- Gerald Abrahams 1
- Yochanan
Afek
17
[GM/Composition]
- Semyon Alapin 1, 5, 6
- Lev Alburt 2, 3 [GM]
- Aaron (Albert)
Alexandre 1, 5
- Boris Alterman 17 [GM]
- Levon Aronian
22 [GM]
- Lev Aronin 2, 4
- Yuri Averbakh 1, 2, 4 [GM]
- Boris Avrukh 17 [GM]
- Valery Beim 17 [GM]
- Alexander Belyavsky
2 [GM]
- Joel Benjamin 3, 13 [GM]
- Hans Berliner 13
- Ossip Bernstein 1, 2, 4, 6 [GM]
- Arthur Bisguier 3, 4 [GM]
- Benjamin Blumenfeld 2
- Mark Bluvshtein 17 [GM]
- Jacobo Bolbochan 4
- Julio Bolbochan 4 [GM]
- Isaak Boleslavsky 2, 4, 6 [GM]
- Mikhail Botvinnik 1, 2, 4, 6 [GM]
- Julius (Gyula) Breyer 1
- Vladimir Bron 1, 2, 4
- David Bronstein 1, 2, 4 [GM]
- Victor Buerger 1
- Avigdor Bykhovsky 2 [GM]
- Horatio Caro 23
- Rudolph Charousek 1, 4, 5
- Vitali Chekhover 2
- Irving Chernev 3
- Erich Cohn 1
- Wilhelm Cohn 5
- Moshe Czerniak 1, 4
- Arnold Denker 1, 4, 6 [GM]
- Nathan Divinsky 6
- Maxim Dlugy 2, 3 [GM]
- Iosif Dorfman 2 [GM]
- Arthur Dunkelblum 1, 4
- Semyon Dvoiris 2 [GM]
- Mark Dvoretsky 2
- Roman Dzindzichashvili 2 [GM]
- Vereslav Eingorn 2 [GM]
- Berthold Englisch 1, 4, 5
- Esther Epstein 2
- Sergey Erenburg 17 [GM]
- Yakov Estrin 2 [GM]
- Larry Evans 3, 4 [GM]
- Ernst Falkbeer 1, 5
- Stephan Fazekas 1, 4
- Reuben Fine 1, 3, 4, 6 [GM]
- Alexander Finkel 17 [GM]
- Robert (Bobby) Fischer 7, 1, 3, 4, 6 [GM]
- Salo Flohr 1, 2, 4, 6 [GM]
- Paulino Frydman 1, 4
- Semyon Furman 2, 4 [GM]
- Boris Gelfand 2 [GM]
- Efim Geller 1, 2, 4, 6 [GM]
- Erno Gereben 1
- Alik Gershon 17 [GM]
- Leonid Gofshtein 17 [GM]
- Alexander Goldin 2 [GM]
- Vitali Golod 17 [GM]
- Harry Golombek 1
- Alon Greenfeld 17 [GM]
- Gisela Gresser 4
- Yehuda Gruenfeld
17 [GM]
- Eduard Gufeld 2, 4 [GM]
- Boris Gulko 2, 3 [GM]
- Isidor Gunsberg 1, 4, 6
- Dmitry Gurevich 2 [GM]
- Ilya Gurevich 2 [GM]
- Mikhail Gurevich 2 [GM]
- Abram Gurvich 1
- Lev Gutman 2 [GM]
- Vitaly Halberstadt 2
- Daniel Harrwitz 1, 4, 5
- William Hartston 4
- Ronen Har-Zvi 17 [GM]
- Leopold Hoffer 1, 5
- Israel (I. A.) Horowitz 1, 4
- Bernhard Horwitz 1, 5
- Alexander Huzman 17 [GM]
- David Janowski 1, 4, 5, 6
- Max Judd 8
- Gregory Kaidanov 2 [GM]
- Ilya Kan 1, 2, 4
- Boris Kantsler 17 [GM]
- Julio Kaplan 1, 4 [GM]
- Isaac Kashdan 1, 3, 4, 6 [GM]
- Garry Kasparov 9, 2, 3, 6 [GM]
- Alexander Khalifman 2 [GM]
- Ernest Klein 1
- Gyula Kluger 4
- Artur Kogan 17 [GM]
- Ignatz von Kolisch 1, 4, 5, 6
- George Koltanowski 1, 4 [GM]
- Imre König 1, 4
- Viktor Korchnoi 10, 1, 2, 4, 6 [GM]
- Yona Kosashvili 17 [GM]
- Boris Kostić 1 [GM]
- Yair Kraidman17 [GM]
- Sergey Kudrin 2 [GM]
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- Abraham Kupchik 1, 6
- Alla Kushnir 2, 4, 6 [WGM]
- Salo Landau 1, 6
- Edward Lasker 1, 4
- Emanuel Lasker 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
[GM]
- Anatoly Lein 2, 4 [GM]
- Konstantin Lerner 2 [GM]
- Ronen Lev 17
[GM]
- Grigory Levenfish 1, 2, 4, 6 [GM]
- Irina Levitina 2, 4, 6 [WGM]
- Vladimir Liberzon 2, 4 [GM]
- Andrei Lilienthal 1, 2, 4 [GM]
- Samuel Lipschütz 5
- Eran Liss 17 [GM]
- Johann Löwenthal 1, 4, 5
- Moshe Lowtzky 6
- Ilan Manor 17 [GM]
- Jonathan Mestel 14 [GM]
- Victor Michalevski 17 [GM]
- Jacques Mieses 1, 4, 5 [GM]
- Vadim Milov 18 [GM]
- Jacob Murey 17 [GM]
- Miguel Najdorf 1, 4, 6 [GM]
- Aron Nimzowitsch 1, 2, 4, 6
- Michael Oratovsky 17 [GM]
- Sam (Semion)
Palatnik 2 [GM]
- Julius Perlis
- Nikita Plaksin 2
- Ernest Pogosyants 2
- Judit Polgar 6 [GM]
- Sofia Polgar 6 [WGM]
- Susan Polgar 6 [GM]
- Lev Polugaevsky 2, 4, 5, 6 [GM]
- Moritz Porges 5
- Evgeny Postny 17 [GM]
- David Przepiórka 6
- Lev Psakhis 2, 17 [GM]
- Abram Rabinovich 2
- Ilya Rabinovich 2
- Teimour Radjabov 20 [GM]
- Naum (Nukhim)
Rashkovsky 2 [GM]
- Gad Rechlis 17 [GM]
- Fred Reinfeld 1, 3
- Samuel Reshevsky 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 [GM]
- Richard Réti 1, 4, 6
- Isaac Rice 1, 5, 11
- Maxim Rodshtein 17 [GM]
- Kenneth Rogoff [GM]
- Michael Rohde 3 [GM]
- Michael Roiz 17 [GM]
- Samuel Rosenthal 5
- Georg (Gersh) Rotlewi 2
- Eduardus Rozentalis 2 [GM]
- Akiba Rubinstein 1, 2, 4, 6 [GM]
- Efim Rukhlis 2
- Georg Salwe 2, 6
- Emanuel Schiffers 5
- Gabriel Schwartzman [GM]
- Samuel Schweber 1, 4
- Grigory Serper 2 [GM]
- Tal Shaked [GM]
- Leonid Shamkovich 2 [GM]
- Miron Sher 2 [GM]
- Alexandr Shneider 2 [GM]
- Eliahu Shvidler 17
- Jeremy Silman
- Ilya Smirin 2, 17 [GM]
- Vasily Smyslov 12, 1, 4, 6 [GM]
- Ram Soffer 17 [GM]
- Gennady Sosonko 2 [GM]
- Jonathan Speelman 14 [GM]
- Rudolf Spielmann 1, 4
- Michael Stean 14 [GM]
- Leonid Stein 1, 2, 4, 6 [GM]
- Endre Steiner 15
- Herman Steiner 1, 4
- Lajos Steiner 1, 4
- Wilhelm Steinitz 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Emil Sutovsky 17 [GM]
- Peter Svidler 2 [GM]
- László Szabó 1, 19 [GM]
- Mark Taimanov 1, 2, 4, 6 [GM]
- Mikhail Tal 1, 2, 4, 6 [GM]
- James Tarjan 21 [GM]
- Siegbert Tarrasch 1, 4, 5, 6
[GM]
- Saviely Tartakover 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 [GM]
- Mark Tseitlin 17 [GM]
- Mikhail Tseitlin 2 [GM]
- Anatoly Vaisser 2 [GM]
- Boris Verlinsky 2
- Vladimir Vuković 1, 4
- Max Weiss 1, 5
- Michael Wilder 3 [GM]
- Simon Winawer 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
- Heinrich Wolf 6
- Daniel Yanofsky 1, 4 [GM]
- Leonid Yudasin 2, 17 [GM]
- Mikhail Yudovich 1, 2, 4
- Gennady Zaichik 2 [GM]
- Dov Zifroni 17 [GM]
- Yaacov Zilberman 17 [GM]
- Dan Zoler 17
- Johannes Zukertort 16, 1, 4, 5, 6
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NOTES
1. See Encyclopaedia
Judaica, Vol. 5 (Keter, Jerusalem, 1972, pp.
401-410).
2. See http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_a.htm.
3. See Jewish-American History and
Culture: An Encyclopedia, edited by Jack
Fischel and Sanford Pinsker (Garland, New York, NY,
1992, pp. 83-85).
4. See The Jewish Lists, by Martin
Greenberg (Schocken, New York, 1979, pp. 210-214).
5. See The Jewish
Encyclopedia (Funk and Wagnalls, New York
and London, 1903, pp. 16-21).
6. See Jewish
Chess Masters on Stamps, by Felix
Berkovich (McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2000).
7. According to
recently unsealed FBI files and other independent
archival sources, Bobby Fischer's biological father
was not the German physicist Hans-Gerhardt Fischer,
as previously supposed, but rather the
Hungarian-Jewish fluid dynamicist Paul
Nemenyi, making both of his parents Jewish. See "Life is not a
Board Game," by Peter Nicholas and Clea
Benson, The
Philadelphia Inquirer, 8 February,
2003. Additional information
can be found in Bobby
Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most
Exraordinary Chess Match of All Time, by
David Edmonds and John Eidinow (HarperCollins, New
York, 2004, pp. 313-321). This reference,
incidentally, states (p. 39) that Boris Spassky told
its authors that there is "no truth" to the widely
reported claim that his mother was Jewish.
8. See The Concise
Dictionary of American Jewish Biography: Volume
One, edited by Jacob Rader Marcus and Judith
M. Daniels (Carlson Publishing, Brooklyn, NY, 1994,
p. 304).
9. Jewish
father,
non-Jewish mother.
10. "Of mainly Jewish descent"; see The YIVO Encyclopedia
of Jews in Eastern Europe, edited by
Gershon David Hundert (Yale University Press,
New Haven and London, 2008, Vol. 1, p. 316).
11. See The Concise
Dictionary of American Jewish Biography: Volume
Two, edited by Jacob Rader Marcus and Judith
M. Daniels (Carlson Publishing, Brooklyn, NY, 1994,
p. 513).
12. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
It should be noted that there is considerable controversy over this
claim. It
should also be noted that in the late 1970s,
when Viktor Korchnoi
defected from the USSR and leveled
charges of rampant anti-Semitism
in the Soviet chess establishment, Soviet government
newspapers, in an
apparent effort to counter those
charges, published lists of Soviet Jewish chess
luminaries whose successful careers, it was claimed, proved the absence of any such bias. Those lists of Jewish, or
partly Jewish, players included
Vasily Smyslov. (They
did not include Boris
Spassky.)
13. JEWHOO.com.
14. Jewish Chronicle
(London, 16 August 1985, p.1).
15. Brother of
Lajos Steiner.
16. There are many conflicting stories in
circulation concerning Zukertort's background.
A recent Polish language biography, Arcymistrz z Lublina
(Grandmaster from
Lublin: Truth and Legend about Johannes Hermann
Zukertort),
by Cezary Domanski and Tomasz
Lissowski (Wydawnictwo Szachowe "Penelopa,"
Warsaw, 2002), makes it clear, however, that Zukertort was
the product of an assimilated Polish-Jewish family;
see http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review340.pdf.
17. Israeli.
18. Former Israeli GM, presently Swiss.
19. See Ismerjük''oket?:
zsidó származású nevezetes magyarok arcképcsarnoka,
by István Reményi Gyenes (Ex Libris, Budapest, 1997,
p. 192).
20. Jewish father (Boris Sheinin), non-Jewish mother.
21. Son of Dr. George Tarjan, 112th President
of the American Psychiatric Association, who "was
raised in an intellectual, liberal Jewish family" in
Hungary, where his parents and younger brother Endre
perished in the Holocaust; see obituary in the American Journal of
Psychiatry (150:5, May 1993, pp.
691-694).
22. Jewish father
(Grigory Aronov), non-Jewish mother.
23. Buried in East Ham Jewish Cemetery; see http://www.theus.org.uk/gravesearch.
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