XXth century CE

Performer, composer and anthropologist, founder of the female Sephardic/Mizrahi ensemble Divahn. She created with her sister Danielle the documentary podcast « The Nightingale of Iran » on her…

American genealogist

Rabbi of Boro Park (New York), student of the Puppa yeshiva and of rabbi Yosef Greenwald of the Puppa Hasidic dynasty, from whom he received semikha. Author of the vast halakhic series Nitei Gavriel…

Soviet physician, he invented the apparatus (external fixator) and the bone distraction method that bear his name, enabling bone lengthening and reconstruction. His father Abram Ilizarov was a…

Iraqi Jewish writer, she wrote the autobiographical novel "The Rooster Thief," which follows a young Jewish girl from Iraq, Amalia, who emigrated to the transit camp (ma'abara) of Hartuv and…

American Orthodox Rabbi

American rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

rabbi

Israeli judoka

Venezuelan sculptor and printmaker (1912-1994)

American critic of works and films

Belgian lawyer

Soviet engineer of Jewish origin, creator of TRIZ (theory of inventive problem solving) from 1946 onward; first president of the TRIZ association. He published his first book, « How to Learn to…

Austrian journalist and director

Born in Tehran in 1953, he is a known figure in the Judeo-Iranian community in exile in Los Angeles, activist and founder of the notoantisemitism.org website which documents antisemitism in Iran in…

American composer, author of Rhapsody in Blue and the opera Porgy and Bess, fusing jazz and classical music. Son of Russian Jewish immigrants.

Born and raised in the Sephardic Jewish community of Curaçao, he was an officer in the Dutch army and played a role in slowing the German advance in 1940. Arrested by the Nazis, he died of typhus at…

Dutch filmmaker born in Paris to a Dutch Jewish father and Norwegian mother. He is best known for two versions of The Vanishing — the original Dutch Spoorloos (1988) and the American version (1993).

Anglo-French-American literary critic, linguist, writer and philosopher

Mathematician born May 29, 1911 in a Hungarian Jewish family (leather trade), emigrated to Australia after the war. Professor at the University of Adelaide then at the University of New South Wales.…

Tunisian Jew, communist and nationalist activist, imprisoned in the 1950s for his anti-colonial commitment. Husband of feminist activist Gladys Adda and father of Serge Adda (1948–2004), who presided…

Historian born in Morocco, long editorial director of the Mémorial de la Shoah and editor of the Revue d'histoire de la Shoah. His work focuses on the Shoah, Zionism, and the history of Jews in…

Born in 1947 in Marrakech (Morocco), former mathematics teacher who became a self-taught historian of numeral systems. His major work, "Universal History of Numbers" (De One to Zero / The Universal…

Greek-French singer (1934–2013)

Actor, musician and screenwriter of French nationality and Algerian Jewish origin (Wikipedia disambiguation page), younger brother of André Tabet.

rabbi, resistant

Irish politician

British Jewish businessman, former chairman of Ratners Group, born in London to a Jewish family; his infamous 1991 speech about his own products coined the term "doing a Ratner".

Australian-American journalist and author

French producer and publisher

Argentine journalist and television presenter

German Jewish lawyer in international law, legal adviser and philosopher

British political activist

Founder of the scholarly study of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, professor at the Hebrew University. His works on Sabbatai Zevi are authoritative.

Israeli rabbi

rabbi

European Orthodox rabbi

Danish rabbi

American historian specializing in Victorian England, born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who immigrated from Russia, author notably of « The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot ». Himmelfarb is her maiden…

Israeli journalist and television presenter

British scholar (1924–2013)

Born and died in Rome, from an antifascist Italian Jewish family, she suffered as a teenager the persecutions of the Fascist squadre. Translator (from English, French and Hebrew), writer and…

Israeli politician

British-Israeli-American film director

Born in Israel, she holds the Ransford Chair of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. Author of three scholarly monographs. Daughter of…

German writer

writer, military officer and former Israeli hostage

From a Sephardic family from Aleppo with roots in Livorno, arrived in Haiti from 1896. Founder of the GB Group, he is presented as Haiti's first billionaire and de facto leader of the country's small…

American actor

Tunisian writer

Born in 1946 in a prosperous Jewish family of Detroit (Herman and Henrietta Radner), founding member of Saturday Night Live (Emmy 1978), famous for her characters (Emily Litella, Roseanne…

Israeli judoka

Researcher specializing in the history of the Jews of Bukhara (aliyah, settlement in the Land of Israel, customs, religious history), affiliated with Israeli academic circles (Bar-Ilan). Author of…

Israeli poet and translator, cofounder of Keshev editions.

Italian writer and poet

Member of the Italian Jewish family Liuzzi, career officer; he is the subject of an entry in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Treccani) and a file at the CDEC. (The family also included a…

Trieste Jewish writer and essayist, author of memoirs on Jewish life in Trieste, documented by CDEC (Centro di Documentazione Ebraica).

American gynecologist

Italian-Israeli theoretical physicist, known for the Racah algebra relating to angular momentum coupling; professor and later rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Eminent figure of the Pisa Jewish community, assassinated with eleven other people at his home on via Sant'Andrea by German soldiers on 1 August 1944, a few days before the liberation of the city.…

Israeli-Italian philologist and scholar of Judeo-Italian language and medieval Jewish-Italian philosophy, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; edited Moses of Salerno's 13th-century…

Mexican poet

Born in 1972 in Krasnaïa Sloboda (village of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan), Moscow real estate billionaire, co-founder of the Kievskaïa Plochtchad group. Elected vice-president of the World Jewish…

Fourth Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974), one of the founders of the state. Born in Kiev and raised in Milwaukee, she embodied Labor Zionism. Her leadership during the Yom Kippur War (1973) and…

Literary translator from Yiddish to English and literature professor at the University of Lethbridge. Daughter of Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb and physician Henry Morgentaler, she translated…

Israeli association footballer

Ukrainian-American cellist

British politician

Italian-American jurist, dean of Yale Law School (1985-1994) and then federal judge on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, major figure in the "law and economics" movement. His mother is…

rabbin canadien

Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor, author of nine monumental symphonies. Born Jewish, he conducted the Vienna Opera.

Australian immunologist of Ashkenazi Austrian Jewish origin (born Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal in Vienna), longtime director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, known for his…

British pharmacologist

soldier and treasurer of the underground Jewish Fighting Organization, fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943)

French singer-songwriter

Israeli football player

Franco-American art historian

American historian

American actress and singer

Hungarian horticulturist and politician

Hungarian water polo player

Hungarian writer

soldier (1902-1945)

Major Iranian industrialist, he obtained franchises for numerous American and European brands (General Electric, Volkswagen, Pepsi-Cola in 1955) and launched in October 1958 Iran's first private…

Iranian Jewish businessman (1909–1979)

Born Marguerite Msika around 1903, from a poor Jewish family in the Jewish quarter of Tunis (La Hara) and from a lineage of musicians (niece of singer Leila Sfez). She became a huge star of the music…

Israeli actress

Spanish-Italian journalist, writer, translator (1940–2022)

Israeli journalist, author of the definitive biography of Reuven Shiloah, founder of Mossad, based on private archives and interviews with his close relatives. Work prefaced/supported by Shimon Peres…

Israeli linguist

American actress and singer

Israeli novelist, religious world of Jerusalem.

Israeli politician

Chief Rabbi of Tunisia in office, originally from Djerba.

Uruguayan composer

Rabbi of Sefrou, twentieth century. Died in 5661 of the Hebrew era (1901). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 39-2.

Israeli poet, journalist, and filmmaker, a voice of the generation of 1948. His poem "Bab el-Wad" remains emblematic of the War of Independence.

Born in the Mellah (Jewish quarter) of Marrakech, rabbi of French nationality. State doctorate holder in history (on medieval Jewish thought, the work of Rabbi Nissim of Marseille) and doctorate in…

Born in Lyon in 1963 to Sephardic Jewish parents who had immigrated from Algeria (father André Korsia, originally from Oran; mother born in Tlemcen). Rabbi of Reims from 1988, general chaplain of the…

Hebrew poet in the USSR, died in Soviet camps for writing in Hebrew.

Chief Rabbi of Tunisia, spiritual guide of the community, based in Djerba.

Hungarian rabbi

chief rabbi of Egypt

Israeli novelist and rabbi born in Egypt.

Born in Essaouira, he became the great historian of Jewish culture in the Islamic world, particularly in Morocco. Author of around fifteen works and more than 150 articles (Jewish pedagogy, taqqanot…

Rebbe

Israeli politician

High priest appointed by the legate Quirinius (6 AD), deposed by the procurator Valerius Gratus around 15. He remained highly influential thereafter: five of his sons (Eleazar, Jonathan, Theophilus,…

Israeli politician

Lily Hanbury is an English actress trained in London, where she still resides in 1903. She makes her debut in 1888 in a revival of W. S. Gilbert's Pygmalion and Galatea at the Savoy Theatre, then…

German-American political philosopher, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Her thesis on the « banality of evil » sparked a vast debate.

Professor of communication and Jewish studies at Penn State University (Abington). Author of a work on landsmanshaftn and family circles of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe to New York.

Hungarian Jewish poet and paratrooper, sent by the British to rescue Jews from Hungary. Captured and executed, she became an Israeli national heroine.

Israeli novelist and journalist, 1948 generation.

Holocaust survivor born in Berlin on December 20, 1928 (died April 1, 2021). Child of Polish Jews — father from Łódź, mother from Przemyśl —, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on November 6, 1943…

American engineer, son of Albert Einstein

German actor

libraire de livres rares américain d'origine autrichienne (1907-1988)

Czech rabbi

American literary critic and professor

American sociologist born into a Jewish family of Newark, founder of ethnomethodology, author of Studies in Ethnomethodology (1967).

American film producer, choreographer, and talent agent

American rabbi and theologian

Born in Hackney (East London) to British Jewish parents of East European origin (three grandparents from Poland, one from Odessa). His father Hyman "Jack" Pinter was a ladies' tailor. One of the most…

American actor (1944-2014)

American inventor (1924-2013)

Businessman and hotelier

American actor

Historian of philosophy at Harvard, specialist of Philo, the Church Fathers, and Spinoza. The first holder of a chair in Jewish studies in the United States.

Raised in a Jewish family in the Riverdale neighborhood (Bronx). Senior writer and political analyst for CNN Politics, formerly at FiveThirtyEight. Representative of a generation of data journalists.

British rabbi

crime novelist, teacher

American pornographic actor

American rabbi

American politician (1930-1978)

Born at kibbutz Afikim in 1950, doctorate in philosophy and Jewish mysticism from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1978). Regents Professor of history and director of Jewish studies at Arizona…

Israeli actress

Israeli rabbi

US rabbi and writer

Israeli politician

Israeli rabbi

Born Frumstein in Harbin, emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, doctorate in 1954, he studied Assyriology at the Oriental Institute of Chicago under Benno Landsberger. In 1965 he founded and directed the…

Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Yeshiva University (New York), specialist in Assyriology and Northwest Semitic languages (Ph.D. Columbia 1972). Author of more than thirty articles on…

American rabbi

Considered the national poet of Israel, a major figure in the revival of Hebrew. His poem "In the City of Slaughter" shook Jewish consciousness after Kishinev.

Founder of the analytical method of Talmud study known as "Brisk," chief rabbi of Brest-Litovsk. His approach revolutionized the Lithuanian yeshivot.

Canadian businesswoman

Argentine political figure

Israeli poet and visual artist, Bialik Prize.

German chemist

Mexican journalist

South African politician, 20th and early 21st century

Dutch painter

Dutch artistic gymnast

French writer, victim of the Shoah

Born in Oran (French Algeria) to Jewish parents — Jewish father born in Oran, German Jewish mother from Osnabrück. Co-founder in 1969 of the University Centre of Vincennes (University Paris VIII)…

German resistance fighter against Nazism, executed

German architect

Polish jew (1933–1942)

Rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim (Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen) in New York.

Born in Blida in French Algeria, doctor in medicine and biophysics. Professor of biophysics at the faculty of medicine of Paris VI and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He formulated in 1972 the…

French philosopher, Nobel Prize in Literature 1927, author of Creative Evolution and theorist of duration. He refused exemption from Vichy's anti-Jewish laws.

Born in Algiers in 1931, a physician by profession, also holder of a master's degree in history. He is the author of a standard study on the fate of Algerian Jews under Vichy, published posthumously…

French rabbi

American educator and Zionist leader, founder of the Hadassah organization and Youth Aliyah. She organized the rescue of thousands of Jewish children from Europe.

German rabbi

Brazilian actor and director (1933-2018)

German-American social worker (1907-1979)

American playwright and screenwriter, often in tandem with his wife Phoebe. His parents were Jewish immigrants (father from Grodno, mother from Skidzyel, now in Belarus). Founder, with Phoebe, of the…

German rabbi

American statesman and diplomat of German origin, Secretary of State, 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He shaped Cold War diplomacy.

Canadian physician born in Łódź, son of Jewish Bund activists, survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau. Emigrated to Canada in 1950, he became a central figure in the fight for reproductive rights; the…

Australian politician

reform rabbi from Brazil

Polish violinist

Polish poet of Jewish origin, among the prominent Polish authors of her generation. She published two pre-war collections and worked in the Warsaw ghetto on Emanuel Ringelblum's social aid and the…

Canadian political figure

German historian of modern age (1918–2005)

German-British physicist from "an ancient Jewish family" of Rexingen. PhD under Sommerfeld in Munich (1930); fleeing Nazi antisemitism, he passed through the USSR (Leningrad) then took refuge in…

Danish-Israeli journalist

American rabbi

composer and organist

Soviet-Israeli physicist ( 1931-2026)

American mathematician and statistician born July 1, 1923, son of Pauline and Max Chernoff, Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. Doctorate in 1948 under Abraham Wald. Professor at Illinois,…

Born in Eberbach in Germany, emigrated to the United States at age 12 (refugee), he obtained a doctorate in economics from Columbia and spent thirty years at Tulane University. His research focuses…

Orthodox rabbi (1918–2005)

Neo-Kantian philosopher, founder of the Marburg school, author of Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism. A major thinker of liberal Judaism.

German mathematician, author of the geometric formulation of four-dimensional space-time that underlies special relativity. He was one of Einstein's teachers.

German rabbi

Young Polish Jew whose assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris on November 7, 1938 served as Nazi pretext for Kristallnacht.

American rabbi

Austrian-American mathematician

Biologist, pioneer of cell culture methods for protozoan parasites.

American philosopher and mathematician

German opera singer