Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

male, deceased (1922)
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda was principally responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language from its previous state as a liturgical language. Bo...
Dr. Joachim Prinz

Dr. Joachim Prinz

male, deceased (1988)
Joachim Prinz (1902-1988) was a German rabbi who was outspoken against Nazism and became an American Jewish leader. After his emigration to the...
Charles Bronfman

Charles Bronfman

male, 78 years old
Charles Rosner Bronfman, PC, CC, LL.D (born June 27, 1931 in Montreal) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He is the fifteenth richest...
Arthur Ruppin

Arthur Ruppin

male, deceased (1943)
Arthur Ruppin (1876-1943) was a Zionist thinker and leader. He was also one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv, and a pioneering sociologist...
Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus

female, deceased (1887)
Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 - November 19, 1887) was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for writing "The New Colossus", a...
Paul Weyrich

Paul Weyrich

male, 67 years old
Paul M. Weyrich (born October 7, 1942, in Racine, Wisconsin) is a US conservative political activist and commentator. He is widely considered one...
Sholom Aleichem

Sholom Aleichem

male, deceased (1916)
Sholom Aleichem (May 13, 1916) was a popular humorist and Russian (geographically, Ukrainian) Jewish author of Yiddish literature, including...
Douglas J. Feith

Douglas J. Feith

male, 56 years old
Douglas J. Feith (b. July 16 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for United States President...
Nahum Sokolow

Nahum Sokolow

male, deceased (1936)
Nahum Sokolow was a Zionist leader, author, translator, and a pioneer of Hebrew journalism. Born to a rabbinic family in Wyszogród, Russia (now P...
Ber Borochov

Ber Borochov

male, deceased (1917)
Dov Ber Berochov (1881-1917) was a Marxist Zionist and one of the founders of the Labor Zionist movement. He was born in the town of Zolotonosha,...