Eliyahu Rips

Eliyahu Rips

male, 61 years old
Eliyahu Rips (born 1948) - is an Israeli-Latvian mathematician known for his research in geometric group theory. He achieved public notoriety as a...
Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld

male, 77 years old
Aharon Appelfeld (born February 16, 1932 in Czernowitz, Romania) is an Israeli novelist. In 1940, the Nazis invaded his hometown. His mother was...
Raphael Patai

Raphael Patai

male, deceased (1996)
Raphael Patai (1910-1996) was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer and anthropologist whose life spanned most of the twentieth century. He was born...

David Ellenson

male
David Ellenson is a rabbi who is known as a leader of the Reform movement in Judaism. He is the president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish...
Mordechai Nisan

Mordechai Nisan

male
Mordechai Nisan is a professor and scholar of Middle East studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and consultant for the Jerusalem Institute...
Nurit Peled-Elhanan

Nurit Peled-Elhanan

Nurit Peled-Elhanan is an Israeli peace activist, professor at Hebrew University, and is among the founders of the Bereaved Families for Peace....
Jacob Rader Marcus

Jacob Rader Marcus

male, deceased (1995)
Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995) was a scholar of Jewish history and a Reform rabbi. Born in New Haven, Pennsylvania, United States, into a...

Helen Dukas

female, deceased (1982)
Helen Dukas (17 October 1896-10 February 1982) was Albert Einstein's secretary. She also co-authored "Einstein: Creator and Rebel" and co-edited...
Nahman Avigad

Nahman Avigad

male, deceased (1992)
Dr. Nahman Avigad (1905-1992), born in Zawalow, Galicia (then Austrian, now in the western region of Ukraine), was an Israeli archaeologist. He...

Nachman Ben-Yehuda

male
Nachman Ben-Yehuda is a professor and dean of the department of sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He views the story of...