XXth century CE

American rabbi

Jewish orthodox writer and journalist (1936–2023)

concentration camps survivor, memoirist and poet in Ladino

Romanian rabbi

Israeli rabbi

American musician

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

rabbi and anti-Zionist activist

Israeli statesman

Greek member of parliament and president of the Greek branch of the National Zionist Organization in 1919, he financed the purchase of land for a Jewish settlement project; the Israeli moshav Tzur…

American rabbi

Hungarian rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Professor emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, former director of the Truman Institute. Author of numerous works on Syria, Assad and Israeli-Arab…

Israeli film director

Veteran jurist and legal commentator on Israeli radio (Kol Israel), where he hosted the program "Din u-Dvarim" for decades. Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew…

Born in Haifa into a family of Syrian Jews; his father was from Aleppo, his mother (settled in Manchester) of Aleppine origin. Renowned architect: Habitat 67 in Montreal, the new Yad Vashem museum in…

Israeli economist

Israeli rabbi

Foreign minister and then second Prime Minister of Israel. A moderate diplomat, he often opposed Ben Gurion's hardline stance.

American rabbi

Israeli rabbi

rabbi of Zurich

Chief rabbi of Alep in the twentieth century. With Rabbi Salim (Shlomo) Zafrani, he secured the burnt fragments of the Aleppo Codex after the 1947 riots, leading others to believe it had been…

American rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli politician

Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialist in Deuteronomy, social justice in ancient Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Recipient of the Israel Prize for Bible Study in 1994.…

Descendant of the Ozharov dynasty, author of vast works: "Aish Das" (11 volumes) and "Be'er Moshe" (12 volumes on the Humash and the Tanakh).

Israeli rabbi

German rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli politician

Israeli rabbi of the Reform movement

Israeli politician

Lelover Rebbi

Hassidic mashpiah in New York

Australian political figure

Israeli playwright, political theatre (Kastner, Pollard).

French poet and journalist

Born on December 28, 1905 in Warsaw. Humorist writer in Yiddish, he began in the satirical magazine Der takhshet and contributed to Sambatyon, Tararam, Der mashkhes; he published his own humorous…

Yiddish prose writer (pseud. Ber Sarin) of the Yung Vilne group, murdered by the Nazis.

Born in Jerusalem, graduate in philosophy and kabbalah from the Hebrew University, member of kibbutz Ein Gev since 1956; former secretary of the Kibbutz Movement. Prolific author and editor on the…

rabbi

American political figure

American rabbi

American rabbi

Rosh yeshiva of Torah Betziyon in Efrat, Israel

Orthodox Jewish Rabbi

French actress, writer and social personality

Iraqi Jew born under the name Naeim Khalaschi (in Hillah), from a family whose patronym "Khalaschi" ("refiners/purifiers" of gold) was given under the Ottomans. He emigrated to Israel and then to the…

American rabbi

Hasidic rabbi (1916–2009)

rabbi

PhD in Iranian Studies from UCLA, where she teaches Judeo-Persian literature and the history of Iranian Jews. In 2000 she founded the "House of Judeo-Persian Manuscripts", a foundation dedicated to…

Jewish literary scholar, theologian, and editor

Israeli rabbi

Writer, journalist, and Zionist leader, president of the World Zionist Organization. He played a key diplomatic role in securing the Balfour Declaration.

concentration camp survivor and classmate of Anne Frank (born 1929)

Dutch violinist, member of the Amsterdam Duo with his wife pianist Alice Heksch. Student of Sal Snijder. Wikidata connects him to the « People of the Book », citing the Joods Biografisch Woordenboek…

Italian writer

Latvian rabbi

Israeli business executive

Israeli political figure

Israeli rabbi

chief rabbi of Lod, Israel

Israeli politician

Major Israeli poet and publicist, whose verse chronicles accompanied the struggles of the Yishuv. Author of the collection Stars Outside.

Italian physician

French rabbi, resistant and deportee

American violinist (1902–1992)

German rabbi

Israeli novelist and playwright, 1948 generation.

Co-owner of the R. H. Macy & Co. and Abraham & Straus department stores, pioneering philanthropist of milk pasteurization which reduced infant mortality, and supporter of the Zionist project.

Israeli biblical scholar and educator, who renewed the study of the Torah through her study sheets circulated worldwide. Sister of Yeshayahou Leibowitz.

Polish historian

Born in Florence in 1925, arrested in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz with 11 members of his family, of whom he was the sole survivor; liberated at Buchenwald. He became one of the principal Italian…

Biblical scholar, philologist and American-Israeli author (born in 1972)

Latvian diplomat

American rabbi

American politician

American playwright and screenwriter

German poetess, Nobel Prize in Literature 1966, whose work is a lament for the Jewish people. She took refuge in Sweden in 1940.

Russian rabbi

Israeli actress and journalist

American businessman

Honorary professor at the Faculty of Medicine and member of the Romanian Academy, he presided over the FCER from 1995 to 2004 and forged the concept of « realsemitism » valorizing the role of Jews in…

actor

Born September 23, 1958 in Casablanca into a Moroccan Jewish family originally from Essaouira. Writer and journalist, she dedicates her work to the heritage and identity of Moroccan Jews (birth of…

Danish physicist, Nobel Prize 1922, father of the atomic model and of quantum physics. Of Jewish mother, he helped save the Danish Jews in 1943.

actrice américaine

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, born in Leipzig in a family of Jewish origin from Russia (son of Hugo Pevsner and Anna née Perlmann), doctorate from the University of Leipzig (1924). Driven from…

Physician in gynecological oncology; survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, directed Radiumhemmet.

American musician

Contemporary Israeli novelist, political fictions.

American rabbi

French rabbi

Israeli playwright, baroque language and royal myths at Habima.

Indian Jewish poet from the Bene Israel community, son of Moses Ezekiel Talkar, professor of botany at Wilson College in Bombay. The family originates from the coastal village of Tala (Konkan), hence…

Born in Baghdad in 1930 into a Jewish family whose surname Kazzaz designates a merchant of silk thread, he emigrated to Israel in 1946. He became a reference historian of Iraqi Judaism and notably…

Born in Casablanca in 1946, he studied at the yeshiva of Sunderland (England) and then at Lakewood (United States) under Rav Aharon Kotler. Appointed Av Beth Din of Marseille in 1981, he becomes rosh…

Born in Baghdad, he managed the al-Rabita bookstore there and wrote for the Iraq Times before emigrating to Israel in 1951. Researcher at the Truman Institute of the Hebrew University, he has…

Chilean actor

American rabbi

American political figure

American rabbi

American linguist, philosopher, and public intellectual, founder of generative grammar and one of the most cited scholars in history; from a Jewish family originating in Ukraine/Belarus (father…

Rabbi

Hungarian lecturer

Born in New York in a Jewish family, daughter of playwrights-screenwriters Phoebe (née Wolkind) and Henry Ephron. Eldest of four sisters all writers (Delia, Amy, Hallie). Screenwriter nominated for…

Physician born in Blida, long-time medical columnist for Le Nouvel Observateur. Author of essays on medicine and society.

American mathematician, founder of cybernetics, the science of control and communication. A child prodigy, he was a professor at MIT.

German tax advisor, functionary in Jewish organisations (1913-1998)

American journalist

American rabbi

American writer

British Masorti rabbi

American art collector (1907-1993)

American rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

American economist born in Turkey, from an Iranian Jewish family, famous for predicting the global financial crisis of 2007-2008; his patronym Roubini is a documented variant of Rouben.

Brazilian actress

Professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute (Meyer W. Weisgal chair). Major contributions to the foundations of cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, pseudo-randomness and property…

French pianist, teacher and composer, excluded from the Paris Conservatory in 1941 as a Jew under the Occupation, First Grand Prix of Rome 1948.

Franco-Israeli activist

variety singer

British crystallographer (1924-2023)

Mathematician, over 300 articles in number theory and matrix theory.

Belgian woman politician

Olivier Wormser (1913–1985), from a Jewish family of Lorraine and Alsace, joined the Free French Forces in 1940. Ambassador of France to Moscow then to Germany, he was Governor of the Bank of France…

Born in Tunis in a Tunisian Jewish family of industrialists (son of René Cacoub and Mireille Boccara), he obtained the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for architecture in 1953 and became architect-adviser…

Italian journalist, writer, television presenter, and radio host

Israeli football player

Israeli footballer

Yemenite scholar, editor of a Tiklal (baladi prayer ritual) based on the Maharitz's Tiklal with the complete Etz Ḥayim commentary, according to the custom of the Yemenite Jewish community.

Israeli actor

Israeli politician

Holder of the Schulman Chair of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, professor of philosophy and cognitive sciences, vice-president for international affairs since 2017. He works on…

French art collector and industrialist of Tunisian origin

American politician

First Jewish member of an American federal cabinet (secretary of Commerce and Labor under Theodore Roosevelt, 1906-1909) and diplomat to the Ottoman Empire; member of the Straus Jewish merchant…

Great Russian poet, a figure of Acmeism, persecuted for a poem targeting Stalin. He died in a transit camp of the Gulag.

German-born Jewish-American archivist and historian, born in Leipzig to Jewish parents; fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and founded the Bettmann Archive, the pioneering historical image resource that…

Austrian football player

Israeli Rabbinical scholar (1913-1988)

Austro-American filmmaker and producer born into a Jewish family from Bukovina; over 35 feature films in fifty years of career. Published an autobiography.

German physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize 1931, pioneer in the study of cellular metabolism and cancer. The Warburg effect bears his name.

Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, a major halakhic authority of the twentieth century and founder of the Shas party. He worked to restore the pride of the Sephardic heritage.

Hungarian rabbi

Chief rabbi of France (1902-1986)

Born in Tlemcen in an Algerian Jewish family, critic and historian of French literature. Author of major works on literature and the sociology of the writer (« Morales du grand siècle », « Le Sacre…

German-language poet of Romanian origin, author of the “Todesfuge” (Death Fugue), among the greatest poems on the Holocaust. He lost his parents in the camps.

German physician and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize 1908, founder of chemotherapy and modern immunology. He discovered the first treatment for syphilis.

Hungarian mathematician

American politician

American economist

Rabbi for forty years in Florida, member of the Committee on Jewish Law of the Rabbinical Assembly. Author of several works, including 'The Lord Is My Shepherd, Why Do I Still Want?' (on mourning)…

American Jewish actor and comedian, known for the sitcom "Mad About You" and the film "Diner".

rabbi, French resister

Romanian activist

Hungarian mathematician

American politician

American politician

American rabbi

Venezuelan political figure

Chilean filmmaker

American actress

Yiddish poet and fabulist, youngest member of the Yung Vilne group.

British rabbi

American rabbi

Born in Budapest on December 26, 1927 into an assimilated Jewish family (son of Zsigmond Kende and Margit Hajdu), he was a journalist at Szabad Nép until 1954, participated in the 1956 uprising and…

Canadian and Israeli actor and filmmaker

Hungarian-born American mathematician from a Jewish family, awarded the Abel Prize in 2005 for contributions to partial differential equations and computational mathematics.

American director

Peter Zvi Malkin, born in Żółkiewka (Poland) in 1927 in an observant Jewish family, was a Mossad agent. On 11 May 1960, member of the team led by Rafi Eitan, it was he who physically seized Adolf…

American politician

American rabbi

American writer and translator

American actor

British businessman

American businessman (1902–1976)

Rabbin né en Pologne, ayant survécu trois ans caché dans les forêts lituaniennes après la perte de toute sa famille lors de la Shoah, avant d'émigrer aux États-Unis. Il servit la communauté du Grand…

American novelist, author of Portnoy's Complaint and The Human Stain, one of the great writers of the American Jewish condition. Repeatedly tipped for the Nobel.

Dutch writer

French economist, Nobel Prize 2025

Born in Marseille, a leader in responsible finance (founder of Mirova) and writer. Of Algerian Jewish descent (his father left Algeria and concealed his past). Author of the novel 'Le Décret' (2025),…

Rabbi graduated from the Séminaire israélite de France (1981), conducted university research at Inalco and the École pratique des hautes études. Author of an anthology work drawn from rabbinical…

French statesman, president of the Council, architect of the end of the Indochina War. A moral figure of the left, he was of Sephardic Jewish origin.

French television host and filmmaker

From a Comtat Jewish family of Carpentras, he became one of the greatest French historians of ancient Greece (Le Chasseur noir, 1981). His parents, Lucien Vidal-Naquet and Marguerite Valabrègue, were…

Israeli poet

Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic dynasty (1926–1996)

Polish rabbi

American Rabbi (1908-1995)