XXth century CE

French rabbi

Born in Sousse in Tunisia in a Jewish family, he became one of the great French impresarios. His first client was Jacques Brel; he also represented Barbara, Sylvie Vartan, Henri Salvador, Joe Dassin,…

American rabbi

Yiddish novelist and poetess, survivor of Łódź, major figure of the post-Shoah period.

Yiddish writer for children (Gershon Einbinder).

Wife of the Rebbe (1901–1988)

American writer

American politician

American actress and comedian

Born in Sfax in 1959 into a Tunisian Jewish family, arrived in France in 1964; studied mathematics and physics in Jerusalem before returning to Paris. Her first novel, « One Summer in Jerusalem »…

Polish Yiddish novelist and playwright, a prolific author translated into many languages. His novels about Jesus aroused fierce controversy.

American chemist and biochemist

French high official

Dutch-Austrian dancer and theater maker (1905-2005)

American writer, author of about ten works including the autobiographical novel « Going Away » (1961). Son of Leo Sigal and Jennie Persily, Jewish labor organizers from Chicago. Co-screenwriter of…

Brazilian activist

Italian writer

Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet and journalist (1920–1977)

rabbi of Haguenau and president of the Morasha association (Strasbourg)

French anthropologist, founder of structural anthropology, author of Tristes Tropiques and the Mythologiques. A major intellectual figure of the twentieth century.

Australian actress

American actress

Born into a Mexican Jewish family; her grandparents emigrated from Lithuania and Bulgaria. Ph.D. in energy engineering (UNAM), she co-authored over 100 articles and two books on energy, environment…

Brazilian writer and poet

British politician

Tunisian rabbi residing in Djerba in 1902, author of two works in Hebrew: Sifte Renanot, a commentary on the Psalms published in Jerusalem in 1890, and Ḳunteris ha-Semikut, notes on various subjects.

Algerian-born teacher and writer

Canadian actor

American actor

rabbi

South African rabbi

American science fiction author (1923-1958)

Poetess and Israeli playwright, modernist generation.

Israeli poet

actress and singer

Israeli fencer

Israeli archaeologist born in Lwów in 1938, famous for his excavations in Jerusalem (notably the tunnels of the Western Wall). District archaeologist of Jerusalem within the Department of…

Israeli politician

Israeli novelist born in Poland, cosmopolitan erudition.

Danish basketball player (1977-2015)

Argentine-Israeli pianist and conductor, general music director of the Berlin State Opera, founder of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.

Israeli historian, specialist in the history of Italian Jews, particularly of the Paduan Renaissance. Born in Milan in 1926 to an Italian Jewish family bearing the patronym Carpi (derived from the…

Born into a German-Polish Ashkenazi Jewish family that took refuge in France; his father Erich Cohn-Bendit was a Berlin lawyer (defender of Rote Hilfe), his mother Herta also a jurist. Figure of May…

French Liberal rabbi

French rabbi

American writer, famous under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket for the series « A Series of Unfortunate Events ». Also author of novels for adults under his real name. Reformed Jewish education.

Uruguayan actor and director of Jewish origin, Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlinale for 'El abrazo partido' (Lost Embrace).

Israeli politician

Croatian writer

American author, former associate professor of political science at Harvard. Known for two controversial books on the Shoah, notably « Hitler's Willing Executioners » (1996), designated by Time as…

American poet of Iraqi Jewish descent (his father fled Iraq in 1970). He published the collections « Manoleria » and « Tradition » (McSweeney's, 2015) and directs a writing center at the University…

French singer-songwriter and pianist

Polish-American architect born in Łódź to Holocaust-survivor parents, designer of the Jewish Museum Berlin and master plan for the World Trade Center site.

American Jewish writer, son of Robert Menaker. He was for a long time a literary editor (notably of fiction at the New Yorker) and author of novels and memoirs.

Born in Algiers in 1952 « in a Jewish family of Algeria » (Wikipedia), arrived in France in 1962. Recognized theater actor and director, former director of the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art…

Brazilian football player

acteur, notaire, comédien et musicien argentin

American entrepreneur

Born in Marrakech in a Jewish family of the medina, he settled in France. Mathematician by training who became psychoanalyst and philosopher, he is the author of some thirty works, notably "Lectures…

Daniel Timsit, born in Algiers on December 16, 1928 in an Algerian Jewish family (mother from Constantine, father from Algiers, grandfather rabbi of Constantine), died in Paris on August 2, 2002.…

Founder in 1980 of Giuntina, Europe's leading Jewish-themed publishing house, based in Florence; son of Holocaust survivor and printer Schulim Vogelmann.

American actor

Born in 1938 into a Jewish family; her childhood was marked by flight from Nazism (refugee in Cannes in 1943, she narrowly escaped a Gestapo roundup). Researcher at the CNRS and lecturer at the…

Israeli-American equestrian jumper

Kabbalist

American musician

Turkish singer

French composer of Les Six, one of the most prolific of the twentieth century, marked by his Provençal Jewish roots. He composed Jewish liturgical works.

British historian

Serbian-Jewish novelist, short-story writer and translator of Sephardic-Jewish descent (Albahari surname), one of the most acclaimed post-Yugoslav writers; known for works such as "Bait" and "Mamac",…

Israeli politician

Israeli historian (1925-2000)

Chief Rabbi of Oran, last Chief Rabbi of Algeria, father of Léon Ashkenazi.

Chief Rabbi of Turkey

Israeli poet born in Tel-Aviv, one of the leading figures of avant-garde poetry in Hebrew (contemporary of Nathan Zach and Yehuda Amichaï). He published about twenty collections, experimenting with…

Israeli rabbi

Founding father and first Prime Minister of the State of Israel (1948-1953, 1955-1963). He proclaimed independence on 14 May 1948 and forged the institutions of the nascent state. A pragmatic…

Rabbi of Meknès, 20th century. Mentioned in 5670 of the Hebrew era (1910). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 28-2.

Journalist and Zionist leader in Tunis, editor/publisher of the Hebrew monthly « Haïvri » (1937-1938).

Hazzan and major paytan of Judeo-Andalusian music, born near Marrakech, active in Casablanca.

American historian

Israeli rabbi

American journalist

American mathematician at Brandeis University known for contributions to homological algebra, commutative algebra and representation theory (Auslander-Buchsbaum theorem/formula); described by…

Historian, he devoted his work to the history of the Jews of Morocco, seeking to refute the idea of continuous oppression and ghettoization. His collection of reference studies was published in…

Canadian filmmaker born into a Jewish family from Toronto, major figure in cinema (so-called "body horror"). Beyond his film work, he is the author of a novel, Consumed (2014).

Son of Salis Daiches, major literary critic, professor (notably at the University of Sussex). Author of A Critical History of English Literature and a memoir of his Jewish childhood in Edinburgh.…

Israeli politician

legal historian and exegete

Physicist at the University of Oxford (Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory), often called the « father of quantum computing ». He formalized the quantum Turing machine (1985) and the…

Born in 1967 in Paris into a North African Jewish family, he studied under Rav Moché Edery in France and Rav Arié Garbian in Israel. Rabbi of the kollel and the Torat Haïm association, he is the…

rabbi (1947-2023)

David Encaoua (b. 24 December 1941) is a French economist, professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and associate researcher at the Paris School of Economics (Centre…

French rabbi and resistance fighter

French writer born in Paris in 1974, from a Jewish family (Polish Jewish father, mother of Algerian origin). Bestselling author translated into more than forty languages; his novel « Charlotte »…

Canadian-American writer and conservative commentator, former speechwriter for President G. W. Bush, senior editor at The Atlantic. Born in Toronto to a Jewish family; son of journalist Barbara Frum.…

Born in Sfax in 1919 in a family of Jewish merchants, baccalauréat at Lycée Lyautey in Casablanca, graduate of Saint-Cyr (1939-1940). Excluded from the army in 1941 by the Vichy Jewish statute, he…

Born in Tripoli in 1955, his family fled Libya for Rome in 1967. Jungian psychoanalyst and author, he became known by returning to Libya after Kadhafi's fall to attempt to restore the great synagogue…

producteur et artiste américain

South African documentary photographer renowned for his chronicle of South African society under apartheid. His Jewish identity is central to his work: the antisemitism he experienced made him…

American-Israeli rabbi, 1931–2013

Expert in Andalusian music, he is one of the three artisans — with the poet David Elkaïm and the hazzan Haïm Afriat — of the shaping of « Shir Yedidot » (Shirei Yedidut), the classic anthology of…

French essayist and teacher, he explores the myths of Judaism at the intersection of biblical criticism, rabbinic exegesis, Kabbalah, literature, theology and anthropology. He publishes in several…

Brother of Jon Kimche; co-author of several books on the Middle East (including The Secret Roads and Both Sides of the Hill). He also wrote on Israeli politics.

Argentinian lawyer and publisher (1912-1974)

American rabbi

Israeli politician

American rabbi and academic (1925-2008)

Singaporean politician

American Reform rabbi and chaplain of the United States Army, first Jewish chaplain to enter Dachau and to celebrate a religious service there after liberation in 1945.

Born in Tripoli, exiled to Italy after the 1967 pogrom. Professor of clinical psychology and psychology of religion at Roma Tre University, where he designed and directed for two decades a master's…

Former senior Mossad official, he was the Israeli Prime Minister's coordinator for prisoners and missing persons and the personal representative of Benjamin Netanyahu in negotiations for the Gilad…

Spanish engineer (1928–2007)

French rabbi

rabbi and rosh yeshiva (b. 1906, d. 1942)

Sephardic Jewish family from Aleppo (the father, a banker, lived there before leaving via Beirut then Milan). In the 1960s, Ezra, Joseph (Giuseppe) and David Nahmad began negotiating art; they…

American film producer

Born in Sefrou, he was rabbi, judge and president of the rabbinical court in Sefrou, then in Fès and Marrakech. After independence, Jewish delegate to the Moroccan Parliament and inspector of Hebrew…

Russian violinist and violist

Mexican actor

Israeli sculptor and painter, creator of the Yad Vashem Yizkor (Tent of Remembrance) Gate and the bronze gates of the Knesset, killed in a motor-scooter accident on Mount Zion in 1966; an eponymous…

American rabbi

Jurist and talmudist, author of a reference work on the customs (minhagim) of Tunisian Jews, widely cited in contemporary rabbinic responses.

Israeli novelist, Jerusalem cycle.

Haganah officer who became a major general (aluf) of the IDF, then diplomat. Documented bearer of the patronym Shaltiel/Shealtiel, of which "Chaltiel" is an attested orthographic variant.

Rabbi born in Tehran, Chief Rabbi of the Nessah synagogue, son of Yedidia Shofet.

Historian at Yale University specializing in the history of European Jewry and the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), author of "The Transformation of German Jewry" and "The Berlin Haskalah and German…

American sports executive

Skverer Rebbe

Israeli rabbi

American rabbi

American rabbi

Israeli rabbi

American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi, pioneer of Jewish spirituality and meditation, student of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, director of the Yakar Center for Torah and Creativity and the Shevet Center for…

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi and military personnel (1903–1998)

American actress

Israeli footballer

Hungarian rabbi

Born in Sétif in 1940, French writer specializing in the history and popularization of mathematics, professor at Paris VIII University. He is known to the general public for his novel The Parrot's…

Hungarian historian and interlinguist

British musician

far-right activist, co-founder of PragerU

Chilean journalist

American politician

American tennis player

Argentine tennis player

Brazilian actress

American basketball player

Agrégé in economic sciences, he served as Minister of Economy and Finance (1997-1999) and then as Director General of the IMF (2007-2011). Son of Gilbert Strauss-Kahn (legal counsel) and Jacqueline…

American entrepreneur

Israeli rabbi and philosopher

Born in Livorno in 1948, professor of art history at the University of Florence (applied arts, goldsmithing). Founder (and director since 1981) of the Jewish Museum of Florence, she is an…

Engaged Yiddish poetess, called the « poetess of fire ».

Israeli diplomat (1953-2025)

American mathematician of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, professor at Columbia University. He solved Gauss's class number problem for imaginary quadratic fields (Cole Prize in number theory, 1987) and…

Costa Rican female politician

Poet, translator and Israeli editor, return to metrics.

Israeli writer, editor and lecturer on Jewish thought, raised in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, a fifth-generation descendant of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.

Swiss rabbi

Rosh yeshiva of Slabodka (Bnei Brak), co-president of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah.

Israeli rabbi

Born Dov Berl Stock in Brody, he hebraicized his name to Sadan. In 1952 he became director of Yiddish studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (professor in 1963, until 1970), one of Israel's…

Israeli rosh yeshiva (1921–2011)

Israeli politician

Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi

Born October 24, 1945, died December 20, 2006. American Orthodox rabbi, Rosh yeshiva of the famous Telshe Yeshiva of Cleveland. His lessons (shiurim) on the Talmud, widely followed, were widely…

American rabbi

American rabbi

American rabbi

American rabbi

Israeli rabbi

One of the four roshei yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha (Lakewood).

rabbi

Rosh yeshiva and educator; founder of the Yeshiva Moreshes Yehoshua in Lakewood.

Skvirsky Rebbe Borough Park (1922–2001)

American writer

Born December 22, 1948, Dutch conductor and pianist, trained at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and then at the Guildhall School in London; assistant to Bernard Haitink, Georg Solti, and Herbert von…

American actor and producer

American political figure

(1904-1993) pilote de course et homme d'affaires néerlandais

survivor of several German concentration camps during World War II

Dutch equestrian

Canadian-American businessman

Hungarian psychotherapist

Austrian jurist

French Holocaust survivor

German philosopher, student of Husserl, born Jewish and converted to Catholicism as a Carmelite. Deported and murdered at Auschwitz, she was canonized.

Edmond Amran El Maleh, born in 1917 in Safi and died in 2010 in Rabat, is one of the great Moroccan writers of French language. Former communist activist, he came late to writing — his first novel,…

French philanthropist, "benefactor" of the Yishuv, who financed the first Jewish agricultural colonies in Palestine. His action was decisive for Zionist settlement.

German philosopher of Jewish origin, founder of phenomenology, teacher of Heidegger. He was expelled from the university by Nazi laws.

American mathematician

Israeli playwright and novelist, pillar of national theatre.

Major figure in the Soviet Jewry movement (refusniks). Organizer of the Leningrad hijacking scheme (1970) to flee the USSR; condemned to death, sentence commuted to 15 years in the camps, released in…

rabbi, French resistance fighter

Born in Paris, of a Sephardic Jewish father from Istanbul who became an American citizen (the name Roditi is said to refer to the island of Rhodes). Poet, essayist and above all trilingual translator…

son of the German physicist Albert Einstein

One of the founders of microbial genetics, long at Yale. Born in Cedarhurst (New York); his paternal grandfather Abraham Adelberg was a Russian Jewish immigrant, founder and first mayor of…

American politician