XXth century CE

American historian of Galician origin, author of an eighteen-volume Social and Religious History of the Jews. He criticized the "lachrymose conception" of Jewish history.

Peruvian statesman

Sephardic jeweler nicknamed "Pearl King" for having introduced and popularized Tahitian black pearls in North America from the 1970s onward (founder of Assael International). From a Jewish family of…

General secretary of the Iranian American Jewish Federation (about 15 years) after having been its administrator for some thirty years; subsequently president then senior advisor of the Federation of…

American actor

American animation producer

Born Kamal Salah in Baghdad in 1926 in a secular Jewish merchant family, he joined an underground left-wing movement at age 15; condemned to death in absentia, he fled and arrived in Israel in 1949.…

Hebrew poet, researcher and Mizrahi social activist.

Israeli businessman

Leading figure in the white Jewish (Paradesi) community of Cochin in the twentieth century. Son-in-law of Samuel Koder (longtime warden of the Paradesi synagogue), he assumed its direction, notably…

Gibraltarian historian and novelist of Sephardic Jewish descent, regular contributor to the Gibraltar Heritage Trust journal; author of works on Gibraltar's history and its Jewish community, as well…

Member of the Cohen family of Asmara, the last Jewish family of Eritrea; in the early 2000s he was the youngest of his family and the sole guardian of the Asmara synagogue (founded in 1906 by…

American rabbi

American entrepreneur

American rabbi

Israeli journalist

Leading figure of the Paradesi Jewish community of Cochin, director of the Cochin Electric Company (electrification and public lighting of Cochin) and honorary consul of the Netherlands. He was the…

American political figure

American rabbi

Brazilian journalist

Samy Elmaghribi, born Salomon Amzallag in 1922 in Safi and died in 2008 in Canada, is one of the great Moroccan singers of the 20th century. Star of radio and stage from 1948-1956, oudist and…

rabbin et érudit juif hongrois (1913-1985)

Brazilian journalist and actress

Only son of Claire and Jack Diller, Jewish immigrants from Vienna (originally from Eastern Galicia) settled in San Francisco, where they ran a kosher restaurant "Diller's." With his wife Helen Diller…

French singer and composer born in Marrakech under the name Danielle Ebguy, known by the stage name Sapho. From a Moroccan Jewish family, she left Marrakech for Lyon with her family during her…

Israeli model and Miss Israel 1984

Zionist heroine, a leading member of the Nili spy network serving the British against the Ottomans. Captured and tortured, she took her own life.

Israeli novelist and playwright, religious themes.

Yiddish writer and actress, born in Radomsko, emigrated to Canada.

American actress

Israeli actress, musician and model

Hungarian musician

American sociologist and writer

American novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1976, author of Herzog and The Adventures of Augie March. A major figure of Jewish-American literature.

Swiss rabbi

American philosopher

Leading Talmudist, specialist of the Tosefta and of Jewish Hellenism, at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His erudition was authoritative in both the academic and rabbinic worlds.

Chilean writer

American businessman and financier

Major Hebrew poet, trained as a physician, renowned for his idylls and his Hellenizing lyricism. With Bialik, he founded modern Hebrew poetry.

Anthropologist and feminist writer, born in the tight-knit Syrian Jewish community of Buenos Aires, doctoral degree in Ancient Near Eastern studies, founder of Sarah's Tent and creator of modern…

Israeli short story writer and playwright born in Germany.

Secular Jewish intellectual and British Zionist leader born in Kursk, Russia; longtime head of the Jewish Agency's Research Department in London and editor of the Zionist Review, author of « The…

Finnish actress

Dutch Holocaust survivor (1922–2018)

Dutch historian, professor emerita of oral history and culture at the University of Amsterdam. Her thesis (1987) on poor Jews of Amsterdam renewed historiography of modernization and assimilation of…

Jewish German-speaking poet from Bukovina

Dutch journalist

American microbiologist of Ukrainian origin, Nobel Prize 1952, discoverer of streptomycin, the first effective antibiotic against tuberculosis. He coined the term “antibiotic.”

Ukrainian Jew engaged in the Soviet Red Army (1922-1942)

Israeli rabbi

Serge Berdugo, born in 1937 in Meknès, is a lawyer and one of the leading figures of the Moroccan Jewish community. Minister of Tourism from 1993 to 1995, he is secretary general of the Council of…

Born in Bucharest, refugeed in France. Doctor of letters and attorney at the Paris Bar, he devoted his life to documenting the deportation of Jews from France and to tracking Nazi criminals. With his…

Artist and deported person, born April 6, 1921 in Warsaw. Arrested in Nice on August 24, 1943 for acts of resistance and forging false papers, he was deported from Drancy on December 17, 1943 to…

Born in Sousse in 1949, critic at Cahiers du cinéma for over twenty years (editor-in-chief from 1981), then director of the Cinémathèque française (2003-2016). Author of several works on cinema; in…

From the Ferrara Jewish family of Minerbi (son of Arturo Minerbi), hidden as a child in Rome during the Shoah, he served thirty-six years in Israeli diplomacy and was a historian of Vatican–Zionism…

Italian rabbi (1923-2009)

Economist and former Chilean politician

Sergueï Davidovitch Izgiyaev, born in 1922 near Derbent (Daghestan) and a Mountain Jew (Juhuro), member of the Union of Soviet Writers (1963). Author of nine poetry collections and five plays,…

Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego (dean of arts and humanities 2009–2014). Specialist in Chaucer, the history of English and literature. Laureate of the…

American investigative journalist (Pulitzer Prize 1970 for revealing the My Lai massacre). His parents were Yiddish-speaking Jews who immigrated in the 1920s from Lithuania and Poland; his father's…

American rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Militant Zionist Philosopher (1924–1978)

American rabbi

Rabbi of Sefrou, 20th century. Died in 5682 of the Hebrew era (1922). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 113-2.

Israeli rabbi

Israeli editor and literary critic (1912–1978)

Israeli professor

Born in 1935 in Jalabe (northwest of Sanaa), he emigrated to Israel at age 18. Considered among the greatest Yemenite singers in Israel, he devoted his last years to documenting and transcribing the…

American businesswoman born in 1954

German football player

Canadian tennis player

Rosh Yeshiva of Sefat Emet

Researcher who has published on changes in the social status of urban Jewish women in Iraq (journal Women in Judaism, University of Toronto); associated with the Babylonian Jewish Heritage Center of…

rabbi

Israeli rabbi

American comedian, writer and professor (1925–2017)

(1912-1943)

Israeli rabbi and author

Son of Rabbi Shalom Bodokh, he taught at the Bet-El yeshiva (Jerusalem). He edited the writings of Rabbi Eleazar Halevy Ben Toubo under the title « Pekoudat Elazar ».

American rabbi

Israeli politician

Israeli novelist and journalist.

Egyptian lawyer and politician (1920-2001)

Israeli rabbi

Israeli poet and writer born in Sderot, Sapir Prize.

Sephardi rabbi (1928–2023)

Born in Baghdad in 1930, immigrated to Israel in 1951 without knowing Hebrew, he became one of the great Israeli novelists of Iraqi origin and professor of Arabic literature at the University of…

Born near Demnate, dayan in Marrakech and Casablanca, then rabbi of Kfar Yona in Israel.

Israeli rabbi

rabbi and Jewish thinker (1949-2007)

Scholar born in 1956, head of the department of Semitic and Hebrew Studies at Saint Petersburg State University and researcher at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of…

Israeli statesman, Prime Minister and then president, architect of the Oslo Accords and Nobel Peace Prize 1994. He played a central role in the nuclear program and the defense industry.

Born in Tel-Aviv (Yad Eliyahu), trained in archaeology at Tel-Aviv University and the Hebrew University, he worked for the Israel Antiquities Authority as an archaeology officer in Judea-Samaria.…

American rabbi

Grand Rabbi of Morocco (1994–1998), successor of Chalom Messas as head of Moroccan rabbinate.

American rabbi

Yiddish poet with rural lyricism, founding member of the Yung Vilne group.

Israeli poet and translator, Sumerian and Akkadian literature.

Yiddish short-story writer, from the kibbutz to the Soviet Union.

Israeli actress

Israeli feminist, bisexual, and anarchist writer

Son of Rabbi Mordechaï, he became rebbe of Zvhil in 1901. Facing the Sovietization of his town, he emigrated in 1926 to Jerusalem with his grandson Mordechaï, rebuilding the Zvhil Hasidic court in…

Rabbi, 20th century. Died in 5661 of the Hebrew era (1901). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 118-4.

Son of Yitzhak Artzi, he is one of the most popular singers and singer-songwriters of Israel since the 1970s. His sister is writer Nava Semel.

Israeli educator and researcher born in Tunis, author of a study on the history of the Zionist movement in Tunisia (Yad Tabenkin, 1980).

Shlomo Ben-Ami, born in 1943 in Tangier, emigrated to Israel in 1955. Historian trained at Oxford and professor at Tel-Aviv University, he became Israel's Minister of Internal Security then of…

Rabbi of Meknès, twentieth century. Died in 5666 of the Hebrew era (1906). Son of Daniel. Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 117-1.

American-born rabbi (1931–2013)

Jewish musician (1925–1994)

Rabbi of Mazagan (El Jadida), twentieth century. Born in 5689 of the Hebrew era (1929). Son of Yosef. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 116-2.

Ph.D. from Yeshiva University (1952), specialist in medieval Jewish history. He translated and edited the Hebrew chronicles of the First and Second Crusades (Rhineland massacres) and published on…

Israeli-born leader of the Lev Tahor sect

American rabbi

First chief rabbi of the IDF and then Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, a specialist in military Halakha. He sounded the shofar at the Western Wall in 1967.

American rabbi

Born 20 March 1928, died 19 March 2015. Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, recognized specialist in the teaching of Hebrew as a language and in the history of the rebirth (tehiya) of…

Israeli politician

Nicknamed « Chich », born in Germany and immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1933. Major general of the Israel Defense Forces (head of the Personnel Directorate, governor of East Jerusalem after…

Israeli politician

Israeli politician (Knesset), member of religious parties, bearing the Ashkenazi patronym Perlstein. Confirmed by the Wikipedia disambiguation page « Perlstein » (1902–1979, Israeli politician),…

German rabbi

American rabbi

Israeli historian, professor emeritus of history at Tel-Aviv University, born in 1946 in a displaced persons camp near Linz to Polish Jewish parents who survived the Shoah. Known for his…

Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion (William Fondiller chair). Leading information theorist, winner of the Shannon Prize 2011, Rothschild Prize 2014 and IEEE Richard…

American mathematician

Master of Mussar, author of Alei Shour, mashgiach of Be'er Yaakov and later founder of Givat Shaul.

Decisor of Jerusalem, a leading authority on questions of Halakha and modern technology. He headed the Kol Torah yeshiva.

Rosh Hashochtim of Poland, Chief Rabbi of Hannover and Lower Saxony

Israeli politician

British rabbi

Yiddish poet, lyricist and resistance fighter, cofounder of the Yung Vilne group.

Born in Tel-Aviv to writer Nathan Agmon, Ph.D. from the Sorbonne (1949). Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, world authority on elliptic PDEs and spectral theory of Schrödinger…

Israeli rabbi

American rabbi

Prague philosopher, close to Franz Kafka and Martin Buber, who emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1920. First director of the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem, then first rector…

Co-founder and rosh yeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia; disciple of Aharon Kotler.

Rabbi of the Mahané Yehuda market quarter in Jerusalem, dayan at Beth Din Halikhot Olam and president of the Mishkan Levi institution. Prolific author of several works on halakha, responsa and Jewish…

Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel

rabbi (1913–1979)

Polish rabbi

Born in Blida, Algeria in 1948. Professor of sociology of religion and politics at Nanterre, author of some thirty works on Jewish identity, political philosophy and monotheism. Founder of the AIU…

Israeli ultra-Orthodox rabbi

Hebrew-language writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1966, whose work fuses Jewish tradition and modernity. He is one of the pillars of Hebrew prose.

American rabbi

Israeli rabbi

American businessman

Israeli rabbi

American rabbi

Israeli novelist and playwright, detective novels.

Israeli novelist and essayist born in Warsaw.

Canadian pornographic actress

American chemist

American Jewish pathologist and pediatrician (1903-1973), considered the father of modern chemotherapy for pioneering the use of anti-folate drugs against childhood leukemia; the Dana-Farber Cancer…

American rabbi

American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director and actor

Austrian physician, founder of psychoanalysis, author of The Interpretation of Dreams. He had to flee Vienna in 1938 in the face of Nazism.

Brazilian media personality

Romanian politician

Born in 1907 in Łęczyce (Poland), interned from 1940 in the Łódź ghetto. He responded to the deportations of late 1941 with a long poem, « Lekh-Lekho », which opposed traditional Jewish past to…

Israeli politician

Israeli politician

Israeli rabbi

Originally from Alexandria, he was elevated to the priesthood by Herod the Great around 23 BCE so that Herod's marriage to his daughter Mariamne (II) would not be judged a mésalliance. Three of his…

Dutch rabbi (1902-1945)

Russian historian of Judaism, theorist of Diaspora autonomism, author of a World History of the Jewish People. He was murdered in Riga by the Nazis.

French rabbi

American rabbi

Simon Lévy, born in 1934 in Fès and died in 2011 in Rabat, was a linguist and academic, professor in Rabat, long-time activist of the Moroccan Communist Party then of the PPS. Founder and general…

British filmmaker (1970-2010)

British historian and author, descendant of the Judeo-British dynasty Sebag-Montefiore (related to Sir Moses Montefiore). He is the author of hugely successful historical works on Jerusalem, Russia…

Camp survivor and "Nazi hunter," he devoted his life to tracking down war criminals. He contributed to the capture of Adolf Eichmann.

the wife and collaborator of René Hirschler

French stateswoman, Auschwitz survivor, Minister of Health who secured passage of the law legalizing abortion. The first president of the European Parliament, she was interred in the Panthéon.

French philosopher born in Paris into a Jewish family of Alsatian origin. Agrégée in philosophy, trade union activist, worker by choice (1934-35), briefly engaged in the Spanish Civil War (1936) and…

Israeli rabbi

Born in 1948 in a Berber Jewish family from Safi, mathematician by training then teacher. Imprisoned from 1972 to 1984 during the 'Years of Lead'. In 2005 he founded Transparency Morocco and in 2010…

Sion Nemni was a notable of the Jewish community of Tripoli: he collected substantial funds to house Jews without resources, and assumed the role of head of the Jewish community of Tripoli during the…

Born in Želva (Lithuania) to Jewish parents, Lazar and Bella Klug, emigrated to South Africa at age two. He developed crystallographic electron microscopy and elucidated the structure of nucleic…

British writer and political analyst, former volunteer in the International Brigades in Spain, he became one of Margaret Thatcher's principal advisors after 1975. In 1974 he co-founded with Keith…

From a distinguished Anglo-Jewish family, educated at Malvern College and Trinity College (Cambridge). Assistant undersecretary for Africa at the Colonial Office (1947, author of the "Cohen Report"…

Born in Vienna into an assimilated Jewish family (father a lawyer, mother a pianist). Ph.D. from the University of Vienna (1933), he fled Nazism in 1936 and joined the Warburg Institute in London,…

Born in Vienna in a Jewish family (son of a physician), he fled antisemitism and went to Cambridge in 1937. With Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold, he developed in the 1940s the steady-state theory of the…

Franco-British financier from the Jewish banking dynasty Goldschmidt of Frankfurt (name anglicized to Goldsmith by his father Frank). Founder of Cavenham Foods and financial raider, he founded in…

Born in 1918 into a wealthy London Jewish family; his father Sir Samuel Joseph headed the Bovis construction company and was Lord Mayor of London (1942–43). Minister under Conservative governments,…

British historian, professor at Columbia. Author and presenter of the series and books The Story of the Jews (2013-2017), which trace three millennia of Jewish history. The surname Schama comes from…

One of the most popular media personalities in Israel, presenter of the Channel 2 news, columnist for Yediot Aharonot and Galei Tsahal. She is also an author: her Hebrew work "HaStatus HaYehudi" was…

Sephardic rabbi (1912–1994)

Romanian mathematician

Scholar and leader of Conservative Judaism, discoverer of the Cairo Genizah. He presided over the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York.

rabbin britannique

Born in Tunis, doctorate in religious studies, research fellow at the CNRS, specialist in Jewish art and Judeo-Christian relations in medieval Spain as well as Judeo-Muslim relations in Tunisia. She…

Co-founder in 1961, with his childhood friend Al Gindi, of the discount fashion department store Century 21 in Lower Manhattan (up to 13 stores before bankruptcy in 2020). Member of the Syrian Jewish…

American politician