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Jewish philosophers, rabbis, cantors

 * Cantor Azi Schwartz (Azi Schwartz is the Senior Cantor of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York, NY, which is one of the largest and most influential in the world. Once a student of Neftali Hershtik, Azi Schrwartz performs around the world in a trio called "The Cantors of New York", which was once featured as a PBS special. As a hazzan, Azi Schwartz is known for mixing Jewish ritual music with contemporary melodies, including performing "Adon Olam" to the tune of "You'll be Back" from Hamilton. Sharing his unique creations on Youtube, he's garnered over eight million views. He is also active in interfaith spaces, including performing a prayer for the Pope's visit to Ground Zero in 2015. )

Rabbi Yaffe is a member of Rabbinical Council of America. He was raised in Portland, ME, and Los Angeles, CA. He studied at Yeshivot (rabbinic colleges) in Miami, London, and New York and received rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, Brooklyn, NY in 1989. He was a fellow of the post-ordination program at the Leeds Kollel in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England from 1990- 1992.He lives in Nonantum, MA with his wife, Chana and their children.) (http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo/kid/2427/jewish/Shlomo-Yaffe.htm, http://njjewishnews.com/article/18513/chabad-scholar-urges-alternatives-to-jail#.V6I3kTsrJhE) Zalman Bluming and wife Yehudis Bluming (co-directors of the Rohr Chabad of Durham/Chapel Hill and Duke University in North Carolina)
 * Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe (Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe is Dean of the Institute of American and Talmudic Law based in New York, NY, with activities all across North America. He directs the Institute for Judaic Knowledge which offers lecture, seminars, and other programs, in person and online, throughout North America, as well as in Africa, Australia, Latin America, and Europe. A particular focus of Rabbi Yaffe’s work has been the intersection of the concerns created by contemporary legal, scientific, medical, public and foreign policy issues with the ethics and values presented in three and a half millennia of Judaic law and thought.He has served as a pulpit rabbi at Hull Hebrew Congregation, Hull, England, the Young Israel of Hartford, CT, and with Congregation Agudas Achim, one of the first Orthodox congregations in Connecticut, founded 1887. He has authored a broad range of articles on several online forums, and was lead author for the Jewish Learning Institute's "Living with Integrity" course. He was director of the Hartford Kashrut Commission and taught a full range of Judaic subjects for the Hebrew High School of New England for many years.He is a past scholar-in-residence to Chabad at Harvard, where he served the greater Harvard and MIT communities, and has been a visiting scholar in several communities.
 * Dr.Shalomim Yahoshua HaLahawi, American born Mizahi Jewish Rabbi, Integrative Medicine Physician, Author, Music writer, Founder of Edenic Light Integrative Family Life Care & the Humanitarian Institute for Integrative, Natural and Pastoral Medicine; Pastoral Medical Institute for Sickle Cell & Thalassemia Disease and the Jewish based American Association of Integrative and Pastoral Medicine(formally The Integrative Pastoral Medical Association), USPTO Certification Mark Owner of Integrative Pastoral Medicine, Teacher & Promoter of Talmudic Medicine Research, Registered International Humanitarian & Human Rights Advocate with UN DESA and Global Impact, Public Health Advisor to the Global Unification International(a UN registered NGO), Spiritual Leader of the Beth Aden Mizrahi Jewish Congregation & Ha'Yisrayli Torah Brith Yahad. Diplomate of the American Association of Integrative Medicine. International Humanitarian Medical Doctor with the Int'l Blue Cross and Blue Crescent(U.K), Faculty of Humanitarian Medics. Host of online Radio Broadcasting WITCC Awakening Radio which features Lectures and Seminars on Subjects pertaining to Jewish cultural and spiritual growth and development and integrative healthcare. His Family is originally from Mt. Carmel Israel and Oman Southwest Arabia before immigrating to the USA.  http://www.pastoral-medicine.us, http://www.edenic-light.com  http://www.authorsden.com/kohaneshalomim
 * Philip S. Bernstein, rabbi and civic leader; adviser on Jewish affairs to U.S. Army commanders in Europe in 1946-1947.
 * Eduard Birnbaum, a chazzan\
 * Rabbi Neil N. Winkler, a famous rabbi in the tri-state area. http://jstandard.com/content/item/bringing_fort_lee_to_life/30911 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12136882-bringing-the-prophets-to-life
 * Akiva Eisenberg
 * Paul Chaim Eisenberg (Chaim Eisenberg) de:Paul Chaim Eisenberg
 * Rabbi Steven Exler
 * Rabbi Eliyahu Fink
 * Rabbi Löb Fischels
 * Adolf Guttmacher (also Adolph Gutmacher, and maybe Adolph Guttmacher), American rabbi
 * Elijah Guttmacher (Elijah Gutmacher, Elija Gutmacher, Eliyah Gutmacher, Eliya Gutmacher, Eliyahu Gutmacher, Elijahu Guttmacher); pl:Elijahu Guttmacher; see also Yaakov Lorberbaum
 * Yosef Hadane, Ethiopian Chief Rabbi
 * Jacob Hamburger/Jacob Hamburger de:Jacob Hamburger
 * Aron Heppner pl:Aron Heppner (Aaron Heppner, Ahron Heppner, Aharon Heppner)
 * Rabbi Yaakov Hillel (Yaakov Hillel) former boxer and Kabbalist he:יעקב משה הלל
 * Rabbi David Ingber (David Ingber)
 * Richard Israel
 * Rabbi Aharon Kahn (Aharon Kahn)
 * Rabbi Maurice Lamm
 * Anton Laytner
 * Martin Riesenburger (de:Martin Riesenburger)
 * Ellis Rivkin (Jewish scholar and historian)
 * Gilbert S. Rosenthal (Gilbert Rosenthal)
 * Amos Rubinstein / Amos Rubenstein
 * Barukhia Russo
 * Isaac Stein
 * Margarete Susman(Margarete von Bendemann) (de:Margarete Susman)
 * Nahum Ward
 * Rabbi Amiel Wohl (Rabbi Amiel Wohl and his father Rabbi Samuel Wohl, whom the book He Really Had Something to Say is about
 * Rabbi Gedalia Zweig – writer and musical rabbi
 * Rabbi Abraham Isaac Sperling author of Taamei HaMinhagim
 * Rabbi Yechiel Meir Lipshitz ([1816 - 21Shvat 1888] was sometimes known as Der Tilim Yid (the Psalms Jew) because of his constant instruction to those who came to him for advice and support that they turn to the reading of the Book of Psalms. He was a disciple of R. Menachem Mendel of Kotsk and of R. Yaakov Aryeh of Radzymin, after whose death he became chassidic leader in Gostynin. His selfless and unsophisticated mode of living induced people to refer to him as "one of the 36 hidden tzadikim." His teachings appear in Merom HaRim and Mei HaYam.)
 * Rabbi Ephraim Wachsman Major figure in the Jewish world today. Noted Rabbi and speaker. Numerous videos and speeches available online.


 * Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser is a Rabbi at Aish HaTorah and musician.
 * Rabbi Alvin M. Sugarman is an Atlanta Rabbi, civil rights leader, and community activist. He played a major role in the Southern Jewish community at The Temple (Atlanta) throughout the Civil rights movement, was awarded the Emory University Medal (highest award for Emory University alumnus), and was an actor in Driving Miss Daisy. Rabbi Sugarman served on Emory University's alumni board .(http://www.emoryhistory.emory.edu/facts-figures/people/makers-history/profiles/sugarman.html) (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0837393/) (https://www.the-temple.org/rabbi-sugarman) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzTc5Ipa2Ic)
 * Rabbi Menachem Mendel Sudakevich
 * Isaac Yaso, Ethiopian Jewish priest
 * Menashe Zemro, Ethiopian Jewish priest
 * Rabbi Yosef Harari-Raful Rabbi founder and Rosh Yeshivah (dean) of Yeshivat Areret Torah Brooklyn NY Moetzes Gedolei Torah United States

A-F

 * Gabriel Abraham Almond (ja:?????•?????)
 * David Alpert
 * Benamin Apple
 * Philipp Auerbach (de:Philipp Auerbach)
 * Yitzhak Ben Ner, writer
 * Geviha ben Pesisa
 * Aleksandr Natanovich Bernshtam
 * Yossel Birshteyn (Yossel Birstein), writer
 * Lillian Birnbaum (de:Lillian Birnbaum)
 * Emanuel Berle
 * Bruno Bloch (1878–1933)
 * Rudolf Borchardt (de:Rudolf Borchardt)
 * Rafael Buber
 * Shimon Bukofzer/Schimon Bukofzer/Simon Bukofzer
 * Steven Burg - rabbi, international director of NCSY
 * Lopo Sarmento de Carvalho
 * Daniel Charney (Tsharni) (1888-1959), Yiddish poet and journalist
 * Has a stub, needs more.
 * Fernand Crémieux (1857-1928) fr:Fernand Crémieux
 * Has a stub, needs more.
 * Hirsch Dainow (1832-1877)
 * Ernst Dernburg
 * Friedrich Dernburg (de:Friedrich Dernburg)
 * Hermann Dernburg (de:Hermann Dernburg)
 * William Edlin (Villyam Edlin) (1878-1947). Newspaper editor (Yiddish daily Der Tog, New York) and Socialist leader.
 * Stanislaw Ehrlich (1907–1997) – Galicia-born Polish jurist)
 * Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg (S. M. Ehrenberg)
 * Max Eichholz de:Max Eichholz
 * Franz F. Elbogen (Franz Elbogen)
 * Paul Elbogen
 * Franz Engel de:Franz Engel
 * Ernst Epstein (Ernst Eppstein)
 * Theodore Frenkel
 * Rabbi Tzvi Freeman –
 * Osip Feltsman
 * Ellane Feinstein
 * Angelo Feuchtwanger (August 9, 1854, München – April 24, 1939, Tel Aviv), banker
 * David Feuchtwang (November 27, 1864, Nikolsburg – July 5, 1936, Vienna), Czech-Austrian rabbi, orientalist
 * Martin Mosche Feuchtwanger (Martin Feuchtwanger, Mosche Feuchtwanger/Moshe Feuchtwanger (December 12, 1886, München – November 9, 1952, Tel Aviv) publisher, journalist, writer
 * Sigbert Feuchtwanger (December 12, 1886, München – April 5, 1956, Haifa), jurist
 * Gerhart Frankl de:Gerhart Frankl

G-J

 * Eva Galler
 * Daniel Ganzfried (1857-1911), Hungarian-born Swiss author
 * Abraham Geifman
 * Louis Ginsberg (poet), father of Allen Ginsberg
 * Baer Günzburg
 * George Greenstein
 * Joel Grishaver
 * William Guggenheim (1868-1941)
 * Florence Guggenheim-Grünberg, Swiss Yiddish linguist
 * Isaac Guggenheim (1854–1920)
 * Murry Guggenheim (1858–1939)
 * Benita Guggenheim
 * Hazel Guggenheim
 * Aleksandr Gavrilovich Gurvich (1874–1954), biologist
 * Joshua Guttman, historian
 * Max Halberstadt de:Max Halberstadt
 * Allan Harkavy, emeritus physisist
 * Kalman Heisler (1899-1966), Yiddish poet
 * Adolf Hepner/Adolph Hepner
 * Friedrich Horensten, Ukrainian writer
 * Maximilian Heine
 * Lewis Victor Heilbrunn
 * Jeno Heltai
 * John Herz (ja:???•???)
 * Günther Jacoby (de:Günther Jacoby) (Jewish?)
 * Hermann Georg Jacobi
 * Peter Jacoby (*1951)
 * Franz Janowitz
 * Ludvig Levin Jakobson (Ludvig L. Jakobson, Ludvig Jakobson)
 * Hans Jelinek

K-R

 * George Kaufman
 * Gerson Kanin
 * Jerry Kohn
 * Rita Kohnstamm
 * Leopold Krakauer
 * Trude Krakauer Dothan and Moshe Dothan
 * Gary Krakower
 * Gertrude Kreissl
 * Leonard Krakauer
 * Joseph Kulischer / Josef Kulischer
 * Michael Laitman
 * Bankhaus Ladenburg de:Bankhaus Ladenburg


 * Wolf Ladenburg de:Wolf Ladenburg
 * Seligmann Ladenburg (1797–1873) de:Seligmann Ladenburg
 * Carl Ladenburg/Karl Ladenburg (1827-1909) de:Carl Ladenburg
 * Emil Ladenburg (1822–1902) de:Emil Ladenburg
 * Leopold Ladenburg (1809–1889) de:Leopold Ladenburg
 * Georg Landauer (1895–1954), a German Zionism acticist
 * Hedwig Landauer; see: Hedwig Lachmann (1865–1918), a German female lyricist, translator
 * Walter Landauer (biologist), a biologist
 * Walter Landauer (publisher), a German publisher; de:Walter Landauer (Verleger)
 * Sidney Lawrence, ( -1975) head of Kansas City JCRB from 1945 to 1973;
 * Menachem Leibtag - Rabbi at Yeshivat Har Etzion, Midreshet Lindenbaum, Shaalvim for Women, creator and writer of TSC shiurim, internationally acclaimed bible scholar and pioneer of Jewish Education on the internet;
 * Boris Litvinsky / Boris Anatol'evich Litvinsky
 * Daniela Lumbroso (fr:Daniela Lumbroso)
 * Yuri Levick
 * Max Levin
 * Joseph Henry Levyssohn / Joseph Henri Levyssohn, J. H. Levyssohn (1800?–1883), Dutch, head of the Dejima (1845–1850), Nagasaki
 * Gil Locks - a Guru turned orthodox Jew and author of books. also known as Gutman Locks. I tried to create an article, but it was tagged speedy and deleted before i could even slap on a hangon tag.
 * Janice Loeb
 * Gino Luzzatto, Italian scholar
 * Rose Mallinger Killed in Synagogue shooting.
 * MaNishtana (person) / Shais Rishon, African-American Orthodox Jewish activist and writer
 * Donald H. Meichenbaum (Donald Meichenbaum)
 * Anatoly Mandelstam, Russian archaeologist
 * Edwin Meyer
 * Fernand Mossé, French philologist
 * Erich Nelhans (de:Erich Nehlhans). Leader in the re-established Jewish community in Berlin after World War II. Should link to mention of him in Rykestrasse Synagogue article. (Note: the spelling seems to be typically "Nelhans" in English-language historical works; in German it is often "Nehlhans," although sometimes "Nelhans" as well.)
 * Joseph Okrutni
 * Eliezer D. Oren / Eliezer Oren
 * Max Pomerantz
 * Leonard Prager
 * Rosa Pressburg (Rosa Preßburg; 1843, Prague – 1914, Hannover), a Czech-German actress
 * Richard Pressburger (Richard Preßburger; 1862, Vienna – 1938, Vienna), Austrian jurist
 * Otto Pringsheim (de:Otto Pringsheim)
 * Nicholas Pritzker
 * Anne Rothenstein

S-Z

 * Abraham Salz (Galician Zionist, member of the Zionist Congress)
 * Emma Schlesinger (Emma Kodály / Emma Kodaly) (ja:????•???)
 * Anna Schoyer and Raphael Schoyer
 * Malkie Schwartz - former Lubatvitcher who left the fold and founded Footsteps
 * Sheldon Secunda
 * Mikhail Shatrov (Mikhail Filippovich Shatrov)
 * Paul Strassmann
 * Marion Baldur Sulzberger (1895–1983)
 * Lazarus Straus
 * Henryk "Rysiek" Szpigiel (Henryk Szpigiel, Rysiek Szpigiel)
 * Emanuel Todd
 * Arthur Trebitsch (1880–1927); de:Arthur Trebitsch
 * Siegfried Trebitsch (1869&dash;1956)
 * Judith Turner
 * Flory Van Beek, Dutch Holocaust survivor about whom Mel Gibson planned to produce Holocaust miniseries
 * Otmar Venjakob, German mathematician
 * Porges von Portheim


 * Weil von Weilen
 * Wartenegg von Wertheimstein
 * Ira Waxberg, artist
 * Phil Weinstein
 * Adley Weinstein
 * Alfred Wertheimer, artist
 * Auguste Widal, "Daniel Stauben" (1822–1875), Alsacian Jewish writer born at Wintzenheim(fr:Wintzenheim)
 * Anna Bertha Luise Wiegert
 * Fritz Wiesenthal
 * Paula Winkler (Paula Buber)
 * Alfred Winternitz
 * Dean Winternitz
 * Emanuel Winternitz
 * Felix Winternitz
 * Friderike von Winternitz (Friderike Zweig), first wife of Stefan Zweig
 * Hugo Winternitz (1868–1934), doctor
 * Joseph Winternitz (1896–1952), politician, economist
 * Judith Winternitz
 * Martha Winternitz-Dorda (1880–1958), an Austrian female singer
 * Mary Winternitz, daughter of Milton Winternitz
 * Maurice Winternitz
 * Milton Winternitz (1920&dash;1935), pathologist
 * Mark Wischnitzer de:Mark Wischnitzer
 * A. M. Zhabotinsky (Anatoly Markovich Zhabotinsky)
 * Lawrence Zeitlin
 * Jacob Zerubavel (1886-1967), Labor Zionist leader
 * Joe Zucker

Musicians

 * Emanuel Amiran, musician
 * Jimmy Berg, cellist
 * Shlomi Bitton, dancer
 * Alexander Uria Boscowitsch, musician
 * Yechezkel Braun, musician
 * Ram Da-Oz, musician
 * Jack Gottlieb
 * Jerusalem SQ, musicians
 * Martin Kalmanoff
 * György Kardos, writer
 * Alla Kesselman, musician
 * David Koussevitzky/David Kusevitsky/Dawid Kusewicki
 * Jakub Kusewicki/Jacob Koussevitzky
 * Simcha Koussevitzky/Simchah Koussevitzky/Symcha Kusewicki
 * Alexander Krakauer (1866–1894), Austrian composer
 * Sara Levi-Tannnai, musician, dancer
 * Ami Ma'ayani, musician
 * Yura Margulis
 * Pierre Pinchik
 * Menashe Ravina, musician
 * Anthony Russell (American singer) - draft needs review
 * Eli Schwebel, musician
 * Mordecai Seter, musician
 * Habib Touma (Arab), musician
 * Josef Weyl
 * Debrah Winger
 * Mordechai Ze'ira, musician

Jewish Christians

 * Samuel Isaac Scherschewsky (Samuel Isaac Joseph Scherschewsky)
 * Heather Wilde (CTO) - Award-Winning *female* CTO of ROCeteer (and other companies), 8th employee of Evernote, developer of Chron_X. Author for Inc Magazine and "Birth of a Unicorn: Six Basic Steps to Success". Two-time contestant on College Jeopardy, Online edition. Founder of Serenze Global nonprofit. Chair of University_of_Nevada,_Las_Vegas Engineering Advisory Board.

Yiddish culture

 * Simcha Orchestra
 * Israel Zevin, Israel Joseph Zevin / Israel J. Zevin, "Tashrak" (ja)
 * Joseph Bovshover
 * Hinde Bergner - draft needs review

from YIVO

 * Ben-Adir
 * Saul M. Ginsburg
 * Liebman Hersh
 * Gabe Iosif
 * H. S. Kasdan
 * Abraham Menes
 * Noah Prilutzky (Noah Prilutsky), Noach, Noakh (Noy) Germanovich Prilutsky (1882–1941)
 * A. A. Roback