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Writer and witness who insisted the world remember.

Jewish Daily Forward (Founder)

Adah Isaacs Menken (June 15, 1835 – August 10, 1868) was an American actress, poet, and painter whose brief career marked her as one of the era's most…

Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American comedian, screenwriter, author, radio host, and former United States Senator from Minnesota.

Italian novelist (born 1950)

American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter (born 1947)

Grandmaster Chess School (Founder)

Alfred Goodman Gilman (July 1, 1941 – December 23, 2015) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…

Allegra Goodman is an American novelist and short-story writer renowned for her incisive explorations of Jewish family life, faith, ambition, and the…

Italian painter and sculptor (1884–1920)

New York Times financial columnist, CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor, and author of Too Big to Fail.

American radio and television talk show host (born 1968)

Anzia Yezierska (c.

German writer (1887–1968)

Cartoonist of Maus, the book that made a Holocaust story into literature and comics at once.

Playwright of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible.

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author whose career, though curtailed by tuberculosis, produced a…

Novelist who built a popular philosophy out of two long books.

American author (born 1969)

Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works often centered on Jewish protagonists grappling…

Berthold Auerbach (born Moses Baruch Auerbach; 28 February 1812 – 8 February 1882) was a German-Jewish author and poet whose realistic depictions of Black…

Songwriter who stretched American music into literature.

Boris Gelfand (born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-born Israeli chess grandmaster renowned for his strategic depth and consistency in elite competition.

American scientist and science communicator (1934–1996)

American musician (born 1943)

Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American Conservative rabbi and author whose fiction explored the tensions between Orthodox Jewish…

Charles R.

Clarice Lispector (born Chaya Lispector; December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist, short story writer, and journalist of…

Claudia Oshry is an American social media influencer, comedian, podcaster, and author known for creating the breakout Instagram account @girlwithnojob, where…

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican physicist, engineer, and politician serving as the 66th president of Mexico from 1 October 2024 to 30…

Group Theatre (Founder)

American writer (1933–2023)

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and playwright whose career spanned prolific scriptwriting…

Daniel Bell (May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011) was an American sociologist, writer, and academic whose work profoundly influenced understandings of modernity,…

Daniel Naroditsky (November 9, 1995 – October 19, 2025) was an American chess grandmaster, author, coach, commentator, and prominent online streamer renowned…

French composer, conductor and teacher (1892–1974)