XXth century CE

Tunisian rabbi

medical researcher (1926–2018)

American screenwriter, presenter, film director, actor and voice actor

British businessman

Dutch businessman

Canadian contralto

Bulgarian Jewish musician born and died in Sofia. Composer and instrumentalist (violin, saxophone) of pop and jazz music, he recorded for the labels Balkanton, Melodiya and Orpheus Music. A Wikidata…

Israeli artist

American rabbi

Born in the Jewish quarter of Oran, pianist and composer of Andalusian, raï, Sephardic and Arabic music. Major figure in Judeo-Oranais music. He published a memoir, « A Memoir: From Oran to Marseille…

Active member of the Cairo Jewish community (secretary of the community tax from 1938 to 1942), he wrote for several newspapers from the 1930s onwards and directed the monthly journal Kadima. He…

Indian activist (1901–1976)

Born in Benghazi, professor of political sociology and Middle Eastern studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where he founds and directs the J.R. Elyachar Sephardic Heritage Study Centre.…

Born in Agadir in 1950, specialist in medieval Jewish philosophy (Maimonides, Averroes) and modern Judeo-German thought (Mendelssohn to Scholem), professor (Strasbourg, Basel, Heidelberg, lecturer in…

Born in Sfax (Tunisia) in 1949, youngest of six children from a Tunisian Jewish family, he grew up in France then settled in Los Angeles in 1981. He founded BCBG Max Azria in 1989 and acquired the…

Romanian writer

American actor

Born in Paris in 1902, son-in-law of Théophile Bader (founder of the Galeries Lafayette) through his marriage to Paulette Bader (1926). Engaged early in the Resistance after the aryanization of the…

German philosopher and sociologist, director of the Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt School). With Adorno, he developed critical theory.

Physician, writer, and co-founder of the Zionist movement alongside Herzl. A theorist of "muscular Judaism," he was a figure of the early Zionist congresses.

Dutch writer and cabaret artist (1909-1990)

American theologian

French rabbi

Author of popular works on Jewish history. His best-known book, « The Jewish People: 4000 Years of Survival », was written in collaboration with historian Cecil Roth and published by Massada Press in…

Israeli politician

Born in Casablanca in 1965 into a family of artists from Essaouira, he is presented as a torch-bearer and one of the last great performers of Moroccan Jewish song who remained in Morocco. Cousin of…

lesbian and non-binary musician

Israeli poet, Bialik Prize and three Prime Minister's Prizes.

American rabbi

Hungarian rabbi and educationist (1908-1998)

American mathematician, physicist (1929-2011)

Originally from the Jewish community of Zakho ("Jerusalem of Kurdistan"), he is the author of a work on the Kabbalah that opens with a long study of the Zakho community, its legends, and a biography…

Son of Victoria and Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim (Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, Rishon le-Tzion 1955-1972), he was one of the most prolific researchers of Jewish studies. Pillar and then director (1964)…

Israeli rabbi (1934–2009)

Israeli conductor

Israeli politician

Dutch rabbi

rabbi and politician (1932-1990)

Israeli rabbi

Israeli writer

Polish rabbi, initiator of the Daf Yomi, the worldwide cycle of daily Talmud study. He founded the great Hakhmé Lublin yeshiva.

Born in Ksar es-Souk (Errachidia) in Morocco, immigrated to Israel in 1957. Mayor of Yavné (1974-1987) then deputy (Likud, Kadima, Hatnua) and several times minister (Interior, Finance, Justice,…

Chief economist at the office of the Governor of the Bank of Israel, he founded in 1992 the Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at Jerusalem College of Technology. Author of several…

Israeli modernist poet from Tel-Aviv, Israel Prize 2000.

American rabbi

Rabbi Chabad-Lubavitch, rosh yeshiva at Kiryat Malachi and among the leaders of the Tomkhei Temimim yeshivot of Holon and Kfar Chabad. Emigrated to Israel in 1946, buried in Safed. His lectures were…

American diplomat

American actor

Rabbi born and raised in London, trained at the yeshiva of Gateshead then at the Mir of Jerusalem and the Bais Medrash Elyon of Monsey, engaged in education for nearly 40 years. Lecturer on hashkafa…

Leader of the Irgun and then Prime Minister of Israel, signatory of the Camp David peace accords with Egypt. Nobel Peace Prize 1978.

Israeli philosopher and literary theorist, pacifist activist.

Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a peacemaker

Israeli politician

Russian educator and rabbi (1907-1995)

Seventh and last Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, he turned the movement into a worldwide network of emissaries. A prolific thinker, he profoundly shaped contemporary Judaism.

Hasidic rebbe

American rabbi

Israeli politician

Fifth Sochatchover Rebbe (1934-1969)

Born and raised in Mezőkövesd (Hungary) in 1925, he studied philosophy and Semitic languages in Budapest, immigrated to Israel in 1947 and continued at the Hebrew University. Professor at Bar-Ilan…

Israeli director

Hungarian-American Jew, Albert B. and Bernice Cohen Professor of medieval Hebrew literature and Jewish bibliography at JTS. Librarian of JTS from 1964 to 1987, he directed the reconstruction of the…

Professor of Jewish history at the University of Haifa, doctoral degree holder from the Hebrew University (1984); former holder of the Klutznick chair at Creighton (1987-1992) and dean of the Faculty…

American Hasidic rebbe

Polish photographer

Polish rabbi

Son of the Brisker Rav, rosh yeshiva of a yeshiva of Brisk in Jerusalem, last witness of pre-war Lithuania.

Born in Jerusalem to Yemenite Jewish parents, ordained rabbi, he was a Knesset deputy for the Shas party (1999–2021) and held several ministerial positions. Figure of the Yemenite community in Israel.

Financier known for leveraged deals; he first taught Hebrew and Talmud in Minneapolis. He published a memoir, « $950 Million in 40 Minutes ».

Grand Rebbe of the Tosh hasidic dynasty

Rabbi, 20th century. Died in 5687 of the Hebrew era (1927). Recorded in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 84-4.

French rabbi

Great Orthodox Jewish Rabbi of the 20th century

American mobster who built Las Vegas with Bugsy Siegel (1902–1983)

Cuban rabbi

Romanian rabbi

Born Michael Schwager in Linz, refugee from Nazism in 1938, major figure in Israeli cinema and television over five decades; co-founder and director of Castel Productions (1969-1988). Father of Oron…

Dutch comedian

Israeli actor

mayor of Montreal, Quebec, (2012-2013)

Born in Sofia into a Sephardic Jewish family from Bulgaria, emigrated to Israel in 1948. Historian of Russia in the 18th–19th centuries, he founded in 1971 the Institute of Russian and East European…

Professor of African Medicine

Professor of Hebrew literature at Tel-Aviv University, director of the Laura Schwarz-Kipp centre for Hebrew literature and culture. His work focuses on the formation of the canon in modern Hebrew…

Israeli politician

Orthodox Rabbi

American rabbi

Israeli actor and model

Israeli politician

Israeli rabbi

American Reform rabbi, civil rights activist, and human rights activist (1924-2006)

rabbi

German-American scholar

Romanian political scientist and journalist

German-born musician and professor of German literature

biblical scholar

Born in Płock in a rabbinical family, teacher of Jewish History and Literature in Warsaw. Active in the Warsaw Ghetto (clandestine schools for children), close to Janusz Korczak, he survived by…

Israeli novelist, poet and stage director.

Canadian entrepreneur and art collector

Israeli actress

Polish writer

Franco-Tunisian actor and comedian born in Tunis in a Tunisian Jewish family who emigrated to France. He writes and stages his one-man-shows, including « Albert » (1980), which takes as its theme the…

French statesman

Soviet rabbi

French rabbi

Rosh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, member of the Moetzes of Degel HaTorah.

American actress

American journalist

Swedish writer

Romanian writer

President of Agudath Israel of America

American actor

Professor of chemistry of Jewish origin from the mountains, he published the first Juhuri-Russian dictionary (Moscow, 1997, Quba dialect, ~9,000 entries), then an enlarged edition (Baku) comprising a…

Russian writer

World chess champion (first time in 1948), « patriarch » of the Soviet school. His parents were Russian Jews — his father Moïsseï Botvinnik, dental prosthesist. He himself defined himself « Jewish by…

American actor

Jewish-Dutch journalist, writer, television producer and director (1920–2011)

American actor (1908-2002)

Canadian businessman

American rabbi

American rabbi

American aviator, one of the five founding pilots of the Israeli Air Force (1919-2004)

American politician

American military officer

Austrian Jewish secretary

Iraqi Jewish Author and poet

Israeli novelist and short story writer.

Israeli poet, feminine and Mizrahi voice.

(1913-1990) Jewish community leader

Israeli politician

Brazilian actress

Israeli writer

Jewish genealogist, columnist, Routes to Roots genealogy tours, head of Routes to Roots Foundation

Croatian rabbi

American sociologist

Born on June 21, 1929 in Paris, daughter of bookseller Aron Natanson and Fanny Neidmann. Baptized in 1939 and hidden in Catholic boarding schools during the Occupation, she was arrested on September…

Rabbi originally from Debdou, settled in Israel, author of the works 'Yismah Moshe' and 'Yesod ha-Binyan', according to the Jewish Moroccan Archive.

Rabbi and judge from Debdou, settled in Israel, author of the work « Morechet Moché » (Heritage of Moché).

American baseball player

Canadian musician

Born in Tétouan in 1959, emigrated to Israel as a young man. A prolific writer and poet, laureate of the Israeli Prime Minister's literature prize in 2009; one of the major Sephardic writers in…

French rabbi

Kabbalist and Talmudist, grandson of a great rabbi of Baghdad and one of the leaders of that community in 1904. He published in Jerusalem and Baghdad, between 1870 and 1900, several works including «…

American culinary author, known for 'The Moosewood Cookbook' (1977), one of the best-selling cookbooks in the United States. Raised in an observant Conservative Jewish household in Rochester (NY),…

Canadian writer

American actress

Italian actor and singer

Egyptian actor and musician (1922–1981)

Canadian politician

Israeli actress

Israeli Paralympic basketball player and rower

Canadian writer, novelist, essayist and screenwriter (1931-2001)

Leader of the Jewish Combat Organization, he led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. He died in the bunker on Mila Street.

Born in Baghdad (original name Murad), sent to Iraq in 1949 to organize clandestine aliyah; he coordinated with Shlomo Hillel Operation Ezra and Nehemiah which brought ~110,000 Jews from Iraq to…

Israeli rabbi

Romanian rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Poet, psychologist and Israeli visual artist, Bialik Prize.

American rabbi

Grand Rabbi of Vizhnitz (1922-2018)

rabbi (1921-2014)

French rabbi

Brother and assistant to Belzer Rebbi

French rabbi

Yemenite rabbi

rabbin israélien

Israeli footballer

American rabbi

American rabbi

Rabbi and researcher in Kabbalah and metaphysics, founder of the Ramhal Institute in Jerusalem (since 1990) and specialist in the life and work of Ramhal (R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto). He has published…

Son of Avraham Tabib; Hebrew writer whose work deals with the Yemenite community in Israel, notably the novels Ke-Esev ha-Sadeh (1948), Derekh shel Afar (stories, 1953) and Ke-Arar be-Aravah (1957).

Rabbi of Fès, 20th century. Died in 5661 of the Hebrew era (1901). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 88-2.

Canadian-American journalist (1931-2016)

American blogger, writer, artist, and supercentenarian (1914–2024)

Jewish architect born in Odessa, emigrated to New York in 1903 with his family (Polish/Estonian Jewish parents). He designed over 1,000 buildings, including the famous neo-Baroque hotels of Miami…

American gangster and con artist in the fields of jazz clubs, music publishing, and the independent record industry (1927-1990)

American entrepreneur

American composer

Canadian political figure

Swiss rabbi

Jewish historian

Greek physician, academic, and politician

Romanian rabbi

Born Edmund Hans Rosenkranz into a poor peasant Jewish family of Bukovina, he adopted the name Moses at eleven years old in protest against an teacher's antisemitism. German-language poet, he was a…

Professor of biblical commentary at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He edited texts from the Geonic period based on unique manuscripts (Firkovitch collection) and studied the Arabic…

Israeli politician

Hungarian rabbi

American rabbi

Israeli politician

rabbi and historian (1908–2010)

American rabbi

American rabbi

Israeli general and politician, Minister of Defense during the Six-Day War. His black eye patch became an emblematic image.

Israeli poet and essayist, figure of the Likrat group, Bialik Prize.

Born in Morocco, moved to Israel at age 5; rabbi of the local council of Shlomi and director of the beth-midrash Chaaré Uziel. Sees himself as a continuer of the teaching of Rav Ben-Zion Meir Haï…

Romanian rabbi

The leading Orthodox halakhic authority in North America in the twentieth century, author of the responsa Igrot Moshe. His rulings settled countless questions of modernity.