The editors of PEOPLETALK really like the appearance features that distinguish people of the same ethnic group. 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 also like this activity, join us! We decided to look for similar traits in representatives of different nationalities. Today - Jewish. IsHistorically, Jews live all over the world, so it happens that two Jews can be completely different from each other.
So, we admire the Jewish beauties and decide whether they have any external resemblance. How do you think?
Odeya Rush (18)
Introducing future movie star Odeya Rush. The young Jewish beauty is currently only known for her leading role in the teen film “The Giver,” but we are sure that Odeya is destined for fame.
Katya (33) and Sonya Gaydamak (31)
Sonya and Katya are the daughters of the famous entrepreneur Arkady Gaydamak (62), owner of the jewelry brand Gaydamak Jewelery, 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 Lately moved to London, where they are actively developing their company.
Oksana Fandera (48)
Actress Oksana Fandera is the beauty of a riotous national batch. 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 has Jewish, Austrian and Italian roots. As a result of Nazi persecution, the Weiss family had to flee to England, where the father became an inventor.
The infernal beauty actress Eva Green has a twin sister, Joy. Eva's father is half Swedish and French, her mother is Algerian 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 pseudonym, the real name of the actress is Hershlag. The actress's father 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 ancestors maternal line- Jews from Russia who, after immigrating to the United States, changed their last name from Edelstein to Stevens.
Sara Lvovna Manakhimova was born in Derbent into a family of Mountain Jews. My father is a choreographer, my mother was a conductor. At first, the future Jasmine was going to become a doctor. It was in college that she first appeared on stage. It happened at a KVN competition between teams of doctors and students of a music school. And what do you think? Future Jasmine, of course, out-quailed everyone!
Emmanuel Chriqui (37)
Emmanuel was born in Canada into a family of Moroccan Sephardic Jews. The actress who played in the television series “The Mentalist” and “Entourage” was recognized as the most desirable woman of 2010 according to the AskMen.com portal.
Elina Bystritskaya (86)
The legend of Soviet cinema, the beautiful Aksinya from “Quiet Don”, Elina Bystritskaya is a woman of amazing, unfading beauty. Elina is the daughter of military infectious disease doctor Abram Petrovich Bystritsky and hospital cook Esther Isaakovna Bystritskaya.
Lisa Bonet (47)
The beautiful Lisa Bonet is famous not so much for her roles as for her husband, the giant barbarian from the series “Game of Thrones” Jason Momoa (35).
Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
One of the greatest actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age comes from a prominent Jewish family. Her cousin– ninth President of Israel Shimon Peres (91).
Yes, yes, we ourselves were surprised when we learned that Gwyneth had Jewish blood flowing in her veins. Formally, the actress is not a real Jew. Gwyneth's father is a descendant of the famous rabbinical family of the Paltrovichs, but her mother is German (as is known, Jewish nationality is transmitted through the maternal line). Gwyneth herself considers herself Jewish and raises her children in Judaism.
Yitish Ainau (22)
Yitish is the most exotic beauty on our list. A Jewish girl of Ethiopian origin, her parents moved her to Israel at the age of 12. Two years ago, Yitish won the Miss Israel competition.
The future Mrs.'s childhood name was Milena. The actress was born in Jewish family in Chernivtsi (Ukraine). In 1991, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles.
Lizzy Caplan (32)
The star of the series “Masters of Sex” Lizzy Caplan was born into a Jewish family professing Reform Judaism.
Ksenia Rappoport (41)
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 lived most of 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 is a very strong language. 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 like 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 verses of Andrei Dementyev, an absolutely Orthodox person, but who loves Israel and praises 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 difficult for me to describe a Jewish woman in 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, and 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 because 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, 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 Russian Empire.
40th place: 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. One of the actress’s most significant film roles is the role of the 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, silver medalist Olympic Games- 2006 and two-time silver medalist at the World Championships (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, 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 (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, among 14,325 Ethiopian Jews, were taken to Israel as part of the military Operation Solomon.
33rd place: Lizzy (Elizabeth) Caplan / Lizzy Caplan is an American actress who 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” (2013-2014). 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” will be released, where Gadot will play the comic book heroine Wonder Woman.
30th place: Coral Simanovich / Coral Simanovich - Israeli model.
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) 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.
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 - 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), trained in yeshiva - Jewish educational institution, intended for the study of the Oral Law, mainly the Talmud. 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.
22nd place: 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.
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 (born April 14, 1977) is an 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 (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.
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 cousin Israeli President 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 a younger sister, Shani, who is also on this list.
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.
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) 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.
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 passing century." Born on April 4, 1928 in Kyiv in a Jewish family.
7th place: 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.
6th place: Marilyn Monroe / 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 / 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 Jewish 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.
The most beautiful Jewish woman, in our opinion, is the 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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IN Top 30 most beautiful Jews and Jewspeace included famous actors, musicians and singers from the USA, Great Britain, and Russia. Some of them are Jewish on one of their parents, some are Jews and were raised in the spirit of Orthodox Judaism.
Jews and Jews They have beautiful almond-shaped eyes, mostly dark brown, less often blue, black curly hair, dark skin. Some Jewish men oval face shape, long and straight noses. Worldwide Jewish men
They are known for their high intelligence, are able to support any conversation, and, as a rule, have an excellent sense of humor. Among Jews there are a lot of Hollywood and British actors who have talent, sexy attractive appearance and have armies of fans.
30. David Schwimmer(born November 2, 1966) is an American actor and director from a Jewish family. Known for playing the role of Ross Geller in the television series Friends.
29.Adrien Brody / Adrien Brody(born April 14, 1973, New York, USA) - American actor and producer, born into a Jewish family. Famous films: “The Thin Red Line”, “The Pianist”, “The Secret Forest”, “King Kong”.
28. Adam Lambert / Adam Lambert(born January 29, 1982, Indianapolis, USA) - American singer. Has Jewish roots on his mother's side. In 2009, he became a finalist on the eighth season of the reality show American Idol. His albums: For Your Entertainment, Trespassing.
27. Daniel Radcliffe/ Daniel Radcliffe(born July 23, 1989) is a British theater and film actor. Has Jewish roots on his mother's side. He is known as the performer of the role of Harry Potter in the long-running series of films of the same name, based on the works of the writer JK Rowling, as well as Notes of a Young Doctor, The Woman in Black, etc.
26.Andrew Garfield / Andrew Garfield(born August 20, 1983) - British and American actor, his grandfather was a Jewish immigrant. Famous films "Spider-Man", "Boy A".
25. Josh Radnor / Josh Radnor(born July 29, 1974) is an American actor. He graduated from Jewish school and was raised in the spirit of Conservative Judaism. Known for his role as Ted in the comedy series How I Met Your Mother.
24. Joaquin Phoenix / Joaquin Phoenix(born October 28, 1974) is an American actor whose mother came from a family of Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Russia. Films with his participation: “Signs”, “Gladiator”, “Walk the Line”, “The Master”, etc.
23. Adam Sandler / Adam Sandler(born September 9, 1966, Brooklyn, New York) is an American comedian, actor, and musician of Jewish descent. Films with his participation: “Billy Madison”, “Happy Gilmore”, “Big Daddy”, “The Wedding Singer”, “Knockdown Love”, etc.
22.Mikhail Turetsky(April 12, 1962, Moscow) - Russian showman, conductor, singer, founder and producer of the art group "Turetsky Choir" and "SOPRANO Turetsky". Born into a Jewish family of immigrants from Belarus.
21. Noah Wyle / Noah Wyle(born June 4, 1971) is an American actor. His father was a Russian Jew. Played John Carter in the series " Ambulance", in the trilogy "The Librarian", in the docudrama "Pirates of Silicon Valley".
20. Paul Rudd / Paul Rudd(born April 6, 1969) is an American actor and screenwriter, from a family of Jews who immigrated from England. Films: “Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers”, “The Cider House Rules”, “Romeo + Juliet”, “Exam for Two”, etc.
19. Max Greenfield / Max Greenfield(born September 4, 1980) - American television actor, born into a Jewish family. He starred in the comedy series New Girl, as well as the films Veronica Mars, University, and Ugly.
18. Gabriel Macht(born January 22, 1972) - American actor, born into a Jewish family. Films with his participation: “The Avenger”, “Love and Other Drugs”, “S.W.A.T.: Firestorm”, “Force Majeure”.
17.James Franco(born April 19, 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA) - American actor, director, screenwriter, producer. James's mother is Jewish with Russian roots. Films with his participation: “James Dean”, “Spider-Man”, “The Great Raid”, “Tristan and Isolde”, “The Duel”, “Harvey Milk”.
16. Liev Schreiber(October 4, 1967, San Francisco, USA) - American film actor, director and producer. Tony Award winner. Has Jewish roots on his mother's side. Films: “Project 281”, “The Painted Veil”, “The Omen”, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”, etc.
15. Joseph Gordon-Levitt / Joseph Gordon-Levitt(born February 17, 1981) is an American actor and film director, two-time Golden Globe nominee. Born into a Jewish family. Films with his participation: “500 Days of Summer”, “Inception”, “Hesher”, “Life is Beautiful”, “The Passion of Don Juan”
14. Craig David / Craig David(born May 5, 1981) - British singer and songwriter. He has Jewish roots on his mother's side; his grandparents were Orthodox Jews and professed Judaism.
13. Zac Efron / Zac Efron(born October 18, 1987) is an American actor; his paternal grandfather was Jewish. Films with his participation: "High School Musical", "Daddy's 17 Again", "Me and Orson Welles", " Double life Charlie St. Cloud," "Lucky" and "That Awkward Moment."
12.Justin Lee Bartha / Justin Lee Bartha(born July 21, 1978) - American actor, producer and director, born into a Jewish family. Films: "The Hangover" and "National Treasure."
11.Adam Levine / Adam Levine(March 18, 1979) - American singer, actor, vocalist and guitarist of the pop rock band Maroon 5. His father and maternal grandfather were Jews; Levin considers himself a Jew, although formally he is not very religious. In 2013, he was recognized as the sexiest man on the planet by People magazine.
10.Logan Lerman(born January 19, 1992, Beverly Hills) - American actor, born into a Jewish family. Famous films: “The Butterfly Effect”, “Gamer”, “The Musketeers”, “Hello, Bill!”, “Train to Yuma”, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”.
9.Eric Dane(November 9, 1972) - American actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. Mark Sloan on Grey's Anatomy. Dane was raised in Judaism and has Jewish roots on his mother's side.
8. Bryan Greenberg / Bryan Greenberg(born May 24, 1978) is an American actor, known for the TV series “How to Make It in America” and “One Tree Hill.” Jewish by nationality, he was brought up in the spirit of Conservative Judaism and attended a synagogue.
7. Joshua Bowman / Joshua Bowman(born March 4, 1988) is a British actor, his father is Jewish and Bowman said that he “feels Jewish.” He is best known for his role as Daniel Grayson in the ABC soap opera Revenge, as well as Undercover Agent, Nightwolf.
6. Jake Gyllenhaal / Jake Gyllenhaal(born December 19, 1980) - American actor, BAFTA award winner. Born into a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Latvia. Films with his participation: “October Sky”, “Donnie Darko”, “The Day After Tomorrow”, “Brokeback Mountain”.
5.Adam Brody(born December 15, 1979) - American actor, born into a Jewish family. Films: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "The O.C.", "In the Land of Women."
4. Ben Barnes / Ben Barnes(born August 20, 1981) - English actor, Jewish on his mother’s side. Films: "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian", "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Treader of the Dawn Treader", "Dorian Gray", "The Seventh Son".
3. Shia LaBeouf / Shia LaBeouf(born June 11, 1986) is an American actor born into a French-Jewish family. Films: "Paranoia", "Transformers", "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". BAFTA Awards in the Rising Star category.
2.Dave Franco(born June 12, 1985) - Hollywood actor, Jewish on his mother’s side. Films: “Macho and Nerd-2”, “The Warmth of Our Bodies”, “Illusion of Deception”, “Neighbors. On the Warpath”, etc.
1. James Wolk(born March 22, 1985) is an American actor. His family professes the Jewish faith. Films with his participation: "Eight simple steps", "You again", "If you want to have a good time, call!"
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 - ancient people
of Semitic origin, for two thousand years (until 1948) did not have its 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.
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.”
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 lived most of 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 is a very strong language. 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 like 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 verses of Andrei Dementyev, an absolutely Orthodox person, but who loves Israel and praises 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 difficult for me to describe a Jewish woman in 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: Tahunia 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, among 14,325 Ethiopian Jews, were taken to Israel as part of the 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” (2013-2014). 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” will be released, where Gadot will play 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. 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.
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 and she is a cousin of Israeli President 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 a younger sister, Shani, who is also on this list.
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.
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 / 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.
The most beautiful Jewish woman, in our opinion, is the 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.
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 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.
of Semitic origin, for two thousand years (until 1948) did not have its 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.
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).
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 lived most of 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 is a very strong language. 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 like 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 verses of Andrei Dementyev, an absolutely Orthodox person, but who loves Israel and praises 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 difficult for me to describe a Jewish woman in 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: Tahunia 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, among 14,325 Ethiopian Jews, were taken to Israel as part of the 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 a younger sister, Shani, who is also on this list.
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.
To those who title The Bangles doesn't say anything, we suggest you 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.
