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Musicians and bands : The Ramones
- Joey Ramone,
Tommy
Ramone , Red
Hot Chilli Peppers - Hillel
Slovak, Simon
and Garfunkel - Paul Simon,
Art
Garfunkel , Sparks
- Ron Mael,
Russell
Mael, Twisted
Sister - Dee Snider,
Jay Jay
French (Snider Jewish father), The United States of America - Dorothy
Moskowitz,
Classical composers:
Leonard
Bernstein, Marc
Blitzstein, Ernest
Bloch, Aaron
Copland, Richard
Danielpour, Mario
Davidovsky, David Diamond, Jacob
Druckman, Morton
Feldman, Lukas Foss,
George
Gershwin, Philip
Glass, Rubin
Goldmark, Louis
Moreau Gottschalk, (Jewish father), Morton
Gould, Aaron
Jay Kernis, Leon
Kirchner, Leo
Ornstein, George
Perle, Shulamit
Ran, Steve
Reich, George
Rochberg, Arnold
Schoenberg, William
Schuman, Ernst Toch,
John Zorn,
Autors
Irwin Allen Ginsberg
(June 3,
1926
– April 5,
1997)
was an American Beat poet
born in Paterson,
New Jersey. He formed a bridge between the
Beat movement of the 1950s
and the hippies
of the 1960s,
befriending, among others, Jack
Kerouac, Neal
Cassady, William
S. Burroughs, Timothy
Leary, Gregory
Corso, Bob Kaufman,
Herbert
Huncke, Rod McKuen,
and Bob Dylan.
Kathy
Acker, writer , Forrest
J. Ackerman, science fiction author & fan,
Nelson
Algren, novelist (son of convert), Jonathan
Ames, author, Sholem Asch,
Yiddish writer, Isaac
Asimov, science fiction author, Paul Auster,
author, Peter
S. Beagle, novelist, Saul Bellow,
writer, Nobel Prize (1976), Robert
Bloch, science fiction author , Lawrence
Block, crime novelist, Harold
Bloom, literary critic, Judy Blume,
children's author , Jane Bowles,
writer & playwright, David Brin,
science fiction author , Michael
Chabon, novelist , Harlan
Coben, mystery writer, Anita
Diamant, writer, E. L.
Doctorow, writer, Harlan
Ellison, 'speculative fiction' writer, Jon Fasman,
mystery writer, Howard Fast,
novelist, Raymond
Federman, postmodernist writer, Edna Ferber,
author, Jonathan
Safran Foer, writer, Betty Friedan,
writer, Kinky
Friedman, crime writer & singer/songwriter, Alan Furst,
novelist, Barry
Gifford, poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter
(Jewish father), Natalie
Goldberg, author & teacher, William
Goldman, novelist & screenwriter, Noah Gordon,
Joe
Haldeman, science fiction author, Daniel
Handler, writer, Sam Harris,
author, Joseph
Heller, novelist, Richard
Herrnstein, author, Mark
Helprin, novelist, Erica Jong,
author, Faye
Kellerman, crime novelist; married to Jonathan
Kellerman, crime novelist, Frederick
Kohner, author of Gidget, Cyril
M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer, Jerzy
Kosinski, writer, Jonathan
Kozol, writer & educator , Edward
E. Kramer, writer & editor, Judith
Krantz, romance writer , James
Howard Kunstler, novelist and New Urbanist author,
Fran
Lebowitz, essayist & humorist, Jonathan
Lethem, novelist, Ira Levin,
author, Laura
Lippman, crime novelist, Phillip
Lopate, author, Norman
Mailer, writer , Bernard
Malamud, writer, James
McBride, author (Jewish mother), Walter
Mosley, murder-mystery novelist (Jewish mother), Cynthia
Ozick, novelist, Grace Paley,
short story writer & poet, Sara
Paretsky, mystery writer, Dorothy
Parker, writer, poet & wit (Jewish father), S. J.
Perelman, humorist, Marge
Piercy, novelist, poet, Rachel
Pollack, science-fiction author, Chaim Potok,
author & rabbi, Ayn Rand,
writer (atheist), Harold
Robbins, author, Philip Roth,
novelist, S.J. Rozan,
author, Louis
Sachar, children's writer, J. D.
Salinger, author (Jewish father), Budd
Schulberg, novelist & screenwriter, Maurice
Sendak, children's author, Sidney
Sheldon, novelist & screenwriter, Robert
Silverberg, science fiction author, Isaac
Bashevis Singer, Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize
(1978), Susan
Sontag, essayist & novelist, Danielle
Steele, romance novelist (Jewish father),Gertrude
Stein, writer, poet & playwright, Joel Stein,
columnist, George
Steiner, literary critic, Jacqueline
Susann, novelist, Studs
Terkel, author & oral historian, Alice
B. Toklas, literary figure, Lionel
Trilling, literary critic, Scott Turow,
mystery writer, Harry
Turtledove, science fiction writer, Leon Uris,
novelist, Irving
Wallace, novelist, Nathanael
West, writer, Elie Wiesel,
writer & Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize (1986), Herman Wouk,
author, Elizabeth
Wurtzel, author
Social laeders: David Remnick (rusist), Saul
Alinsky, social organizer, Daniel
De Leon, socialist leader, David
Dubinsky, labor leader, Emma
Goldman, anarchist leader, Samuel
Gompers, labor leader, Sidney
Hillman, labor leader, Abbie
Hoffman, social activist, Yippie, Jackie
Presser, labor leader, racketeer, Jerry Rubin,
social activist, Yippie . Anti-racism: Abraham
Foxman, head of the ADL , Kivie
Kaplan, head of the NAACP,
Winona
LaDuke, Native American acitivst &
environmentalist (Jewish mother), Stanley
Levison, advisor of Martin
Luther King, Abel
Meeropol, composer of Strange
Fruit, Michael
Schwerner & Andrew
Goodman, CORE
activists, KKK victims, Joel
& Arthur
Spingarn, early NAACP leaders, Helen
Suzman, South African anti-apartheid activist, Simon
Wiesenthal, Nazi-hunter, Tim Wise,
anti-racism activist, Bella Abzug,
feminist politician, Gloria
Allred, feminist lawyer, Andrea
Dworkin, feminist writer, Susan
Faludi, feminist writer, Betty
Friedan, co-founder & first president of NOW, Harvey Milk,
murdered gay rights activist & openly-gay politician, Robin
Morgan, editor of Ms.
Magazine, Ernestine
Rose, feminist, Gloria
Steinem, founder of Ms. Magazine (Jewish father), Rebecca
Walker, feminist writer (Jewish father), Naomi Wolf,
feminist writer
Alan Berg,
murdered radio host, Nick Berg,
beheaded entrepreneur, Josephine
Earp, wife of Wyatt Earp, Leo Frank,
lynching victim, Jeremy Glick (1),
September 11 victim (UA flight 93), Jeremy
Glick (2), activist & son of September 11
victim (WTC), Ronald
Goldman, murdered friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, Meir Kahane,
orthodox rabbi, Anton LaVey,
founder of the Church
of Satan, Jonathan
Levin, teacher son of executive Gerald Levin;
tortured and killed by a student, Chandra
Levy, disappeared intern, Monica
Lewinsky, sex scandal intern, Joshua
A. Norton, eccentric & self-proclaimed emperor, Daniel
Pearl, beheaded journalist, Judith
Resnik, Space Shuttle Challenger victim, Mickey
Schwerner & Andrew
Goodman, KKK victims, William
James Sidis, child prodigy, Nancy
Spungen, murdered girlfriend of Sid Vicious
Criminals:Lori
Berenson, activist convicted of terrorism in Peru, David
Berkowitz, Son of Sam, serial killer (adopted by
Italian father & Jewish mother, raised Catholic), Otto Berman,
gangster, Louis
Buchalter, gangster, Samuel Byck,
failed assassin of Richard
Nixon, Benny Fein,
gangster, Heidi
Fleiss, Hollywood Madam,
Mickey
Cohen, gangster, Frank
Collin, neo-nazi,
Maxie Eisen,
gangster, Waxey
Gordon, gangster, Jake Guzik,
gangster, Nathan
Kaplan, gangster, Dylan
Klebold, Columbine massacre (Jewish maternal
grandfather, raised Lutheran), Abe Landau,
gangster, Meyer
Lansky, gangster, Jean
Lafitte, pirate ('part-Jewish'), Nathan
Leopold, Jr. and Richard
Loeb, murderers, Kevin
Mitnick, hacker, Sara
Jane Moore, failed assassin of Gerald Ford,
Willie
Moretti, gangster, Jacob Orgen,
gangster, Jonathan
Pollard, jailed spy, Abe Reles,
gangster, Ethel
& Julius
Rosenberg, executed spies, Louis
Rosenberg, gangster, Joseph
Rosenzweig, gangster, Lou
Rothkopf, gangster, Arnold
Rothstein, gangster, Jack Ruby,
killer of Lee
Harvey Oswald, Joe Saltis,
gangster, Dutch
Schultz, gangster, Bugsy
Siegel, gangster, 'father of Las Vegas'
, Johnny
Spanish, gangster, Harry
Strauss, gangster, Albert
Tannenbaum, gangster, Adam Worth,
Victorian
thief, model for Moriarty , Jack Zuta,
gangster, Abner
Zwillman, gangster