the Far East (Major-General) V. Volodarsky (born Moisei Goldstein), communist revolutionary Mark Zborowski, Soviet spy Iona Yakir, Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II Mishka Yaponchik, gangster, leader of the Odessa Jewish Resistance group in 1917-1921 Other Historical figures Michael Dorfman, Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist Yisroel ben Eliezer (The Baal Shem Tov), Rabbi, founder of Hasidic Judaism Shlomo Ganzfried, Rabbi Fanny Kaplan, would-be assassin of Lenin Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism Isroel Shmulson, architect Simon Wiesenthal, a Nazi hunter Business figures Jan Koum, co-founder of WhatsApp Leon Bagrit, pioneer of automation Zino Davidoff Bernard Delfont, impresario Lew Grade, founder of ATV Ihor Kolomoyskyi, a major Ukrainian business oligarch Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal Hryhoriy Surkis, head of public organization Football Federation of Ukraine, Ukrainian parliamentary Viktor Vekselberg, billionaire, steelmaker Gennadiy Korban, Ukrainian businessman, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish community of Dnipro, Patron of the Jewish community of Krivoy Rog Boris Lohzkin, President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Natural scientists Aleksander Akhiezer, physicist Matvei Petrovich Bronstein Mikhail Gurevich Waldemar Haffkine, biologist, developed vaccine against cholera and plague Boris Hessen, physicist Abram Ioffe, nuclear scientist Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov Veniamin Levich, electrochemist Boris Podolsky Isaak Pomeranchuk Jacob Rabinow Anatol Rapoport Grigory Shajn Iosif Shklovsky Vladimir Veksler Alexander Vilenkin, cosmologist Selman Waksman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952) Mathematicians Naum Akhiezer, mathematician Vladimir Arnold, mathematician Chudnovsky brothers Vladimir Drinfeld Felix Gantmacher Israel Gelfand Alexander Goncharov Marc Kac, mathematician Naum Krasner Mark Krasnosel'skii Mark Krein Evgenii Landis Boris Levin Leonid Levin Boris Levitan Jacob Levitzki David Milman Vitali Milman Pierre Milman Mark Naimark Moses Schönfinkel Samuil Shatunovsky Pavel Urysohn Social scientists Solomon Buber, Hebraist Ariel Durant, historian, Boris Eichenbaum, historian Mikhail Epstein, literary theorist Moshe Feldenkrais, inventor of the Feldenkrais method Alexander Gerschenkron, economic historian Jean Gottmann, geographer Zellig Harris Jacob Marschak, economist Elye Spivak Musicians Sophia Agranovich, pianist Simon Barere, pianist Felix Blumenfeld, pianist Shura Cherkassky, pianist Mark Donskoy, Soviet film director Isaak Dunayevsky, composer Mischa Elman, violinist Anthony Fedorov, singer, American Idol finalist Samuil Feinberg, composer Emil Gilels, pianist Maria Grinberg, pianist Mordechai Hershman, cantor and singer Jascha Horenstein, conductor Vladimir Horowitz, pianist Leonid Kogan, violinist Mikhail Kopelman, violinist Oleg Maisenberg, pianist Samuel Maykapar, composer/pianist Nathan Milstein, violinist Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist David Oistrakh, violinist Igor Oistrakh, violinist Leo Ornstein, composer