jewish actors, he is also a recognized musician who can draw well. Convinced vegan.

Gal Gadot (31 years old) , "Miss Israel" 2004. IN last years actively filming in Hollywood. Born and raised in Israel. My Jewish grandfather was a prisoner of a concentration camp during the Second World War. The couple has a child with her Israeli husband Yaron Versano.

Perhaps one of those who can be called “the most famous Jews” is an actress from Britain Rachel Weisz is 46 years old. Born in London, to Jewish parents who had Hungarian, Austrian and Italian roots. Husband - famous Daniel Craig.

Other famous Jews

Among the non-actors, there are also many who are called the most famous Jews in the world. A striking example- famous film director Steven Allan Spielberg (70 years old). Spielberg's parents are both descendants of Ukrainian Jews. From the age of 8, Stephen had the nickname “movie camera man.”

The famous "Schindler's List", directed by Steven Spielberg, won 7 Oscars, all proceeds from the rental went to the Shoah Fund (preservation of Holocaust documents).

Among the musicians, the most famous Jews are Bob Dylan (75 years old), was given the name Robert Allen Zimmerman at birth. The roots of Jewry were derived from Lithuanian Jews on the maternal side and Russians on the paternal side. Founder of country rock, became a Laureate in 2016 Nobel Prize on literature.

Calvin Klein (74 years old). Famous fashion designer born into a Jewish family. The parents did everything so that their son, without denying himself anything, studied fashion and design. He was married twice, several years ago he lived with his boyfriend, an actor in porn films.

Daren Aronofsky (47 years old), American film director, born into a family of Jewish teachers. Has a son with actress Rachel Weisz.

Sergey Brin - Google developer, 13th on the list of the richest people in the world. Born into a Moscow family, both Jewish parents, successful mathematicians. They left Russia for the USA in 1979.

Michael Reubens Bloomberg (74 years old) , American businessman, owner news agency Bloomberg. Ancestors from Belarus were Jews. Former mayor of New York.

The parents of the famous writer and screenwriter are both Jewish - his father’s last name is Friedman, and his mother’s last name is Benioff (Binev), which David took for professional activity. David received particular recognition and fame for adapting George R. R. Martin's books for the series Game of Thrones. And Amanda Peet is Jewish on her mother's side. The couple has two daughters and a son and lives in Beverly Hills and Manhattan.

Jews of Russia

The most famous Jews of Russia are, of course, rich businessmen, artists and ahead - Roman Abramovich (51 years old). Born in Saratov, he was left without parents early. He was brought up in his uncle's Jewish family. Billionaire, 51st place on the list richest people world, was at the head of the Chukotka region. Owner of Chelsea Football Club. Two children from Daria Zhukova have Jewish names - Aaron and Leah. Abramovich calls himself: “first a Jew, and then a Russian.”

There are famous Jews of Russia, such as a TV presenter and a parodist Maxim Galkin (40 years old), born into a family where the mother was an Odessa Jew. The artist himself says that he can afford to joke about Jews, because as a Jew himself, he will not and cannot joke about any other faith.

Famous and very popular singer and composer, musician Leonid Agutin (49 years old) . Leonid's wife - Angelika Varum is a singer and songwriter, also the daughter of composer Yuri Varum (Jewish roots from Poland).

Singer Larisa Dolina (surname at birth Kudelman). She was born into a Jewish family living in Baku. Subsequently, the family moved to Odessa, the city in which they lived before. The concert program includes “Jewish medley”.

Leonid Yakubovich (71 years old) - presenter of the TV program “Field of Miracles” since 1991. Member public council Russian Jewish Congress.

Tamara Gverdtsiteli - singer, composer. Jewishness was transmitted by her mother - the granddaughter of an Odessa rabbi, her father - a Georgian nobleman. Every year he tries to go to Jerusalem.

Mikhail Turetsky (born 1962) Singer and conductor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, founded the Turetsky Choir and the Soprano 10 group. Born into a Jewish family, the roots of Jewry are from Belarus. He lives with his mother’s last name and decided to take it because, as the musician himself explains: “All the relatives on her side died during the Holocaust.”

Actors

Just like in America, there are Jewish actors in Soviet cinema. Who can be considered such? Magnificent Elina Bystritskaya (88 years old), although she can also be counted among the famous Jews of Ukraine, because the actress was born in Kyiv. Before the war, Elina Avraamovna grew up in Ukraine. The actress says about her upbringing that it was more international than Jewish. Although, he remembers how his relatives performed freylekhs.

Jewish actors of Russian cinema are Alexander Shirvindt (82 years old), Jewish roots from his mother, an Odessa Jewish woman, Kobylivker Raisa Samoilovna.

Klara Novikova (70 years old), born in Kyiv. Both parents were Jews. Member of the public council of the Russian Jewish Congress.

Oksana Fandera (born 1967) ) was born in Odessa. Mother is an Odessa Jew. Every year he goes to Odessa and spends some time there. He claims that: “It’s easy to breathe there.”

Konstantin Khabensky (45 years old). Born in Leningrad, after the death of his wife Anastasia, he founded charitable foundation for children being treated for cancer. Konstantin's older sister, Natalya, is a soloist of the Jewish Ensemble in St. Petersburg.

Emmanuel Vitorgan (77) - originally from Baku, grew up in a Jewish family that came from Odessa. He was married to Jewish actress Alla Butler, with whom he had a son, Maxim Vitorgan.

Maxim Vitorgan (44) son of famous Jewish actors. Married to Ksenia Sobchak.

Among these famous women There are well-known actresses and singers from Russia and Hollywood, as well as slightly less famous Israeli models, but they all have one thing in common - they are all damn attractive Jewish women. You will be very surprised to learn that the famous actresses we are all used to seeing in American blockbusters are actually Jewish. Very unexpected surprises and simply irresistible women await you, whose Jewish origins you had no idea about.

Maya Plisetskaya

Tamara (Tamriko) Gverdtsiteli

Soviet, Georgian and Russian singer, actress, composer, People's Artist of the Georgian SSR, People's Artist of Russia. Father is from the ancient Georgian noble family of Gverdtsiteli. Mother is Jewish, granddaughter of an Odessa rabbi.

Goldie Hawn

American actress, producer, director. Born November 21, 1945 in Washington. Her mother is Jewish and raised her daughter in the traditions of Judaism.

Mila Kunis

American actress. Born on August 14, 1983 in Chernivtsi (Ukraine) into a Jewish family. In 1991, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles.

Tahuniya Rubel

Israeli model, winner of the Israeli version of the show "Big Brother". Born on February 20, 1988 in Ethiopia, at the age of 3, she and her family, among 14 thousand 325 Ethiopian Jews, were taken to Israel as part of the military Operation Solomon.

Lizzie (Elizabeth) Kaplan

American actress, appears in films and TV series. She was born on June 30, 1982 in Los Angeles into a Jewish family professing Reform Judaism.

Gal Gadot

Israeli actress and model, Miss Israel 2004. Born on April 30, 1985 in Rosh HaAyin (Israel). Her parents are sabras, i.e. Jews born in Israel.

Coral Simanovich

Israeli model

Bar Hefer

Israeli model, First Vice-Miss Israel 2013

Amanda Peet

American actress. Her mother Penny Levy is Jewish.

Gwyneth Paltrow

American actress. Born September 27, 1972 in Los Angeles. Her father is a Jew, a descendant of the well-known rabbinical family of Paltrovich. Mother is German. Gwyneth Paltrow considers herself Jewish and is raising her children (son Moses and daughter Apple, i.e. “apple”) in the traditions of Judaism, despite the fact that her ex-husband and father of her children, Coldplay musician Chris Martin, is a Christian.

Alison Brie

American actress. Born December 29, 1982 in Hollywood. Alison's father is of Dutch, Scottish and German descent. Mother is Jewish. Alison Brie began her acting career at the Jewish Community Center of Southern California.

Jennifer Connelly

Alicia Silverstone

American actress. Her father is an English Jew, her mother is a Scot who converted to Judaism before her wedding.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

American actress. Sarah's parents are Jews, but they did not adhere to the traditions of Judaism and even decorated the tree for Christmas. Sarah herself is not a follower of any religion.

Scarlett Johansson

American actress and singer. Her father is of Danish descent, and her mother is an Ashkenazi Jew (a sub-ethnic group of Jews formed in Central Europe), her ancestors moved to the United States from Minsk. Scarlett considers herself Jewish and celebrates the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, although she admits that her family has always celebrated Christmas because... loved the traditions of this holiday.

Lauren Bacall

American actress. Lauren Bacall's parents are Jewish and she is a cousin of Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Hedy Lamarr

Elina Bystritskaya

Outstanding Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR. In 1999, in a survey by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, Elina Bystritskaya was recognized as “the most beautiful woman of the outgoing century.” Born on April 4, 1928 in Kyiv in a Jewish family.

Natalie Portman

American actress. She was born in Jerusalem on June 9, 1981 into a Jewish family. Natalie has dual citizenship: American and Israeli. She is married to dancer Benjamin Millepied (they met on the set of the film "Black Swan"), who is Jewish. Their wedding took place in the traditions of Judaism.

Marilyn Monroe

American actress and singer. Birth name: Norma Jeane Mortenson. Father unknown, mother had Irish and Scottish roots. Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism on July 1, 1956. The reason for her adoption of the Jewish religion was her third marriage to the writer Arthur Miller, a Jew by nationality. After the divorce and until her death, Monroe did not renounce Judaism, although, according to contemporaries, she did not attend the synagogue because she believed that then her religious life would turn into a public spectacle. Arthur Miller's brother believed that Monroe's acceptance of Judaism was superficial. As for Monroe’s attitude towards Christianity, it was rather negative, because at one time its guardians were Protestant fundamentalists.

Elizabeth Taylor

British-American actress. Born 27 February 1932 in London. Her parents were Americans who worked in England. My father had Jewish roots, my mother had Swiss roots. Elizabeth Taylor was raised Christian, but in 1959, at the age of 27, she converted to Judaism, receiving the Hebrew name Elisheva Rachel. The actress stated that she accepted the Jewish religion because... Christianity was unable to resolve her questions about life and death. The fact that her third husband (he died in 1958) was Jewish also played a significant role.

Jasmine

Russian singer. Born on October 12, 1977 in Derbent into a family of Mountain Jews (a subethnic group of Jews from the Northern and Eastern Caucasus).

Lilly Palmer

German actress. She was born in the city of Poznan (now Poland) on May 24, 1914 into a Jewish family. Lili Palmer starred in British, American, and German films.

Eva Green

French actress. Born in Paris on July 5, 1980. Eva's mother, Marlene Jaubert, is a famous French actress who was born in Algeria into a Jewish family. Eva's father, Walter Green, is Swedish on his father's side and French on his mother's side. Eva's last name is correctly pronounced Gran and means "grain", "tree (branch)" in Swedish. Eva Green considers herself Jewish, despite the fact that she was not raised in the traditions of Judaism.