Bridge
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Chess
Cricket
Equestrian
Fencing
Bridge
1.George Simon Kaufman
Kaufman was a prominent player of bridge, probably both auction bridge and contract bridge. The New Yorker published many of his humorous items about the card game; at least some have been reprinted more than once, including:
· "Kibitzers' Revolt" and the suggestion that bridge clubs should post notice whether the North–South or the East–West pairs are holding good cards.[27]
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· Kaufman was notoriously impatient with poor players. One such partner asked permission to use the men's room, according to legend, and Kaufman replied: "Gladly. For the first time today I'll know what you have in your hand."[27][28]
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· On sitting South: (1) "No matter who writes the books or articles, South holds the most terrific cards I ever saw. There is a lucky fellow if ever I saw one."[29] (2) Oswald Jacoby reported a deal that Kaufman played marvelously in 1952, after which he cracked, "I'd rather sit South than be the President."[27]
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· On coffeehousing, "I'd like a review of the bidding with all the original inflections."[30]
Barry Crane (born Barry Cohen) was a prolific television producer and director, and a bridge player who "won more titles than anyone else in the history of the game".[2] According to the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL), he was "widely recognized as the top matchpoint player of all time"[3] —the tournament format commonly played in private clubs.
Crane, who won 15 North American championships,[5] was a Grand Life Master in the ACBL and traveled extensively to play in matchpoint pairs tournaments. In World Bridge Federation (WBF) competition he and Kerri Shuman won the fourth quadrennial World Mixed Pairs Championship in 1978. In North America he also played in teams-of-four tournaments (where the strategy is subtly different from matchpoint play) and won numerous regional titles. His teams reached the Vanderbilt final in 1951 and 1985, his first and last high finishes in North America-level events.[5]
During his lifetime, Crane accumulated 35,135.80 masterpoints (awarded by the ACBL for success in tournament play), more than any other player. Second-placed Paul Soloway was approximately 11,000 behind at Crane's death in 1985[3] and passed him only in 1991. In honor and as a memorial to Crane, the ACBL renamed the award given to the player who accumulates the most masterpoints in a single year to the Barry Crane Trophy, and the list of high masterpoint attainers to the Barry Crane Top 500.[6] Crane was elected to the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995.[7]
3. Fritzi Gordon
Fritzi Gordon (born Frederika Leist ) was an Austrian-born British bridge player, half of the most famous and tempestuous female partnership in the game's history. Following her long-time partner Rixi Markus, she was the second woman to attain the rank of WBF World Grand Master.
Despite their shared cultural heritage and experiences, Gordon and Markus were not personal friends. Success tied them together, but they were often at odds despite their success. Their "discussions" at the table were quite famous, and earned them the soubriquets Frisky and Bitchy.
Irina Solomonovna Levitina is a Russian-American chess and bridge player. In chess, she has been a World Championship Candidate in 1984 and gained the title Woman Grandmaster. In contract bridge she has won five world championship events, four women and two mixed, including play on two world-champion USA women teams.
In 1986, Levitina won the Alpwater Award for the best played hand of the year by a woman player, becoming the first Soviet citizen to win a bridge award.[5]
George Rosenkranz (born György Rosenkranz; 20 August 1916 – 23 June 2019) was a pioneering Mexican scientist in the field of steroid chemistry.
Rosenkranz was a world-class bridge player and one of the most successful in Mexico. He won 12 NABC-level events at thrice-annual North American Bridge Championships meets, including all four major teams-of-four titles: the Grand Nationals, Reisinger, Spingold and Vanderbilt. In world championship teams competition, he represented Mexico in the quadrennial World Team Olympiad three times from 1972 to 1996 and the United States in the 1983 Bermuda Bowl.[38] In addition, he has made significant contributions to bidding theory. He created the Romex bidding system, an extension of Standard American with many gadgets. He invented the Rosenkranz double and Rosenkranz redouble,[39] and wrote more than a dozen books on bridge.[4]
6.Edgar Kaplan was an American bridge player and one of the principal contributors to the game. His career spanned six decades and covered every aspect of bridge. He was a teacher, author, editor, administrator, champion player, theorist, expert Vugraph commentator, coach/captain and authority on the laws of the game. He was the editor and publisher of The Bridge World magazine for more than 30 years (1967–1997). With Alfred Sheinwold he developed the Kaplan–Sheinwold bidding system.
7."Rixi" Markus MBE was an Austrian and British international contract bridge player. She won five world titles, and was the first woman to become a World Grand Master within the World Bridge Federation. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for contributions to bridge in 1974.
8. Charles Goren
Charles Henry Goren was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s – or 1940s and 1950s, as "Mr. Bridge"[1][a] – as Ely Culbertson had been in the 1930s.
9. Paul Lukacs (born Lukács Pàl) was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician, analyst and composer of problems in the "play of the hand" at contract bridge. Some consider him "the best bridge player ever away from the table", as defined by Victor Mollo. He specialized in single dummy problems.
His Austrian Wunderteam won four European titles in six years from 1932–37.
Paul Stern (1892 – 12 June 1948[1]) was an Austrian international bridge player and lawyer, who fled to London in 1938. He was a bidding theorist and administrator who contributed to the early growth of the game. He founded the Austrian Bridge Federation in 1929, and was its first president
Stern was a member of the Austria open teams that won the first two European championships, 1932 and 1933, under the auspices of the International Bridge League in Scheveningen, Netherlands, and in London. In 1935 he developed the Vienna System, or Austrian System, the first highly artificial bidding system to achieve international success
11. Ronald D. Rubin is an American bridge player. best known for winning the 1983 Bermuda Bowl world teams bridge championship. In addition he has won 11 North American Bridge Championships.
12. Larry Neil Cohen is an American bridge player, writer and teacher. He is best known as an advocate for the "Law of Total Tricks" as a guide in the bidding. He has won 25 North American Bridge Championships (NABC) events including the Vanderbilt, two Spingolds, two Reisingers, three Life Master Pairs, and four Blue Ribbon Pairs, and he is a two-time winner of the Cavendish Invitational Pairs cash prize tournament.
13. William (Billy) Eisenberg is an American bridge and
backgammon professional. In bridge, Eisenberg has won five Bermuda Bowl world team titles and he won the backgammon world title in 1975. Eisenberg is World Bridge Federation (WBF) and American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Grand Life Master.
14. Robert J. (Bobby) Levin is an American professional bridge player. He became the youngest life master in the history of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) at the age of 15 years and 4 months. ,He was the youngest winner of the Bermuda Bowl world championship for national teams from 1981 until 2015, when 19-year old Michal Klukowski of Poland succeeded him. Levin is also a five-time winner of the Cavendish Invitational Pairs, the world's leading contest for cash prizes, with his regular partner Steve Weinstein. As of June 2013, Levin ranks number 20 among Open World Grand Masters[3] and his wife Jill ranks number 21 among Women World Grand Masters.[4]
Levin–Weinstein were one-third of USA1 in the 2011 Bermuda Bowl, where they finished fourth.
Beginning mid-2012 they joined Nick Nickell's team.[7] The professional teams hired by Nickell had won four of the preceding nine biennial Bermuda Bowls, from 1995.[8][9]
15. Edwin Bruce Kantar was an American bridge player, winner of two open world championships for national teams (Bermuda Bowls), and prolific writer of bridge books and columns. His book Complete Defensive Play was among the top 20 of all-time favorite bridge books in a survey of bridge writers and players taken in 1994,
Matthew "Matt" Granovetter is an American bridge player and writer.
In pairs competition, Granovetter and Karen McCallum won the 11th quadrennial World Mixed Pairs Championship in 2006, finishing first in a field of 487.
In teams-of-four competition at the world level, Granovetter played on second-place teams in the 1974 Mixed Teams and the 2008 Seniors Teams. The latter, third in a quadrennial series played for the Senior International Cup, was a nonmedal event at the inaugural World Mind Sports Games. Granovetter played with Russ Ekeblad on a US team that won its 5-day preliminary round-robin field of 16 teams, with Japan second. After winning three long knockout matches each, over five more days, Japan defeated the US by merely 202 IMPs to 200 in the two-day final.[3] Granovetter–Ekeblad scored very well in the 5-day preliminaries, third-best of about 100 pairs.[4]
“He demonstrated time and again that he was one of the best card players on either side.
He and wife Pamela co-edit the magazine Bridge Today
Canoeing
· László Fábián, Hungary, sprint canoeist, Olympic champion (K-2 10,000 meter), 4x world champion (3x K-2 10,000 meter and 1x K-4 10,000 meter) and one silver (K-4 10,000 meter)[177]
· Imre Farkas, Hungary, sprint canoeist, 2x Olympic bronze (C-2 1,000 and 10,000 meter)[177]
· Jessica Fox, French-born Australian, slalom canoeist, Olympic gold (C-1 slalom), Olympic silver and bronze (K-1 slalom), world championships gold (C-1 and K-1)[235]
· Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, France, slalom canoeist, Olympic bronze (K-1 slalom), 5 golds at ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships (2x K-1, 3x K-1 team)[67]
· Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, Hungary, sprint canoeist, Olympic bronze (K-2 500 m), world champion (K-2 500 m)[177]
· Leonid Geishtor, USSR (Belarus), sprint canoeist, Olympic champion (Canadian pairs 1,000-meter)[67]
· Joe Jacobi, US, slalom canoeist, Olympic champion (C-2 slalom)[67]
· Michael Kolganov, Soviet (Uzbek)-born Israeli, sprint canoeist, Olympic bronze (K-1 500-meter) for Israel; 2x world champion[236]
· Anna Pfeffer, Hungary, sprint canoeist, Olympic 2x silver (K-2 500 m), bronze (K-1 500 m); world champion (K-2 500 m), silver (K-4 500 m), 2x bronze (K-2 500)[177]
· Naum Prokupets, Moldovan-born Soviet, sprint canoeist, Olympic bronze (C-2 1,000-meter), gold (C-2 10,000-meter) at ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships[67]
· Leon Rotman, Romanian, sprint canoeist, 2x Olympic champion (C-1 10,000 meter, C-1 1,000-meter) and bronze (C-1 1,000-meter), 14 national titles[67]
· Shaun Rubenstein, South Africa, canoeist, World Marathon champion 2006[237]
CHESS
The list refers to chess players who are Jews and have attained outstanding achievements in chess. Bold face denotes current competitor.
· Aaron (Albert) Alexandre, German-born French-English[10]
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· Lev Alburt, Russian/American[13]
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· Lev Aronin, Russian/Soviet[13]
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· Levon Aronian, Armenian grandmaster, World Cup champion
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· Arnold Aurbach, Polish-born French[citation needed]
· Yuri Averbakh, Russian grandmaster, 2445[15]
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· Anjelina Belakovskaia, Ukrainian-born US woman grandmaster[citation needed]
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· Alexander Beliavsky, Ukrainian-born Soviet/Slovenian grandmaster[13]
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· Ossip Bernstein, Ukrainian-born French grandmaster[11]
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· Arthur Bisguier, US grandmaster, 2455[16]
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· Isaac Boleslavsky, Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster[17]
· Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian/Soviet grandmaster & World champion[16]
· David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster, 2590[11]
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· Oscar Chajes, Ukrainian/Polish/Austrian-born US[18]
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· Vitaly Chekhover, Russia
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· Erich Cohn, German[19]
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· Wilhelm Cohn, German[20]
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· Moshe Czerniak, Polish-born Palestinian/Israeli[21]
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· Arnold Denker, US grandmaster, 2293[22]
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· Daniil Dubov, Russian grandmaster[16]
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· Arthur Dunkelblum, Polish-born Belgian[23]
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· Roman Dzindzichashvili, Georgian-born Israeli
· American grandmaster, 2550[citation needed]
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· Berthold Englisch, Austrian[24]
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· Larry Evans, US grandmaster, 2530[16]
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· Reuben Fine, US grandmaster[25]
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· Bobby Fischer, US grandmaster & World champion[16]
· Alexander Flamberg, Polish[26]
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· Salo Flohr, Ukrainian-born Czech & Soviet
· grandmaster[27]
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· Paulino Frydman, Polish-born Argentine[11]
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· Boris Gelfand, Belarusian-born Israeli grandmaster, World Cup champion[13]
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· Efim Geller, Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster[16]
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· Harry Golombek, English[16]
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· Eduard Gufeld, Ukrainian grandmaster, 2565[28]
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· Boris Gulko, German-born Russian US grandmaster, 2644[29]
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· Isidor Gunsberg, Hungarian-born English[16]
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· Ilya Gurevich, Russian-born US grandmaster & junior World champion, 2575[30]
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· Mikhail Gurevich, Ukrainian-born Russian Turkish grandmaster, 2694[13]
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· Lev Gutman, Latvian-born Israeli German grandmaster, 2547[31]
· Daniel Harrwitz, Prussian/Polish/German-born English French[32]
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· Israel Horowitz, US[16]
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· Bernhard Horwitz, German-born English[16]
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· Dawid Janowski, Belarusian/Polish-born French grandmaster[27]
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· Gregory Kaidanov, Ukrainian-born Russian US grandmaster, 2695[33]
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· Julio Kaplan, Argentine-born Puerto Rican US grandmaster & World junior champion[11]
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· Mona May Karff, Moldovan-born US woman master[16]
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· Isaac Kashdan, US grandmaster[11]
· Garry Kasparov (born "Garry Weinstein"), The offspring of an Azeri-born Jewish father & an ethnic Armenian mother ("née Gasparian"), Establishing himself as a highly successful Soviet/Russian grandmaster & World champion from a young age, Kasparov dominated the chess world until his retirement on March 10, 2005. He is often considered by chess aficionados, professional analysts as well as his fellow players & peers, to be the greatest chess player of all time.[34]
· Alexander Khalifman, Russian grandmaster & World champion, 2702[35]
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· Ignatz von Kolisch, Hungarian/Slovakian-born Austrian grandmaster[16]
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· George Koltanowski, Belgian-born US grandmaster[16]
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· Viktor Korchnoi, Russian Born Dutch Swiss grandmaster, 2695[16]
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· Yair Kraidman, Israeli grandmaster, 2455[36]
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· Abraham Kupchik, Belarusian/Polish-born US[16]
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· Alla Kushnir, Russian Israeli woman grandmaster, 2430[16]
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· Salo Landau, Polish-born Dutch, killed by the Nazis[37]
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· Edward Lasker, Polish/German-born US[38]
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· Emanuel Lasker, Prussian/German/Polish-born US grandmaster & World champion[16]
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· Anatoly Lein, Russian/Soviet/American grandmaster[13]
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· Grigory Levenfish, Polish/Russian-born grandmaster[39]
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· Irina Levitina, Russian-born US woman grandmaster[16]
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· Vladimir Liberzon, Russian-born Israeli grandmaster[40]
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· Andor Lilienthal, Russian-born Hungarian/Soviet grandmaster[41]
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· Samuel Lipschütz, Austria-Hungary/American[13]
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· Johann Löwenthal, Hungarian-born US English[16]
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· Moishe Lowtzky, Ukrainian-born Polish, killed by Nazis[citation needed]
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· Gyula Makovetz, Hungarian[citation needed]
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· Jonathan Mestel, British grandmaster & World U-16 champion, 2540[citation needed]
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· Jacques Mieses, German-born English grandmaster[16]
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· Miguel Najdorf, Polish-born Argentine grandmaster[16]
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· Ian Nepomniachtchi, Russian grandmaster[41]
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· Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born Danish[27]
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· Isaias Pleci, Argentine[42]
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· Judit Polgár, Hungarian grandmaster, 2735[16]
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· Susan Polgár, Hungarian-born US grandmaster & World champion, 2577[43]
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· Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born Israeli international master, 2500[16]
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· Lev Polugaevsky, Belarusian/Soviet grandmaster, 2640[44]
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· Dawid Przepiórka, Polish, killed by Nazis[11]
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· Lev Psakhis, Russian/Soviet/Israeli grandmaster[13]
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· Abram Rabinovich, Lithuanian/Russian[13]
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· Ilya Rabinovich, Russian[13]
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· Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani grandmaster[13]
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· Nukhim Rashkovsky, Russian grandmaster[13]
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· Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-born US grandmaster[45]
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· Richard Réti, Slovakian/Hungarian-born Czech[27]
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· Maxim Rodshtein, Israeli U-16 World champion[citation needed]
· Kenneth Rogoff, US grandmaster[citation needed]
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· Samuel Rosenthal, Polish-born French[20]
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· Eduardas Rozentalis, Lithuanian grandmaster[13]s
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· Akiba Rubinstein, Polish grandmaster[45]
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· Gersz Salwe, Polish grandmaster[11]
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· Yury Shulman, Belarussian/Soviet/American grandmaster
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· Gennady Sosonko, Russian-born Dutch
· grandmaster[46]
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· Jon Speelman, English grandmaster[11]
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· Rudolf Spielmann, Austrian-born Swedish[27]
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· Leonid Stein, Ukrainian-born Russian grandmaster[47]
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· Endre Steiner, Hungarian[citation needed]
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· Herman Steiner, Slovakian/Hungarian-born US[48]
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· Lajos Steiner, Romanian/Hungarian-born Australian[49]
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· Wilhelm Steinitz, Czech-born Austrian & US grandmaster & World champion[11]
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· Emil Sutovsky, Israeli grandmaster, 2697[50]
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· Peter Svidler, Russian grandmaster, World Cup champion[13]
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· László Szabó, Hungarian grandmaster[51]
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· Mark Taimanov, Soviet/Russian grandmaster[52]
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· Mikhail Tal, Soviet/Latvian grandmaster & World champion, 2645[11]
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· Siegbert Tarrasch, Polish/German grandmaster & Senior World champion[53]
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· Savielly Tartakower, Russian-born
· Austrian/Polish/French grandmaster[45]
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· Anna Ushenina, Ukraine-born Women's World Champion[54]
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· Anatoly Vaisser, Kazakh-born Soviet/French grandmaster[13]
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· Max Weiss, Slovakian/Hungarian-born Austrian[16]
· Simon Winawer, Polish[16]
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· Leonid Yudasin, Russian-born Israeli grandmaster, 2692[55]
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· Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Azeri-born Russian Israeli woman grandmaster[11]
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· Johannes Zukertort, Polish-born German English[16]
Cricket
· Ben Ashkenazi, Australia (Victorian Bushrangers)
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· Ali Bacher, South Africa, batsman and administrator (uncle of Adam Bacher)[238]
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· Mike Barnard, England, cricketer[238]
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· Ivan Barrow, West Indies, cricketer, only Jew to hit a test century.[239]
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· Mark Bott, England, cricketer[240]
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· Mark Fuzes, Australian all rounder; played for Hong Kong; kept goal for Australian Soccer team[241]
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· Dennis Gamsy, South Africa, Test wicket-keeper[242]
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· Darren Gerard, England, cricketer[243]
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· Norman Gordon, South Africa, fast bowler[238]
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· Steven Herzberg, English-born Australian, cricketer[244]
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· Sid Kiel, South Africa, opening batsman (Western Province)[245]
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· Michael Klinger, Australia, batsman (Western Warriors)[238]
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· Leonard "Jock" Livingston, Australia, cricketer[238]
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· Bev Lyon, England, cricketer[238]
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· Dar Lyon, England, cricketer (brother of Bev)[238]
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· Greg, Jason, and Lara Molins, two brothers and a cousin from the same Irish family[244]
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· Jon Moss, Australia, allrounder (Victorian Bushrangers)[238]
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· John Raphael, England, batsman[238]
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· Marshall Rosen, NSW Australia, cricketer and selector[246]
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· Lawrence Seeff, South Africa, batsmen[247]
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· Maurice Sievers, Australia, lower order batsman and fast-medium bowler[238]
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· Bensiyon Songavkar, India, cricketer, MVP of 2009
· Maccabiah Games cricket tournament[248]
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· Fred Susskind, South Africa, Test batsman[238]
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· Fred Trueman, England, English test fast bowler (a lifelong Christian)[238]
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· Julien Wiener, Australia, Test cricketer[238]
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· Mandy Yachad, South Africa, Test cricketer[238]Bridge
Canoeing
Chess
Cricket
Equestrian
Fencing
Bridge
1.George Simon Kaufman
Kaufman was a prominent player of bridge, probably both auction bridge and contract bridge. The New Yorker published many of his humorous items about the card game; at least some have been reprinted more than once, including:
· "Kibitzers' Revolt" and the suggestion that bridge clubs should post notice whether the North–South or the East–West pairs are holding good cards.[27]
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· Kaufman was notoriously impatient with poor players. One such partner asked permission to use the men's room, according to legend, and Kaufman replied: "Gladly. For the first time today I'll know what you have in your hand."[27][28]
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· On sitting South: (1) "No matter who writes the books or articles, South holds the most terrific cards I ever saw. There is a lucky fellow if ever I saw one."[29] (2) Oswald Jacoby reported a deal that Kaufman played marvelously in 1952, after which he cracked, "I'd rather sit South than be the President."[27]
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· On coffeehousing, "I'd like a review of the bidding with all the original inflections."[30]
Barry Crane (born Barry Cohen) was a prolific television producer and director, and a bridge player who "won more titles than anyone else in the history of the game".[2] According to the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL), he was "widely recognized as the top matchpoint player of all time"[3] —the tournament format commonly played in private clubs.
Crane, who won 15 North American championships,[5] was a Grand Life Master in the ACBL and traveled extensively to play in matchpoint pairs tournaments. In World Bridge Federation (WBF) competition he and Kerri Shuman won the fourth quadrennial World Mixed Pairs Championship in 1978. In North America he also played in teams-of-four tournaments (where the strategy is subtly different from matchpoint play) and won numerous regional titles. His teams reached the Vanderbilt final in 1951 and 1985, his first and last high finishes in North America-level events.[5]
During his lifetime, Crane accumulated 35,135.80 masterpoints (awarded by the ACBL for success in tournament play), more than any other player. Second-placed Paul Soloway was approximately 11,000 behind at Crane's death in 1985[3] and passed him only in 1991. In honor and as a memorial to Crane, the ACBL renamed the award given to the player who accumulates the most masterpoints in a single year to the Barry Crane Trophy, and the list of high masterpoint attainers to the Barry Crane Top 500.[6] Crane was elected to the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995.[7]
3. Fritzi Gordon
Fritzi Gordon (born Frederika Leist ) was an Austrian-born British bridge player, half of the most famous and tempestuous female partnership in the game's history. Following her long-time partner Rixi Markus, she was the second woman to attain the rank of WBF World Grand Master.
Despite their shared cultural heritage and experiences, Gordon and Markus were not personal friends. Success tied them together, but they were often at odds despite their success. Their "discussions" at the table were quite famous, and earned them the soubriquets Frisky and Bitchy.
Irina Solomonovna Levitina is a Russian-American chess and bridge player. In chess, she has been a World Championship Candidate in 1984 and gained the title Woman Grandmaster. In contract bridge she has won five world championship events, four women and two mixed, including play on two world-champion USA women teams.
In 1986, Levitina won the Alpwater Award for the best played hand of the year by a woman player, becoming the first Soviet citizen to win a bridge award.[5]
George Rosenkranz (born György Rosenkranz; 20 August 1916 – 23 June 2019) was a pioneering Mexican scientist in the field of steroid chemistry.
Rosenkranz was a world-class bridge player and one of the most successful in Mexico. He won 12 NABC-level events at thrice-annual North American Bridge Championships meets, including all four major teams-of-four titles: the Grand Nationals, Reisinger, Spingold and Vanderbilt. In world championship teams competition, he represented Mexico in the quadrennial World Team Olympiad three times from 1972 to 1996 and the United States in the 1983 Bermuda Bowl.[38] In addition, he has made significant contributions to bidding theory. He created the Romex bidding system, an extension of Standard American with many gadgets. He invented the Rosenkranz double and Rosenkranz redouble,[39] and wrote more than a dozen books on bridge.[4]
6.Edgar Kaplan was an American bridge player and one of the principal contributors to the game. His career spanned six decades and covered every aspect of bridge. He was a teacher, author, editor, administrator, champion player, theorist, expert Vugraph commentator, coach/captain and authority on the laws of the game. He was the editor and publisher of The Bridge World magazine for more than 30 years (1967–1997). With Alfred Sheinwold he developed the Kaplan–Sheinwold bidding system.
7."Rixi" Markus MBE was an Austrian and British international contract bridge player. She won five world titles, and was the first woman to become a World Grand Master within the World Bridge Federation. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for contributions to bridge in 1974.
8. Charles Goren
Charles Henry Goren was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s – or 1940s and 1950s, as "Mr. Bridge"[1][a] – as Ely Culbertson had been in the 1930s.
9. Paul Lukacs (born Lukács Pàl) was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician, analyst and composer of problems in the "play of the hand" at contract bridge. Some consider him "the best bridge player ever away from the table", as defined by Victor Mollo. He specialized in single dummy problems.
His Austrian Wunderteam won four European titles in six years from 1932–37.
Paul Stern (1892 – 12 June 1948[1]) was an Austrian international bridge player and lawyer, who fled to London in 1938. He was a bidding theorist and administrator who contributed to the early growth of the game. He founded the Austrian Bridge Federation in 1929, and was its first president
Stern was a member of the Austria open teams that won the first two European championships, 1932 and 1933, under the auspices of the International Bridge League in Scheveningen, Netherlands, and in London. In 1935 he developed the Vienna System, or Austrian System, the first highly artificial bidding system to achieve international success
11. Ronald D. Rubin is an American bridge player. best known for winning the 1983 Bermuda Bowl world teams bridge championship. In addition he has won 11 North American Bridge Championships.
12. Larry Neil Cohen is an American bridge player, writer and teacher. He is best known as an advocate for the "Law of Total Tricks" as a guide in the bidding. He has won 25 North American Bridge Championships (NABC) events including the Vanderbilt, two Spingolds, two Reisingers, three Life Master Pairs, and four Blue Ribbon Pairs, and he is a two-time winner of the Cavendish Invitational Pairs cash prize tournament.
13. William (Billy) Eisenberg is an American bridge and
backgammon professional. In bridge, Eisenberg has won five Bermuda Bowl world team titles and he won the backgammon world title in 1975. Eisenberg is World Bridge Federation (WBF) and American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Grand Life Master.
14. Robert J. (Bobby) Levin is an American professional bridge player. He became the youngest life master in the history of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) at the age of 15 years and 4 months. ,He was the youngest winner of the Bermuda Bowl world championship for national teams from 1981 until 2015, when 19-year old Michal Klukowski of Poland succeeded him. Levin is also a five-time winner of the Cavendish Invitational Pairs, the world's leading contest for cash prizes, with his regular partner Steve Weinstein. As of June 2013, Levin ranks number 20 among Open World Grand Masters[3] and his wife Jill ranks number 21 among Women World Grand Masters.[4]
Levin–Weinstein were one-third of USA1 in the 2011 Bermuda Bowl, where they finished fourth.
Beginning mid-2012 they joined Nick Nickell's team.[7] The professional teams hired by Nickell had won four of the preceding nine biennial Bermuda Bowls, from 1995.[8][9]
15. Edwin Bruce Kantar was an American bridge player, winner of two open world championships for national teams (Bermuda Bowls), and prolific writer of bridge books and columns. His book Complete Defensive Play was among the top 20 of all-time favorite bridge books in a survey of bridge writers and players taken in 1994,
Matthew "Matt" Granovetter is an American bridge player and writer.
In pairs competition, Granovetter and Karen McCallum won the 11th quadrennial World Mixed Pairs Championship in 2006, finishing first in a field of 487.
In teams-of-four competition at the world level, Granovetter played on second-place teams in the 1974 Mixed Teams and the 2008 Seniors Teams. The latter, third in a quadrennial series played for the Senior International Cup, was a nonmedal event at the inaugural World Mind Sports Games. Granovetter played with Russ Ekeblad on a US team that won its 5-day preliminary round-robin field of 16 teams, with Japan second. After winning three long knockout matches each, over five more days, Japan defeated the US by merely 202 IMPs to 200 in the two-day final.[3] Granovetter–Ekeblad scored very well in the 5-day preliminaries, third-best of about 100 pairs.[4]
“He demonstrated time and again that he was one of the best card players on either side.
He and wife Pamela co-edit the magazine Bridge Today
Canoeing
· László Fábián, Hungary, sprint canoeist, Olympic champion (K-2 10,000 meter), 4x world champion (3x K-2 10,000 meter and 1x K-4 10,000 meter) and one silver (K-4 10,000 meter)[177]
· Imre Farkas, Hungary, sprint canoeist, 2x Olympic bronze (C-2 1,000 and 10,000 meter)[177]
· Jessica Fox, French-born Australian, slalom canoeist, Olympic gold (C-1 slalom), Olympic silver and bronze (K-1 slalom), world championships gold (C-1 and K-1)[235]
· Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, France, slalom canoeist, Olympic bronze (K-1 slalom), 5 golds at ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships (2x K-1, 3x K-1 team)[67]
· Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, Hungary, sprint canoeist, Olympic bronze (K-2 500 m), world champion (K-2 500 m)[177]
· Leonid Geishtor, USSR (Belarus), sprint canoeist, Olympic champion (Canadian pairs 1,000-meter)[67]
· Joe Jacobi, US, slalom canoeist, Olympic champion (C-2 slalom)[67]
· Michael Kolganov, Soviet (Uzbek)-born Israeli, sprint canoeist, Olympic bronze (K-1 500-meter) for Israel; 2x world champion[236]
· Anna Pfeffer, Hungary, sprint canoeist, Olympic 2x silver (K-2 500 m), bronze (K-1 500 m); world champion (K-2 500 m), silver (K-4 500 m), 2x bronze (K-2 500)[177]
· Naum Prokupets, Moldovan-born Soviet, sprint canoeist, Olympic bronze (C-2 1,000-meter), gold (C-2 10,000-meter) at ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships[67]
· Leon Rotman, Romanian, sprint canoeist, 2x Olympic champion (C-1 10,000 meter, C-1 1,000-meter) and bronze (C-1 1,000-meter), 14 national titles[67]
· Shaun Rubenstein, South Africa, canoeist, World Marathon champion 2006[237]
CHESS
The list refers to chess players who are Jews and have attained outstanding achievements in chess. Bold face denotes current competitor.
· Aaron (Albert) Alexandre, German-born French-English[10]
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· Lev Alburt, Russian/American[13]
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· Lev Aronin, Russian/Soviet[13]
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· Levon Aronian, Armenian grandmaster, World Cup champion
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· Arnold Aurbach, Polish-born French[citation needed]
· Yuri Averbakh, Russian grandmaster, 2445[15]
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· Anjelina Belakovskaia, Ukrainian-born US woman grandmaster[citation needed]
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· Alexander Beliavsky, Ukrainian-born Soviet/Slovenian grandmaster[13]
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· Ossip Bernstein, Ukrainian-born French grandmaster[11]
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· Arthur Bisguier, US grandmaster, 2455[16]
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· Isaac Boleslavsky, Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster[17]
· Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian/Soviet grandmaster & World champion[16]
· David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster, 2590[11]
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· Oscar Chajes, Ukrainian/Polish/Austrian-born US[18]
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· Vitaly Chekhover, Russia
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· Erich Cohn, German[19]
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· Wilhelm Cohn, German[20]
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· Moshe Czerniak, Polish-born Palestinian/Israeli[21]
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· Arnold Denker, US grandmaster, 2293[22]
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· Daniil Dubov, Russian grandmaster[16]
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· Arthur Dunkelblum, Polish-born Belgian[23]
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· Roman Dzindzichashvili, Georgian-born Israeli
· American grandmaster, 2550[citation needed]
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· Berthold Englisch, Austrian[24]
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· Larry Evans, US grandmaster, 2530[16]
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· Reuben Fine, US grandmaster[25]
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· Bobby Fischer, US grandmaster & World champion[16]
· Alexander Flamberg, Polish[26]
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· Salo Flohr, Ukrainian-born Czech & Soviet
· grandmaster[27]
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· Paulino Frydman, Polish-born Argentine[11]
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· Boris Gelfand, Belarusian-born Israeli grandmaster, World Cup champion[13]
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· Efim Geller, Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster[16]
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· Harry Golombek, English[16]
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· Eduard Gufeld, Ukrainian grandmaster, 2565[28]
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· Boris Gulko, German-born Russian US grandmaster, 2644[29]
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· Isidor Gunsberg, Hungarian-born English[16]
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· Ilya Gurevich, Russian-born US grandmaster & junior World champion, 2575[30]
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· Mikhail Gurevich, Ukrainian-born Russian Turkish grandmaster, 2694[13]
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· Lev Gutman, Latvian-born Israeli German grandmaster, 2547[31]
· Daniel Harrwitz, Prussian/Polish/German-born English French[32]
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· Israel Horowitz, US[16]
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· Bernhard Horwitz, German-born English[16]
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· Dawid Janowski, Belarusian/Polish-born French grandmaster[27]
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· Gregory Kaidanov, Ukrainian-born Russian US grandmaster, 2695[33]
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· Julio Kaplan, Argentine-born Puerto Rican US grandmaster & World junior champion[11]
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· Mona May Karff, Moldovan-born US woman master[16]
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· Isaac Kashdan, US grandmaster[11]
· Garry Kasparov (born "Garry Weinstein"), The offspring of an Azeri-born Jewish father & an ethnic Armenian mother ("née Gasparian"), Establishing himself as a highly successful Soviet/Russian grandmaster & World champion from a young age, Kasparov dominated the chess world until his retirement on March 10, 2005. He is often considered by chess aficionados, professional analysts as well as his fellow players & peers, to be the greatest chess player of all time.[34]
· Alexander Khalifman, Russian grandmaster & World champion, 2702[35]
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· Ignatz von Kolisch, Hungarian/Slovakian-born Austrian grandmaster[16]
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· George Koltanowski, Belgian-born US grandmaster[16]
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· Viktor Korchnoi, Russian Born Dutch Swiss grandmaster, 2695[16]
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· Yair Kraidman, Israeli grandmaster, 2455[36]
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· Abraham Kupchik, Belarusian/Polish-born US[16]
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· Alla Kushnir, Russian Israeli woman grandmaster, 2430[16]
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· Salo Landau, Polish-born Dutch, killed by the Nazis[37]
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· Edward Lasker, Polish/German-born US[38]
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· Emanuel Lasker, Prussian/German/Polish-born US grandmaster & World champion[16]
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· Anatoly Lein, Russian/Soviet/American grandmaster[13]
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· Grigory Levenfish, Polish/Russian-born grandmaster[39]
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· Irina Levitina, Russian-born US woman grandmaster[16]
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· Vladimir Liberzon, Russian-born Israeli grandmaster[40]
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· Andor Lilienthal, Russian-born Hungarian/Soviet grandmaster[41]
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· Samuel Lipschütz, Austria-Hungary/American[13]
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· Johann Löwenthal, Hungarian-born US English[16]
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· Moishe Lowtzky, Ukrainian-born Polish, killed by Nazis[citation needed]
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· Gyula Makovetz, Hungarian[citation needed]
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· Jonathan Mestel, British grandmaster & World U-16 champion, 2540[citation needed]
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· Jacques Mieses, German-born English grandmaster[16]
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· Miguel Najdorf, Polish-born Argentine grandmaster[16]
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· Ian Nepomniachtchi, Russian grandmaster[41]
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· Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born Danish[27]
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· Isaias Pleci, Argentine[42]
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· Judit Polgár, Hungarian grandmaster, 2735[16]
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· Susan Polgár, Hungarian-born US grandmaster & World champion, 2577[43]
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· Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born Israeli international master, 2500[16]
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· Lev Polugaevsky, Belarusian/Soviet grandmaster, 2640[44]
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· Dawid Przepiórka, Polish, killed by Nazis[11]
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· Lev Psakhis, Russian/Soviet/Israeli grandmaster[13]
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· Abram Rabinovich, Lithuanian/Russian[13]
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· Ilya Rabinovich, Russian[13]
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· Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani grandmaster[13]
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· Nukhim Rashkovsky, Russian grandmaster[13]
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· Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-born US grandmaster[45]
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· Richard Réti, Slovakian/Hungarian-born Czech[27]
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· Maxim Rodshtein, Israeli U-16 World champion[citation needed]
· Kenneth Rogoff, US grandmaster[citation needed]
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· Samuel Rosenthal, Polish-born French[20]
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· Eduardas Rozentalis, Lithuanian grandmaster[13]s
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· Akiba Rubinstein, Polish grandmaster[45]
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· Gersz Salwe, Polish grandmaster[11]
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· Yury Shulman, Belarussian/Soviet/American grandmaster
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· Gennady Sosonko, Russian-born Dutch
· grandmaster[46]
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· Jon Speelman, English grandmaster[11]
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· Rudolf Spielmann, Austrian-born Swedish[27]
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· Leonid Stein, Ukrainian-born Russian grandmaster[47]
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· Endre Steiner, Hungarian[citation needed]
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· Herman Steiner, Slovakian/Hungarian-born US[48]
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· Lajos Steiner, Romanian/Hungarian-born Australian[49]
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· Wilhelm Steinitz, Czech-born Austrian & US grandmaster & World champion[11]
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· Emil Sutovsky, Israeli grandmaster, 2697[50]
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· Peter Svidler, Russian grandmaster, World Cup champion[13]
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· László Szabó, Hungarian grandmaster[51]
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· Mark Taimanov, Soviet/Russian grandmaster[52]
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· Mikhail Tal, Soviet/Latvian grandmaster & World champion, 2645[11]
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· Siegbert Tarrasch, Polish/German grandmaster & Senior World champion[53]
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· Savielly Tartakower, Russian-born
· Austrian/Polish/French grandmaster[45]
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· Anna Ushenina, Ukraine-born Women's World Champion[54]
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· Anatoly Vaisser, Kazakh-born Soviet/French grandmaster[13]
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· Max Weiss, Slovakian/Hungarian-born Austrian[16]
· Simon Winawer, Polish[16]
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· Leonid Yudasin, Russian-born Israeli grandmaster, 2692[55]
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· Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Azeri-born Russian Israeli woman grandmaster[11]
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· Johannes Zukertort, Polish-born German English[16]
Cricket
· Ben Ashkenazi, Australia (Victorian Bushrangers)
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· Ali Bacher, South Africa, batsman and administrator (uncle of Adam Bacher)[238]
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· Mike Barnard, England, cricketer[238]
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· Ivan Barrow, West Indies, cricketer, only Jew to hit a test century.[239]
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· Mark Bott, England, cricketer[240]
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· Mark Fuzes, Australian all rounder; played for Hong Kong; kept goal for Australian Soccer team[241]
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· Dennis Gamsy, South Africa, Test wicket-keeper[242]
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· Darren Gerard, England, cricketer[243]
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· Norman Gordon, South Africa, fast bowler[238]
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· Steven Herzberg, English-born Australian, cricketer[244]
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· Sid Kiel, South Africa, opening batsman (Western Province)[245]
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· Michael Klinger, Australia, batsman (Western Warriors)[238]
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· Leonard "Jock" Livingston, Australia, cricketer[238]
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· Bev Lyon, England, cricketer[238]
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· Dar Lyon, England, cricketer (brother of Bev)[238]
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· Greg, Jason, and Lara Molins, two brothers and a cousin from the same Irish family[244]
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· Jon Moss, Australia, allrounder (Victorian Bushrangers)[238]
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· John Raphael, England, batsman[238]
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· Marshall Rosen, NSW Australia, cricketer and selector[246]
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· Lawrence Seeff, South Africa, batsmen[247]
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· Maurice Sievers, Australia, lower order batsman and fast-medium bowler[238]
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· Bensiyon Songavkar, India, cricketer, MVP of 2009
· Maccabiah Games cricket tournament[248]
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· Fred Susskind, South Africa, Test batsman[238]
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· Fred Trueman, England, English test fast bowler (a lifelong Christian)[238]
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· Julien Wiener, Australia, Test cricketer[238]
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· Mandy Yachad, South Africa, Test cricketer[238]