Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist Pokrass brothers, composers Mark Reizen, operatic bass Yossele Rosenblatt, cantor and composer Heinrich Schenker, music theorist Joseph Schillinger, composer, music theorist, and composition teacher Leo Sirota, pianist Isaac Stern, violinist Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, lutenist-composer Lyubov Uspenskaya, singer Yakov Zak, pianist Fine artists Michael Matusevitch (1929–2007), painter Nathan Altman, painter and stage designer Boris Aronson, painter and designer Nudie Cohn, fashion designer Sonia Delaunay, painter Maya Deren, filmmaker Boris Efimov, cartoonist Naum Gabo, sculptor Boris Iofan, architect Ilya Kabakov, conceptualist artist Yevgeny Khaldei, photographer Jacob Kramer, painter Morris Lapidus, architect Louise Nevelson, sculptor Solomon Nikritin Jules Olitski, painter Leonid Pasternak, painter Antoine Pevsner, sculptor Olga Rapay-Markish (1929–2012), ceramicist Mikhail Turovsky, painter Roman Turovsky, painter Performing artists Jacob Adler, actor Yosl Cutler, puppeteer Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director Alexander Granach (1890–1945), actor in theater and film (Berlin & Germany, Poland, USSR, Hollywood and Broadway) Aleksei Kapler, film artist Mila Kunis, actress Anatole Litvak, director Alla Nazimova, actress Otto Preminger, director, producer, actor Ingo Preminger, producer, literary agent Elena Ralph, model Yakov Smirnoff, American comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian screenwriter, actor, comedian, and director, who was elected the President of Ukraine in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. Writers and poets Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish-language writer Eli Schechtman, Yiddish writer Isaac Babel, writer Eduard Bagritsky, poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik, poet Yosef Haim Brenner, Hebrew-language writer Sasha Cherny, poet Michael Dorfman, journalist and essayist Moysey Fishbein, poet Ilya Ehrenburg, writer Alexander Galich, playwright poet Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'Am), Hebrew-language writer Lydia Ginzburg, writer Jacob Gordin, American playwright Erol Güney, journalist and translator Vasily Grossman, writer Ilya Ilf, writer Vera Inber, poet Alejandro Jodorowsky, Spanish-language writer and filmmaker A.M. Klein, poet Pavel Kogan, poet Lev Kopelev, author and dissident Clarice Lispector, writer from Brazil Benedikt Livshits, writer Nadezhda Mandelstam, writer Yunna Morits, poet Anatoli Rybakov, writer Boris Slutsky, war-time poet Shaul Tchernichovsky, poet and translator Chess players Alexander Beliavsky Ossip Bernstein Isaac Boleslavsky David Bronstein, World Championship challenger Iossif Dorfman Louis Eisenberg Alexander Evensohn Efim Geller Eduard Gufeld Ilya Gurevich Mikhail Gurevich Nicolai Jasnogrodsky Gregory Kaidanov Alexander Konstantinopolsky Konstantin Lerner Moishe Lowtzky Vladimir Malaniuk Sam Palatnik Ernest Pogosyants Iosif Pogrebyssky Leonid Stein Mark Taimanov Boris Verlinsky Yakov Vilner See also History of the Jews in Ukraine List of Galician Jews List of Jews born in the former Russian Empire References Lists of Jews Ukraine Jews Jews,Ukrainian