Yosef Sholom Eliashiv

male, 99 years old
Rabbi Yosef Sholom Eliashiv is a Haredi rabbi and "posek" (arbiter of Jewish law) who lives in Jerusalem, Israel. Presently well into his nineties,...
Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin

Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin

male, deceased (1893)
Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin was the Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva and author if several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania. His...

Leo Kuper

male, deceased (1994)
Leo Kuper (1908 - 1994) was a writer and philosopher. He was born to a Lithuanian Jewish family in South Africa. He trained as a lawyer before...
Arik Brauer

Arik Brauer

male, 80 years old
Arik Brauer. Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer and stage designer. He resides in Vienna and Ein-Hod Israel. Brauer is...
Yitzchok Hutner

Yitzchok Hutner

male, deceased (1980)
Yitzchok (Isaac) Hutner (1906 - 1980) was an Orthodox rabbi born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with both Ger Hasidim and non-Hasidic Lithuanian...
Elya Svei

Elya Svei

male
Rabbi Elya Svei is one of the Rosh Yeshivas of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, although he retired. He was one of the foremost leaders of...

George Kadish

male
George Kadish was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German...
David Lapin

David Lapin

male
David Lapin was born in South Africa to a Jewish family of Lithuanian descent. He is the son of the late Rabbi A.H. Lapin (1912-1991), senior rabbi...
Iosif Grigulevich

Iosif Grigulevich

male, deceased (1988)
Iosif Romualdovich Grigulevich was one of the most remarkable Soviet illegal operatives (an agent without diplomatic cover) during the 1930s and...

Robert Soblen

male, deceased (1962)
Dr. Robert Soblen was a Lithuanian-born psychiatrist and reputed Soviet spy. In 1940, Robert Soblen and his brother Jack - were sent to America by...