Jews are a nation with roots in the ancient kingdoms of Judah and Israel. The people, which existed for more than two thousand years without their own state, are today scattered across many countries of the world.
So, according to official data, 43% of Jews live in Israel, 39% - in the United States, and the rest - in various parts of the world. Many of them live very close to us. Do you know how to recognize a Jew among Russians, Germans, Caucasians and other peoples of the world? What features of appearance and character distinguish this ancient and mysterious nation?
Ask
So how do you recognize a Jew? Ask him directly about it. Most Jews are proud of who they are and do not hide their origins. Many half-breeds do not even ask themselves which half to prefer: Jewish or Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian ... And even a drop of blood is priceless for them. This, by the way, is a normal human reaction. After all, Jews are ancient people rich in history and cultural characteristics. So why not be proud of it? Ask them yourself.
But there are times when people try to hide their Jewish origins. And that's not okay. For example, in the years of distant perestroika, the TV presenter Lyubimov was directly asked about this. And the showman in live before the whole country swore that neither he nor his parents were Jews. Characteristic features, however, were present in both his appearance and behavior. And the surname spoke for itself: Lyubimov is derived from Lieberman.
Look in your passport
What surnames do Jews have? Characteristic features of Jewish surnames are the German suffixes "-man" and "-er". However, you need to be careful here. After all, both Germans and Latvians themselves bear such surnames. For example, Blucher was pure and the German surname came to him from an ancestor who participated in the war with Napoleon. It was a reward for courage and services to the fatherland - to bear the name of a famous German commander.
There is one more feature of Jewish surnames. So, it can be a kind of "geographic stamp". Many Jews, moving to Russia from Poland, changed their surnames so that one could understand where they were from. For example, Vysotsky (Vysotsk village in Belarus), Slutsky, Zhitomirsky, Dneprovsky, Nevsky, Berezovsky (Berezovka village), Donskoy, etc.
They can also be formed from diminutive female names. Indeed, unlike the Russians, they trace their pedigrees according to maternal line... Example: Mashkin (Mashka), Chernushkin (Chernushka), Zoykin (Zoika), Galkin (Galka), etc.
But remember that the last name is not distinctive feature Jews. Mashkin and Galkin may turn out to be real Russian men, while the seemingly standard Ivanov and Petrov may turn out to be Jews. So it's too early to draw conclusions based on the surname alone.
Choosing names
With names, everything is much more complicated - they can be anything. Of course, there are purely Jewish ones. For example, Leo (derived from Levi), Anton (from Nathan), Boris (from Boruch), Jacob, Adam, Samson, Mark, Abram (from Abraham), Moses, Nahum, Ada (Adelaide), Dina, Sarah, Esther ( from Esther), Faina and others.
But there is also a separate category of names that are of Israeli origin, but the Russian people wear them even more often than the Jews themselves. The characteristic features of such names are the ending -il (Daniel, Michael, Samuel, Gabriel), as well as the biblical meaning (Mary, Joseph, Ilya (Elijah), Sophia).
Nose
So which specific traits faces of the Jews? The first thing they always pay attention to is the nose. Moreover, many believe that this feature alone is already enough to consider a person a Jew. The famous "Jewish schnobel" begins to bend from the very foundation. For example, the Israeli anthropologist Jacobs described in detail this phenomenon "the tip is bent down, resembling a hook, and the wings are raised." If you look from the side, the nose resembles an elongated upward number 6. Such a nose is popularly called the “Jewish six”.
However, on this basis alone, it is impossible to say with certainty that a person is a Jew. If you look at it, it turns out that almost all of them were big-nosed: Nekrasov, and Gogol, and Karamzin, and even Turgenev. But it is known for certain that they were not Jews.
In fact, the Israelis can have a wide variety of noses: fleshy "potatoes", and narrow with a hump, and straight, long, with high nostrils, and even snub-nosed. So, only one nose is far from an indicator of "Jewishness".
Common mistakes
It is believed that there are certain signs that only Jews have (characteristic facial features) - a huge nose, black eyes, thick lips. We have already dealt with the nose. As for dark eyes, these are the most common Negroid signs. And the negroid impurity is characteristic not only of Jews, but also of persons of other nationalities. For example, as a result of the union of a Mongoloid and a Negro, you can get the same traits. Such an admixture is often observed among Greeks, Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, Arabs, Armenians, Georgians.
Another massive misconception is that Jews have dark curly hair. Everything is the same here. The negative sign is there. On the other hand, the biblical Jew David was blond. This is already a Nordic admixture. And look at the Russian singer Agutin - a typical Jew, but by no means dark-haired.
Sign number one
And yet, how can one distinguish a Jew from a Slavic Rus by his face? Are there reinforced concrete signs? The answer is yes.
If you are in doubt who is in front of you: a Jew or not, first of all pay attention to the racial trait - the Mediterranean admixture. Even Caucasians, who are often confused with Jews because of their fleshy noses, thick lips and curly hair, do not have it. The Mediterranean admixture is very characteristic and pronounced even with a lot of incest. What is it?
Both straight and in profile, this is a very narrow, long face. It does not expand upward, unlike typical Slavic-Russian faces. Only Jews have this head shape with a narrow and oblong nape. The characteristic features can be seen in the photographs of Louis de Funes or Sophia Rotaru. Russian Jews are a mixture of Mediterranean and Western Asians (Caucasians, Armenians). Ideal examples are Boris Pasternak and Vladimir Vysotsky.
So, the main distinguishing feature of the Jews is a very narrow, long face that does not expand towards the top. If, due to any impurities, such a face has expanded, then anywhere, but not in the forehead area. A Jew's forehead is always narrow, as if he was gripped in a vice. In other places, in principle, the head can expand. And after you have seen this sign, you can pay attention to the nose, lips, eyes, surname and everything else that distinguishes Jews.
Character traits
The main character traits of any Jew are self-confidence, absolute self-esteem and any lack of shyness and timidity. There is even a special Yiddish term that combines these qualities - "chutzpah". There are no translations of this word into other languages. Chutzpah is a kind of pride that causes a desire to act, without fear of being insufficiently prepared or incapable.
What is “chutzpah” for Jews? Courage, the ability to change your destiny, to fight against its unpredictability. Many Jews are convinced that the very existence of their state of Israel is sacred, and this is an act of chutzpah.
As mentioned above, there are no analogues in other languages and translations of this concept. But in non-Jewish society, chutzpah has a negative coloration and is identified with the concepts of "arrogance", "intolerance towards other people," "shamelessness," etc.
Indirect signs
Some more Slavs and Jews are worth considering. So, for example, the cleanliness of the face. Jews, unlike most Russians, often have a congestion birthmarks in the area of the nose, mouth and chin. Moles are a sign of aging and degradation of the body. The later they form on the human body, the stronger the body. The Jews, as a rule, are formed in childhood.
We continue to call the characteristic features of the Israelis - very naked with This is very rarely observed among the Slavic-Rus. The Jews often have a fairly rare and asymmetrical dentition, in contrast to the Slavs, who are characterized by dense lower and upper teeth.
Larting as a speech defect is often considered an indirect sign. In principle, it is characteristic of some Jews. But only to a minority. Most Israelis pronounce the r very clearly. And they even teach this to Russians. But still, burr is a rare sign, because many of the Jews who had such a defect worked hard with a speech therapist. And any Russian child can have such a pronunciation from birth.
Nationality
All peoples of the world do not have binding and strict laws that govern nationality. There is freedom of choice: either the nationality of the mother or the father. The only exceptions are Jews. They have a strict and indestructible law: only one who is born of a Jewish mother can be considered a Jew.
And this law is strictly observed throughout the entire existence of the nation.
47th place: Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya - Soviet and Russian ballerina, choreographer, choreographer, teacher, writer and actress, People's Artist of the USSR. Born on November 20, 1925 in Moscow in Jewish family: father - famous economic figure Mikhail Emmanuilovich Plisetskiy, mother - 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 - from the ancient Georgian noble family Gverdtsiteli. Mother - Jewish, granddaughter of the Odessa rabbi.
From an interview with Tamara Gverdtsiteli: “My father is Georgian, I was born and lived most of my life in Georgia, naturally, its culture had a tremendous impact on my life and work. But I was born and raised by a Jewish mother, and over the years I feel more and more of my Jewish genes. " “In 1988, I first came to Israel 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 call of blood.<...>When I sang in Hebrew, it was as if I heard a voice from the depths of centuries. Indeed, it is true that a person studying Hebrew does not learn, but remembers it. This is especially felt in the song. Through the songs these words came to me, and I felt and felt them. Hebrew is a very powerful language. It has such energy, such vowel sounds that it feels like you are filling an empty world with sounds and music ... I try to travel to Jerusalem every year. Whenever I get there, I definitely go to my tree. It contains a piece of my soul. For me, it marks the celebration of the triumph of life. It is not for nothing that the tradition of planting trees has its roots in biblical times - by planting a tree, you feel like a full-fledged person. I come and feel the sense of completeness that I did everything as it should be. It is difficult for me to express my feelings for Jerusalem in words. I have a song on the verses of Andrey Dementiev, absolutely an orthodox person but one who loves Israel and praises Jerusalem. The Jewish capital is a piece of space that has been given to us. You go to Israel, you find yourself in Jerusalem and you feel like a cosmic being ... A Jewish woman is my mother. For me, she is the most beautiful thing on earth. The Jewish woman is a phenomenal mother, an amazing hostess, friend and protector of her children. It is very difficult for me to describe a Jewish woman in words - there is 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, and her mother is Jewish. From an interview with the actress: - Oksana, three bloods are mixed in you: Ukrainian, Gypsy and Jewish.
How do they manifest themselves? - Probably, 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 in to a greater extent? - 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 Tatiana Samoilova: “We are half-breeds with my brother. Our mother is a purebred Jewish woman, 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 / Emmanuelle Chriqui - Canadian actress. Starred in films and television series. Emmanuelle was born on December 10, 1977 in Montreal (Canada) in a family of Moroccan Jews, was brought up in the traditions of Orthodox Judaism of the Sephardic tradition. She was recognized as the most desirable woman in 2010 according to the Askmen.com portal.
42nd place: Goldie Hawn / Goldie Hawn - American actress, producer, director. She was born on November 21, 1945 in Washington. Her mother is Jewish, who raised her daughter in the traditions of Judaism.
41st place: Barbara Walters / Barbara Walters - one of the most famous American TV presenters, who worked on television from 1961 to 2014. Born September 25, 1929 in Boston into a Jewish family whose ancestors lived in Russian Empire.
40th place: Milena Kunis, better known as Mila Kunis / Mila Kunis, is an American actress. She was 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 most significant roles of the actress in the movie - the role of the ballerina Lily in the film "Black Swan" (2010), where she played in a pair with another famous Jewish woman - Natalie Portman. The film was directed by Darren Aronofsky, who is also a Jew by nationality.
39th place: Alexandra Cohen (born October 26, 1984, Westwood, USA), better known as Sasha Cohen / Sasha Cohen, - American single skater, silver medalist Olympic Games- 2006 and two-time silver medalist of the World Championships (2004, 2005). Completed her amateur career in 2006. Sasha Cohen's father is an American Jew, and his 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 I have never hidden it. Moreover, when at the beginning of my career there was a question of taking a pseudonym, I deliberately did not do this, because I wanted to bear my father's surname. "
37th place: Candice Israel, better known as Candice Knight / Candice Night, is an American singer, vocalist and lyricist of the folk-rock band Blackmore's Night, the 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.
36th place: Lynn Zukerman - Israeli model, participant of the Miss Israel 2013 contest.
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 (her father is a Moroccan Jew, her mother is a Yemeni Jew). When Tal (her name is translated from Hebrew as "morning dew") was less than a year old, the family moved to France.
34th place: 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, including 14,325 Ethiopian Jews, were exported to Israel as part of military operation"Solomon".
33rd place: Lizzy (Elizabeth) Kaplan / Lizzy Caplan - American actress, starred in films and TV series. Among her recent works is the role of the famous American sexologist Virginia Johnson in the TV series Masters of Sex (2013-2014). Born June 30, 1982 in Los Angeles into a Jewish family of Reform Judaism.
32nd place: Bella Chagall (real name - Basia-Reiza Shmuylova Rosenfeld) - the first wife of the artist Marc Chagall. Bella was born on December 15 (new style), 1889 (often the year of her birth is 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 / Gal Gadot - Israeli actress and model, "Miss Israel - 2004". She was born on April 30, 1985 in Rosh HaAyin (Israel). Her parents are sabras, i.e. Jews born in Israel. In 2016, the movie "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" will be released, where Gadot will play the comic book heroine Wonder Woman.
30th place: Coral Simanovich - Israeli model.
29th place: Bar Hefer / Bar Hefer (born 1995, Petah Tikva, Israel) - Israeli model, First Vice-Miss Israel - 2013.
28th place: Yityish Aynaw - Israeli model, Miss Israel 2013. She was born in Ethiopia. Belongs to 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 an American screenwriter and producer Jewish origin 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... She was born on October 7, 1979 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Yana's father is Tatar, mother is Jewish. Yana is married to the famous producer Timur Weinstein, a Jew by nationality. The couple have two daughters - Mariam and Ailu.
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 brings up children (son Moses and daughter Apple, ie "apple") in the traditions of Judaism, despite the fact that her ex-husband and her children's father, Coldplay musician Chris Martin, is a Christian.
24th place: Alison Brie Schermerhorn / Alison Brie Schermerhorn, better known as Alison Brie, is an American actress. Born December 29, 1982 in Hollywood. Alison's father is of Dutch descent, as well as Scottish and German. Mother is Jewish. Alison Brie began her acting career at the Southern California Jewish Community Center. In 2014, she took second place (after Emilia Clarke) in the rating of the most desirable women according to the Askmen portal.
23rd place: 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), trained in a yeshiva - a Jewish educational institution dedicated to the study of the Oral Law, mainly the Talmud. The newest film work by Jennifer Connelly is the role of the wife of the biblical righteous man Noah in the film "Noah", released in March 2014.
22nd place: Alicia Silverstone / Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976, San Francisco, USA) - American actress. Her father is an English Jew, her mother is a Scottish woman who converted to Judaism before the wedding.
21st place: Anouk Aimée (real name - Françoise Judit Soria Dreyfus) - French actress. She was born in Paris on April 27, 1932. Her parents were Jewish, but her mother was raised Catholic and converted to Judaism as an adult. Anouk Aimé's most famous role is that of Anna Gaultier in Man and Woman (1966) directed by Jewish director Claude Lelouch.
20th place: Ali (Alice) McGraw / Ali MacGraw - American actress. She was born on April 1, 1939 in New York. The father had Scottish and Hungarian roots, and the mother was Jewish (she hid her nationality from her husband). One of the most famous roles of Eli McGraw is the Jewish girl Brenda Patimkin in the film Farewell Columbus (1969), dedicated to the life of American Jews.
19th place: Melanie Laurent / Mélanie Laurent - French actress, director, singer. She was born on February 21, 1983 in Paris to a Jewish family.
18th place: Esther Petrack - American model... She was born on 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) is an American actress. Sarah's parents are Jewish, but they did not adhere to the traditions of Judaism and even decorated the tree for Christmas. Sarah herself is not an adherent of any of the religions.
16th place: Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva - American actress, previously a professional gymnast. She was 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) is an American actress and singer. Her father is of Danish descent, and her mother is an Ashkenazi Jewish (a sub-ethnic group of Jews that formed in Central Europe), her ancestors moved to the United States from Minsk. Scarlett considers herself Jewish, celebrates the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, although she admits that her family always celebrated Christmas, because loved the traditions of this holiday.
14th place: Lauren Bacall / 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 the history of Hollywood. Lauren Bacall's parents are Jews, she is a cousin of Israeli President Shimon Peres.
13th place: Moran Atias / Moran Atias - Israeli actress and model. She was born on April 9, 1981 in Haifa (Israel) in a family of Moroccan Jews. Moran has younger sister Shani, which is also in this rating.
12th place: Susanna Hoffs / Susanna Hoffs - singer and guitarist from the American band The Bangles ("Bangles"). She was born on January 17, 1959 in Los Angeles into a Jewish family.
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) in 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, her mother is Jewish. The first husband of Lisa Bonet was the 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 are so similar. When I first told him that my mother was Jewish, he replied, "Like my father." I felt that this is the one who really understands what it is like. "
9th place: Hedy Lamarr / Hedy Lamarr (real name - Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) - Austrian and American actress. She was born on November 9, 1914 in Vienna to a Jewish family. The actress (then still 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 a long nude scene, as well as intercourse and female orgasm. The actress died on January 19, 2000 in the United States.
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 of the newspaper " TVNZ"Elina Bystritskaya was recognized as" the most beautiful woman of the outgoing century. " She was born on April 4, 1928 in Kiev into a Jewish family.
7th place: Natalie Portman / Natalie Portman (real name - Hershlag) - 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 Millepieu (they met on the set of the movie "Black Swan"), a Jew by nationality. Their wedding took place in the tradition of Judaism.
6th place: Marilyn Monroe / Marilyn monroe(June 1, 1926, Los Angeles - August 5, 1962) was an American actress and singer. Birth name - Norma Jeane Mortenson. The father is unknown, the mother had Irish and Scottish roots. Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism on July 1, 1956. The reason for the 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 visit the synagogue, because she believed that then she religious life will turn into a public spectacle. Arthur Miller's brother believed that Monroe's acceptance of Judaism was superficial. As for Monroe's attitude to Christianity, it was rather negative, because at one time her guardians were Protestant fundamentalists.
5th place: Elizabeth Taylor / Elizabeth Taylor - British-American actress. Born February 27, 1932 in London. Her parents were Americans who worked in England. The father had Jewish roots, the mother - Swiss. Elizabeth Taylor was raised in the spirit of Christianity, but in 1959, at the age of 27, she converted to Judaism, receiving the Hebrew name Elisheva-Rachel. The actress stated that she adopted the Jewish religion, because Christianity was unable to resolve her questions about life and death. A significant role was also played by the fact that her third husband (he died in 1958) was Jewish.
4th place: Sara Lvovna Manakhimova, better known under the stage name Jasmine, is a Russian singer. She was born on October 12, 1977 in Derbent into a family of Mountain Jews (a sub-ethnic group of Jews from the North and East Caucasus).
3rd place: Lilli Palmer / Lilli Palmer (real name - Lilly Maria Peiser) - German actress. She was born in the city of Poznan (now Poland) on May 24, 1914 into a Jewish family. Lily Palmer has starred in British, American, 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. She was born in Paris on July 5, 1980. Eve's mother, Marlene Jaubert, is a famous French actress who was born in Algeria into a Jewish family. Eve's father, Walter Green, is a Swede by his father and a Frenchman by his mother. Correctly, Eve's surname is pronounced as 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.
The most beautiful, in our opinion, Jewish woman is British actress Rachel Weisz. She was born in London on March 7, 1970. Rachel's father, inventor George Weiss (Jewish by nationality) was originally from Hungary, and Rachel's mother, psychotherapist Edith Ruth, was born in Vienna. Edith Ruth was not a purebred Jewish woman, because also had Italian and Austrian roots and was brought up in Catholicism, but then converted to Judaism.
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Recently I noticed that many comedians and actors on the Russian stage and in cinema are Jews, I looked more closely - it turned out to be the majority. I wondered how it was in Hollywood and it turned out exactly the same. But at least it is much easier to find information about the nationality of their celebrities.
The result is a rather curious list with many surprises. The list is for educational purposes only.
In the list of actors, whose faces are more or less recognizable for the Russian-speaking audience, I took myself as a focus group). As a preamble famous quote from Lenin: “Of all the arts, cinema is the most important for us..
16. Benjamin Edward Stiller- Born into a family of comedians Jerry Stiller and Ann Mira. Irish mother, Jewish father from a family of immigrants from Poland and Galicia.
17. Sacha Noam Baron Cohen- was born into a Jewish family in Surrey. Parents - Gerald and Danielle Baron Cohen. Father was the owner of the store men's clothing... Daniel's mother Naomi Weiser was born in Israel.
18. Daniel Jacob Radcliffe- mother Marcia Janine Gresham Jacobson, casting agent, was born in South Africa, in a Jewish family of immigrants from Russia and Poland.
19. Amanda Peet- Born into a family of social worker Penny Peet (née Levy) and corporate lawyer Charles P. The mother is Jewish.
20. Sarah Michelle Gellar- was born in New York, was the only child of Roseline (maiden name Greenfield) - teacher kindergarten, and Arthur Gellarov. Both of Sarah's parents are Jewish.
22.Dustin Lee Hoffman- the second child in the family of Harry and Lillian Hoffman. Mother Lillian (née Gold, 1909-1981) is a jazz pianist, father is Harry Hoffman. Both are descendants of Jewish emigrants from Russia and Romania.>
23. Kate Garry Hudson- Kate Hudson was born into the family of singer Bill Hudson and actress Goldie Hawn. Among the mother's ancestors were Jewish immigrants from Hungary. She was brought up in the spirit of the Jewish religion.
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24. Jesse Adam Eisenberg (Jesse Adam Eisenberg) – American actor, best known for his roles in the films "The Squid and the Whale", "Park of Culture and Leisure", "Welcome to Zombieland" and " Social network". For his role in the film "The Social Network" was nominated for an Oscar. Born into a Jewish family of immigrants from Ukraine and Poland.
PEOPLETALK editors really like the features that make people of the same ethnicity stand out. In other words, we like to "guess" nationality by the shape of the eyebrows, the line of the nose, and increased or decreased hairiness.
If you like this activity too, join us! We decided to look for similarities among representatives of different nationalities. Today it is Jewish. IsTorically, Jews live all over the world, so it so happens that two Jews may be completely different from each other.
So, we admire the Jewish beauties and decide whether they have an external resemblance. How do you think?
Odeya Rush (18)
Introducing the future movie star Odeya Rush. The young beauty-Jewish woman is known so far only for her main role in the teenage film "The Giver", but we are sure that glory awaits Odeya.
Katya (33) and Sonya Gaydamak (31)
Sonya and Katya are the daughters of the famous entrepreneur Arkady Gaydamak (62), the owner of the Gaydamak Jewelery jewelry brand, among their fans are Lana Del Rey (29) and Natalie Portman (33). The sisters were born and lived most of their lives in Paris, but in recent times moved to London, where they are actively developing their company.
Oksana Fandera (48)
Actress Oksana Fandera is the beauty of a violent national mix. If the actress's mother is Jewish, then her father, Oleg Fandera, is half Ukrainian, half Gypsy.
Rachel Weisz (44)
The actress's father, George Weiss, is a Hungarian Jew, her mother is of Jewish, Austrian and Italian roots. As a result of Nazi persecution, the Weiss family had to flee to England, where his father became an inventor.
The infernal beauty actress Eva Green has a twin sister, Joy. Eve's father is half Swede and French, her mother is Algerian of Jewish origin.
Natalie Portman (33)
The favorite of millions (almost all the men we know are crazy about her) is actually not Portman. This is a creative pseudonym, the real name of the actress is Hershlag. The father of the actress Avner is a specialist in the treatment of infertility and reproductive endocrinology, her mother is a former housewife, and now Natalie's agent. By the way, the actress has Russian blood. Natalie's maternal ancestors are Jews from Russia, after immigration to the United States, they changed their surname from Edelstein to Stevens.
Sara Lvovna Manakhimova was born in Derbent into a family of Mountain Jews. Father is a choreographer, mother was a conductor. In the beginning, the future Jasmine was going to become a doctor. It was in college that she first appeared on stage. It was at the KVN competition between teams of doctors and students of a music school. And what do you think? Future Jasmine, of course, quails everyone!
Emmanuelle Chriqui (37)
Emmanuelle was born in Canada to Sephardic Moroccan Jews. The actress who played in the television series "The Mentalist" and "Handsome" was recognized as the most desirable woman in 2010 according to the AskMen.com portal.
Elina Bystritskaya (86)
The legend of Soviet cinema, the beauty Aksinya from The Quiet Don, Elina Bystritskaya is a woman of amazing, unfading beauty. Elina is the daughter of the military infectious disease doctor Abram Petrovich Bystritsky and the hospital chef Esfiri Isaakovna Bystritskaya.
Lisa Bonet (47)
The beauty Lisa Bonet is famous not so much for her roles as for her husband, the giant barbarian from the Game of Thrones series, Jason Momoa (35).
Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
One of the greatest actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age hails from a prominent Jewish family. Her cousin is the ninth president of Israel, Shimon Peres (91).
Yes, yes, we ourselves were surprised when we learned that Jewish blood flows in the veins of Gwyneth. Formally, the actress is not a real Jew. Gwyneth's father is a descendant of the famous rabbinical Paltrovich family, but his mother is German (as you know, Jewish nationality is transmitted through the maternal line). Gwyneth herself considers herself Jewish and brings up her children in Judaism.
Yitish Ainau (22)
Yitish is the most exotic beauty on our list. A Jewish woman of Ethiopian origin was brought to Israel by her parents at the age of 12. Two years ago, Yitish won the Miss Israel contest.
The future Mrs in childhood was called Milena. The actress was born into a Jewish family in Chernivtsi (Ukraine). In 1991, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles.
Lizzie Caplan (32)
Master of Sex star Lizzie Kaplan was born into a Jewish family of Reform Judaism.
Ksenia Rappoport (41)
Jewish women have been famous for their beauty and sexuality since ancient times. Due 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 that did not have their own state for two thousand years (until 1948) and existed exclusively as a network of Jewish diasporas around the world. The number of Jews peaked at 16.7 million before World War II, but about 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust in Europe. Now the number of Jews is 14 million, of which 6 million live in Israel, 5.4 million in the United States. 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.
Unlike most peoples of the world, Jewish nationality is determined not by the father, but by the mother. Kabbalah explains this by the fact 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 one who is born of a Jewish mother and has not converted to another religion, as well as a person who converted to Judaism."
This rating, which presents the most beautiful, in our opinion, famous Jewish women, is compiled on the basis of the understanding of Jewry, which is cited above. Those. the ranking does not include Jewish paternal who did not convert to Judaism (for example, Irina Slutskaya), but it includes maternal Jewish women, as well as Jewish converts (while only one woman on the list, being a Jew, has no Jewish blood).
47th place: Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya - Soviet and Russian ballerina, ballet master, 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 a famous business figure Mikhail Emmanuilovich Plisetskiy, her mother is a 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 - from the ancient Georgian noble family Gverdtsiteli. Mother - Jewish, granddaughter of the Odessa rabbi.
From an interview with Tamara Gverdtsiteli:
“My father is Georgian, I was born and lived most of my life in Georgia, naturally, its culture had a tremendous impact on my life and work. But I was born and raised by a Jewish mother, and over the years I feel more and more of my Jewish genes. "
“In 1988, I first came to Israel 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 call of blood. When I sang in Hebrew, it was as if I heard a voice from the depths of centuries. Indeed, it is true that a person studying Hebrew does not learn, but remembers it. This is especially felt in the song. Through the songs these words came to me, and I felt and felt them. Hebrew is a very powerful language. It has such energy, such vowel sounds that it feels like you are filling an empty world with sounds and music ... I try to travel to Jerusalem every year. Whenever I get there, I definitely go to my tree. It contains a piece of my soul. For me, it marks the celebration of the triumph of life. It is not for nothing that the tradition of planting trees has its roots in biblical times - by planting a tree, you feel like a full-fledged person. I come and feel the sense of completeness that I did everything as it should be. It is difficult for me to express my feelings for Jerusalem in words. I have a song on the verses of Andrei Dementyev, an absolutely Orthodox person, but who loves Israel and praises Jerusalem. The Jewish capital is a piece of space that has been given to us. You go to Israel, you find yourself in Jerusalem and you feel like a cosmic being ... A Jewish woman is my mother. For me, she is the most beautiful thing on earth. The Jewish woman is a phenomenal mother, an amazing hostess, friend and protector of her children. It is very difficult for me to describe a Jewish woman in words - there is 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, and her mother is Jewish. From an interview with the actress:
Oksana, three bloods are mixed in you: Ukrainian, Gypsy and Jewish. How do they manifest themselves?
Probably, 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 the most about?
Now I can equally feel myself the 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 Tatiana Samoilova: “We are half-breeds with my brother. Our mother is a purebred Jewish woman, 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 / Emmanuelle Chriqui - Canadian actress. Starred in films and television series. Emmanuelle was born on December 10, 1977 in Montreal (Canada) in a family of Moroccan Jews, was brought up in the traditions of Orthodox Judaism of the Sephardic tradition. She was recognized as the most desirable woman in 2010 according to the Askmen.com portal.
42nd place: Goldie Hawn / Goldie Hawn - American actress, producer, director. She was born on November 21, 1945 in Washington. Her mother is Jewish, who raised her daughter in the traditions of Judaism.
41st place: Barbara Walters / Barbara Walters - one of the most famous American TV presenters, who 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 / Mila Kunis, is an American actress. She was 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 most significant roles of the actress in the cinema is the role of the ballerina Lily in the film "Black Swan" (2010), where she played in tandem with another famous Jewish woman, Natalie Portman. The film was directed by Darren Aronofsky, who is also a Jew by nationality.
39th place: Alexandra Cohen (born October 26, 1984, Westwood, USA), better known as Sasha Cohen / Sasha Cohen, is an American single skater, silver medalist at the 2006 Olympic Games and two-time silver medalist at the World Championships (2004, 2005 ). Completed her amateur career in 2006. Sasha Cohen's father is an American Jew, and his 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 I have never hidden it. Moreover, when at the beginning of my career there was a question of taking a pseudonym, I deliberately did not do this, because I wanted to bear my father's surname. "
37th place: Candice Israel, better known as Candice Knight / Candice Night, is an American singer, vocalist and lyricist of the folk-rock band Blackmore's Night, the 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 (her father is a Moroccan Jew, her mother is a Yemeni Jew). When Tal (her name is translated from Hebrew as "morning dew") was less than a year old, the family moved to France.
34th place: 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, including 14,325 Ethiopian Jews, were taken to Israel as part of the military operation "Solomon".
33rd place: Lizzy (Elizabeth) Kaplan / Lizzy Caplan - American actress, starred in films and TV series. Among her recent works is the role of the famous American sexologist Virginia Johnson in the TV series Masters of Sex. Born June 30, 1982 in Los Angeles into a Jewish family of Reform Judaism.
32nd place: Bella Chagall (real name - Basia-Reiza Shmuylova Rosenfeld) - the first wife of the artist Marc Chagall. Bella was born on December 15 (new style), 1889 (often the year of her birth is 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". She was born on April 30, 1985 in Rosh HaAyin (Israel). Her parents are sabras, i.e. Jews born in Israel. In 2016, the movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was released, where Gadot played the comic book heroine Wonder Woman.
29th place: Bar Hefer / Bar Hefer (born 1995, Petah Tikva, Israel) - Israeli model, First Vice-Miss Israel - 2013.
28th place: Yityish Aynaw - Israeli model, Miss Israel 2013. She was born in Ethiopia. Belongs to 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. She was born on October 7, 1979 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Yana's father is Tatar, mother is Jewish. Yana is married to the famous producer Timur Weinstein, a Jew by nationality. The couple have two daughters - Mariam and Ailu.
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 brings up children (son Moses and daughter Apple, ie "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 / Alison Brie Schermerhorn, better known as Alison Brie, is an American actress. Born December 29, 1982 in Hollywood. Alison's father is of Dutch descent, as well as Scottish and German. Mother is Jewish. Alison Brie began her acting career at the Southern California Jewish Community Center. In 2014, she took second place (after Emilia Clarke) in the rating of the most desirable women according to the Askmen portal.
23rd place: 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 at the Yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution dedicated to the study of Oral Law, mainly the Talmud.
22nd place: Alicia Silverstone / Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976, San Francisco, USA) - American actress. Her father is an English Jew, her mother is a Scottish woman who converted to Judaism before the wedding.
21st place: Anouk Aimée (real name - Françoise Judit Soria Dreyfus) - French actress. She was born in Paris on April 27, 1932. Her parents were Jewish, but her mother was raised Catholic and converted to Judaism as an adult. Anouk Aimé's most famous role is that of Anna Gaultier in Man and Woman (1966) directed by Jewish director Claude Lelouch.
20th place: Ali (Alice) McGraw / Ali MacGraw - American actress. She was born on April 1, 1939 in New York. The father had Scottish and Hungarian roots, and the mother was Jewish (she hid her nationality from her husband). One of the most famous roles of Eli McGraw is the Jewish girl Brenda Patimkin in the film Goodbye Columbus (1969), which is about the life of American Jews.
19th place: Melanie Laurent / Mélanie Laurent - French actress, director, singer. She was born on February 21, 1983 in Paris to a Jewish family.
18th place: Esther Petrack - American model. She was born on March 31, 1992 in Jerusalem. She is a follower of Orthodox modernism in Judaism.
17th place: Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. Sarah's parents are Jewish, but they did not adhere to the traditions of Judaism and even decorated the tree for Christmas. Sarah herself is not an adherent of any of the religions.
16th place: Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva - American actress, previously a professional gymnast. She was 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) is an American actress and singer. Her father is of Danish descent, and her mother is a Jewish Ashkenazi (a sub-ethnic group of Jews that formed in Central Europe), her ancestors moved to the United States from Minsk. Scarlett considers herself Jewish, celebrates the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, although she admits that her family always celebrated Christmas, because loved the traditions of this holiday.
14th place: Lauren Bacall / 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 the history of Hollywood. Lauren Bacall's parents are Jewish, she is a cousin former president Israel to Shimon Peres.
13th place: Moran Atias / Moran Atias - Israeli actress and model. She was born on April 9, 1981 in Haifa (Israel) in a family of Moroccan Jews. Moran has a younger sister, Shani, who is also in this rating.
12th place: Susanna Hoffs / Susanna Hoffs - singer and guitarist from the American band The Bangles ("Bangles"). She was born on January 17, 1959 in Los Angeles into a Jewish family.
To those who The name Bangles doesn't say anything, we suggest you listen to their hit Eternal Flame.
11th place: Shani Atias / Shani Atias - Israeli actress and model, the younger sister of Moran Atias. She was born on August 21, 1991 in Haifa (Israel) in 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, her mother is Jewish. The first husband of Lisa Bonet was the 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 are so similar. When I first told him that my mother was Jewish, he replied, "Like my father." I felt that this is the one who really understands what it is like. "
9th place: Hedy Lamarr / Hedy Lamarr (real name - Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) - Austrian and American actress. She was born on November 9, 1914 in Vienna to a Jewish family. The actress (then still 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 a long nude scene, as well as intercourse and female orgasm. The actress died on January 19, 2000 in the United States.
8th place: Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya - an outstanding Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR. In 1999, in a poll by the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" Elina Bystritskaya was recognized as "the most beautiful woman of the outgoing century." She was born on April 4, 1928 in Kiev into a Jewish family.
7th place: Natalie Portman / Natalie Portman (real name - Hershlag) - 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 Millepieu (they met on the set of the movie "Black Swan"), a Jew by nationality. Their wedding took place in the tradition of Judaism.
6th place: Marilyn Monroe / Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926, Los Angeles - August 5, 1962) - American actress and singer. Birth name - Norma Jeane Mortenson. The father is unknown, the mother had Irish and Scottish roots. Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism on July 1, 1956. The reason for the 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 abandon Judaism, although, according to contemporaries, she did not attend 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 to Christianity, it was rather negative, because at one time her guardians were Protestant fundamentalists.
5th place: / Elizabeth Taylor - British-American actress. Born February 27, 1932 in London. Her parents were Americans who worked in England. The father had Jewish roots, the mother - Swiss. Elizabeth Taylor was raised in the spirit of Christianity, but in 1959, at the age of 27, she converted to Judaism, receiving the Hebrew name Elisheva-Rachel. The actress stated that she adopted the Jewish religion, because Christianity was unable to resolve her questions about life and death. A significant role was also played by the fact that her third husband (he died in 1958) was Jewish.
4th place: Sara Lvovna Manakhimova, better known under the stage name Jasmine, is a Russian singer. She was born on October 12, 1977 in Derbent into a family of Mountain Jews (a sub-ethnic group of Jews from the North and East Caucasus).
3rd place: Lilli Palmer / Lilli Palmer (real name - Lilly Maria Peiser) - German actress. She was born in the city of Poznan (now Poland) on May 24, 1914 into a Jewish family. Lily Palmer has starred in British, American, 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. She was born in Paris on July 5, 1980. Eve's mother, Marlene Jaubert, is a famous French actress who was born in Algeria into a Jewish family. Eve's father, Walter Green, is a Swede by his father and a Frenchman by his mother. Correctly, Eve's surname is pronounced as 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. She was born in London on March 7, 1970. Rachel's father, inventor George Weiss (Jewish by nationality) was originally from Hungary, and Rachel's mother, psychotherapist Edith Ruth, was born in Vienna. Edith Ruth was not a purebred Jewish woman, because also had Italian and Austrian roots and was brought up in Catholicism, but then converted to Judaism.
