XXth century CE

poet (1927-1969)

Born in New York in 1931 to Jewish parents of Eastern European origin (Galicia), graduate of Cooper Union (1951). First photorealist to enter the MoMA collection (1966) and first living woman artist…

film producer and Israeli-American businessman

Israeli singer, bassist and composer, lead vocalist of the rock band Nikmat Hatraktor since 1988; born in Givatayim to a Sephardic Jewish family, his father from an Italian-Jewish line via Alexandria…

Israeli rabbi, executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights since 2019, raised in an Orthodox household in Ashkelon. He was born to a Syrian Jewish mother and a Libyan Jewish father. He published «…

American producer

Major Israeli filmmaker of the past five decades. First film The Band (Halahaka, 1978), a great success in Israel; acclaimed films including The Matchmaker, The Secrets, The Other Story. Prize for…

Israeli general

American rabbi

Composer, arranger and Israeli singer born in 1948 in Tel-Aviv to Yemenite parents (mother from a family immigrated from Yemen in 1906, father cantor immigrated from Yemen in 1939). Author of more…

Israeli economist and Labor Party politician, fifth president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1990-2006) and Knesset member (2006-2015); recipient of the 2020 Israel Prize for Lifetime…

Israeli police officer (1916-1987)

American rabbi

Born in Rome, graduate of the Italian Rabbinical College (Maskil 1959, Semikha 1964). Rabbi of Venice from 1961 to 1972, then rabbi in Rome until 2002, where he was deputy to the Chief Rabbi and…

Born on Rosh Hashana 5671 (1910) in Sana'a, died on 9 Elul 5758 (1998) in Kiryat Binyamin. He served as hazzan of the Alkhulani Synagogue in Sana'a from 1932 onwards, and after his alya, established…

French rabbi

Israeli producer and impresario nicknamed "Pashanel," born in Tel-Aviv in 1926. In nearly 48 years of career he mounted hundreds of plays, musical comedies, films and broadcasts, and was associated…

Israeli rabbi and rosh yeshiva

Born in Tunis, he emigrated young to France with other Tunisian Jews, married there, became attached to the Hasidic teaching of Breslev (encounter with Rabbi Israël Odesser), made aliyah and lived in…

Born in Damascus in 1943, he was chief rabbi of the Jews of Syria and Lebanon and the last acting chief rabbi of Syria (1976–1994) before the community's collapse. He emigrated to Israel, where he…

Israeli politician

Israeli rabbi

Rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaath for more than 60 years, member of the Council of the Sages of the Torah.

Halakhic authority of Bnei Brak, a major figure in the reconstruction of Orthodox Judaism in the Land of Israel. His work Chazon Ish covers the entire field of Halakha.

Israeli rabbi

Israeli educator

Israeli politician

American writer (1923–1993)

American businessman (born 1960)

American rabbi

Fifth Sadigura Rebbe (1928–2013)

Rosh yeshiva of the yeshiva of Brisk in Jerusalem, grandson of the Brisker Rav.

Israeli filmmaker trained at Beit Zvi, she has directed several feature films. Her film « Seven Blessings » won the Ophir Awards for Best Film and Best Direction in 2023, and « Noodle » won Best…

Israeli politician

Israeli poet and author for youth, landscape architect.

American philosopher, screenwriter and novelist of Russian origin

Israeli writer

Lithuanian rabbi

Israeli poet born in Baghdad in 1948, arrived in Israel as a child during the emigration of the Jews of Iraq (1950). His twin brother Herzl Hakak is also a poet; both are figures in Hebrew literature…

Master of Flavius Josephus, who lived three years at his side, he led in the desert a life close to that of the Essenes: wearing no other garment than what grew on trees, subsisting only on…

Born in East Berlin in 1949 to Jewish immigrant parents, she was a playwright and director before emigrating to Strasbourg in 1984, where she reconnects with Jewish life. She is considered the most…

American civic leader and philanthropist

American historian, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (The Guns of August, 1963; Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1972). Born Wertheim into a New York Jewish family (granddaughter of…

American artist

Australian political figure

American biologist, college professor and eco-socialist

US-based rabbi

Israeli rabbi, kabbalist

Israeli rabbi

Assistant chief rabbi, Brooklyn Syrian Jewish community

Rosh yeshiva of Ponevezh, son of Dovid Povarsky, teaching at the yeshiva since 1953.

American rabbi

Pioneer of Israeli literary criticism, polemicist at Bar-Ilan.

Slovak rabbi

American rabbi

American Jewish physician and geneticist, co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the hepatitis B virus.

Rosh yeshiva of Telshe in Cleveland, rabbinic leader of American Judaism.

Argentine activist

Israeli rabbi (1940–2024)

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Rebbetzin (1932-2011)

American actress

actress

Granddaughter of Sholem Rabinovich through his daughter Lyalya (Kaufman), she is the author of the bestselling novel Up the Down Staircase (1964), adapted for theater and film. She worked extensively…

American politician

spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem

American journalist

American rabbi

dentiste de l'armée des États-Unis, récipiendaire posthume de la Medal of Honor (1914-1944)

American actor

Sephardic rabbi

American rabbi

American rabbi

First Sephardic chief rabbi of the State of Israel, a decisor open to the challenges of modernity. He worked for the unity of the communities.

Sephardic Rabbi and Kabbalist

Born in Tétouan (Morocco), he became the first Sephardic communal rabbi of Madrid since 1492.

Born in 1930 in a Jewish family from Kiev. Physicist of worldwide reputation in laser physics, professor emeritus at Tel-Aviv University. Militant Refusnik from 1974 onwards (emigrated to Israel in…

Israelian rabbi and dayan

Born in Tel-Aviv, Ph.D. in clinical psychology (Michigan State University, 1970). Professor emeritus at the University of Haifa, specialist in the psychology of religion and new religious movements.…

Orthodox American rabbi, professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University since 1966 and rabbi of Young Israel of Oceanside for 37 years. Author of about twenty works of Jewish popularization, several of…

Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Author of several award-winning scholarly works on the Hebrew Bible and revelation.

banker and owner of the Edmond de Rothschild group

Austrian rabbi

Israeli statesman

Born December 2, 1950 in Constantine in a Jewish family of Algeria that left the country in 1962. Authoritative historian of colonial Algeria, the war of independence and the Jews of Algeria; author…

Israeli novelist and sculptor born in Ukraine.

Officer of the Israeli navy (Heil HaYam) with the rank of aluf, in service from 1947 to 1979. He commanded the Israeli navy during the Yom Kippur War (1973) and participated in the 1948 war, the Suez…

Israeli writer and journalist born in Tel Aviv, literary editor of the daily Haaretz since 1988, author of three novels and translator of French literature into Hebrew; Jewish family originally from…

Rabbi of Djerba, specialist in Hebrew pronunciation (Sefat Emet).

Israeli historian

Danish rabbi

Son of the Brisker Rav, rosh yeshiva of the yeshiva of Brisk in Jerusalem.

American rabbi

Intellectual and leader of the Labor Zionist movement, one of the ideological fathers of the Yishuv. He founded the daily newspaper Davar.

American rabbi

American rabbi

American rabbi

British-South African rabbi (1916-1988)

American novelist and short-story writer, author of The Assistant and The Fixer. His work explores suffering and redemption in the Jewish experience.

American businessman and philanthropist

French rabbi

American historian born in New York, professor at the State University of New York (Stony Brook) and later Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York. Specialist in imperialism, free…

French philosopher associated with the movement of the 'new philosophers' (1976-1977). His essay 'La Barbarie à visage humain' (1977) attacks totalitarian ideologies (fascism, Stalinism) and caused…

Argentine politician

Austrian-born French Jewish historian, leading scholar of medieval Jewish-Christian relations and history of the Jews in medieval France.

British writer

United States senator for Vermont since 2007

Brazilian actress

Austrian social worker and feminist, founder of the German Jewish women's movement. Under the name "Anna O.," she was a foundational case in psychoanalysis.

United States Navy admiral (1918-1979)

American model

Dutch collaborator during World War II

Rabbi

Yiddish poetess and songwriter, born in Vienna, active in New York.

Born in Jerusalem, son of Mordechai Narkiss. Professor of art history at the Hebrew University, expert in illuminated Latin and Hebrew manuscripts. He founded the Center for Jewish Art in 1979 and…

Swiss rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Brazilian actress

American politician

Israeli general and politician

Israeli politician

Israeli politician

rabbi (1913-2002)

Israeli rabbi

Dutch rabbi

American rabbi

American Buddhist abbess

Dutch child psychologist

Yiddish short-story writer born in Galicia, singular voice of the postwar period.

American comedian (1956–2022)

American political figure

Russian Jewish journalist, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Retch (« The Word ») of the constitutional-democratic party (KD). Expelled from the USSR in 1922 by Lenin's decree along with about two…

Russian political figure (1946—2013)

Born in Tiraspol (Moldavian SSR), Ph.D. in linguistics (Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1985). Emigrated to the United States in 1993. Major figure in Esperanto,…

Russian poet and novelist of Jewish origin, Nobel Prize 1958 for Doctor Zhivago, which he was forced to decline. His work was long banned in the USSR.

Soviet poet born in Sloviansk into a Jewish family, veteran of the Great Patriotic War. The only Russian poet to make the Shoah a central theme of his work; he addressed antisemitism and Jewish…

Rosh yeshiva of Ateres Yisrael (Jerusalem), member of the Moetzes of Degel HaTorah.

Yemen-born Israeli rabbanit, Israel Prize laureate for social welfare

Born in Sanaa in a religious Jewish family, arrived in Israel at age 10 during Operation "Flying Carpet". Holder of a master's degree in Hebrew and Semitic linguistics from the Hebrew University, she…

lawyer

American film producer and actor

British journalist

French woman of letters born in Tunis, author of numerous works, notably for young people, and collection director at École des loisirs.

German politician

Bruno Karsenti (born 1966), agrégé in philosophy (1990), director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Specialist in social sciences (Mauss, Durkheim, Comte), a major part…

American translator

American businessman (born 1964)

Born in 1914, son of Hollywood producer B. P. Schulberg and Adeline née Jaffe, in a Jewish family. Novelist ("What Makes Sammy Run?", 1941, on the rise of a young Jew from the Lower East Side; "The…

Swiss actor

American gangster, co-founder of the crime syndicate

American physicist of German-Jewish descent, born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, who co-discovered the J/psi particle and won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Brazilian comedian (1962–2006)

rabbi (1918-2005)

American baseball player

Canadian political figure

American politician

Argentine writer

American journalist

American political figure

British rabbi

American writer

Chilean musician

Argentine politician

Italian lawyer, journalist and writer (1932–2023)

Born in 1902 in Ukraine, died in 1979 in Israel, he was the first feature film director of the Yishuv. He directed Oded Hanoded (« Oded the Wanderer », 1932/33), considered the first Hebrew feature…

American rabbi

American rabbi

Lithuanian rabbi

Yiddish author (1910–1982)

Israeli politician

Israeli Rabbi

Leading posek in Bnei Brak, author of Derech Emunah.

rabbi

Lithuanian rabbi

chief of staff of the secretariat of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1993)

Rosh yeshiva, posek (1910–2012)

American rabbi, writer and translator

Yiddish dramatist born in Bialystok, active in Paris, author of « Homens mapole ».

Expressionist painter of the School of Paris, born in Belarus, famous for his tormented portraits and still lifes. He lived in hiding during the Occupation.

Israeli actor

Chinese rabbi

Chemist and statesman, leader of the Zionist movement and first president of the State of Israel. His work in chemistry contributed to the British war effort.

Israeli rabbi

French rabbi

American Orthodox rabbi

chief rabbi

Israeli-American actress and singer

British rabbi

British rabbi

Born in Tel-Aviv, Israeli racing driver based in Budapest. First Israeli to participate in a Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend (free practice for the 2005 Hungarian GP as test driver for Minardi). Father…

Author of the essay « Constantine, City of Vertigo », devoted to the Jewish heritage of Constantine (music, traditions, synagogues, rabbis) and the departure of the community during the Algerian War…

American rabbi

Born in Baghdad in an Iraqi Jewish family of textile merchants, they emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1947 to escape persecution and settled north of London. In 1970 they founded the Saatchi &…

American political figure

Hebraist and historian of Judaism, specialist in Kabbalistic studies