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 approximately 6 million Jews were killed in Europe during the Holocaust. Now the number of Jews is 14 million, of which 6 million live in Israel, 5.4 million in the USA. Large Jewish diasporas also exist in France (478 thousand), Canada (380 thousand), Great Britain (290 thousand), Russia (158 thousand) and other countries.
National religion of the Jews and the most important attribute their self-awareness is Judaism, therefore in many languages ​​of the world there is no distinction between the concepts of “Jew” and “Jew,” but in Russian, Jew denotes nationality, and Jew denotes religion.
Unlike most peoples of the world, Jewish nationality is determined not by the father, but by the mother. Kabbalah explains this by saying that the soul of a Jewish woman at the moment of conception “attracts” the Jewish soul. The “Law of Return” of the State of Israel currently states: “A Jew is considered to be one who was 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 my 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 (three of them do not have Jewish blood). This rating includes only Diaspora Jews and does not include Israeli (by citizenship and birth) Jewish women, to whom a separate rating is dedicated.

45th place. Rakhil Mikhailovna Messerer- Soviet silent film actress (creative pseudonym - Ra Messerer). Born on March 4, 1902 in Vilnius into a Jewish family. She married businessman Mikhail Emmanuilovich Plisetsky (also a Jew), and three children were born in marriage with him, of whom the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya is especially famous. Rakhil Mikhailovna died in 1993 in Moscow.


44th place: Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya- Soviet and Russian ballerina, choreographer, choreographer, teacher, writer and actress, People's Artist THE USSR. Born on November 20, 1925 in Moscow into a Jewish family. She passed away on May 2, 2015.

43rd 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 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 man, but who loves Israel and praises Jerusalem. Jewish capital- this is a piece of the Cosmos 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 is very difficult for me to describe a Jewish woman in words - there is music for that".

42nd 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 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.

41st 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.

40th 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.

39th place: Emmanuelle Chriqui- Canadian actress. Acts in films and television series. Monreal 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.

38th place: Barbara Walters- one of the most famous American television 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.

37th 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 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.

36th place: Alexandra Cohen(born October 26, 1984, Westwood, USA), better known as Sasha Cohen / Sasha Cohen- American singles figure skater, silver medalist Olympic Games 2006 and two-time silver medalist at the World Championships (2004, 2005). She completed her amateur career in 2006. Sasha Cohen's father is an American Jew, and her mother is a Ukrainian Jew.

35th place: Ksenia Alexandrovna 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.”

34th place: Candice Isralow, better known as Candice Night / Candice Night- American singer, vocalist and lyricist of the folk rock band Blackmore's Night, wife of the famous English rock musician Ritchie Blackmore. Born on May 8, 1971 in New York in a family of descendants of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. She is a follower of Judaism.

33rd place.

(born May 26, 1966, London, UK) - British actress. Her father is a famous English banker, her mother is Jewish. Helena's maternal grandfather is Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejon, who helped thousands of Jews escape from occupied France during World War II. 32nd place. Rachelle Lefevre / Rachelle Lefèvre

(born February 1, 1979, Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian actress. His father has French and Irish roots, his mother is Jewish. Rachel's stepfather is a rabbi. Rachelle Lefebvre herself considers herself Jewish. 31st place. Regina Ilyinichna Spektor

- American singer, songwriter. He performs his songs, accompanying himself on the piano or guitar. Born on February 18, 1980 in Moscow into a Jewish family. In 1989, she moved to New York with her family. She graduated from the Salanter Akiva Riverdale Academy Jewish high school, then studied at the Jewish religious Frisch School. Regina Spektor is married to American singer Jack Dishel (real name Evgeniy, born in the USSR into a Jewish family). 30th 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. 29th place: Bella Chagall

(real name - Basya-Reiza Shmuilova Rosenfeld) - 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. 28th place:(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.

27th place: (took last name after marriage 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.

26th place: - 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 the father of her children, Coldplay musician Chris Martin, is a Christian.

25th place: Alison Brie Schermerhorn / Alison Brie Schermerhorn, better known as Alison Brie- American actress. Born December 29, 1982 in Hollywood. Alison's father is of Dutch, Scottish and German descent. Mother is Jewish. Alison Brie began her acting career at the Jewish Community Center of Southern California. In 2014, she took second place (after) in the ranking of the most desirable women according to the Askmen portal.

24th 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.

23rd place: Alicia Silverstone / 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 the wedding.

22nd place: - 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.

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

20th place: (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.

19th place: (real name - Françoise Judith Sorya Dreyfus) - French actress. She was born in Paris on April 27, 1932. Her parents professed 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, a Jew.

18th place. Peggy Lipton / Peggy Lipton- American actress. Born on August 30, 1946 in New York into a Jewish family.

17th place. Nora Arnezeder / Nora Arnezeder- French actress and singer, known for the film "Paris! Paris!" (2008). She played the main role in the film "Angelica, Marquise of Angels" (2013). Born on May 8, 1989 in Paris. Her father is an Austrian Catholic, her mother is Jewish. Her ancestors are Egyptian Jews who migrated from Alexandria to Europe before the First World War.

16th place: (September 16, 1924, New York - August 12, 2014) - American actress, recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the. Lauren Bacall's parents are Jewish and she is a cousin of Israeli President Shimon Peres.

15th place. (born October 30, 1981, New York, USA) - American businesswoman, fashion model, writer. Her father - American billionaire and US presidential candidate Donald Trump (he has German roots), his mother is an American model of Czech origin, Ivana Zelnichkova. In October 2009, Ivanka married an American businessman of Jewish origin, Jared Kushner. The wedding took place according to Jewish canons. By the time of the wedding, Ivanka had already been a Jew for 4 months, having completed a course of studying Judaism under the guidance of a rabbi, and after that, a conversion (the procedure for converting a non-Jew to Judaism) and taking the name Jael. Now the couple has three children. In an interview with Vogue magazine in 2015, Ivanka Trump admitted that in their family it is not customary to do any work on Saturday, they even turn off their phones on this day in order to fully observe Shabbat.

14th place: (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.

13th place: Susanna Hoffs- singer and guitarist from the American band The Bangles. She was born on January 17, 1959 in Los Angeles into a Jewish family.

12th place: - 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.

11th 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 that here was someone who really understood what it was like".

10th place. Svetlana Andreevna Fomicheva(born March 24, 1947, Chisinau, Moldova), better known by her pseudonym Svetlana Toma- Soviet and Russian actress. Svetlana Toma (pseudonym taken from the last name of her great-grandmother) was remembered by the audience primarily for the roles of the gypsies Masha (The Living Corpse, 1968), Rada (Tabor Goes to Heaven, 1976) and Tina (My Affectionate and Tender Beast, 1978), but no gypsy She has no roots, she is Russian on her father’s side, and Jewish on her mother’s side. Her mother Ida Saulovna in the 1930s was a liaison for the communist underground in Bessarabia, together with her sisters Bertha, Sarah, Rebekah, Adele, Anna, she kept a warehouse of prohibited literature in the basement of her house, and also hid underground workers.

Svetlana Toma in the film "The Camp Goes to Heaven" (1976)

9th place. Tanya Roberts / Tanya Roberts- American actress, known for the TV series "Charlie's Angels" (1980-81), the adventure drama "Sheena Queen of the Jungle" (1984), where she starred nude, and the Bond film "A View to a Kill" (1985). Real name is Victoria Bloom (Roberts is her married name). Born October 15, 1955 in New York. Her father is of Irish descent, her mother is Jewish.

8th place: Hedy Lamarr / Hedy Lamarr(real name: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) is an Austrian and American actress. She was born on November 9, 1914 in Vienna into a Jewish family. The actress (then under her real name Kiesler) became famous in 1933, starring in the Czechoslovak-Austrian film "Ecstasy", which became first non-pornographic film to contain prolonged nudity, as well as intercourse and female orgasm(on the website you can). The actress died on January 19, 2000 in the USA.

6th place: (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 she religious life will turn into a public spectacle. Arthur Miller's brother believed that Monroe's acceptance of Judaism was superficial. As for Monroe’s attitude towards Christianity, it was rather negative, because at one time its guardians were Protestant fundamentalists.

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5th place: - 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: , better known by her stage name Jasmine- Russian singer. Born on October 12, 1977 in Derbent into a family of Mountain Jews (a subethnic group of Jews from the Northern and Eastern Caucasus).

The most beautiful, in my opinion, Jewish woman is a British actress. 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.

Russian Jews are considered to be Jews of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union And modern Russia, for the vast majority of them Russian has become their native language. By the end of the 19th century, the largest Jewish community in the world existed in the Russian Empire (in 1880, 67% of all Jewish people lived here), but as a result of Jewish pogroms, Civil War, genocide during World War II and mass emigration in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the number of Jews in the former Russian Empire was greatly reduced. According to the results of the 2010 census, 157,763 people in Russia called themselves Jews.

This rating will feature the most beautiful, in my opinion, Russian Jewish women. It is worth noting that, 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 was born of a Jewish mother and has not converted to another religion, as well as a person who has converted to Judaism.” Therefore, in this rating there are Jewish women on the mother’s side + one Jewish woman on the father’s side, but who considers herself Jewish and has Israeli citizenship.

17th place. Rakhil Mikhailovna Messerer- Soviet silent film actress (creative pseudonym -Ra Messerer). Born on March 4, 1902 in Vilnius into a Jewish family. She married businessman Mikhail Emmanuilovich Plisetsky (also a Jew), and three children were born in marriage with him, of whom the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya is especially famous. Rakhil Mikhailovna died in 1993 in Moscow.


16th place: Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya- Soviet and Russian ballerina, choreographer, choreographer, teacher, writer and actress, People's Artist of the USSR. Born on November 20, 1925 in Moscow into a Jewish family. She passed away on May 2, 2015.


15th 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 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 man, but who loves Israel and praises Jerusalem. The Jewish capital is a piece of the Cosmos 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 is very difficult for me to describe a Jewish woman in words - there is music for that".

14th 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 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.

13th 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.


12th place. Miriam Borisovna Sekhon- Russian actress, vocalist of the groups Race to Space, Green Point Orchestra and VIA Tatyana. Born on September 21, 1983 in Moscow into a Jewish family. Among her serial roles, one can note Laura, the Italian maid of Sofia Palaeologus in the historical series “Sofia” (2016). She is also familiar to viewers of the show “Polyglot”, in which she was a member of a Spanish language learning group.

11th place. Nicole Raidman / Nicol Raidman(born June 11, 1986, Odessa) - Israeli businesswoman and producer. She moved to Israel from Ukraine with her family at the age of 10.

10th place: Milena Kunis, better known asMila Kunis / Mila Kunis- American actress. Born on August 14, 1983 in Chernivtsi (Ukrainian SSR) 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.


9th place: Ksenia Alexandrovna 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.”


8th place. 31st place. Regina Ilyinichna Spektor

7th place: 29th place: Bella Chagall

6th place: Yanina (Yana) Farkhadovna Batyrshina(after marriage she took her last nameWeinstein) - 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.


5th place. Anna Zak / Anna Zak(real name -Kuzenkova) - Israeli singer, TV presenter, model. In 2017, she was recognized by the Israeli Internet Association as the most influential person in the Israeli segment of Instagram. Born on March 12, 2001 in Sochi. In 2010, her family moved to Israel. She considers herself Jewish, although she is Jewish only through her father.

4th 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.

3rd place. Svetlana Andreevna Fomicheva(born March 24, 1947, Chisinau, Moldova), better known by her pseudonym Svetlana Toma- Soviet and Russian actress. Svetlana Toma (pseudonym taken from the last name of her great-grandmother) was remembered by the audience primarily for the roles of the gypsies Masha (The Living Corpse, 1968), Rada (Tabor Goes to Heaven, 1976) and Tina (My Affectionate and Tender Beast, 1978), but no gypsy She has no roots, she is Russian on her father’s side, and Jewish on her mother’s side. Her mother Ida Saulovna in the 1930s was a liaison for the communist underground in Bessarabia, together with her sisters Bertha, Sarah, Rebekah, Adele, Anna, she kept a warehouse of prohibited literature in the basement of her house, and also hid underground workers.

Svetlana Toma in the film "The Camp Goes to Heaven" (1976)

2nd place: Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya - outstanding Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR. In 1999, in a survey by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, Elina Bystritskaya was recognized as “the most beautiful woman of the passing century." Born on April 4, 1928 in Kyiv in a Jewish family. She passed away on April 26, 2019.


1 place: Sara Lvovna Manakhimova, better known by her stage nameJasmine- 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).


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Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya is a 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.

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.

Oksana Olegovna Fandera (born November 7, 1967, Odessa) is a 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.

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.

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

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.

Ksenia Aleksandrovna Rappoport (born March 25, 1974, St. Petersburg) is a 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.”

Gwyneth Paltrow is an 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.

Jennifer Connelly / Jennifer Connelly (born December 12, 1970, New York, USA) is an American actress. Her father is a Catholic with Irish and Norwegian roots, her mother is Jewish (her ancestors are emigrants from Poland and Russia), who studied 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.

Anouk Aimée (real name Françoise Judith Sorya Dreyfus) is a French actress. She was born in Paris on April 27, 1932 into a Jewish family of actors, the daughter of Henri Dreyfus and Genevieve Sorey. 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.

Melanie Laurent / Mélanie Laurent - French actress, director, singer. Born on February 21, 1983 in Paris into a Jewish family.

Sarah Michelle Gellar / 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.

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

Lauren Bacall / Lauren Bacall (September 16, 1924, New York - August 12, 2014) - 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.

Lina Avraamovna Bystritskaya is 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.

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.

Eva's father is Walter Green, half Swedish, half French by birth, works as a dentist. Mother - famous actress, Algerian Frenchwoman of Jewish origin Marlene Jaubert, in Lately dealing with children's literature. 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.

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.

Winona Laura Horowitz was born on October 29, 1971 in Olmsted County, Minnesota. It owes its name to the name of the neighboring town of Winona. She was given her middle name Laura in honor of the wife of the writer Aldous Huxley, with whom her father was friends. Winona's parents Cynthia and Michael Horowitz - descendants of Jewish emigrants from Russia and Romania - were engaged in literary activities.

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

Mila Kunis

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

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

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

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

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

Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scarlett Johansson

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

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

Gal Gadot

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

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

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. Candice Isralow

Better known as Candice Knight, she is an American singer, vocalist, and lyricist of the folk rock band Blackmore's Night.

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. Lilly Palmer

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


Eva Green

French actress. Eva's mother is a famous French actress, born in Algeria into a Jewish family. Father is Swedish on his father's side and French on his mother's side. Eva Green considers herself Jewish, despite the fact that she was not raised in the traditions of Judaism

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Jewish women have always been considered the most beautiful and desirable women of all time. The Jewish people have very rich history, and as a result, Jewish women look very diverse - from brunettes to blondes. Our list contains the most beautiful Jewish women on the planet of our era.

Tal Benierzi

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.

Jasmine

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).

Moran Atias

Moran Atias is an 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.

Gal Gadot

Gal Gadot is an 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.

Rachel Weisz

British actress Rachel Weisz was 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 from Vienna. Edith Ruth was not a full-blooded Jew, because she also had Italian and Austrian roots and was raised Catholic, but later converted to Judaism.

Eva Green

French actress Eva Green born in 1980 from Paris. Eva's mother, Marlene Jaubert, was born in Algeria into a Jewish family. 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.

Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor is a British-American actress. Date of birth: February 27, 1932. 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 celebrity 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.

Marilyn Monroe

Tahuniya Rubel

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

Ksenia Alexandrovna Rappoport

Ksenia Aleksandrovna Rappoport was born in St. Petersburg on March 25, 1974. Ksenia is an Honored Artist of Russia. From her interview with 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.”

Mila Kunis

Milena Kunis, better known as Mila Kunis, is an actress who was born on August 14, 1983 in Chernivtsi (Ukraine) into a Jewish family. In 1991, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. One of the 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.

Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn - actress, producer, director. She was born on November 21, 1945 in Washington. Her mother is Jewish and raised her daughter in the traditions of Judaism.

Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva

Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva is an actress and former professional gymnast. Born on February 9, 1980 in St. Petersburg into a Jewish family. In 1991, she and her family moved to New York.