XXth century CE

Israeli singer

American economist

British businessman, Baron Kalms

American actor

American filmmaker, photographer, screenwriter and producer

Israeli politician

British Jewish scholar, professor emeritus at Cambridge and founding director of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit; leading authority on the Cairo Genizah and Jewish liturgy, OBE 2020.

World-renowned Austrian writer, author of The Royal Game and The World of Yesterday. Exiled by Nazism, he took his own life in Brazil.

Greek singer

British stylist, daughter of Linda and Paul McCartney

American communicant

American actor

Gay rabbi

Professor of Jewish Studies (Moe and Izetta Tonkon Chair) and humanities at Reed College. Author of reference works on Judeo-Muslim relations in the early Middle Ages and on the history of religious…

American Orthodox rabbi, he led for a quarter century (1994–2020) the congregation Bnai Yeshurun of Teaneck (New Jersey) before making his aliyah to Modiin. Executive of the Rabbinical Council of…

American political figure

American journalist

American film director. All four of his grandparents are Jews from Ukraine: his paternal grandfather Shmuel Spielberg was from Kamianets-Podilskyi, his grandmother Rebecca from Soudylkiv. Director of…

Doctor in International Relations (University of Pennsylvania, 1973), he is professor emeritus at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, holder of the Rabbi Alfred…

High-energy physicist, expert in interactions of K mesons with nucleons.

American entrepreneur

American actress

United States representative for California since 2001

American Jewish philosopher and writer, director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, author of 'Evil in Modern Thought'.

American reform rabbi

American essayist and novelist

Hungarian dancer

French public figure

Australian political figure

Molecular biologist born in Germiston (South Africa) to parents who were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. Pioneer of molecular biology at Cambridge (genetic code, C. elegans worm), Nobel Prize in…

American actress

Professor of political and cultural sociology in Israel (College of Management in Rishon LeZion, Israel Academic College in Ramat-Gan), specialist in gender, family, the kibbutz, multiculturalism and…

Israeli poet born in New York, translator and anthologist.

Israeli activist

Canadian multidisciplinary artist, born in Toronto to an Israeli Jewish father (from Kfar Saba, Polish Jewish family from Łódź, grandchildren of Holocaust survivors) and an Anishinaabe mother.…

Hungarian politician

Filmmaker born in Iran and Iranian Jewish, who left Iran at age 6 after the 1979 revolution. Alumna of Brown (semiotics) and The New School. Her first feature documentary, « Be Like Others » (2008),…

American actress

British judge

British actress

German philosopher and sociologist, a major figure of the Frankfurt School, co-author of Dialectic of Enlightenment. His critical thought shaped aesthetic theory.

Born in 1903 in Frankfurt, son of Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund, Jewish wine merchant, and a mother of Corsican/Genoese origin who was a singer; he adopted the maternal surname Adorno in the late…

American activist (1910–1986)

American politician

Born Tomasz Blatt in Izbica. At 16 he escaped from the Sobibór extermination camp during the uprising of Jewish prisoners in October 1943. After the war, a major witness to Sobibór (including at the…

American philosopher of Jewish family background (born in Belgrade to a family that had fled Nazi Germany), University Professor at NYU, known for 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' and works in…

composer, conductor, pianist

Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (1923–1980)

American serviceman

American writer

Gibraltarian historian of Sephardic Jewish descent, specialist in the local and military history of Gibraltar and the Jewish communities of Gibraltar, Malta and Minorca. Founder in 1993 of a history…

American sociologist and writer (1943-2022) from a Jewish family, professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, founder/early president of Students for a Democratic Society, and…

American entrepreneur

American actress

American actor and filmmaker

American actor

American musician

film music composer and rock guitarist

Born September 28, 1923 in New York into a Yiddish-speaking Jewish household of Lower East Side immigrants. Poet and counterculture author, cum laude graduate of Brooklyn College (1944), he founded…

Italian mathematician, co-founder of tensor calculus, which served as the basis for Einstein's general relativity. He was expelled from the university by the Fascist racial laws.

Italian anthropologist (1928-2017)

Israeli painter

Israeli poet in Hebrew and German languages, Israel Prize 2008.

Born in Rehovot in a religious Jewish family, her parents being Jews from Georgia who emigrated to Israel. Likud deputy from 2009 (then youngest member of the Knesset), vice-minister then minister,…

Israeli politician

Israeli politician

Israeli politician

Israeli politician

Israeli diplomat, Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1993) and chief Israeli negotiator of the Oslo Accords. Member of the Knesset (1999–2001), co-founder of the Peres Center for…

Professor of music at Bar-Ilan University (since 1973) and of ethnomusicology at the Rubin Academy (since 1975). Specialist in the oral and musical traditions of Yemenite Jews. His thesis (Columbia,…

Israeli director

Hebrew and Yiddish poet, a prophetic and nationalist voice, marked by the Shoah and Revisionist Zionism. One of the greatest Hebrew poets of the twentieth century.

Iranian rabbi

Born in Tel-Aviv, he was editor of the children's supplement of the newspaper Davar (Davar li-Yeladim) and holds a doctorate in children's literature (University of Toronto). He laid the foundations…

Born Uriel Heilperin in Warsaw, he Hebraized his name to Shelach, then adopted the literary pseudonym Yonatan Ratosh. A major Hebrew-language poet, he published his first poem in 1926 and founded in…

Son of Max Weinreich, eminent linguist, he was professor of Yiddish at Columbia University. Author of reference works in contact linguistics and Yiddish lexicography, he died at forty.

Israeli translator

Israeli rabbi

Canadian journalist

French actress

American actress

Soviet writer and journalist, author of Life and Fate, an epic banned in the USSR. He was among the first to document the Shoah in the East.

American astronomer and physicist

American actress (1938–2019)

Italian actress (1938-2014)

Son of Jewish immigrants (father from Lubawa), he founded Victor Mishcon & Co in 1937 in Brixton, which became Mishcon de Reya after the 1988 merger — one of Britain's largest law firms. His firm…

Born in 1960 in Kyiv to Jewish parents, Ukrainian oligarch, founder of the Interpipe industrial group and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. He supports notably Jewish causes and Judeo-Ukrainian dialogue…

Israeli politician

Austrian professor of neurology and psychiatry

Israeli rabbi

Mathematician born into a Jewish family of mathematicians; professor at Tel-Aviv University, laureate of the Israel Prize 2024. Known for his proof of the Dvoretzky theorem and the development of…

Italian writer and journalist

Author of « The Oak of Rhodes: Saga of a Great Sephardic Family » (Paris, 1998), history of the Alhadeff family of Rhodes, with an Argentine edition titled « La Cita en Buenos Aires: Saga de una…

Born in Chiaravalle on 11 November 1918, died in Rome on 5 August 2010. Of Jewish origin, he had to interrupt his studies in Bologna in 1938 because of Fascist racial laws and could only obtain his…

Italian journalist

Virtuoso American pianist of Ukrainian origin, one of the greatest of the twentieth century. His interpretations of Rachmaninoff and Liszt are benchmarks.

Writer and Zionist leader, founder of Revisionist Zionism and of the Jewish Legion. Theorist of the “Iron Wall,” he inspired the Israeli right.

French philosopher, son of Russian Jewish immigrants, agrégé in philosophy (top of the 1926 competition). He taught in Toulouse then Lille, was stripped of his position under the Occupation, and held…

Soviet mathematician born to a wealthy Jewish family in Baku, known for Rokhlin's theorem and foundational work in ergodic theory; forced out of the Steklov Institute during the Soviet…

Russian politician

Russian television presenter

Born on January 20, 1978 in Vinnytsia in a Jewish family, he was mayor of Vinnytsia (2006–2014), speaker of the Rada, then Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2016 to 2019 — the first Jewish person to…

Born in 1978 in Kryvyï Rih in a Jewish family. Actor and producer before politics, he was elected president of Ukraine in 2019. His great-grandparents were killed during the Nazi occupation of…

Israeli rabbi

Prewar lawyer in Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1935; Reform rabbi, long-time rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto (senior scholar from 1978). Author of about twenty works on theology,…

German-born American Jewish economist who escaped Nazi Germany in 1939, served as US Secretary of the Treasury (1977-79) and later founding director of the Jewish Museum Berlin.

German philosopher and critic, author of The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility. Fleeing the Nazis, he took his own life at Portbou.

Mathematician born into a Jewish family in Vienna, he fled to England in 1939 via the Kindertransport then emigrated to the United States in 1946. He is famous for the Feit-Thompson theorem (every…

German theoretical physicist, of Jewish descent through his father Adolf Heitler. Co-author with Fritz London of valence bond theory (Heitler-London theory, 1927), the first application of quantum…

American rabbi

American psychologist of Austrian origin (1930-2018)

American documentary photographer and educator born to Romanian Jewish immigrants, known for photographing New York's Lower East Side and for being among the first Allied photographers to document…

German industrialist and statesman, Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic. He was assassinated by antisemitic far-right nationalists.

American attorney and Republican U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from a family of Jewish immigrants from Germany, Poland and Russia; co-author of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-control act.

American playwright, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner 1981 for My Sister in This House. Author of numerous plays and a stage adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary (1997).

American comedian

German Jewish resistance fighter against Nazism, died 1945 at Sachsenhausen camp

Avocat américain né le 14 décembre 1936 et décédé le 7 juillet 2026 à Bedford (New York), cofondateur en 1969 du cabinet Schulte Roth & Zabel, réputé en droit des successions et des familles. Il joua…

American director, screenwriter and producer

British actor

Jewish-American real estate developer born in Brooklyn to a family with a rabbi grandfather from Russia, who created Levittown, pioneering mass-produced suburban housing after World War II.

American rabbi

German rabbi

American director and producer

Born William Maks de Majo in Vienna in 1917, he founded a design agency in Belgrade in 1935 then emigrated to the United Kingdom. He is world-renowned as founder and first president (1963) of…

Born November 15, 1936, in Hamburg. His father, Dagobert Biermann, a Jewish dock worker and member of the anti-Nazi resistance, was deported and murdered at Auschwitz on February 22, 1943. Wolf…

American rabbi

American actor, filmmaker, and clarinetist

rabbi, Israel

Israeli politician

Israeli politician

Né Yaacov Gibstein en 1928 en Palestine mandataire, fils du rabbin et kabbaliste Yehoshua Gibstein, Yaacov Agam est mort le 21 juin 2026 à 98 ans et est considéré comme l'un des pères de l'art…

Born in Cairo, professor of computer science at Bar-Ilan University, where he directed the institute for documentary research and computational linguistics. Played a leading role in the Responsa…

Israeli soldier and politician

Born in Budapest into a family of rabbinical lineage (paternal grandfather Grand Rabbi of Budapest; descendant of the Hatam Sofer through his mother), immigrated to Israel in 1949. Professor of…

Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic dynasty

Ordained rabbi at RIETS (1979), he serves as Roch Yechiva (Mazer School of Talmudic Studies, Yeshiva University) and rabbi of Congregation Beth Abraham in Bergenfield (NJ) since 1990. He studied…

Born in Tétouan to a Sephardic Jewish family, he was professor of Hebrew language at Ben-Gurion University (head of the Hebrew department from 1974 to 1992) and a member of the Academy of the Hebrew…

Israeli writer

American rabbi

Lithuanian–Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Maggid of Novardok, renowned preacher in Israel.

Israeli diplomat

Talmudist and spiritual figure of Bnei Brak, author of the Kehilot Yaakov. Brother-in-law of the Chazon Ish, he was a guide for the yeshiva world.

French rabbi

Israeli politician

American rabbi

Israeli Zionist politician and Knesset member, a leader of the Mapam party, born in Poland.

Israeli novelist and playwright, modernist prose from Tel-Aviv.

Rosh yeshiva of Ner Israel (Baltimore).

American rebbe

rav of Montreal's Belz community

rabbi, Jewish decisor

Israeli author, PhD in Hebrew literature. Her novel « Aquarium » tells the story of two deaf sisters. Laureate of the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literature in 2015.

Author, in Hebrew, of a comprehensive work on the history of the Jews of Libya, translated into Italian.

American soccer player

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli politician

Israeli cultural personality of Judeo-Italian descent. After his service at Galei Zahal, he was keyboardist and lyricist for the rock band T-Slam. He writes the satirical column "Haramat Gaba" ("A…

real estate entrepreneur

Yakoub (Yaacov) Bchiri, born November 12, 1912, was a major figure in Judeo-Tunisian music from Djerba: he animated weddings, celebrations and the pilgrimage to the Ghriba, notably through the songs…

Born November 4, 1905 in Voronezh in a Jewish family, died November 29, 1969 in Moscow. First division infantry commander to receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (July 22, 1941). He…

Born Yasha Kazakov in 1947 in Moscow. At age nineteen, he forced his way into the Israeli consulate in Moscow and led a public campaign for the rights of Soviet Jews to emigrate. He emigrated to…

Russian Orthodox rabbi (1913-1983)

Figure in the origins of Judeo-Tat literature (juhuri). He led the group that developed the Judeo-Tat alphabet based on Latin adopted at the 2nd pan-Soviet conference on cultural development among…

American actor (1939–2021)

Uzbek sculptor

rabbi

Founder and President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

Rosh yeshiva, Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva

Israeli policy analyst

Israeli rabbi

Lithuanian rabbi

Rosh yeshiva

Rabbi of Fès, president of the rabbinical courts of Fès then Casablanca, grand rabbi of Morocco.

Iranian rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Born in Sana'a, disciple of Rabbi Yiḥyeh Kapach (founder of Dor Deah). He was the only Jewish photographer in Yemen on the eve of the great emigration ("Magic Carpet"): virtually all photographs of…

Major Israeli sculptor, member of the New Horizons group, first Israeli artist whose work was acquired by MoMA. Laureate of the Sandberg Prize (1981) and the Israel Prize for Sculpture (1986). He…

Israeli rabbi

Israeli military officer and academic political scientist

Rabbi from Israel, rosh yeshiva, advocate and officer

Rabbi of Meknes, twentieth century. Born in 5662 of the Hebrew era (1902). Son of Yekutiel. Registered in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 55-4.

Israeli encyclopedist

Israeli novelist, psychological realism.

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Considered the greatest modern Israeli poet, translated throughout the world. His poetry blends the everyday, love, war, and Jewish tradition.

Born in Tunis, kabbalist, rabbi of the Western Wall and director of the yeshiva Beit El.

Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University, editor-in-chief of the Maktoob series (translations of Arabic literature into Hebrew) at the Van Leer Institute. He works on bureaucracy,…

American rabbi and physicist